Freedom to expose what’s in your soul
“Nós os Loucos” works on free artistic experimentation through drawing, with residents of national mental health institutions. A project supported by the PARTIS & Art for Change initiative.
Nós os Loucos – Research and Exhibition of Raw Art in Portugal
Nós Os Loucos uses innovative drawing tools to facilitate access to free artistic experimentation for people living with a mental illness.
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Activities will involve residents of national mental health institutions in different settings that will allow participants to develop their creative process. The project will be implemented in two stages: first, through artistic intervention in a hospital setting and experimentation, followed by the exhibition, analysis and sharing of the results of the participants’ work, aimed at breaking the stigma of mental illness and also bringing innovative practices and new collaboration and well-being strategies to psychiatric units.
Project supported under the 2nd edition of the PARTIS & Art for Change initiative, promoted by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and the ‘la Caixa’ Foundation.
- Promoters
- P28 - Manicómio
- Programmes
- PARTIS & Art for Change 2022-2025
- Social Issues
- Mental Health
- Artistic Area
- Visual Arts
- Beneficiaries
- 110 participantsAdults, Elderly+65 years, 26–64 years
- Date
- 2022 – 2025 (36 months)
- State
- Ongoing
- Territories
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Área Metropolitana de Lisboa, Área Metropolitana do Porto, Cávado
Braga, Coimbra, Lisboa, Sintra