ADINBERRI participates in a Gertukultura conference on how to address unwanted loneliness through culture
ADINBERRI participates in a Gertukultura conference on how to address unwanted loneliness through culture
ADINBERRI participated this Thursday in the conference 'Culture and Community: against unwanted loneliness', organized by Gertukultura, the network that connects the cultural and social sector of Gipuzkoa in a stable manner and which is celebrating its first anniversary. The event took place at the San Telmo Museum, in Donostia-San Sebastián, and in it the director of the Foundation, Rakel San Sebastian, detailed ADINBERRI's cultural and community projects that try to prevent and address this phenomenon.
In this sense, she mentioned all the regional sessions that were held to 'socialize' the HARIAK strategy for the prevention and addressing of unwanted loneliness; the HARIAK Kantuz project that will celebrate its third edition on December 14; the European initiative KORALE led by ADINBERRI; or the 1st ADINBERRI Flag, which was the Foundation's first sponsorship of the Euskolabel Rowing League to bring ADINBERRI closer to Pasaia, where the future reference centre will be located.
The Gertu Kultura sessions took place on Wednesday and Thursday and were attended by, in addition to San Sebastian, the Deputy for Care and Social Policies, Maite Peña; the General Director of Culture of the Provincial Council, María José Tellería; the Director of Heritage and Culture of the Basque Government, Urkiri Salaberria; the Director of the San Telmo Museum, Susana Soto; and Marta Font, Director of Gertu Kultura, among others.
Specifically, the director of ADINBERRI has taken part in a round table discussion on 'Public policies, neighbourhoods, community and links', where various strategies have been presented to combat unwanted loneliness, such as that of the Foundation itself. Patricia Andrés, from the Provincial Council of Álava, have spoken about this phenomenon alongside San Sebastian; Eulàlia Viñas, from Radars del Ayuntamiento de Barcelona; Anna Bordes, from Radars Ciutat; María Covadonga López, from the Ministry of the Principality of Asturias and Ignacio Rodríguez, from Bizkaisare. The round table was moderated by Eva Salaberria, from Donostia Lagunkoia. In addition, Marta García, from the ADINBERRI Hariak Kantuz project, also participated in these sessions, explaining this initiative at the round table discussion ‘Culture and its surroundings, emotional health and loneliness’.
Gertu Kultura is a non-profit initiative, supported by the Department of Culture and the Department of Care and Social Policies of the Provincial Council of Gipuzkoa, together with the La Caixa Foundation. It also has the collaboration of Orona, Irizar and Danobat.