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El Museu s’Apropa is a program of artistic activities organized by museums in the Apropa Cultura network and held in residences for older adults. The project was born in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, when the isolation of older adults living in care homes—and their limited access to cultural life—became evident. Through this project, museums bring art to the residences, organizing art workshops for seniors. The activities of El Museu s’Apropa create opportunities to elevate mood, stimulate cognitive processes, enhance interpersonal relationships, and enjoy aesthetic experiences, promoting a healthy life and good mental health. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the Barcelona City Council requested an emergency intervention from Apropa Cultura at four municipal care homes, using art to combat isolation, reduce sadness, and improve the mental health of the older residents.

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La Dansa s’Apropa is a project by Apropa Cultura, in collaboration with the Barcelona City Council and Mercat de les Flors, that brings dance directly to senior residences in Barcelona. The initiative builds on the earlier project El Museu s’Apropa and was commissioned by the Municipal Institute of Social Services (IMSS) of Barcelona for four municipal residences: Josep Miracle, Francesc Layret, L’Onada Guinardó, and Fort Pienc. A team of choreographers and dancers — including Montse Iranzo, Claudia Solwat, Elis Genís, Toni Mira, Magdalena Garzón, Susana Pérez, Xevi Dorca, and Toni Jodar — visits these residences weekly to offer dance sessions aimed at improving mood, stimulating cognitive processes, and enhancing social connections. Participants have an average age of 85 and often face cognitive and mobility challenges.

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A group of caregivers, selected by professionals from CAP Roquetes according to pre-established criteria, will participate in this weekly workshop series over three months, led by a multidisciplinary team from the CAP. The program will conclude with a special Art Therapy session, facilitated by “El Taller dels Sentits”, a Centre for Plastic Expression and Art Therapy. Art Therapy provides a therapeutic space where creative processes are used to support individuals with psychological, physical, social, or emotional challenges, while also fostering their capacities and resources. The closing session will guide participants through an internal listening exercise using clay, followed by an expansive exercise with painting to recognize and strengthen connections within the group. This experience will allow caregivers to consolidate what they have learned, gain additional tools for self-care, and nurture the sense of community and support built during the workshops.

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Pau Puig (Batiyaye) and Amparo Treig invite you to a Therapeutic Percussion session, offering a space for collective connection and self-expression. Through rhythm, this experience promotes emotional regulation, group cohesion, and personal well-being. This activity is connected to the exhibition “Les dones que habiten en mi” by Arantxa Pardo.

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The Terrassa Museum and Meraki. Espai amb ànim have joined forces to present this initiative, which invites participants to breathe, meditate, and plant the seed of peace in the heart of the city. The chosen location for this activity is the Seu d’Ègara, a space where calm, silence, spirituality, and inner connection transform into a collective gesture for peace.

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The Museu de Terrassa and Meraki. Espai amb ànim have joined forces to present an initiative that allows participants to explore the museum’s heritage spaces while enjoying a yoga and meditation session and sharing a healthy snack. The initiative aims to: - Fuse heritage and well-being - Bring historic spaces to life - Promote emotional and physical health - Connect culture, nature, and mindfulness

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Using techniques and resources based on the arts, this activity offers dynamics that encourage conversation, reflection, and personal expression. It provides a space to talk both about oneself and about a variety of topics, always from a place of respect and attentive listening. This program is aimed at non-professional caregivers, with the goal of promoting their emotional well-being through the arts. The sessions take place in a welcoming environment where participants can share experiences, build connections, and strengthen a sense of community with others in similar life situations. The workshops are held at the museum, connecting health and culture, and offering the opportunity to experience it as a space for care, inspiration, and shared experiences.

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This workshop for older people will invite participants to explore memory through visual language. Each session will offer the opportunity to connect with key concepts of pictorial practice — such as gesture, composition, color, and expressiveness — through activities that combine observation and creation, placing memory at the center as the driving force. The sessions will combine cognitive reinforcement exercises with moments of artistic creation and reflection, drawing inspiration from both the artworks exhibited in the museum and participants’ own life experiences. Designed to prevent memory loss associated with aging, the workshop will foster autonomy, emotional well-being, and creative vitality. It will be a space where enjoyment, care, and challenge come together, linking artistic practice with individual and collective memory. Ultimately, the proposal will explore how art can serve as a tool for health and a source of vitality in later life, nurturing both the mind and the spirit through creative expression.

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Dates: October 26, November 16, December 14, January 18, February 8, March 8, April 12, June 14. Through Expressive Corrective Movement, we facilitate the free flow of vital energy. Each session focuses on the practice of a different energy center, using specific movements and music prepared in advance with the intention of unblocking the portion of the nervous system that corresponds to each energy center. In this way, it is easier to break free from emotional barriers and open oneself to a way of living and understanding life with greater freedom, creativity, and pleasure, connecting with one's own energy. A new way of understanding and living life, from the body and with the body as a tool for social and personal transformation.

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On September 25th, from 5:30 to 7:00 pm, a meeting dedicated to children's and young adult literature as a tool for addressing cultural diversity and social inequalities took place in the Auditorium of the Pilarin Bayés Library in Vic. The event was part of the European project Zoom Out, coordinated by the University of Vic – Central University of Catalonia (UVic-UCC), which aimed to explore inequality through children's literature. During the session, the project was presented, and the audiovisual resources developed were shared. La Noria School and the Pilarin Bayés Library presented their experience working with literature in diverse educational contexts. Salah Haddad and Sumia El Bachiri also participated, sharing their personal experiences with reading during their school years, contributing an enriching and experiential perspective to the discussion. The event concluded with a storytelling performance by Bassirou Balde, who invited the audience to connect with stories through oral tradition. An opportunity that served to reflect on the transformative power of literature in contexts of diversity.

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An exhibition that tells, in two voices, the story of accompanying a person with Alzheimer's: the voice of the person with the illness, and the visual and audio recording of the caregiver. A dialogue where emotion, wisdom, and presence are the last things to fade. An emotional café where experiences of caregiving and self-care can be shared.

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Cycle of experiential workshops on meditation practice through art therapy. Non-dual meditation has Efficient Attention as its central axis. Concentration is the first step and meditating is an act of presence. Learning to attend becomes the main tool in our day to day. At the same time, art therapy as a vehicle of communication and representation, facilitates the processes of emotional understanding and promotes efficient cognitive attention that allows discernment to emerge to act in any situation that life presents us.

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