As part of the Territorial Plan to Combat Racism, Anti-Semitism and Discrimination, the town of Vaulx-en-Velin has renewed its partnership with Cartooning for Peace in 2023, with the aim of helping young people to develop their critical thinking through press cartoons (in and out of school).
From September 2023 to June 2024, schools and extra-curricular establishments presented the exhibition ‘Draw me Gender Equality’; a day of awareness-raising and support for teaching through press cartoons was organised for teachers, referents and out-of-school centre leaders; four workshop-debates were organised in schools, and three double-workshops (a workshop-debate followed by a practical workshop) in extra-curricular establishments, with a press cartoonist and a member of the Cartooning for Peace teaching team.
To bring the project to a close, on Thursday 6 June 2024, a debriefing session was held with education professionals, and the work of the young people was presented and showcased in the presence of their families.
A time for discussion and assessment was held at the town hall with the teachers, referents and youth workers involved in the project, as well as with the press cartoonist Kristian. This was followed by a convivial feedback session in the Salle Charlie Chaplin, attended by Stéphane Gomez, First Deputy Mayor, Meriem Nekaa, Cabinet Director, Myriam Mostefaoui, elected member of the Municipal Council, Laurence Cros-Segaud, Director of the Education Department, and Nadège Bonnanfant, Head of the Extracurricular Activities Department.
The public were able to discover the ‘Draw me Gender Equality’ exhibition, and the drawings produced by the young people who had taken part in the workshops. Some of the young people presented and commented on their drawings, explaining the message they wanted to get across (inequalities between women and men in the division of tasks within families and in sport….).
A snack was shared with the young people, their families and education professionals.
Finally, cartoonist Kristian produced two live cartoons on the theme of everyday sexism and pay inequality.
