Culture in Vein Foundation

Culture of Emergencies is a call for young European creators of visual arts and literature launched in full confinement, with a triple objective: to stimulate artistic reflection on the social and transformative role of culture in health and well-being; humanize the hospital experience of patients, family members and health personnel through art; and last but not least, help the collective of artists in times of professional uncertainty, with an economic endowment that partially alleviates the consequences of the pandemic on their careers. The first edition of the contest has brought together more than 200 proposals from young artists and writers between the ages of 18 and 35, from 11 European countries. The exhibition Culture of Emergencies was inaugurated in the Emergency Area of ​​the Hospital Clínico San Carlos on November 30, 2021.

Ambulatory Art is a program of traveling exhibitions through hospitals and rural communities at risk of depopulation. Visited by patients, their companions, health professionals and residents of rural communities, they build a new relationship between the art event, the spectators and the hospital or rural setting. The aim is to bring specially curated cultural contents to these audiences, whether in hospital entrance halls, waiting rooms or wards, and they always hire cultural mediators. They foster to improve the health and well-being of hospitalized people, their families and health personnel through cultural content specially curated for these audiences. The project is also positive for cultural institutions, since they can see the visibility of their heritage increased exponentially, and for young emerging artists, who can benefit from new circuits for art.
Ambulatory Art transforms healthcare spaces by creating windows onto culture. The different physical and digital formats make hospital stays more pleasant for patients and their companions while offering benefits for health professionals as well. The mediation activities facilitate access to contents, creating links between new audiences and culture as a vehicle for improving their health and well-being.
Cultura en Vena has launched a call for cultural mediators to generate employment among the professionals in the sector who either live in or have a connection with the communities where the activities are carried out. The organisation gives them training on the role of culture in improving the physical, psychological and spiritual health of patients and rural communities.

The MIR Project is a program with triple social impact: clinical research, health humanization and job creation among young musicians. Fundación Cultura en Vena aims to improve people's lives by injecting culture where it does not usually reach. Their main areas of action are health centers and rural communities at risk of depopulation. Within the general objective of Cultura en Vena of implementing artistic practices in hospital environments, the Internal Resident Musicians (IRM) has the more specific purpose of normalizing the presence of the musician in clinical protocols, supported by scientific evidence that justifies the use of live music in certain medical treatments. Scope of the project: hospital humanization, clinical research, employability of the musicians. The concept alone is groundbreaking: employing a musician in the health system as hospital staff, with the aim that their work contributes to what doctors do, improving the prognosis and health outcomes that can be observed in patients.