The Scène nationale de l’Essonne is launching an artistic and cultural space dedicated to children aged 0 to 6 and parents, installed in the hall of the Scène nationale de l’Essonne. Reception will be open and free, without reservation.
Based in Évry-Courcouronnes, at the Agora theater but also in Ris-Orangis, at the Robert Desnos cultural center, the Scène nationale de l’Essonne carries a unique project to adapt to a territory which alone concentrates all the challenges of tomorrow’s society.
At the Agora theater in Évry-Courcouronnes, within a shopping center, she chose to anchor herself in a city whose average age is 29 years old, with the strong presence of youth and of a student population, but
also single-parent families, where approximately 130 cultural communities are represented.
With this objective, it will launch a highlight around culinary theater from the 2025/2026 season.
Its departmental influence requires that it addresses all these components of the population and
to make, thanks to art and culture, the common place of all imaginations. Its programming thus highlights
the meeting of diasporic cultures with the majority culture, the dialogue of traditional cultures and
contemporary, intergenerational.
Its actions are oriented first and foremost towards young people.
From May to June 2025, she will present several projects carried out over the past two years with artists and young people from
Essonne grouped around a highlight entitled No(s) Future(s)?! or how the future is only possible
plural.
More than two hundred young people will participate in this event, thanks in particular to the Youth Stories project,
collaborative initiative of the Scène nationale de l’Essonne, the Jeunes Textes en Liberté label, and eight partners
cultural centers of Essonne, aiming to offer young people from the department the opportunity to write collective stories of their
generation. The project will see its final restitution in July 2025 at the Avignon Festival. It was co-piloted by Jeunes
free texts, founded ten years ago by the author Penda Diouf and the director Anthony Thibault for
promote the emergence of dramatic authors and encourage the emergence of a better diversity of
narrations on theatrical stages.
The Essonne National Scene devotes nearly 300,000 euros per year to artistic and cultural education
around the “Fair.e school” program. Through this work, she wishes to enable each child to be supported
from early childhood to adulthood through art and culture. A device that allows you to take into account
takes sensitive experience into account in learning knowledge and moving the imagination.
Respect for the body and educational cultures linked to the body and the sensitive are thus particularly appreciated.
hendées.
This is why the Scène nationale wanted to develop the Petite Scène, a sensitive space dedicated to the discovery of
body and on the other, by art.
To celebrate this launch, an official inauguration day on Friday January 24 but also a day dedicated to professionals in early childhood and entertainment for young audiences on Saturday January 25.
