- It is part of an interdisciplinary mental health project that expresses the voices of boys and girls who attend the art and mural workshop, and the soccer schools that operate within the “Las Aldeas” Municipal Community Accompaniment Center.
- Production began with the creation of a large mural along one of the perimeter walls of the community center.
This Thursday, the Undersecretary of Mental Health and Addictions presented the documentary “A great goal in Argüello”, at the Municipal Cinema Club.
The audiovisual is part of the record of the creation of a health, community and cultural project that was developed between April, May and June 2023.
The work was carried out around soccer, a sport that unites us and identifies us as Argentines, that shapes the present and the dream of many children, and that at the end of 2022 gave an entire country the joy and popular unity of the third star.
The boys and girls of the neighborhood who attend the art and muralism workshop that operates at the “Las Aldeas” Municipal Community Support Center, in the Arguello Lourdes neighborhood, and the two soccer schools, “Unión atódromo” and “América united” participated. who train daily within the Center’s grounds, seeking to make their voices heard in relation to sports and art with the neighborhood.
In addition, other institutions that work in the community center were part of it: the NGO Aldeas Infantiles, the “Casita Puentes” and the soccer schools that practice within Las Aldeas.
Over the course of three months, reflection, awareness and creative thinking workshops were held, working on what football meant to the children, to those present as a community and as a people.
Drawings, sketches, emotions, ideas and phrases came out of these workshops and the resulting products were two. On the one hand, a large collective mural of 100 m2 was carried out that was painted by the cultural collective “Makes Paint”, linked to the soccer theme with the interest of deepening and symbolizing what soccer means in the neighborhood for those who train in the neighborhood. property.
“Football healed something that it did not break,” was the phrase chosen by the boys and girls for the center of this mural, which now beats like a giant hug in every game, in every meeting between neighbors around the property. Football, sports, art as sources of community bonding and bonding. Activities that bring together joy and fun, but that are also expression and catharsis in the face of difficult realities or the violation of their rights.
One of the protagonists of the project referred to it: “What I like about painting is that it doesn’t matter what emotion I start with, sad, melancholic or very angry, but I always end in the same state, in tranquility. Painting leads me to be calm, to forget that the world is spinning, on the contrary, it pauses and spins again when I finish painting.”.
The second product was the documentary “Un golazo en Argüello”, which was presented along with its protagonists at the Municipal Cinema Club, and whose production was carried out by “Polenta productions”.
In it, the entire process of the mural can be seen captured through an audiovisual product, whose desire was to be able to keep a record of the process and at the same time to be able to communicate and expand some of the sensations shared in the mural.
“From the patrol to the sketch, from the sketch to the mural and from the mural, thanks to the documentary, to all the people to whom it reaches, who can recognize and be inspired by each of the ‘protagonists’ to multiply experiences like this in many other neighborhoods and corners of our country”said one of its directors.
In addition to the presentation at the Municipal Cineclub, next Sunday the 26th, from noon the documentary will be shared together with a community locro in “Las Aldeas” with the boys and girls who participated in the documentary and all the families who accompany the schools of football, its references, friends and all the people who have made this device and the documentary possible.
