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The conference will offer a practical perspective on circus as a tool for social transformation and will facilitate connections between circus professionals, cultural, educational, and social organizations. The program will include presentations, experience-sharing dialogues, funding information, a networking space, and a hands-on activity exploring social circus. This event is part of the Circus Promotion Plan 2023–2026 of the Department of Culture of the Generalitat of Catalonia, under the Community Circus II initiative, managed by Ateneu Popular 9 Barris. Its aim is to encourage the creation of social circus projects across the country, with a focus on youth engagement and gender perspective. A must-attend event for anyone interested in exploring circus as a tool for social intervention.

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The conference "Music Therapy in Mental Health: The Case of Ritmes en Companyia" is the initiative of Artes en Salud at the Gran Teatre del Liceu. It will begin with an opening lecture by Simon Procter, Professor of Creativity and Mental Health at St. John's University in York. This will be followed by a presentation of the music therapy project "Ritmes en Companyia" with the organizers, researchers, healthcare professionals, music therapists, and users.

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This participatory workshop uses dance and creative movement as tools to place well-being at the center, with a focus on enhancing the emotional and physical health of ICS professionals, other healthcare workers, and the adult population. Dance is Health! invites participants to set aside gender roles and stereotypes, focusing instead on what each body needs to express, share, and coexist in a more inclusive and respectful way. In dance, there is no judgment, no error — only creativity and the opportunity to reconnect with the body in a sensory, expressive, and playful way, beyond analytical thinking. The workshop will be held in the main hall of the Catalan Health Institute (Barcelona) and led by Sílvia Cepero Domínguez, professional dancer, facilitator, and founder of the contemporary dance company El Desvío. ICS and El Desvío previously collaborated on the pilot arts-in-health project “Dance and Emotional Support in Situations of Gender Violence”, which engaged female ICS professionals in the first half of 2025

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The Sitges Museums offer a tour of their places of well-being. This itinerary invites you to connect art with health.

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Art therapy is a powerful tool for promoting inclusion and emotional well-being for all adults and children. Our approach is an experiential workshop where education professionals, artists, healthcare workers, teachers, and peers will have the opportunity to experience how art can help unlock emotions and promote expression and communication with children and young people with emotional difficulties, ASD, or other mental health needs. Through this art therapy approach, participants will be able to reflect on their emotions and experience how art, from an art therapy perspective, is a powerful resource for improving understanding, support, and inclusion of children and young people.

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The Cultural Cooperation Service of the Girona Provincial Council is organizing a virtual workshop to give voice and visibility to unique health arts projects in the Girona region. The workshop also aims to serve as a meeting and networking space for forging future alliances with organizations in our regions that carry out these types of initiatives. Various organizations will participate, sharing their experiences with this perspective on culture and health through their projects.

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The Brain Film Fest is an international film festival dedicated to reflecting and discussing the brain, its health and the related social challenges. On the occasion of its 15th anniversary, it arrives in Mollet del Vallès, its hometown, with the support of the Mollet City Council, the Mollet Health Foundation and the Abelló Museum. With the aim of bringing reflections on the brain, creativity and health to the public, the program will include several activities.

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This project aims to offer young people a creative platform to share their graphic works and spark conversations about sexual health and care culture. Art is used as a transformative tool, not only to express personal perspectives but also to foster dialogue and collective reflection. Participants experiment with different techniques—drawing, digital illustration, collage, or comics—to explore themes such as consent, body diversity, gender identities, and the importance of relationships based on respect and mutual support.

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As part of the Arts in Health event at Hospital Clínic, the hospital and the National Art Museum of Catalonia are hosting the talk "Health, Gender, and Art Throughout History." This discussion reflects on how art, and medicine, have represented women as essentially reproductive, subordinate, and differentiated beings throughout the centuries.

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Christian Budgen, director of Pallapupas, will present a vision of how art can act as a strategic tool for health and well-being in the healthcare setting in a lecture at the University of Barcelona. Through his experience documenting and studying the impact of the arts on healthcare, Budgen will share evidence demonstrating how artistic initiatives can improve both the patient experience and the well-being of healthcare professionals.

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Intensive one-day session to discover how humor can become a powerful tool for well-being and self-care. Through participatory dynamics, theatrical games and creativity exercises, we will explore clowning, laughter and human connection as resources to improve mood, reduce tension and promote emotional well-being. An experiential and participatory day, where all exercises are done with respect and at the personal pace of each participant. No previous experience is necessary: just a desire to play, laugh and share.

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The event will highlight the professional paths of UPF alumni from the Humanities Degree and the Postgraduate Program in Humanities and Health who have pursued their careers in the healthcare field, as well as reflect on the specific contributions that humanistic training can offer to the healthcare sector.

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