For the fourth year, the festival enters Marseille’s schools to meet the young public with three projects: Sachem – L’enfant jazz, Sachem XXL, Les Voix Divines, Collectif Kay and Jazz & Rap. There are 19 elementary schools in the 16 arrondissements of the City of Marseille, i.e. more than 3,000 children aged 6 to 10 who meet professional artists, take part in workshops and performances and discover jazz. Each child in each school benefits from a mediation session beforehand, where they are given a Carnet Jazz – a passport to discover jazz music and follow the workshops’ path.
The Projects
JAZZ & ECOLOGY
Sachem – “the jazz child”
Sachem, jazzman Fred Pichot, recounts his encounter with the Jazz child who lives in harmony with nature. Together, they celebrate the beauty of existence in a musical journey where blues, swing and groove meet rituals from the five continents with the aim of getting rid of the sixth: the plastic continent… The freedom of jazz is in tune with ecological awareness.
A session to discover jazz music and improvisation based on awareness of the need to sort waste. How do you make music with recycled objects? The teacher offers a fun approach to music and its link with the environment.
An educational booklet will enable each pupil to discover in class and at home the instruments of jazz, the backstage of a festival as well as the good habits to adopt as a spectator but also as a responsible citizen.
Objectives :
– Meet an artist, his works and his world
– Produce an artistic work, individually and/or collectively
– Discover jazz
– Raise awareness of recycling
School groups aged 6 to 11.
Ages involved: 6 to 11
Number of participants: ten schools with an average of 300 pupils, i.e. 3,000 participants
Duration / stages: 4 workshops for 4 classes of 2 hours and a concert for the whole school.
Dates: from january to june 2024
With the support of Solimut Mutuelle de France.
Sachem XXL
In-class workshops and concert :
– 5 in-class workshops
– Discovering and learning music (melody, rhythm, harmony, timbre) while learning about the concepts of jazz from jazz musicians.
– 1 feedback concert at a Festival partner venue where the two classes from the two schools meet to perform Fred Pichot’s jazz music.
Objectives :
– Offer practical artistic workshops to enable pupils to create a song in its entirety and perform it on stage.
– Meet an artist, his world and his works
– Discover jazz and live performance
– Produce an artistic work, individually and/or collectively
For schools aged 6 to 11.
Ages involved: 6 to 11
Number of participants: two classes from two different schools – 50 pupils
Duration / stages: 5 workshops per class of 2 hours each, i.e. 10 hours of workshops and a final concert.
Time: from January to March 2024
JAZZ & SLAM
The Kay Collective
Workshops and a participatory, immersive performance in situ. A group of musicians, rappers, slammers, graffiti artists, dancers and video artists will take over a space in the school to welcome the students. This performance was born of a desire to meet, an attempt to be together, listening to the same present. Through music, words, graphics and video, the collective questions our environment, our city, the way we inhabit this present, our vision and wishes for the future, the place of each individual in the collective space, and how we live together. All the pupils are invited to take up the proposals, a microphone, a paintbrush, their own bodies to express themselves. They’re invited in without being held captive, so they can sit down, wander around and live their lives in the jumble of their daily lives.
– 1 mediation by a mediator within the school
– 1 performance by the collective – 7 people in front of a whole school of up to 300 pupils
– 2 workshops led by 4 artists from the collective on the themes of writing (slam, spoken word), hip-hop dance and musical initiation.
Objectives :
– Meet artists from different worlds and disciplines
– Produce an artistic work, individually and/or collectively
– Discover writing and poetry through slam and beatboxing
– Go beyond yourself
School groups aged 10 to 15 (CM and Collège)
Ages involved:10 to 15
Number of participants: two schools with an average of 300 pupils, i.e. 600 participants
Duration / stages: 4 workshops for 2 classes of 2 hours each
Time: June 2024
Jazz & Rap
Writing workshop
Storytelling – slam – spoken word – rap
This workshop invites participants to work on personal expression based on their own experiences, or around a given theme.
Participants will be able to experiment with different writing techniques, test the strength of their rhymes and play with words, find their punchline…
Facilitator: Ilan Couartou or Lamine Diagne
Target audience: Schools, primary schools. Ages 6 to 10.
Duration: 2 hours
Maximum capacity: 14 participants
Introductory music workshop
Collective composition, beat box, soundpainting
This workshop is an introduction to collective musical composition.
Beat boxing involves setting up a rhythmic line simply by using the mouth, in the manner of a drum machine. By using this technique, participants discover their own rhythmic abilities. They will be guided towards the discovery of their own ‘flow’, the scansion characteristic of urban poetry, the articulation between the rhythm of words and that of music.
Soundpainting is a sign language for composing music in real time. This language, invented by Walter Thompson in Woodstock, New York in 1974, comprises over 1,500 gestures that are signed by the Soundpainter (composer) to interact with the performers, respond to their proposals and guide the collective composition.
Performer: Joos (Matthieu Jacinto)
Target audience: Schools, primary schools. Ages 6 to 10.
Duration: 2 hours
Maximum capacity: 14 participants
JAZZ & SINGING
Divine voices
Orchestrated by singer Laure Donnat and double bass player Lilian Bencini, Voix Divines is an invitation to practice the voice. The artists take children on a journey through New Orleans blues with French lyrics, and introduce them to scat improvisation in a fun way.
Workshop for a class: After a presentation of “the voice” and a warm-up of this vocal instrument that everyone possesses, the morning ends with a discussion about the profession of “music artist”.
A show is also put on for the whole school.
In addition to the professional artists, a coordinator will accompany the children and teachers throughout the day.
School groups aged 6 to 11
Ages involved: 6 to 11
Number of participants: two schools with an average of 300 pupils, i.e. 600 participants and two classes for workshops
Duration / stages: 2 workshops for 2 classes of 2 hours each
Time: April 2024
The educational objectives of all the actions
Discovery of jazz music / Discovery of musical instruments / Meeting with professional artists / Raising awareness of recycling / Creation of instruments from reused materials / Creation of sets / Writing workshops / Plastic arts workshops / Participation in a collective project / Self-evaluation of actions and feedback / Participation in one or more concerts.
Beneficiary groups
– Schoolchildren from the City of Marseille, the Bouches du Rhône department and the Aix-Marseille Provence metropolitan area.
2,600 children in 2021-2022 participated in these actions.
– Children aged 5 to 15 in social centres, Maisons pour tous, Foyers, Centre d’Action Sociale, Institut Médicoéducatif,
300 children in 2021-2022 participated in these actions.
– Families in the 1st and 3rd districts of Marseille, and the 4th district: 500 people.
The beneficiary structures of our EAC actions :
École Barthélémy – Saint-Savournin (13001) – École François Moisson (13002) – École Peyssonnel 2 (13003) – École Boisson (13004) – École FRAISSINET (13005) – École Eydoux (13006) – École Candolle (13007) – École du Rouet (13008) – École Château- Sec School (13009) – Pont de Vivaux Saccoman School (13010) – Rouguière School (13011) – Grande Bastide Cazaulx School (13012) – Saint- Just Centre 1 School (13013) – La Busserine School (13014) – Saint Barthelemy Les Flamants School (13014) – Saint-Louis Lévèque School (13015) – Bastides School (13015) – Aix-Luynes Prison (13852)
All actions are free of charge.
Evaluation criteria
Interest in the projects, number of beneficiaries, artist’s notebook, communication.
CONTACTS
Aurélie Pampana – Administrator – [email protected]