CREATIVITEIT DIE VERBINDT

Collaborations with schools, museums, and cultural organisations

FrameShift works in partnership with schools, museums, galleries, artists, and cultural organisations to design and deliver creative projects shaped by context, place, and shared purpose.

Partnerships may range from short-term collaboration to longer-term residency or programme development, and are shaped collaboratively in response to organisational goals, participants, and local context.

We collaborate with schools, cultural organisations, artists, and community partners to develop projects that support learning, participation, and cultural engagement through shared creative practice.

Our partnerships connect education, artistic practice, and participation through a collaborative creative process, with projects developing through dialogue and co-creation rather than fixed programme models.

Our Partnerships & Projects

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FrameShift Connect

Connecting cultural organisations to international schools

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FrameShift Connect gives museums and cultural organisations access to the English-language international schools market, connecting them with schools across the Netherlands and reshaping their existing programmes for English-language delivery and international curricula, including the International Baccalaureate (IB), British, and American systems.

Museum programmes are naturally designed with Dutch schools in mind, which can make them less accessible for international schools. As a result, a large and well-resourced sector — including IB, British, and American schools — remains under-engaged.

We reshape existing programmes so they work effectively in international contexts — aligning with curriculum frameworks, structuring content for inquiry-based learning, and ensuring delivery works in English and within school timetables.

Alongside this, we connect organisations directly with international schools, supporting access to a sector that can be difficult to reach without direct experience or contacts.

The result is programmes that work for international schools, and partnerships built for sustained collaboration.

Example
An ongoing partnership with STRAAT Museum has supported cultural collaboration across international school contexts, including contributions to the cultural programme for an ISTA festival hosted in Amsterdam.

FrameShift Co-Create

Residencies, festivals, and intensives

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FrameShift develops collaborative arts projects that bring artists, learners, educators, and communities together through a shared creative process.

Projects are co-designed with partner organisations and shaped by context, participants, and purpose. This can include residencies, festivals, intensives, or interdisciplinary programmes across schools, cultural organisations, and community settings.

We support the design and delivery of projects that connect artistic practice with learning, participation, and public engagement.

Example
A multi-arts festival hosted by an international school in Amsterdam brought together primary and secondary students, with visiting artists and cultural partners including STRAAT Museum and Jambo Afrika. Supported by Mocca funding, the programme combined performance-making, capoeira, drumming, and collaborative mural creation, celebrating the school and its local community.

FrameShift Youth Leadership & Participation

Youth-led creative projects

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FrameShift develops youth leadership and participation frameworks that enable young people to participate in and shape creative and cultural experiences, building connection through in-person collaboration, shared ownership, and real responsibility, alongside engagement with real-world contexts and careers.

Working with schools and cultural organisations, we support the development of structures that embed meaningful student voice within planning, programming, and creative decision-making.

Young people contribute to event planning, creative production, and cultural direction, taking on defined roles such as producer, curator, programmer, or creative lead, and developing leadership, collaboration, and communication through active participation.

This can include arts ambassador programmes, youth leadership groups, festival roles, or student-led initiatives, delivered in English, Dutch, or bilingually, and adapted to context.

Example
An Arts Ambassadors programme enabled students to plan and lead creative initiatives within the school community, including participation in the ISTA Youth Leadership programme.

"Hartelijk dank voor alles wat jullie hebben gedaan om dit fantastische festival te organiseren. Onze kinderen hebben het geweldig naar hun zin gehad, net als de leerkrachten, en dat is te danken aan al het harde werk. We stellen jullie zorg en aandacht enorm op prijs."

— Simon en Gemma, docenten aan een internationale school (Kopenhagen)