EXTRA CITY AND NICOLINE VAN HARSKAMP INVITE ENGLISH-SPEAKING CHILDREN IN ANTWERP TO TAKE PART IN AN ART PROJECT AND APPEAR IN A FILM!

We are looking for up to 20 participants who would like to work with Nicoline on this project, who are not afraid to appear on camera, and meet most of the criteria below:

- They need to be between 5 and 12 years old.

- Their parents or carers do not speak the same language as a ‘mother tongue’

- Their parents or carers communicate with each other in a non-native version of English

- They themselves probably speak their own special variety of English as a result.

The first individual meetings will take place in early June and in late July.

The workshop week and the final film shoot will take place in late August.

The film premiere will be in the autumn at Extra City (www.extracity.org).

Would you like to have more information and/or do you want to participate? Please contact Caroline Van Eccelpoel via caroline.van.eccelpoel(at)extracity.org or 03 677 16 55.

Nicoline van Harskamp is an artist from Amsterdam who makes live performances and video works. In her latest project, she is attempting to predict the future of the English language.

Today, there are 3 times more people that speak English as a non-native language, than people who speak it as a native language. Because so many people speak their own kind of English, it will eventually become a language of non-standards. Nicoline can’t wait to find out what that will sound like, so she is trying to make it up already. And she needs the help of very young people to do so!

More and more children learn English at home from their parents, even if those are not native English speakers. In a way, those children are a little bit ahead of the future because there tend to be very creative with their English and make their own varieties. Nicoline would like work together with them on a short fiction film. Set in the not too far future, everybody will speak a ‘new’ kind of English, created collaboratively in a series of afternoon workshops and rehearsals. All children will feature in the final film which will be shown at Extra City.

More information about Nicoline: http://vanharskamp.net/newpages/work.html

Language English