An international programme for education through the arts The bank for a changing world1 : 30 CHARITIES SUPPORTED WORLDWIDE EUROPE BELGIUM PORTUGAL HONG KONG ReMuA Orquestra Geraçao Kely Support Group Music / Singing Music Photography BULGARIA SPAIN INDIA B Cause Foundation Fundacion Baila Aseema Charitable Trust Plastic Arts / Music / Dance Dance Music / Singing FRANCE UNITED KINGDOM JAPAN KLAP Maison pour la Sadler’s Wells Theatre NPO Minna no Kotoba Danse, Kelemenis & Cie Dance Music Dance MALAYSIA GERMANY THE AMERICAS Dignity for children Kinderschutzbund, Frankfurt Foundation Theatre / Music BRAZIL Drawing / Photography Monte Azul HUNGARY Music SINGAPORE Mus-e Hungary, Little Arts Academy Music / Singing / CANADA Dance/ Music Graphic Arts / Photography MONTREAL MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS SOUTH KOREA, ITALY Drawing / Painting KACCC Sanitansamble Naples Music Music COLOMBIA TAIWAN Fundacion Nacional Batuda LUXEMBOURG Music / Singing TECO Technology Foundation Neumünster Abbey Dance / Music Cultural Exchange Center USA (NEW-YORK) New Circus Arts DMF Youth Dance AFRICA NETHERLANDS Youth Culture Fund USA (SAN FRANCISCO) IVORY COAST Dance Alonzo King Lines Ballet Ivoire Développement Durable Dance Theatre / Music / Dance POLAND CePek (The Culture MOROCCO Promotion Center) ASIA PACIFIC Les Étoiles de Sidi Moumen Music Music AUSTRALIA Barnardos Australia SENEGAL Visual Arts / Music / Dance Gnon – Dema (Ablaye Cissoko) Music CHINA Taipei Ricci Institute SOUTH AFRICA Educape / SSF Music / Drawing / Painting Theatre 2 Once upon a time, was created and a great tale began: a programme of art and education for underprivileged children Founded in 2015, Dream Up is the BNP Paribas Foundation’s international programme of education through art. It aims to give underprivileged children and teenagers the chance to practise one or more artistic activities. The scheme helps fulfil the objectives in BNP Paribas’ undertaking to support youth and the areas where the group is based. Culture and solidarity: two values on which Dream Up was founded Dream Up was founded on two key values of the BNP Paribas Foundation’s patronage policy: culture and solidarity. “Practising an artistic discipline is a great way to enjoy an enriching collective expe- rience and become more self-confident,” says Jean-Jacques Goron, the managing director of the BNP Paribas Foundation. Dream Up therefore helps provide artistic and cultural education for children who are least likely to enjoy access to such disci- plines. Jean-Jacques Goron An emblematic ambassador Ever since it was rst launched, the programme has enjoyed support from Abou Lagraa, a Franco-Algerian dancer and choreographer. Abou Lagraa says, “The path I’ve taken—which is similar to that of these youngsters—can be a springboard, giving them faith in the future. What I can impart to them is not just dance as a discipline, but a set of practices that help them tackle life, and with which they can equip them- selves physically and intellectually to Abou Lagraa ©Dan Aucante face society.” 3 A SUCCESSFUL FIRST EDITION AND AN EXTENDED UNDERTAKING! Artistic practice: Unfailing action for a tried-and-tested yet another three years pedagogical springboard The BNP Paribas Foundation is prolonging its Dream Up programme from 2018 to 2021, in The pedagogical benefits of Dream Up can be line with the BNP Paribas group’s undertaking to seen through accounts given by the programme’s support the social inclusion of youngsters. The stakeholders. They all share the same conviction: investment of BNP Paribas’ local teams, whose education is not just about learning the academic knowledge of areas is vital in selecting charities subjects with which most underprivileged children and projects, will again be one of the keys to suc- are struggling. “A little less maths and a bit more cess in the scheme’s extension. art or music,” demands the chairwoman of one of the charities supported by Dream Up. Whether charity members, artists on the pro- gramme, teachers or accompanists, all those involved in the scheme underline the extent to which artistic practice is a powerful pedagogi- cal springboard with a highly positive effect on children’s lives: artistic skills acquired, self-con- nd dence regained, integration into collective life and 2 edition : 2018-2020 respect for others, attention span improved, and even more regular attendance at school and better performance in class. €1.8 m budget for the second edition 1st edition : 2015-2017 20,000 new children supported 30,000 over the next three years children supported 1,500+ workshops, shows, artistic creations and suchlike 4 THROUGHOUT THE WORLD Find out about eight of the thirty projects supported worldwide Montreal Museum Orquestra Gueraçao ADOLeDANSE Neumünster Abbey of Fine Arts PORTUGAL – P8 FRANCE – P6 Cultural Exchange Center CANADA – P10 Music Dance LUXEMBOURG – P12 Drawing – Painting New Circus Arts HeART with Lines Gnon-Dema Educape Taipei Ricci Institute UNITED STATES – P7 SENEGAL – P9 SOUTH AFRICA– P13 CHINA – P14 Dance Dance Theatre Music – Drawing – Painting 5 GETS INTO THE GROOVE ADOleDANSE: enlarging the field of possibilities In 2011, Michel Kelemenis, a Discovering the dance professions choreographer and dancer, founded Supported by their secondary school’s teach- ‘KLAP, Maison pour la danse’. With ing team, these teenagers get the chance to support from Dream Up, he created discover all professions in dancing through ADOLéDANSE in 2018, a dance programme encounters with artistic teams, as well as tech- for youngsters from underprivileged nical and administrative employees. backgrounds in Marseille. During the school holidays, the group is joined by around one hundred other youngsters, aged ten to fourteen years, who are invited to take part in dance workshops. Performance of their work is scheduled at the end of the academic year, inspired by the chore- ographer’s creations. Learning, but conveying too For Michel Kelemenis, “learning isn’t an end in itself, but a platform that boosts a dynamic of openness to others and acceptance of differences, during a period when radical trans- formation of bodies and interpersonal relations gives rise either to break-ups or to a scope reaching all possibilities.” By choosing to enlarge the eld of possibilities, Michel Kelemenis pur- sues a goal beyond initiation in a technique: he seeks to make these teenagers true cultural ambassadors to those older than them. France 6 HeART with LINES, or a pedagogy of confidence Long supported by the BNP Paribas Art as a vehicle for revealing talents Foundation in his artistic career, “Expressive and communicative, dance is in the American choreographer each of us. By releasing its energy, lives can be Alonzo King offers San Francisco’s changed,” adds Alonzo King. underprivileged children the chance With voluntary help from the professional art- to get into the groove with help ists of his ‘LINES Ballet Company’, he launched from Dream Up. the ‘HeART with LINES’ scheme in 2015. His aim was to share the fundamentals of choreography All the world’s movements and dance with San Francisco’s underprivileged youngsters. “Movement provides a more expressive vision “With artistic practice, everything improves in of the world than words do,” explains Alonzo children’s lives: regular attendance at school, King. At a very young age, he discovered this learning capacity, self-condence, solidarity innate condence in the movement of bodies and even joy, which is so often lacking in these and nature that gave his imagination endless children from socially difcult backgrounds,” scope and never left him. He therefore kept an Alonzo King goes on to say. “Children overcome indissoluble piece of his childhood within him. their doubts and ourish. They bloom,” he con- And this led him to take an interest in children’s cludes. relationship with art and, of course, dance in particular. United States 7 Orquestra Geraçao: Educating through music Portugal Created in 2007 based on one thousand children from schools where rates Venezuela’s ‘El Sistema’ model, of absenteeism and dropping out are especially high. They form several orchestras that give Orquestra Geraçao is a programme performances in concerts each year in the large of social inclusion through music theatres of Lisbon and Porto. Over the past few for socially and educationally years, some of these young musicians have vulnerable children in Portugal. joined the Gulbenkian Orchestra for an annual Since 2015, the BNP Paribas concert conducted by great maestros. Foundation has supported it. Art combined with civil values Thousands of musicians in the making Through musical eduction, the Orquestra Geraçao charity seeks to relieve children from The children of Orquestra Geraçao study all poverty, fight underachievement and drop- types of music, including classical music, jazz out rates in schools, stop children falling into and world music, the latter being particularly delinquency, and give them the self-condence relevant to these children who have often they need to pursue true projects in their lives. experienced the migration that has punctuated “We want to train upstanding citizens, not just Portugal’s history. The charity welcomes around musicians,” says Antonio Diniz, the charity’s chairman. 8 A FEW MELODIES FROM THE Ablaye Cissoko REPERTOIRE and the kora kids An author, composer and kora-player, Ablaye Cissoko is one of the artists the BNP Paribas Foundation has supported for several years. Support for his kora school is part of this ongoing relationship. Protecting the kora from Making underprivileged children the risk of being forgotten the stewards of a tradition The kora is a string instrument traditionally So that the kora can keep its place in the lives taught in large families in Senegal, families of of young Senegalese children, especially those folk storytellers known as griots. Ablaye Cissoko who do not have the chance to learn the instru- comes from a family of griots and is fortunate ment through their families, Ablaye Cissoko to have been taught the kora by his father and founded a kora school for children in the city grandfather.