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Author: Louise Robert
Visual Credit: Anne-Cécile Bonnet
In the last decade our kids and teens got the opportunity to participate in festivals that were entirely built around them. A whole host of entertaining activities were proposed: live music, dance, theatre, puppetry, games, poetry, sports, arts & crafts, food making, as well as makers playgrounds, workshops to explore technology and science or to discuss climate change and sustainability and not to forget clubbing, giant connect four games and even cardboard sculptures.
When we write our kids and teens, we choose our words with care. We believe festivals planning should no longer be exclusively addressed to parents who already provide their kids with a substantial cultural capital. For that matter, festivals locations are a crucial point. It should take place in the most deprived areas, in neighborhoods that are left out in terms of urban planning and restoration. Festival locations must be a political choice.
Furthermore, we think kid's festivals should be constructed according to the binary model that has already proven its worth in adult events: linking music concerts ...
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