About iSTART
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iSTART Children’s Art Festival is a pioneering creative and social aesthetic programme in China with the mission of children’s participation, empowerment and co-creation. As an important annual art and public programme of A4 Art Museum, iSTART was initiated by A4 Art Museum in 2014, and has been successfully held for 9 times so far. iSTART’s core concept is to build a creative, diversified and beautiful world from children’s perspectives.
iSTART breaks the boundaries of individual museum projects and is committed to building a sustainable network of social participation and art education. iSTART is driven by children’s curiosity for creativity, and every year, it cooperates with a wide range of schools, families, communities, and public welfare partners, and so far, it has covered 34 cities and villages in 23 provinces and 7 countries, and has cooperated with more than 18,000 young artists. In collaboration with more than 1,000 education practitioners, artists, experts, scholars and cross-disciplinary workers, we have developed hundreds of participatory art education programmes, which have transformed the public from observers to participants and then to creators in different cultural backgrounds and situations.
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Theme Exhibition of the 9th iSTART Children’s Art Festival: “The Family of Infinite Games”
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“Kick Start” Children’s Art Exhibition
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“do it” Contemporary Art Exhibition
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The Parallel Exhibition of the 5th iSTART Children’s Art Festival:Goodbye School, Hello School
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Theme Exhibition of the 5th iSTART Children’s Art Festival: Childhood Secrets
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The Theme Exhibition of the 4th iSTART Children’s Art Festival: “Childhood Sanatorium”
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The Parallel Exhibition of the 4th iSTART Children’s Art Festival:”Little Bang”
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ISTART Program Setup · Parallel Exhibition “Makoto Shinkai Exhibition – Experiencing the World of Makoto Shinkai Through Theater Animation”
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ISTART Program Setup · Parallel Exhibition “Another World”
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