On Saturday 7 October 2023, the Carlo Zauli Museum will take part in the nineteenth Day of Contemporary Art, the great event promoted by AMACI - the Association of Italian Contemporary Art Museums, and realised with the support of the Ministry of Culture's General Directorate for Contemporary Creativity.

The Carlo Zauli Museum in Faenza, still "wounded" by the devastating floods in Romagna in May (the third natural disaster globally in this 2023), has decided to dedicate the National Contemporary Art Day to the Therapeutic Arts with the intention of encouraging the territory to undertake a "new therapy" for the wellbeing of our communities. That of the Arts and Art Therapy as a Form of Cure.

There is now a solid base of knowledge and scientific literature on the contribution of the arts and artistic practice in improving people's health and wellbeing. The publication of the WHO - World Health Organisation report, the most extensive research ever carried out (over 3,000 interdisciplinary studies) on the impact of the Arts on people's wellbeing and health, highlights how artistic practice can provide fundamental opportunities for healing, emotional expression, emotion regulation and stress reduction.

How much it can be a cognitive tool of the self, of one's interiority, of one's feelings.

Key word of the day is the word cure. For the Carlo Zauli Museum, embarking on an Art Therapy journey means becoming part of a process of healing, human flourishing and self-improvement.

The day, promoted by the Carlo Zauli Museum in collaboration with the School of New Art Therapy, is intended to be a "call to self-care". Trying to give "form" to one's feelings, emotions and "feeling" through the artistic practice of the Art Therapies.

The Carlo Zauli Museum intends to enhance the transformative and resilient capacities of the Art Therapies to contribute to the social regeneration and collective health of our communities.

The programme of the day:

18.30 - Online screening of the video presentation of the Art Therapy project: "Arts Therapies Labs Museo Carlo Zauli" (Pietro Sami videomaker). With Mona Lisa Tina e Laura Zauli.