09 / 2024 — — 39 ACTIONS PÉDAGOGIQUES 200 Plus de 200 rendez-vous ont été organisés au cours de l’année scolaire 2023-2024. More than 200 events were organised during the 2023-2024 school year. 5 300 enfants ont profité des actions culturelles dans la totalité des 19 écoles fondamentales de la ville de Luxembourg, soit 93 % de participation. children took part in the cultural activities organised by Luxembourg City’s 19 primary schools. This represents a 93% participation rate. T he wealth of cultural activities on offer in Luxembourg is not just aimed at adults. Throughout the school year, the City of Luxembourg offers school students attending the first to fourth cycles, i.e. children aged between 3 and 12, the opportunity to open a window on to the world of culture in the broadest sense. The Service Enseignement (Education Department) gives teachers various ways of introducing children to the world of culture in line with the ministry of Education’s syllabus, which defines the curriculum for each ‘cycle’. MOBILISING THE CITY AND CULTURAL SCENE Some of the projects involve children leaving the confines of their school to take part in exhibitions, workshops, visits, performances, immersive outings, and so on. The school may also welcome artists and specialist contributors as part of in-class workshops. Many of the capital’s cultural facilities are also involved: museums, theatres, concert halls and concert venues, such as the Rotondes Espace Culturel, which organised 14 performances and 18 workshops for schoolchildren in the 2023/2024 school year. Other institutions such as the Cinémathèque (Film Library), the Conservatoire and the Photothèque (Photo Library) are also involved. A number of City departments also participate, including the Service Hygiène (Sanitation Department) for any sustainable development initiatives and the Service Intégration et besoins spécifiques (Integration and Special Needs Department) for workshops run by a visually impaired teacher. “We make specific proposals to the teachers and almost all of them welcome the idea of running cultural activities,” explains Yves Gasparet from the Service Enseignement. “We try to offer at least one cultural event per term for each cycle, depending on what’s available. This can be a single event or a series of events based on the same theme.” Schools and parents don’t have to pay a cent: the cultural activities are funded by the City of Luxembourg and included in the budgets. UNDERSTANDING AND FEELING According to Gasparet, culture is a ‘toolbox’ for better understanding the world, awakening ideas of citizenship and encouraging people to live together... as well as transmitting knowledge and ideas. “These initiatives provide intellectual, cultural, emotional and social learning,” he explains. “Culture also allows us to tackle certain social issues in a less full-frontal way.” For example, photographer Jessica Theis’ 1001 Tonnen project invited children to create a work of art from waste, which led to an exhibition at the Bierger-Center. The creations can still be disassembled to make sorting easier. Writing workshops linked to a theatrical performance enabled the children to start a friendship through correspondence and a visit to the museum provided an opportunity to study history and the power of a symbol after a visit to an exhibition on the Carnation Revolution.
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