ÀGORA CÍVICA

ÀGORA CÍVICA

Culture, the best recipe for health

Place: IEC
Room: Sala Pere i Joan Coromines
Date: 29/09/2025
Time: 15:00 - 17:00
Session curated by: Session curated by the curatorial team of ÀGORA CÍVICA / MINISTRY OF CULTURE
Speakers: Anna Saló, Laia Brufau, David Cendrós, Ester Martínez, Bea Liebe, Ignasi Capellà, Marta Ibarz, Linda Valdes, Mireia Vall

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Culture can be an effective response for people’s wellbeing, given its impact on physical and mental health. Increasingly, initiatives are incorporating a holistic vision of health, supported by the latest scientific evidence, which shows that the arts and culture can have a positive effect on people’s health. Within RIS3CAT, the challenge of finding new models to integrate culture into the social and healthcare system has been identified. For this reason, the Department of Culture, in collaboration with the Catalan Health Institute, seeks to highlight projects that effectively contribute to addressing this challenge, such as:

Obrim Portes (National Art Museum of Catalonia and Vall d’Hebron University Hospital)
Renaixements (Catalan Health Institute)
EmbolicArts (Sexual and Reproductive Health Care [ASSIR] of Barcelona, Catalan Health Institute, and Kasal de Joves Porta)
Eixart. Art i salut (Ministry of Health and Ministry of Culture of the Government of Catalonia)
L’Altre festival (L’Altre Festival Association)
Immersive reality for the improvement of mental health and neurorehabilitation (Broomx)
Art i Cura (Iluro Foundation)

HIGHLIGHTED ACTIVITIES

Plenary meetings and regional chapter meetings of IFACCA

As part of Mondiacult 2025 and Àgora in a network, the International Federation of Arts Councils and Culture Agencies (IFACCA) will hold several meetings in Barcelona, including plenary sessions and meetings of its various regional chapters.

28/09/2025 15:30h General Archive of the Crown of Aragon, MUHBA, Marès museum

Cultural rights: the bridge between universality and diversity

The opening lecture of the Àgora Cívica will place cultural rights as a paradigm for understanding culture as a key element in human development and sustainability.

26/09/2025 09:30h CCCB

Right to culture and education: practices for active citizenship

If educating means preparing for an unknown future, developing creativity can help us undertake projective and transformative work in the face of uncertainty.

26/09/2025 17:15h CCCB

Mayors’ Summit

Gathering UCLG’s leading cities on cultural rights, sustainability, care, and transitions, this session reaffirms a powerful message: there is no sustainable development without culture.

27/09/2025 16:00h CCCB