Cultural institutions take on a central role in the relationship between the local community and the Arts. Allowing small children access to artistic experiences is particularly important because it is at this stage that a basis is laid down upon which a wide range of future development is possible.
The Bridges of PaPI is an initiative that seeks to encourage theatres and cultural institutions to promote a conjoined model, taking shows and their space and seeing their development in other environments, such as crèches and kindergartens, and in this way creating or strengthening the relationship with new audiences and the community.
Besides the conjoined presentation of one or more of the Opus, The Bridges of PaPI complements the experience with strategies that aim to consolidate the bridging of the two worlds. The idea here is to widen the impact of the work, consolidating the ties and encouraging the participants to build a closer relationship with the theatre.
The São Luiz Municipal Theatre and the Casa das Artes of Vila Nova de Famalicão were the first to build Bridges of PaPI, and have already adopted this travelling model, helping to spread the idea that early childhood and childhood deserve the best available. Building a global bridge is a continuous process and there is space for all the partners that wish to develop their impact in the community.
Opus Tutti
Opus Tutti is an educational and artistic project which is designed to develop good practice in areas connected with childhood and early childhood. Some of these practices have been tried as experiments in the O Roseiral Childcare Centre where a pilot study is being carried out. In the year when Opus Tutti is Bearing Fruit, the practices developed are being widened to other contexts, looking to bring benefit to other institutions and audiences.
Opus Tutti is a project of the Companhia de Música Teatral and the Laboratory of Music and Communication in Infancy (LAMCI – CESEM) from the Social Sciences and Humanities Faculty of UNL. It is supported by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.
