Cultura y extensión: la experiencia de un proyecto cultural en clave de salud mental

Abstract

The experience of the Project "Itinerant Cultures: still circulating in the neighborhoods", after 10 years and more than 20 workshops, is a story with many stories inside, which embraces the conviction that culture is mental health, and that mental health is in community. Culturas Itinerantes was at some point an extension project of the Faculty of Psychology; it was also and continues to be a space for practices of the Chair of Community Intervention Strategies of the same Faculty.
During all these years the conditions of poverty, inequality and violation of rights persist, even when it seems that the situation changes; the territories, the communities resist and Culturas Itinerantes remains in force, insists. It is urgent to call us to think and rethink health, the implication of the university and the meaning of our interventions from this place.
from this place.
The text intends to go through the experience systematizing actions but also threading feelings that give account of a coming and going, of constant interpellations, learning in movement and certainties built between mates and looks around a grid. In the first moment: the murga enters, starting the tour; contextualizing is necessary to begin with, the history, the details. Then the flipchart is not only a tool, it is the symbol that there are moments and that each moment is important; the senses are put into play, the questions begin and do not end. A bus comes out and briefly shows us the day and its implications. To finish, a snail hug, the questions reappear after the whirlwind of the day.
after the whirlwind of banners.
I choose to relate the experience from the body and bring it to life with questions, shared questions, those that challenge the doing, those that allow us to grow with others.