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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. This presentation offers an opportunity to reflect on the transformative power of art and culture in well-being and emotional care, with concrete examples and a critical look at the future of their integration into healthcare systems.

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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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ESMUC is holding a special event reviewing ten years of the International Arts and Health Conference. It will review the project and present the program for the next edition of the Arts and Health Conference, which will take place on November 14 and 15. Finally, it will feature a performance by the chamber ensemble from the Supercapacitats project.

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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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An exhibition of mobiles created by users of mental health organizations as part of the Natura és Cultura project, under the direction of multidisciplinary artist Quim Moya, held at the CAP and the Avinyó Library. The project also includes a participatory activity with local residents, students from Barnola School, and mental health organizations, supported by the Avinyó City Council. The objectives are to improve the emotional well-being of people living with mental health conditions, raise awareness among the general population, identify at-risk students, and combat the stigma associated with mental illness.

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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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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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Drawing and Printmaking Workshop for Children of All Ages. The activity is organized by the Museum of Tortosa.

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A day dedicated to research in Arts in Health, linked to the 1st International Congress on Health Communication, organized by Vall d'Hebron and the European University Hospital Alliance (EUHA).

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A pastar fang! 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 sensory experience that slows the pace, connects with the earth, and gives form from feeling. A pastar fang! is an expression that invites us to get rid of what bothers us. We take it with irony and turn it around: we invite you to send all the noise that distracts you from what truly matters “to knead mud,” and return to the body, to the raw material. The program combines physical exercises, listening practices, and references to artists who have made clay a radical, intuitive, and profoundly human language. Here, we don’t come to make finished pieces, but to listen to what the body says when hands are filled with earth. We draw inspiration from contemporary arts education, which understands knowledge as a living, physical, and shared process. Because true learning only happens through the body. Clay—primitive, malleable, and alive—reconnects us with intuition, creativity, and care. Clay that is cared for, in turn, cares for us. Working with it transforms the material… and also transforms us. A pastar fang! is open to anyone eager to explore. No prior experience is necessary.

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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. The focus is on collective action, building connections, and sharing the neighborhood. The workshops—in visual arts, performing arts, music, and body expression—are coordinated by experienced and sensitive professionals who create inclusive and creative spaces. Although they are not defined as therapeutic, they are profoundly transformative: proximity, continuity, and shared creation help dismantle stigmas, normalize diversity, and bridge gaps.

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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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