The MUN celebrates the 4th edition of "SociARTE" with the 31 participating social entities and the illusion of continuing to grow

The University Museum of Navarra considers the link with Navarre's social entities one of its main missions, which it channels through the SociARTE network . Today, Monday 19, has brought together representatives of the 31 associations that make it up, in its fourth edition. For the next edition, it is expected that there will be 35.

SociARTE is the MUN's social program that, with the support of "la Caixa" Foundation, aims to listen to the social entities in Navarre to find out the needs of the people they bring together and respond to them with art as a resource. As stated by the artistic director of the MUN, Gabriel Pérez-Barreiro, "a museum exists to bring art closer to people". For her part, Izaskun Azcona, delegate of "la Caixa" Foundation in Navarra, maintains that alliances like this one allow to consolidate "the support to art and culture as a source ofstaff and social development . What we continue to pursue," she adds, "is to generate a fairer and more equitable society that leaves no one behind, on this occasion, with the language of contemporary art and its strategies.

Through SociARTE, the MUN makes its resources available free of charge to these groups with special needs, to work in different areas through art and creativity. "We do not conceive the MUN as a container of pieces, a Closed or sacred space where only one way of looking fits. The MUN is a space for coexistence," said Daniel Franco, MUN partner in charge of coordination with social entities, "and that is what the participants of SociARTE have taught us: that art cannot stand still, that it needs to move, open up and adapt to new views and ways of perceiving and understanding existence".

SociARTE is a growing program, edition after edition: this year there were 1,344 participants, compared to 1,075 last year, 630 in the second edition and 354 in the first. The same is true for the issue of activities: a total of 87, compared to 63, 35 and 16 in previous editions, respectively. It has thus reached its "year of consolidation", as Fernando Echarri, manager of the Educational area of the MUN, has affirmed. "SociARTE is already a network," he added, dedicated to "co-creating" activities with associations that are of real value to them, based on listening and "walking together.

The proposals, among others, include contemplation and visual thinking activities, creative activities, workshops for children and teenagers, urban camps, family and adult workshops, film forums, attendance to shows of the Museum in Dance cycle, training sessions for workers of social entities, art therapy meetings or the creation of accessible, multisensory and inclusive materials so that people with some subject of disability can enjoy art.

The IV edition closes with 31 entities, to which Itaka-Escolapios and three other associations will be added soon: ACODIFNAassociation Coordinadora de Personas con Discapacidad Física de Navarra), ADEMNAassociation de Esclerosis Múltiple de Navarra), ADHIassociation Navarra Para el Tratamiento y el Estudio del Déficit de Atención, Hiperactividad e Impulsividad), AEESassociation Española de Education Sensible), AFANassociation de Familiares de Personas con Alzheimer y otras Demencias de Navarra), ALCER NAVARRAassociation for the Fight against Renal Disease), AMEDNA/NEEZEassociation of Women Entrepreneurs and Executives of Navarra), AMUDISNAassociation of Women with Disabilities of Navarra), ANACassociation Navarra para las Altas Capacidades), ANADIassociation Navarra de Diabetes), ANAPARassociation Navarra de Parkinson), ANDIassociation Nuevo Diálogo), ANELAassociation Navarra de ELA), ANFASassociation Navarra en favor de las Personas con Discapacidad Intelectual y del development y sus Familias), ANNFassociation Navarra Nuevo Futuro), ASDNassociation Síndrome de Down de Navarra), ARassociation Roncal), ASORNAassociation de Personas Sordas de Navarra), Bilaketa, Besarkada - Abrazo, CEAR (Comisión Española de financial aid al Refugiado), Fundación Core Milagrosa, DISNAVARRAassociation Navarra Dyslexiaassociation ), Eunateassociation Navarra Deaf People Familiesassociation ), FIHB (Ilundáin Haritz-Berri Foundation), ALANassociation Luciérnaga - Asperger Navarra), association Onabide, ONCE (Spanish National Organization for the Blind), Centro Río Irati - Fundación Caja Navarra, Sarayassociation Navarra Breast Cancerassociation ) and Fundación Xilema.

A workshop for nursing mothers

As a continuation of the MUN's support to the social entities of Navarre and, specifically, to Amagintza, last Saturday, the 17th, it held the contemplation workshop "My Milky Way", aimed at nursing mothers and their babies. In addition, the MUN encourages nursing mothers who visit its galleries to feel free to breastfeed their babies in different places: the meeting point, the restaurant terrace or the exhibition halls themselves, for example.

The activity took place in front of a photograph belonging to the MUN collection that reflects the theme of this workshop: Maria, Joao & Isaac (2013), by French photographer Pierre Gonnord -a photographer of international relevance who died in 2024-, which portrays a gypsy mother breastfeeding her twins. It is part of De laborisexhibition of 2016), a work dedicated to the miners of the Asturian-Leonese basin and the gypsy collective of La Raya, on the border between Spain and Portugal, which the Frenchman carried out in an artistic residency program at the Museum (in the Tender Bridges program).

Teresa Torres, workshop facilitator, highlights the "intimate space" that was created during the proposal. She also conveys very positive impressions from some of the participants, such as the pleasure of being able to carry out this activity in a museum and thus break down some external and internal barriers, often self-imposed, and thus live the reality of this period of motherhood "naturally", in new adapted spaces, in places that perhaps one had discarded beforehand.