This “la Caixa” Foundation will allocate 445,680 € to increase 20 new projects from all over Spain selected in the annual Art for Change call. This call offers help artistic projects disciplines such as plastic arts, photography, video, music, literature, theatre, dance and circus that encourage the active role of groups in sensitive situations.
Inside Alicante Artist María Luisa was selected under the title of Brugarolas/Asociación Cultural de Danza Integrada Ruedapies, a project. synapse Inclusive dance and performing arts It will be implemented with a support of 22,830 Euros and will reach 40 people. Focusing on people with functional diversity, the goal is to bring them closer to museums and contemporary culture.
venture a The impulse for the cultural fabric of the Spanish lands Through these grants, in addition to supporting the communication networks between artists and cultural assets by sharing learning and experiences through different meetings held throughout the year.
In the 2022 call, 168 offers Artists and cultural assets from all over Spain. A total of 20 projects were selected Those who pass the first artistic evaluation and the second stage technical-social evaluation. These will be done in the provinces. Madrid, Barcelona, u200bu200bValencia, Alicante, Murcia, León, Zamora, Córdoba, Granada, Navarra and Lleida. will join them More than 2,479 people are in vulnerability that they will have the opportunity to be a part of the artistic creation process.
The 20 selected projects meet the program objectives: promoting the participant’s personal development through their participation in the creative process; cohesion and social inclusion creation of neutral spaces for relationship, exchange and coexistence, and community social renewal through activities that contribute to the development of neighborhoods or social groups and reinforce concepts such as identity and self-confidence.
20 selected projects
Among the selected are projects from the following disciplines: theatre, dance, music, plastic arts, photography or video; and focus on groups such as people of color, women victims of gender-based violence, the elderly, people with functional diversity or health problems, among others.
The proposals developed in previous versions of Art for Change went beyond the physical format and participated in the programming of CaixaForum+, an online platform supported by the “la Caixa” Foundation with a catalog of cultural proposals and scientific dissemination unique in our country. This situation look at me again, The days we won’t oblidarem, sediments anyone Big familyamong others.
Almudena Adalia Calvo and Pilar de Grado, artists leading the project look at me againSelected in the 2020 edition, it highlighted the benefits of being able to participate in the initiative for participants: “at the level of expression, autonomy, creative development and teamwork. provided them opportunity to be recognized and heard for their workbecause they were often saying things they did not express or were not asked about”.
In this sense, the head of the project, Marta Fernández Calvo Invisible CaregiversAlso elected in 2020, he explained: “We observed significant changes in coping with unwanted lonelinessThe use of new social skills and technologies was encouraged and a mutual support network was created among the participants that continued after the end of the project”.
synapse Inclusive dance and performing arts
The starting point of the synapsis project, bring functionally diverse people closer to museums and contemporary culturethrough actions that make them active agents of their own knowledge. A team of professionals is tasked with guiding. workshops and interdisciplinary examples involving people with and without functional diversity.
These acts take place in the area of the Alicante Museum of Contemporary Art (MACA), the Las Cigarreras Cultural Center, the Wagner Aspe Theater in Alicante and the Urban Space of the Emerging Arts Festival “Mucho Más Mayo”. in Murcia. . the project contributes innovative methodologies that can make museum content accessible to people with functional diversitybecomes a platform for creating communication networks between social and cultural-artistic actors. long-term social transformation.
Art for Change, a way to understand the truth
The “la Caixa” Foundation has been a pioneer in seeking new ways of understanding culture. The exhibits are a meeting point between different types of people, and the events involve people of all ages and diverse backgrounds taking initiative and playing an active role. Initiatives where the public and creators work together to make sense of art. From this profession, Art for Change was born in 2007, a program that respects diversity and is open to learning, combining artistic creation with personal and social transformation, encouraging participation in the creative processes of any artistic discipline to support collaboration and inclusion. and listen to the community.
Through the “la Caixa” Foundation Art for Change, artist-led creative processes, vulnerable groups or people from the same neighborhood or neighborhood participate in order to support social transformation processes. With the encouragement of these initiatives, participants are offered the opportunity to come into contact with art and culture on equal terms and opportunities, and contribute to the empowerment of individuals or groups through an artistic process.