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. Tandem Europe 2017-18 Organisational development Participation & Active citizenship Social cohesion Cardiff Madrid Digital Literature Visual arts Audiovisual documentation Co-creation Filmmaking Interview Knowledge exchange Story-telling Workshop Online (platform) Toolkit 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 Shared stories