Paper, Scissors and Paints for Two days of Creative Fun for Kids

Nine months ago, while writing her thesis for the Master of Science in Creative Business Processes of the Copenhagen Business School, the CLEACC alumna Bianca Ramponi started an internship at the Uovokids festival. "It wasn't easy at all", she says. "In a small organization you have great autonomy and from great autonomy comes great responsibility. Working at a complex event is a great learning experience: you have many different assignments at once. I still remember the adrenaline of the last two months before going on stage, when everything had to go smoothly".

Today Ramponi collaborates with the artistic director to the 2016 program of the event, to be held on October 22-23. Uovokids is the son of Uovo Performing Arts Festival and is a multidisciplinary event dedicated to contemporary creativity for children up to 12 years. It is free of charge, funded by public and private partners, and hosted by the Museo Nazionale della Scienza e Tecnologia Leonardo da Vinci in Milan where children and families are involved in creative workshops.

"It was the Uovo festival audience who asked for shared experiences with their sons. Children usually interact with teachers or entertainers in a space from which parents are excluded. Conversely, Uovokids aims to introduce them to contemporary culture and creativity building shared processes devised by artists who do not usually work with children". Two examples: the participants are asked to build a "world" starting from pictures provided by a photography studio; children create a game using paper, scissors and pencils, the game is then digitalised and becomes a videogame. Other cities are taking note: between December 2015 and January 2016 a Uovokids festival was held in Bari.