This contract signed with the State will allow a significant development of artistic and cultural projects within the schools of the territory.

Monday, March 13, 2023, Pascal Otheguy, Secretary General of the Loire-Atlantique Prefecture, Véronique Julien, Assistant to the Academic Director of National Education Services (DASEN) and Agnès Bourgeais, Mayor of Rezé signed a CLEA.

For several years, the City of Rezé has made arts and cultural education a strong focus of its municipal cultural policy. It relies on the services and the different cultural actors to propose artistic and cultural projects in schools. It is therefore not surprising that the City signed with the National Education and the Ministry of Culture a CLEA, for a period of 3 years from September 2023 to June 2026.

CLEA: a new tool for arts and cultural education at the service of the City of Rezé

The CLEA is a means of strengthening the coordination of actions carried out in the territory by promoting exchanges between cultural actors. It reinforces the municipal policy of access to a quality cultural offer for children and youth.

Making art and culture accessible to all

The CLEA is aimed at everyone, children from 3 years old, young people, but also adults and families. It allows children and young people to build a coherent artistic and cultural education pathway.

In order to make as many people as possible aware, artistic and cultural projects and courses can go beyond school time and include families through restitution times or shows, exhibitions, performances registered in the cultural season.

This CLEA with the City of Rezé has as objectives :

  • expand early childhood care and facilitate transitions to college
  • co-build and collectively carry large-scale projects
  • improve the territorial network by ensuring that the number of students participating in an Arts and Cultural Education (EAC) project increases while taking into account the different times of the child outside the school setting
  • to register actions in the territory by emphasizing the links with the cultural fabric and by promoting social and intergenerational ties, especially with families.

The Regional Directorate of Cultural Affairs, major support of CLÉA

The DRAC is part of a policy of partnership with local authorities by supporting the local contract of arts and cultural education of the City of Rezé which promotes the development of arts and cultural education in its territory.

The DRAC thus pursues an active policy of agreement with the territories that makes it possible to identify shared objectives local community/State promoting the development of a cultural policy in particular towards an audience away from the offer.

What is a Local Arts Education Contract?

The CLEA (Local Arts Education Contract) is a contractual arrangement of the Ministry of Culture for a period of three years, possibly renewable, to raise awareness of art and culture among young people between the ages of 3 and 25 and those responsible for education.

CLEA provides a framework and means for the construction of artistic and cultural projects. It is structured around a mediation residence offered to an artist or a collective, whatever his or her artistic field. It is for these resident artists to engage in an approach of transmission giving to see and understand the artistic research that animates them as well as the processes of creation.