Schools, children and youth groups
The Photoforum Pasquart art education programme offers photography workshops and guided exhibition tours for classes of all ages. Workshops last 90 minutes, tours 45–60 minutes, and they can be booked at any time.
We will also gladly assist you with themed weeks or school projects in the fields of photography and media literacy. For further information on potential collaborations, please call or email us.
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In 2022, the Photoforum’s exhibition programme is dedicated to photographic image archives and their documentation requirements. In the workshops for school classes, we take up the respective annual theme, examine photographic practices with regard to their claim to truth, and focus on the language of the image, image disruptions and visual ruptures of all kinds. In the various workshops, other aspects of sharing, curating, exhibiting and affirming images are examined and linked to photographic practice.
Interactive tour
This interactive tour allows us to explore the exhibition in a playful way. We get closer to the works by asking questions and looking for our own approaches to the images and their claim to truth. The students themselves become mediators and learn from each other.
(from 12 years old, 60 min)
Bringing images to life
Together we visit the current exhibition at Photoforum Pasquart and then bring the images on display to life! Equipped with iPads, our creativity and the Scratch Junior application, we photograph the works in the exhibition and let them take part in our interactive stories. After an introduction to the application, with which one can easily program a short animation or a game without having to code, the pupils work in small groups. Details of the images on display become characters, objects and landscapes, assembled into invented stories.
(from 10 years old, 90 min)
Picture stories
In the workshop “Stories in pictures” we take a closer look at what is in a photograph. What does the picture show us, what does it hide? What story does the photograph tell us? We explore the content of different photographs and series of images, and the emotions they evoke, and then learn about body language and facial expressions of emotions. In small groups we imagine our own stories and discover how we can tell them with a series of photographs.
(Suitable for children and primary school, 90 min)
360° – on an adventure with ADA¨
From the zenith to the nadir and back again: after a tour through the current exhibition in a spirit of dialogue, each group will work on one of the exhibition rooms or works in more depth. In this workshop we will discover 360° photography in a playful and experimental way. With the help of iPads, an application, objects, mirrors, poses, gestures, symbols and written words, students will be able to creatively explore the edges of the application.
(suitable from 12 years old, 90 min)
Blue light and white shadow
The workshop provides an understanding of how images are captured and how they end up on paper or screen. The participants are then invited to experience the cyanotype, an ancient photographic process.
(suitable for children and primary school, 90 min)
Hidden face
In this workshop, we study the mechanisms of facial recognition and discuss what happens to our images when we put them online. We then use make-up, wigs or masks to change our faces so that they are no longer recognised as faces by the algorithms, thus bypassing the recognition mechanisms of surveillance cameras and facial recognition systems such as Face ID.
(adapted from 12 years old, 90 min)
Price
130 CHF / 90 min, short guided tour and workshop with a mediator
90 CHF / 45-60 min, guided tour with a mediator
Culture in schools Biel
All our workshops are supported by the City of Biel. School classes from kindergarten to 11 years of age can take advantage of this offer and book these activities free of charge. As the number of classes that can benefit from this offer is limited, we recommend booking the activity as soon as possible.
Cultural vouchers from the Canton of Bern
The Canton of Berne offers school classes cultural vouchers for the cost of transport to a cultural venue. You can find more information on the page of the Department of Education:
Cultural voucher for an outing
The Canton of Bern also supports cultural projects in schools. The Photoforum Pasquart is happy to be your partner for such projects. If you are interested, please contact us. You can find more information about the projects on the following page:
Cultural voucher for school projects
Contacts and registration
Sylvie Gobbo, cultural mediator
info@photoforumpasquart.ch
The Photoforum Pasquart has won a contribution to digital mediation in collaboration with the Biel Photographic Days. ADA – our mobile digital workshop, equipped with a beamer, speakers, wifi modem and iPads is used with the Journées photographiques de Bienne. It is possible to book the workshops developed by the Photoforum Pasquart all year round. New workshops will also be developed to complete our mediation offer. They will be announced in our newsletter and on our website.
ADA – the mobile digital workshop is supported by:
