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Héctor Alonso

Héctor Alonso

Sociologist, street educator and playwright. Specialist in community art, creativity and social promotion.
 

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Community art: label or real impact? Fad or permanent transformation?

This type of art grows strong from the need to legitimize culture as a fundamental part of the process to recover and identify the community.

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Given the climate emergency situation we are going through, and in the local/global context of urban population growth, it is urgent to seek solutions that mitigate the impacts of climate change on people's lives.

Across the European Union (EU), the legitimacy of civil society organisations is being increasingly questioned, at a moment when democracy needs them the most. 

The 2nd Prison Volunteer Meeting, held on April 18 in Barcelona, ​​put on the table a collective urgency: to stop looking at prison only from the perspective of punishment and start talking about dignity, reintegration and social responsibility.