The Unnameable Children’s Project believes…
Children and young people have the right to see, feel, and experience their ideas being realized, taking up space in the world and making an impact on others. Worldbuilding (dreaming up characters, landscapes, stories) is an intuitive part of childhood and youth. It is a way to practice making meaning of the world, and through imagining and playing things out, build resilience for the rest of one’s life. This pop-up series features the imagination of children as a superpower and an invaluable gift to be shared in community. The art projects aim to empower children by helping them make their dreams real and larger than life. Our team of artists celebrates these dreams as necessary disruptions to the limiting world of adults. We consider the children our mentors in risk-taking, experimentation, creative research, and play.
this a generational intervention…
devoted to the potential of the youngest generation–their creativity, resilience, and feeling of aliveness in community.
we offer seasonal programs, pop-ups, workshops, and performance projects—all led by world-class artists and seasoned practitioners. so far, each program has been a distinct experiment.
we are most interested in creative process, collaboration, making things, building worlds, awe & wonder of nature, & connecting to community.
we value kindness, joy, play, individuality & teamwork, safety & risk-taking, curiosity, difference & universality, and food.
we believe creative work and imaginative development are intrinsic to evolution and no child should be left out because of cost.
we take inspiration from the experiments in pedagogy that took place at black mountain college.
some of our modalities: pageantry/ puppetry/ visual arts/ exploring the natural world/ movement/ physicality/ circus arts/ meditation/ world building/ engagement with community and more