Health and disability | La Criée centre d'art contemporain

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Prepare your visit

We invite healthcare professionals, health workers, disability association volunteers, educators, or teachers to contact the mediation team beforehand to define the most suitable visit arrangements considering scheduled exhibitions and possible space and circulation constraints.

Adapted Visits

For Groups with Mental or Psychological Disabilities

-- Guided visit:
The cultural mediator offers a visit with simplified communication using visual aids to facilitate artwork discovery and understanding. The visit prioritizes exchanges and sharing.
Guided visits available by request and reservation Tuesday to Friday
From 2:00 PM to 7:00 PM
Duration: 30 min to 1 hour depending on exhibitions
-- Self-guided visit:
To help you freely discover exhibitions, "Easy to read and understand" (FALC) booklets are available at reception in the form of an exhibition visit guide and an art center presentation booklet.

For People with Reduced Mobility

-- Guided visit:
Cultural mediators offer a commented exhibition tour with presentation of the art center, artist, and exhibited works, focusing on exchanges and gentle mobility.
Guided visits available by request and reservation Tuesday to Friday
From 2:00 PM to 7:00 PM
Duration: 1 hour
-- Self-guided visit:
Individually or in groups, you can freely use cane-seats available at La Criée's reception.

For People with Hearing Impairments

-- Visits interpreted in FSL (French Sign Language), LPC (Cued Speech), or amplified with magnetic loops:
The visit is led by a mediator accompanied by an FSL interpreter, in partnership with ANVOL for SIAVS35 groups
Tuesday to Friday from 9:30 AM to 4:00 PM
Free, by request and reservation (year-round programming)
Duration: 1h30
-- Self-guided visit:
The art center can provide magnetic loops upon prior request to facilitate access to visits and events.

For Blind and Visually Impaired People

-- Descriptive and tactile visit:
The visit is guided by a mediator and offers a descriptive reading of the exhibition, combined with touching works or their component materials.
These visits are scheduled for each exhibition on Fridays at 5:30 PM
Duration: 1h30
Free, registration required
-- Self-guided visit:
A large-print visit guide is available upon request from reception staff.

For Groups of Children with Multiple Disabilities

-- Sensory visit:
Accompanied by a cultural mediator, the visit activates participants' senses with objects or materials to touch, smell, or taste, in dialogue with the works.
Group visits by request and reservation
Tuesday to Friday, from 9:30 AM to 12:00 PM
Duration: 1 hour

Projects

Since 2006, La Criée has been working with people in care at hospitals, medical-social, or pedagogical centers, at the invitation of health managers, teachers, or educators, in various ways. This may include artist video projections, writing or artistic practice workshops, thematic interventions with games or artist books, offered based on the art center's exhibitions. The public services department also supports creation projects within artist residencies in hospital settings, programmed in connection with La Criée's artistic cycles and the host structure's cultural project.

Projects are defined one year in advance and lead to signing an agreement with the health facility, in partnership and with support from the Ministry of Health – ARS and Ministry of Culture – DRAC Bretagne, within the Culture-Health program.