"Sing to me who you are, I will sing to you who I am" is an educational and musical project which involves 4 classes of children aged 9 to 11, living in 4 different countries: Belgium, Spain, France and Morocco. The project aims to develop an educational program based on creative activities, while focusing on the composition and interpretation of songs around the theme of cultural heritage and interculturality. The objective is to develop the creativity and open-mindedness of the involved pupils by setting up a participatory, playful and artistic learning method, and by providing a dynamic context with exchanges and meetings between students and professionals from different countries. Plenty of activities are planned : activities to discover the musical heritage of their own country and those of the partner countries, musical and physical activities (voice work, singing lesson, improvisation games,...), creative writing and song composition exercises, rehearsals,... Thoses activites gather around the theme of identity (of oneself, one's neighbourhood, one's country) and openness to others. This project will be concretized by the composition and interpretation of songs in each of the countries and their recording in a studio for the production of a collective CD of the project ; and through the holding of local concerts and their dissemination in the partner countries. The two years of work and meetings between professionals and students, will be carefully documented, images will be taken and shooting times will be scheduled in order to produce some kind of making-of material. Finally, the project is part of a general ambition to promote musical education as a transversal pedagogical tool, which enables the acquisition of skills and competences while promoting the social inclusion of pupils.
"Sing me who you are, I'll sing you who I am" is an educational and musical project that involved 4 groups of children between 8 and 12 years old living in 4 different countries: Belgium, Spain, France and Morocco. This project wished : to show music and song as rich and transversal pedagogical tools, to favour participative, playful and artistic learning methods, but also to promote intercultural exchanges and openness to the Other. For two years, 100 children took part in a programme of educational and creative activities, focusing on the composition and interpretation of songs on the theme of cultural heritage and interculturality. These activities were coordinated by 4 artists from the 4 partner countries - Abel Croze, Geneviève Laloy, Imad Assekkour, Pilar McCarthy - in conjunction with the teachers of the participating classes, and accompanied throughout the process by 2 Cultural Centres and also by numerous musicians and technicians. In concrete terms, this has resulted in regular musical workshops with the local artist (listening to songs and discovering a repertoire composed of various musical styles, vocal, rhythmic and physical activities, song composition, rehearsals,...) as well as workshops led by the foreign artists who came to share their musical worlds. The teachers continued the work in class with more general learning (writing texts, correspondence with other students,...). In addition to this rich learning programme, the project was marked by a number of highlights in which the pupils participated fully: the organisation of public concerts in the four countries filmed and broadcast in the partner schools, the sound recording of the songs composed, the filming of video clips and the making of a making-of. For two years, children and professionals exchanged virtually, and were all to meet during a week of mobility to create together and exchange, but due to the health crisis at COVID-19, this highlight had to be replaced by distance activities.