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  2. Tandem Europe 2017-18
  3. Current: Louise Richards & Alvaro Crespo Quevedo
07 Alvaro & Louise

Taste for Life / Gusto por la Vida / Blas ar fywyd

The project aims to fight loneliness in older people. Using cooking and storytelling as ways to engage, the initiative will produce short stories from Madrid and Cardiff. People from other countries will be invited to connect with their older neighbours and upload their own local recipes and stories.
  1. Tandem Europe 2017-18
  2. Organisational development
  3. Participation & Active citizenship
  4. Social cohesion
  5. Cardiff
  6. Madrid
  7. Digital
  8. Literature
  9. Visual arts
  10. Audiovisual documentation
  11. Co-creation
  12. Filmmaking
  13. Interview
  14. Knowledge exchange
  15. Story-telling
  16. Workshop
  17. Online (platform)
  18. Toolkit
  19. Video (process documentary)

Louise Richards

Literature Wales

Wales Millennium Centre, Bute Place, United Kingdom

Literature Wales works collaboratively and bilingually (Welsh/English) across Wales, delivering and supporting artistic activity using creativity with words to improve lives. We particularly work with participants who are socially and economically marginalised such as prisoners, young carers, asylum seekers and mental health service users.

louise@literaturewales.org

Alvaro Crespo Quevedo

Solidarios para el Desarrollo

Madrid, Spain

Solidarios para el Desarrollo is a Spanish non-profit organisation fighting social exclusion by training and mobilizing social volunteers. Solidarios believes that a way of combating severe social exclusion is by creating opportunities for vulnerable people to be involved in groups and interact with other people. In this aim, using culture as a connecting to

acrespo@solidarios.org.es

The connection

"Taste for Life / Gusto por la Vida / Blas ar fywyd": a connection between Wales Millennium Centre, Bute Place (United Kingdom) & Madrid (Spain)

The process

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Shared stories

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Return visit to Madrid

Tandem Europe participant Louise Richards (Literature Wales) was back in Madrid to visit her Tandem partner Alvaro Crespo Quevedo (Solidarios...
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Project planning.
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  2. Placements

Welsh and Spanish links | Local and Global Connections

Tandem Europe participants Louise Richards (Literature Wales) and Alvaro Crespo Quevedo (Solidarios para el Desarrollo) are working on a project...
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  2. Community development

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  2. Cross-sector collaboration

Thoughts and Lessons Learned after a Year with Tandem

Tandem Europe participants Maria Cojocariu (Lyon, France) and Aranka Dijkstra (Delft, The Netherlands) have worked on Circular Storytelling, a cross-border...
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  2. cultural exchange

Community, arts and public space!

Tandem Europe participants Sergio Galasso (Milano, Italy) and Veronika Antoniou (Nicosia, Cyprius) have worked together on PS:MiNi, proposing a network...
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