El programa QuidArte del Museo Universidad de Navarra: el arte al servicio del bienestar y el cuidado en el contexto de la pandemia Covid-19

Abstract

The social context generated by the Covid-19 pandemic is characterized by the appearance of continuous situations of personal suffering, fear and isolation that can generate different degrees of stress, anguish and negative moods that have repercussions on people's well-being. Faced with this situation, the different social facilities need to respond, with a view to helping people. These facilities, such as museums, can play an active role, becoming generators of proposals that help to minimize this terrible situation. Museums can also focus on providing more care that results in the generation of wellbeing in the population that triggers a reduction of stress and anxiety. The University Museum of Navarra, aware of the seriousness of the pandemic and the role that art can play in alleviating its consequences, thus providing a service to the community, has created a specific program with the intention of providing care, stress reduction and wellbeing: the QuidArte program. With this intention in mind, a wide range of artistic proposals have been programmed: concerts, dance performances, theater, workshops and conferences that use, in an interdisciplinary and creative way, both plastic and performing arts.