Featured image: Maurice Rouvier Elementary School students watching 2022 Classes Duo video
Classes Duo Paris / New England, our arts program based on the life and music of Carole Denise Fredericks (1952-2001) and organized in collaboration with the City of Paris and the Carole D. Fredericks Foundation, auspiciously began in September 2020. The first year of activity culminated in the screening of “Leçon Blues,” a mini-documentary about Fredericks’ life created by 7- to 10-year-old students from Maurice Rouvier Elementary School, at a Paris cinema.
Aurélien Rudelle and Nicolas Roux, the educators who implemented the program, were so encouraged by their students’ positive response and personally inspired by Fredericks’ story that they willingly undertook a second year of activity. They worked with twenty-one six-year-old Maurice Rouvier students and once again shared Fredericks’ life through videography.
Connie Fredericks-Malone, director of the Carole D. Fredericks Foundation and sister of the deceased artist, serves as the vibrant thread that has guided the project since its inception. Due to pandemic restrictions, she was not able to personally meet the students who participated during the 2020-2021 academic year.
Connie Fredericks-Malone
Image from Connie Fredericks-Malone.com
This year’s students fared much better – they were able to meet with Fredericks-Malone on three different occasions during Spring 2022.
Maurice Rouvier students meet Connie Fredericks-Malone for the first time
This year’s Classes Duo Paris / New England activities resulted in a new video that was screened at Maurice Rouvier Elementary School for students on June 8, 2022 and during an open house for parents on June 22, 2022.
Scene from 2022 Maurice Rouvier video
Visit https://wellsinternationalfoundation.org/classes-duo-paris-new-england/ for additional details as well as to see a photo gallery of sessions and screenings for both years of the program.
