Ending things right: final event in Ancona

16 June 2025

On 13th June 2025, partners met one last time – in the framework of the PerFare project – in Ancona, Italy.
On this day, they had the chance to gather together and discuss the learning points of this 36 months of work, to exchange their experience to the local public and to mingle with other cultural and health professionals, traveling from all partner countries.

The programme was the following:

📍Museo Omero (Banchina Giovanni da Chio, 28, Ancona)

10.00 – 11.15

6th Steering Committee Monitoring Meeting

11.30 – 12.30

Press conference with Italian press

13.00 – 15.00

Lunch together

16.00 – 18.30

FINAL EVENT

● PerFare’s journey – from the beginning to here

● Pilot actions: a presentation on the Culture&Wellbeing activities born from PerFare

● A word with other local cultural welfare projects

📍The Mole – CaffĂš Letterario (Banchina Giovanni da Chio, 28, Ancona)

18.30

Aperitivo

 

Pilot actions: a presentation on the Culture&Wellbeing activities born from PerFare

Each partner presented the pilot actions implemented in their respective territory.
Here below, a short description, along with the link to the presentation, is provided for each of the 8 pilot actions born from the project:

Italy

Macerata 

Tutti i colori del giorno – All the colors of the day

Created by Rovine Circolari (Isabella Carloni)

For the Association Piombini Sensini

Tutti i colori del giorno – All the colors of the day is a theater project that intends to put the languages ​​and skills of the performing arts at the service of situations of social hardship, with the aim of enhancing oneself and the relationship with others, with a targeted proposal for the Piombini Sensini Community of Macerata in the various age groups of the people hosted. The project – by Rovine Circolari – is freely inspired by the story of a group of children of different nationalities and cultures who grow up in the peripheral area of ​​a large city in contact with a varied and unpredictable human fauna, full of love but also forced to struggle to overcome the difficulties of everyday life. The relationship that is established between one of them and the children’s guardian will reveal a deep attachment that overcomes cultural differences. The intent of the project is to involve all participants – from children to adults depending on their possibilities – through the languages ​​of performance, to outline a short collective performance.

Ancona 

Danza col cuore – Dance with the heart

Created by Gruppo Danza Oggi (Patrizia Salvatori)

For the Association Un Battito di Ali – operating inside the Department of Cardiac Surgery and Pediatric and Congenital Cardiology at “Torrette” Hospital in Ancona

The “Danza col cuore” project, from a socio-cultural point of view, adopted an immersive approach that includes the presence of a dancer and the project coordinator. The intervention took place directly in contact with the patients of the Torrette Hospital in Ancona through immersive emotional incursions, designed to create a deep interaction without interfering with any emergency situations in the department. The dancer’s body became an expressive medium, offering patients the opportunity to mirror themselves in the movements and to explore new forms of non-verbal communication.

LINK TO PRESENTATION – ITALY

 

Sweden 

Malmö

Stories from the bodily archive

Created by SkÄnes Dansteater

For the Elder Care Home in Malmö

Stories from the bodily archive is a project for elders with dementia in a care home in Malmö, Sweden. During the fall we have met once a week for 1,5 hours, including coffee break. The aim of the sessions is to enhance movement, joy and connection. With different somatic practices like mirroring, images, props and circle dance we strive for opening each and everyone’s own movement archive. To acknowledge and mirror spontaneous movements has been our focus. Specifically working with social engagement in dance has increased the capacity for keeping up energy and finding new movement patterns. We also worked with body memory of rhythms and dance movement from earlier stages in life. We see potential when the body bring back memories of movement capacity of a younger self. Reconnections can be made which has a ripple effect in the everyday life for the elders.

LINK TO PRESENTATION – MALMÖ

 

Portugal

Lisbon 

VIA – VivĂȘncia Integral ArtĂ­stica 

Created by Amalgama Companhia de Dança

For informal caregivers of the Municipality of Lisbon (Associação Alzheimer Portugal, Dona Ajuda facilities and CSP Arroios facilities)

VIA – VivĂȘncia Integral ArtĂ­stica is a project aimed at informal caregivers of the Municipality of Lisbon, based on the concept of “Being Body” and dance as a movement of totality, creative and regenerative, integrating body, emotions and mind. The project focuses on the application of artistic practices for well-being, based on the application of a holistic and systemic dance methodology.

The project had two different activities:

  1. Weekly meetings, Mondays – 06/Jan to 28/Apr – in Associação Alzheimer Portugal and Dona Ajuda facilities, a more artistic approach on Dance and Movement for 1 hour
  2. Every 15 days, Saturdays – 11/Jan to 10/May – in CSP Arroios facilities, training meeting, in modules that offer theoretical and practical material, session plans and all the necessary tools to guide future application of the methods, providing follow-up and continuity to the project for 6 hours.

LINK TO PRESENTATION – LISBON

Pombal 

Aqui Contigo – The Sound as Last Lap

Created by SAMP – Sociedade ArtĂ­stica Musical dos Pousos

For the Pombal District Hospital

The Aqui Contigo project is a program dedicated to people at the end of their life, their families and their caregivers. In a society that often abandons and forgets those who are dying, it is necessary to create contexts that enrich this precious and unique experience for the person and for their circle of closest relationships. The Arts, as observed throughout human history, can play a vital role in this, as the short history of this SAMP project shows. After years of experience, SAMP decided to present this type of project for the Municipality of Pombal, care partner of the partner PerFare Artemrede.The Music Therapist aims, together with family members and caregivers, to facilitate family support in the painful process and to help them in the mourning process. During the last moments of life, in their homes or in facilities (hospitals, nursing homes or palliative care centers), two music professionals work together with families to tell the sound story of each person in the terminal phase. This is done through the creation of a personal work that transforms an intimate and solitary moment into a moment of unity and communion, alleviating suffering in the last moments of life and helping the person to free themselves spiritually.

LINK TO PRESENTATION – POMBAL

 

Romania

Cluj-Napoca

Critical thinking & citizen’s education for children and teenagers

Created by Social Fiber Association

For the Roma community in Pata RĂąt (Cluj-Napoca)

From the success of Social Fiber Association‘s program “Critical thinking & citizen’s education for teenagers” living in Pata Rñt, the association has come to the conclusion that younger children would also have a desire to participate in such activities. Thus, after they started the weekly activities last year in September, they soon realised that a new programme for a younger audience was needed. This led to the new initiative designed for children, aged between 3-11, with weekly workshops in animation, music and philosophy.

Within Social Fibers, there are volunteers and social professionals that constantly work together to promote long-term activities for children coming from vulnerable groups.

LINK TO PRESENTATION – CLUJ-NAPOCA

 

Hungary

Budapest 

I Brought a Baby into this World

Created by Szilvia Papp

For Hungarian and Roma women who experienced harassment and violence during child delivery in hospital

Szilvia “Vivi” Papp is a socially engaged multimedia artist and participatory art researcher. In her experimental work, she tries to question and loosen

established identity patterns and stereotypes. As part of the Perfare project, “I Brought a Baby into This World” is a participatory and site-specific art experiment that reflects on a social issue, aiming to present and loosen taboos that surround our obstetric system, socially imposed maternal models and motherhood, working especially with ROM women, the main victims of systemic patriarchal prejudices and models.

Budapest

Dal a szĂ­vnek

Created by Veronika SzabĂł

For the Vazsonyi Vilmos Vazsonyi elderly home

The project Dal a szívnek is a series of workshops in which the artists sing and make music together with the guests of the Vazsonyi Vilmos Vazsonyi elderly home on Baross Street, evoking the ritual and atmosphere of singing around the fire in a community space. They sing the songs that the elderly know well, like folk songs, festive songs, military songs, chansons, serenades. “Songs unite us all, open us to the past and become collective in the present, regardless of age or state of mind. Songs evoke memories and feelings that we share and relive, sharing their state of mind”. 

The choir performed the songs in a closing dance for the other guests, relatives and a small audience, followed by a dance in costume. 

The meetings were held in collaboration with the musician Andris Cseh, who has been volunteering for many years to sing with the elderly.

LINK TO PRESENTATION – BUDAPEST

 

A word with other local cultural welfare projects

In order to spark local connections and to foster new knowledge on similar projects, PerFare invited two EU-funded initiatives that promote Culture&Care activities: ImproLANDS and ThisPlaced.

CHECK OUT IMPROLANDS’ PRESENTATION 

CHECK OUT THISPLACED’s PRESENTATION

 

Future plans

During this last event, partners agreed on keeping working together. First of all, they are all working very hard on trying to systemize the pilot actions in their local territories. But there is room for a future EU-funded project as well, a follow-up planning that treasures the best practices born from PerFare.

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