Guide us into arts

The objective of the GUIA project is the exchange of experiences, knowledge and methodology in artistic activities with people with disabilities. The project gathers people with disabilities and all people who wish to expand their knowledge and skills in working with them using artistic tools. The project includes international inclusive workshops and artistic creativity festivals for people with disabilities.

Six partner meetings were held during the Project. They included the following:

HOW DO YOU MEASURE EMOTION? Some conclusions on the Open All Areas Barcelona meeting

In the final session of this event, the organizers proposed to the assistants that the task of putting together the conclusions on the many different issues we had been discussed should be a participatory one.

We parted in four groups and each one defined the 4 or 5 main ideas that they were taking home with, which were in turn shared and put together.

Eclèctic. Festival of arts performing from the disability. Tarragona

In May of 2013 was the third edition of the eclectic arts festival from disability, driven by four theater groups linked to organizations of persons with disabilities (from cerebral palsy to cognitive disabilities, from visual impairment to mental illness ), and the areas of Culture and Equality Policy of the Council of Tarragona, hosting a total of 15 performances .

Eclectic is part of a strategy to promote citizenship and is based on the following beliefs:

Apropa Cultura

WHAT IS APROPA CULTURA?

It’s a socioeducative program of social inclusion through culture coordinated by the L’Auditori.

It’s for social centers and associations who work with people in risk of social exclusion.

It facilitates access to these groups to the public and usual programme of the now 30 auditoriums, theaters and festivals members of the program with a reduced price of only 3 euros. And this year we have incorporated museums to the programm.

Report: 10 recomendations for museums reaching out to older adults and immigrants

Check this report from the USA, very good and valuable tips with case experiences that put them into practice:

https://www.metlife.com/assets/cao/foundation/Culture_Connects_MetLifeFoundationFundedReportCREATIVITY.pdf

The socio-educative project of L’Auditori

We will explain how the Educational Service of L’Auditori was born, and how from there on and in its 13 years of existence of the department, the educational and social values have set in the institution, so that now they have become an issue present in all the programs that we do.

The Need to be Touched

One of the ideas I will take home from this two days conference, is the need of human being to touch and be touched. Either we speak about education or communication, and no matter who are the audiences, emotions are the only bond to involve someone in a project.

Migraland. A project of community theater with people of immigrant origin living in Salt

The Social Work of La Caixa is at the head of the program Art for a Social Improvement, with the aim of using art and culture as tools for social transformation. This program is articulated around different cultural activities led by an artist, where socially fragile groups participate in the creative process with the objective of improving the personal development, social inclusion and cohesion and the community’s social regeneration.

Integration through dance

Taking dance and movement as a creation element, these workshops invites people with functional diversity (physically disabled), non-professional, with and without dancing experience to create from the difference, to be surprised at the singularity of the other one, to reinvent our way of being in the world, to create our relationships. That’s why we incorporate dance professionals with or without disabilities into our workshops.

Dance expresses and communicates through the movement. Dance is broadened with new movements when our body explains different stories in different creation fields, with different capacities: we find a communication language from the possibilities offered by the diversity of their body, mind, culture and experience. We will learn to discover dance from a wheelchair, from the floor, from blindness, from the contact with others, from music and from the experience and expression through the movement. We all learn from all.

Raval Zirkus

Raval Zirkus is an artistic project based on the circus discipline to generate learning dynamics, stimulate the creativity and commitment between participants, with the objective to claim the arts as driving force for social cohesion.

The results will be visible within the Major Feast of Raval.