Mon Carton is produced in collaboration with Association Peekaboo, an french non-profit founded in 2011 to offer experiential workshops around pieces of art. Peekaboo has since evolved to produce installations and events as well as lead trainings for professionals working with young children and artworks or artistic books. Peekaboo works on the border between the everyday and art, aiming to find wonder in the everyday and integrate artistic process into our experience of the world around us. Peekaboo has partnered with organizations such as Les Trois Ourses, Bloom School, Centre des Arts d'Enghien-les-bains, Centre Georges Pompidou, Centre National des Arts Plastiques, Conseil départemental de la Guadeloupe, Galerie Mirabilia, ISMM (Institut Supérieur Maria Montessori), Les Pinceaux, Mains d'oeuvres, and La Petite Ecole. We offer workshops to accompany Mon Carton in order to give audience members an experiental laboratory with similar materials as those seen in the performance. Our approach is inspired by pedagogies such as Reggio Emilia, Montessori, and Cooperative Learning and workshops offer a chance for free exploration as well as group creations.
Workshops in echo with Mon Carton
Paper - texture and flight
Paper is all around us, so much so that we often take it for granted, asking children to add marks to it, hone their drawing skills, or decorate it, without exploring the material itself. In this workshop, adults and children side by side, we will focus simply on the element of paper. Its texture, its movement, its size, shape, thickness, sound, smell, the way it falls, the way it makes us feel. So many different kinds of paper which can elicit so many different images, feelings, and thoughts without adding a single written mark.
Box - Construction
Often, when we give young children presents, they prefer to play with the box! In this workshop we will dive into the qualities that cardboard boxes have to offer, literally. Parents will learn from their children how to rediscover the cardboard box through play. Pushing, pulling, going in, over, or under, the box transforms into imagined objects or scenery for play. For older children this exploration may lead to collective building creations.
Ball - bounce
The ball is perhaps the most quintessential play object. Rolling, bouncing, slipping from our hands, into the air, and into the hands of someone else. In this workshop we will let the children do most of the playing, but caregivers will observe their children through a new lens, gaining awareness of the incredibly scientific exploration that young children bring to even the most basic of games. Adults will try to remain silent to see how their children test the weight, bounciness, size, color, texture, sound, even taste of each different ball.