ARTS KNOWN MAINLY TO NEIGHBORS

 

ADS AND THEIR PRESSURES TOWARD UNIFORMITY ARE ABSENT FROM AN OUTSKIRT THAT IS LITTLE-KNOWN AND POOR

 MENU: 2.4.4.b. Arts known to neighbors

That is a reason for the creativity that one comes upon by chance.

Sculptures of a sidewalk workshop. I found it because I happened to see the giant sculptures of migrants when they were  briefly exhibited (please click and scroll down).

Discovered by accident

• Inventiveness that brightened an ordinary street

• Art links the neighborhood and kids in Africa

• Signs on park railings...

• Photography as singular as its site 

• Theater that makes the street the stage 

• Sculpture hovers over a washroom

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Inventiveness that brightened an ordinary street

INVENTIVENESS THAT BRIGHTENED AN ORDINARY STREET

From 2000 to 2020, at 50 rue Labat

 

Oak planks that are 200 years old

 

Blandine Gautier and Marika Leccia have moved to Brittany. 

They give workshops on transforming discards into art:

Visitors are welcome.

https://www.angeetdam.com/

ange@angeetdam.com

(33) 06 52 46 73 86

The tie they created 

with Burkina Faso youth continues:

Please read on.

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Art links the neighborhood and kids in Africa

ART LINKS THE NEIGHBORHOOD AND KIDS IN AFRICA

THIS EVOCATION OF BOBO DIOULASSO ADORNED THE WORKSHOP WALL

Children made it at a center the sculptresses founded:

For this photo and those taken in Africa / zoom

La Soupape Ailée ("The Flying Safety Valve)

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The artists

Teens, since 2024 

The teachers

• Sanogo Boureima, called I.B., directs the workshop. Each week he sends photos of the progress made:

Among his works exhibited at the museum devoted to "outsiders' art," the Halle Saint-Pierre. 

• Moukoro Kassoum, called Ladji, learned art at the center as a child. He is now a professional sculptor:  

 

Making puppets: 

For the performance with music, kids and mothers, please click.

•  Safiatou Ballo, griot, for dance:

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Association memberships and an annual exhibit of the children's works, which are exchanged for tax-deductible contributions, finance the center. 

The exhibits take place at the Secours populaire

6 passage Ramey, 18th

 

Benefactors contribute 30€.

They choose a work, 

receive a calendar that kids' drawings illustrate

and a few months later,

have a report with recent photos of the children.

Donations and dues

are the only resources.

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The center that Blandine and Malika founded 

over 20 years ago

is good for the children and teachers,

and enriches the people who discover that joyful art.

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Signs on parc railings...

SIGNS ON PARK RAILINGS...

  ANNOUNCED PUPPETS FROM MALI...

And led to another adventure.

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Photography as singular as its site

PHOTOGRAPHY AS SINGULAR AS ITS SITE

 

THE SIGN ANNOUNCED THE PUPPETS AT THE "LAVOIR MODERNE PARISIEN"

So I went there.

The wash-house where Emil Zola's The Drinking Den begins. More later.

And found a reception space, a bar, a salon, stairs lined with photographs of Africans from the 1960's...

Puppets... 

And clothes from a show of African fashion.

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An interview was being filmed for an event that began a few minutes later:

It used African objects of the 1950's and 1960's...

for people to invent stories about themselves, and keep photos of those imagined lives:

A radio station had announced the event and the room was always full.  

 

Mali's Fatoumata Diabaté invented the game and describes it on Le studio photo de la rue.

So while looking for one kind of creativity

I found another that was as original,

plus a site to which we will return.

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Theater that makes the street the stage

THEATER THAT MAKES THE STREET THE STAGE

BEGINS WITH A VIOLINIST ON THE FAR SIDE OF THE STREET 

(IN JUNE 2022)

As dusk falls, having players introduced as roles are assigned introduces them.

Then sixteenth-century music leads the public through the streets:

Players and public arrive at a passage and courtyard...

Wigs evoke the fairies of A Midsummer's Night's Dream...

Neighbors watch: 

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"AS WE LIKE IT"

 

Christophe Sigognault wrote the libretto  

and played Falstaff for the Gaby Sourire Company.

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Did this production inspire 

the opening ceremony of the Olympics,

which used the river as background two years later?

 

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Sculpture hovers over a washroom