The signing of the annual agreement was renewed this Monday at MACA and Cultural Councilor, Antonio Manresa, President of the Alicante Alzheimer’s Patients Association, Maria Luz Rodriguez del Campoand on behalf of its president, the Manuel Peláez Foundation, relative of Carmen Robles. After the signing ceremony, the first event was held around the figure of Eusebio Sempere.
Manresa said that “this program has helped MACA as an institution, thanks to the museum and weekly recommendations. a safe space where they can be themselves and remember moments as much as possible”.
program memories. Art and Culture against Alzheimer’sHE born in 2012 As a pioneering project in the Valencian Community, its aim is to involve Alzheimer’s patients and their caregivers. in the journey of art and culture, rediscovering their imagination and creative potential. This program also meets the need to offer cultural events for Alzheimer’s patients in and around Alicante.
MACA, accessible and safe space
MACA is a space in the hands of the Alicante Association of Family and Friends of Alzheimer’s Patients that provides access for people with Alzheimer’s to art and culture, creativity and plastic activity in all its manifestations. memories became a benchmarking program and celebrates its eleventh edition this yearthus providing tools and artistic journeys for you to rediscover yourself and activate many important memories of important moments in your life.
From the perspective of time, “We can say that participants in This Memories program visit a museum far more than the average citizen interested in culture. Art and the emotions it evokes. Without pharmacological treatments. With art. Creating a meaningful narrative, placing the person with Alzheimer’s at the center of the activity”, He pointed to the person in charge of Culture.
activity schedule
This eleventh edition is divided into the following sections: six sessions created selections from six works It belongs to three permanent collections of MACA: 20th Century Art Collection, Mediterranean Foundation Collection and Eusebio Sempere Collection. In the proposed activities, participants will engage in dialogue, talk and share their experiences around art, as well as performing different creative processes to provoke memories.
The sessions are structured as follows: two activitiesMACA visit meet unique artists In addition to its collections, seek a responsethoughts, conversations or activities around art and artists, but also feelings and emotions may cause it to work. The second event will be commemorated in the same month at the AFA headquarters in Alicante and work-in-progress activated in museum visit It causes remembering. These applications will be accompanied by a box containing materials and a notebook containing pictures, texts and activities, which will try to remind situations experienced in the past and evoke different emotions in the present through the works of different artists represented. museum. These recommendations will serve as a guide for AFA, Alicante professionals to develop creative activities.
first session
In the first session held at the museum on Monday, Commemorating the centennial of Sempere’s birth His life and work were made known by his biography to form an “idea” that facilitated knowledge, learning and the construction of stories about aspects of Sempere himself. With some of the most relevant creations in the artist’s career, biographical contextualization and contemporary dance achieved a synergy of knowledge that allowed participants to enjoy an emotionally-related learning experience and soothed the senses they treasured. their memory points from the Ministry of Culture.