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This activity proposes an open dialogue between healthcare professionals from the Raval Nord Community Health Center and the Jardín Ambulante (MACBA), who will share their experiences after a year and a half of collaboration around the creation of a community garden. The meeting will address the relational and transformative dimension of this project, the connections it has generated in the neighborhood, and its connection to artistic practices and contemporary issues such as the ecosocial crisis, gentrification, and unwanted loneliness.

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Let's knead clay! is a space for creation and connection where clay becomes a tool for artistic exploration and well-being. Through bodywork and modeling, we offer a sensorial experience to slow down, ground yourself, and shape from your feelings. Let's knead clay! is an expression that invites you to let go of what bothers you. We take it with irony and turn it on its head: we propose sending all the noise that distances you from what's important into the clay and returning to the body, to the raw material. It combines physical proposals, listening exercises, and references to artists who have made clay a radical, intuitive, and profoundly human language. We don't come here to make pieces, but to listen to what the body says when our hands are filled with earth. We are inspired by contemporary art education, which understands knowledge as a living, physical, and shared process, because we only truly learn what passes through the body. Clay—primitive, malleable, and living—reconnects us with intuition, creativity, and care. Clay that is cared for, cares in return. Working with it transforms matter... and us too. Let's knead clay! is open to anyone eager to explore. No previous experience is required.

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The intergenerational theater workshop consists of creating a safe and free space where older adults connect through performing arts with neighborhood children and young people associated with an educational center. It is a project with a three-fold objective: to open the school to the neighborhood, connecting older adults and students who share the same area; to enable older adults to work on their memory and share their experiences with students through recreational and creative activities; and to promote physical exercise and creative expression through the movement of older adults.

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I am an artist! is a selection of works in various techniques on paper, where with a very free stroke, the artist Elialzu reaffirms himself as an artist. You can visit the exhibition.

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The Departments of Culture, Health, and Education and Vocational Training will present the relaunch of the "Nascuts per Llegir" reading promotion program for young children.

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A roundtable with international experts to discuss the role of the arts in health, linked to the 2nd International Congress on Health Communication. Moderated by Guillem d'Efak Fullana-Ferré, Head of Community Action, Public Programs, and Communication at the MNAC

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The Maricel Museum presents the conference “Santiago Rusiñol and His Artistic and Literary View of Illness”, delivered by Vinyet Panyella. The session will take place in the Gothic Room of the museum.

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Christopher Bailey is the leader of the World Health Organization's (WHO) Arts in Health program and co-founder of the Jameel Arts and Health Lab. He will be speaking at the 17th World Stroke Congress.

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The talk will open a space for dialogue and reflection on artistic creation as a tool for personal and collective well-being. It will be complemented by a visit to a painting exhibition created by participants from the Art Atelier, a workshop held at the same community center hosting the event. It is part of the Rompe/mentes Conference and invites you to discover the more than ten years of experience of the Red Sin Gravedad organization in the region. The Network promotes more than 30 community and artistic workshops, free and open to all citizens, with or without a mental health diagnosis.

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Intra-actions is a co-creation project in arts, community health, and public education that activates artistic methodologies and interventions to improve adolescent well-being—one of the groups most affected by psychosocial distress in our post-pandemic reality. The initiative is carried out in collaboration with the Poblenou Primary Care Center, Institut Maria Espinalt, and the contemporary art center La Escocesa. It worked with 3rd-year ESO students during the third term of last school year and continues with 4th-year ESO students in the current school year.

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This panel presents a selection of Arts in Health initiatives promoted by Vall d'Hebron, developed in collaboration with artists, cultural institutions, and healthcare teams, where art—through music, exhibitions, itineraries, or drawings—becomes a space for connection, empowerment, and recognition. Each project demonstrates how art can open doors, imagine new worlds, reframe experiences, and build community. The initiatives presented here are living examples of a strategy that puts people at the center.

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