Arts and cultural education

The work of cultural democratization and the objective of access for all to cultural resources and practices is based in particular on arts and cultural education  (BEC) towards children, adolescents and young adults in all times of life.

Expanding arts and cultural education is a priority for the government. Its stakes are the transmission of the common heritage, cement of our French and European society, a factor of openness to the world and awareness of our role as legatee of the heritage of humanity, the understanding of the artistic gesture and the creative process, as well as the introduction to artistic practices and the development of creativity. It is also about putting culture at the heart of social practices in the territories and bringing generations together in shared moments around arts and heritage.

The Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur Regional Directorate for Cultural Affairs (DRAC PACA) works with other State departments and local authorities to ensure that all young people benefit from quality arts and cultural education throughout their careers.

The partnership with the two rectorates of the academic region Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur aims to ensure that all children and young people attending school have access each year to a cultural project in support of the cultural resources of its territory. The challenge is that the school becomes a place open to culture, relying on all the cultural resources available in its environment.

Similarly, agreements are established between the DRAC PACA and the Regional Agency for Health (ARS), as well as with the South-East Inter-regional Directorate for Judicial Protection of Youth (DIPJJ). Partnerships are also established with early childhood, parenting and social services.

The involvement of cultural structures, operators and services, as well as the involvement of communities, are essential to irrigate all territories and develop quality projects for the benefit of all young people and their families. Partnerships are established between the State and the communities mobilized so that gradually all the territories of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region are concerned.

The DRAC drives and steers this public policy on its territory by defining an implementation strategy and priorities for action. Partnership and the territorial approach are the two main drivers for the development of cultural action for all inhabitants of the territory:

- partnership between government and communities.

- partnerships between cultural structures and places of reception of babies, children, adolescents, young people, young people and disabled persons, hospitalized, under the control of the courts.

- priority given to the most geographically or socially remote areas of cultural resources (isolated rural areas, city political districts) and to the most vulnerable populations.

The DRAC PACA supports cultural structures that develop projects of cultural action and arts and cultural education as well as communities that organize residencies with transmission mission in their territory.

Des calls for projects The annual development of cultural action and transmission projects are also initiated by the DRAC PACA in order to boost specific areas. In addition, the DRAC is a partner of the rectors for artistic teaching in high school.