Under the title ‘Cuento, cuentas, contamos’ (I tell, you tell, we tell), the Martínez Guerricabeitia Trust of the General Foundation of the UV has carried out a project of social inclusion through art, which consists on a workshop of expression from Chema Lopez’s exhibition ‘Un cuento de fantasmas para adultos’ (A Ghost Story for Grown-Ups) The outcome can be seen from next Friday, 5 September, at 19:00, at ‘La Nau’
Participants are users of ADSIS-Hedra (a non-governmental organisation)a group at risk o exclusion whose members are in a process of personal change. Its work will be exhibited in the hall Martínez Guerricabeitia of the Cultural Centre ‘La Nau’ the days 5, 6 and 7 of September.
With this initiative, socio-educative, creative, revitalising and art and artistic spaces integrative functions have been strengthen; as well as art as an integration tool and community development through art therapy applied to a group at risk of social exclusion. Likewise, this workshop has served for investigating and innovating in the creation of novel techniques which imply the integration of broad groups and social improvement.
The project, ‘Cuento, cuentas, contamos’ has been developed throughout ten weeks of group work with two participants of the ADSIS-Hedra. It consisted on a workshop of artistic expression by means of different techniques and in different formats. This project culminates this weekend with its public exhibition, completing thus Chema Lopez exhibition ‘ A Ghost Story for Grown-ups’, which remain in the Martínez Guerricabeitia Hall of ‘La Nau’ of the UV since last May and which has now been extended one week more until 14 September.
This social integration workshop through art has been organised by the Cultural Centre La Nau of the UV, which theparticipation of artistic mediators Elizabet Catalá and Berta Durán, and the collaboration of the European University of Valencia and ADSIS-Hedra.
Last update: 3 de september de 2014 14:31.
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