The MACA celebrates World Alzheimer's Day with a week of activities that relate art to the disease
15.09.2023
The Museum of Contemporary Art in Alicante MACA has organized a week of activities on the occasion of World Alzheimer's Day, which is celebrated on September 21st. Under the motto "Integrating Innovation," the museum offers, from September 18th to 24th, guided tours, panel discussions, and the screening of a film with the aim of educating, informing, and promoting empathy towards people suffering from Alzheimer's.
The Culture Councilor, Nayma Beldjilali, has emphasized "the work that the museum has been doing since 2012 to bring its collections closer to the most vulnerable groups, and especially the journey it has undertaken hand in hand with the Alzheimer's Association of Alicante, with which we work side by side with the objective of reducing the daily effects of the disease in users and promoting their development through memories via art." "Thanks to the activities that will be developed during the coming week at the museum, we will be able to learn firsthand about the characteristics and consequences of this disease, which increasingly affects more people," the councilor noted.
One more year, we continue working tirelessly to make the MACA, Museum of Contemporary Art of Alicante, accessible for EVERYONE. In this year 2023 we celebrate the seventh edition of TOD@S MACA, artistic and multidisciplinary events with the purpose of making visible and empowering people with disabilities. Our objective persists because, unfortunately, it is still necessary: we want all people to be able to participate in usual creative processes, access artistic circuits and be present in all educational and professional fields, promoting social, political and human equity. As long as this need for change exists, we will be here, one more year since 2017, celebrating these encounters and exchanges filled with emotion and inclusion at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Alicante around the International Day of Persons with Disabilities, which is celebrated every December 3rd. With TOD@S MACA our purpose is to bring contemporary art closer to a diverse audience, fostering interest in culture, the arts, participation, creativity and respect towards all sectors of society. We want to build bridges between people, turning our differences and diversities into opportunities for mutual learning and collective creation. Everyone contributes if everyone participates. The TOD@S MACA program offers numerous artistic and cultural activities during the weekend of December 1st, 2nd and 3rd, 2023, transforming the museum into a space to awaken the interest of spectators from all backgrounds and establishing a dialogue with the public to integrate the museum into the social life of the city, making it accessible FOR ALL PEOPLE. TOD@S MACA is not directed exclusively at a particular social group. It is not exclusive to people with disabilities or in situations of social exclusion. Our target audience is ALL OF SOCIETY. We cannot build a more inclusive, tolerant and empathetic world without counting on all the people who make it up. That is why the program of activities is open to everyone, without distinction. If you have made it this far and this dossier is before your eyes again, it is because we count on you again so that, for the seventh year, it is a success of involvement, participation and emotion. Because WE ARE ALL CREATORS. Because CULTURE must be for everyone and for all PEOPLE.
