Concept

The international festival "Friendship without borders" is an educational and artistic project for children and adults.

The project was born from a desire to create a friendly and joyful space that would allow kids all over the world to grow up and to develop in a positive psycological environment favorable for their creativity. In its activities "FRIENDSHIP WITHOUT BORDERS" follows the principle "Tomorrow's generation is being shaped today".

Already two sessions of the annual program of "Friendship without borders" have been held - in 2014 and in 2015.

It includes three forms of actions:

• to encourage kids attending art schools around the globe to express by artistic means (a picture, an illustration, a sculpture...) the ideas inspired by the proverbs about friendship and other unifying values: feelings, human values, some exemplary life cases, etc.
• to gather the artistic works of the children coming from different cultural horizons in Paris and to present them to the widest audience possible;
• to encourage kids visiting the exhition to express their opinion on the same topic.

The objectives are first of all pedagogical and educational.

The educational goal of the project is for children to develop the following skills:

THOUGHTFULNESS: to learn to be attentive to others;

TRANSFORMATION: to form a tendency to innovation, changes and openness in order to work out new solutions to the existing problems, to transform the environment for better, to improve social situation an to develop the ability of positive thinking;

SELF-EXPRESSION: to learn to express yourself throught the illustration - a universal tool that goes beyond the limits;

SHARING: to develop an ability to share while respecting yourself and others.

The objectives of the project are: the warm atmosphere, the creativity and the unity.

How to support the project?

By an active participation and joint activity. The contribution of everyone is important!

Join us

The Festival is animated by

- the exhibitions aimed at the general public including a contest "Audience Choice Award"

Children aged 6 to 17 years who are students of the Art Schools are all eligible to participate. Join us!

- artistic and cultural workshops

Anyone aged 0 to 100 years is free to participate. For mor information

- concerts;

- meetings for kids and adults;

- and other international events within the framework of the Festival

The Festival 2016-2017 takes places in Paris starting from November. For more information