This academic meeting is presented as an action by the “Health with Art: Social Sonorities and Interculturalities” Research Group (UFRJ), based on the Health with Art platform, created at CES in 2014 during the post-doctoral studies of Professor Raquel Siqueira. This initiative has been carrying out various actions for a decade, including events and workshops. During the pandemic, 12 virtual roundtables were held on the theme “Health with Art in the Challenge of the Pandemic”, in collaboration with CES. This new meeting continues to present the research and reflections derived from the importance of the arts and artistic expressions in the emancipation processes of collectives in situations of social vulnerability.

Programme
10h00-12h30 - Health with Art Panel
Participants: Raquel Siqueira (UFRJ), João Arriscado Nunes (CES) and Virgínia Gomes (Machado de Castro Museum)

14h30-17h30 - Social Sonorities Workshop - Dialogued Exhibition and Experiments
Facilitator: Raquel Siqueira (UFRJ)

Bio Notes
João Arriscado Nunes is a permanent researcher at the Centre for Social Studies. He is a retired Professor of Sociology at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Coimbra. His research interests centre on Epistemologies of the South, science and technology studies (particularly biomedical research, life sciences and public health, the relationship between science and other modes of knowledge), political sociology (democracy, citizenship and public participation, particularly in areas such as the environment and health), human rights and social and cultural theory.

Raquel Siqueira is a Professor at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (Institute of Psychiatry-IPUB), Music Therapy course. Post-doctorate in Public Health at CES-UC Sciences without Borders (2013-2014). PhD in Psychology at the Fluminense Federal University (UFF) with sandwich programme at CES (2011). Master's in Psychology at UFF. Specialisation in Music Therapy at the Brazilian Conservatory of Music - University Centre (CBM-CEU). Undergraduate degree in Psychology from UGF-RJ. Experience in care, management, and research in the area of Collective Health/Public Health for 30 years. Psychologist, Music Therapist and leader of the “Health with Art: social sonorities and interculturalities” Research Group.

Virgínia Gomes is a Technical coordinator of the “EU no musEU” programme. Museum curator, responsible for the painting, drawing and engraving collections at the Machado de Castro National Museum (MNMC) since 1993. With an initial degree in History (1987) and Art History (1999), Gomes specialised in augmentative communication with people with dementia in museums, with a master's degree in Special Education from ESECS at the Polytechnic Institute of Leiria (2016). Aware of the museum's role as an active agent in promoting education for all, she has participated in working groups and promoted partnerships with different institutions in the local, regional, national and international community. One of the projects she coordinates at the MNMC, involving mediation for integrated accessibility in museums, is the “EU no musEU” programme with people with dementia and their informal carers. Created in 2011 and recognised and referenced as good practice by social and cultural organisations in Portugal and the European Union, it was replicated in Viseu in 2018. Through this programme, the MNMC is a founding member of the MID (network of Museums for Inclusion in Dementia), presented in January 2023.

Organisers: João Arriscado Nunes (CES); Raquel Siqueira (UFRJ); Virgínia Gomes (MNMC)