Creative Europe
Desk UK
for Culture

The project BAMBOO aims at stimulating the development of an innovative artistic proposal addressed to children from 3 to 12 years old and
to their families.
BAMBOO enables 6 European partners to join their forces to support and promote the co-production and the trans-national circulation of new
works for young audiences created by 7 European artists coming from different artistic fields (performing arts, visual arts, music, illustration,
design).
The project aims at proposing a new perspective on the relation between contemporary arts and childhood; for this reason the artists involved
in the project are not necessarily used to work with or for children.
The selected artists are invited to create a new production especially conceived for an audience of children.
The network provides to artists: 1) financial footing, 2) artistic residencies, 3) consulting and production management, 4) circulation and
international visibility in the frame of festivals or events organised by the partners.
An ongoing research is developed in order to contribute to define a structural, methodological and conceptual foundation setting of these new
ways of working with children and contemporary arts. The network extends and deepens this reflection through public meetings with artists
and conferences with European and local experts for professionals but also for a general public programmed on the occasion of the events.
Through the European cooperation the 6 cultural organisations involved in the network have the opportunity to exploit their full potential, to
contribute to the renewal of artistic proposal for children and to invite artists to tackle new challenges. Furthermore, the trans-national
circulation of the realized works contribute to increase the awareness of Europe and of European identity among the new generations, the
future citizens of tomorrow.