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The town itself, bombed by the allies and 70% destroyed, nevertheless preserves some 40 churches, which acted at times as refuges for the populations and received (on the other hand) a very small number of monuments; indicated by the monument of Anna Quinquaud, 1962, which commemorates the 19 days of the battle of Caen; the work Phénix (Phoenix), 1954, of the sculptor Louis Leygue, situated at the entrance of the University, which marks the renovation of the place and of the town. Numerous little simple and decorative commemorative slabs are distributed throughout the town and pay homage to the allied forces, to the French combatants, or also, to the riflemen and prisoners. The recent public commission at the heart of the town, La Caravane (The Caravan / Retinue), a work by the contemporary artist Josep van Lieshout, which has been inaugurated recently in 2013, creates through its 11 figures, a homage which is equally dedicated to the living in times of war. The year 2014, the year of the 100 th anniversary of the 1914-1918 war and the 70 th anniversary of the Normandy landings gives the opportunity for a number of commemorative ceremonies. Le Mémorial de la Paix (The Peace Memorial) welcomes a great number of visitors. http://www.memorial-caen.fr/portail/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=788&Itemid=1295 Frac BN Fonds regional d’art contemporain <strong>Basse</strong>-<strong>Normandie</strong> 9 rue Vaubenard 14000 Caen France www.frac-bn.org Contact : Sylvie Froux, directrice CALAIS, FINE ART MUSEUM In Calais the monument exists almost exclusively in relation to war. Few buildings survived bombings by English allies of 1940. The old town of Calais has lost 80% of its architecture. Among the remains are the Tour du Guet, the ancient lighthouse, small remains of Notre Dame de Calais, the monumental church in Tudor style in course of restoration and almost complete. Monumental and traditional sculpture is largely confined to parks and public spaces. The town is remarkable for its numerous fortifications from the Ancien Regime, and for its bunkers of the 20 th century, mostly in ruins. They punctuate the town, the beach, the banks of the canals. Of the defensive structures constructed between 1940 and 1942 by the Germans for protecting against attack by the English, only one survives in use. It contains the museum to the memory of the 39-45 war, camouflaged behind the trees of a park. Defensive architecture has over the centuries transformed the countryside around Calais. The bunkers within this frontier town by the sea impose a strong presence in spite of their ruinous state. Evidence of its dominance by war for a whole epoch, the bunker of the Pas de Calais was erected as a central point of the defensive and offensive strategy for the whole Nazi war without ever having served as such. Today the bunkers are rehabilitated as a war museum, and of which the outline structure as well as the firing shafts are much visited by school-children and tourists. Another Calais monument, the Burghers of Calais of 1888, recalls the tumultuous history of the Franco- British conflicts during the Hundred Years War. In effect, Rodin chose to represent an episode from the
Chronicles of Froissart, depicting six Calais men who sacrificed themselves in order to liberate the town which had been under siege for several months by the forces of the English king Edward 111. Musée des beaux-arts de Calais 25 Rue Richelieu Calais France www.musee.calais.fr Contact : Barbara Forest, Directrice COMMUNAUTE D’AGGLOMERATION DU CALAISIS, JARDIN DES ARTS Aims of the educational residency A residency programme relevant to the programme ‘Jardin des Arts is organised under the remit of artistic and cultural education for a public of children, adolescents and young people of school age. It depends on an artist being fully available for 3 or 4 months as well as ensuring an important dissemination of his or her existing work, whether in a dedicated space or not. The outcome of the residency can be a proposal for creation of a new work, its making resulting from the process of encounter between the artist and the region. For the resident artist it is particularly important to engage in an educational approach which gives explicit access to the further understanding of the research process, and to the creative reflection which leads to the work (reflection, experimentation, and the process of making). This making evident of the process can take many forms in terms of interventions or actions. Such a laboratory of artistic education might lead up to well defined territory, however, its actions and events need to be prepared for an eventual relationship with many different educational and pedagogic offices and clients. They also need to be prepared and negotiated with the bodies in charge of the cultural organisations embedded in the region where the artist is temporarily situated. These actions are intended to lead, during school hours or after school, to the objective to permit a large number of children, adolescents and young people (and beyond to their families) to acquire first hand experience with the creation of original works of art. These actions can take place equally in schools, social centres, leisure centres, cultural organisations, or in public spaces, or in any other site which is deemed appropriate by the artist and his or her local partners. Aims and objectives: • To permit a great number of children, adolescents and young people to learn about the creation of contemporary works of art in the course of an encounter with a powerful artistic intervention, in connection with a network of cultural spaces. • To develop the critical faculties of these children, adolescents and young people through discussion, exchanges of ideas, talks on the works. • To contribute to the cultural and artistic development of the region and particularly towards a coherent artistic education, which is community focussed, and integrating the energies of the many contributors.
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