During the months of March, April, and May 2025, Irene Salvo Agoglia, principal investigator of the AdopARTE project and Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at the AFIN Group of the Autonomous University of Barcelona, traveled to various cities in Spain conducting research, training, and collective creation activities around adoption.
In Valencia, on Saturday, March 21st, the AdopARTE workshop “Collaging Life and Identity” took place, in collaboration with CORA Joven.
In Madrid, during the first weekend of April, two sessions of the new participatory video workshop “My Story on Screen,” co-created and facilitated by Jenifer de la Rosa, audiovisual expert and adopted person, were held. In this space, adopted people shared experiences and explored artistic ways of narrating their identities.
In Santander, with the support of the associations AFAMUNDI and AFAMUNDI Joven, a fieldwork was carried out between May 14th and 18th, which included interviews with adoptive families, the open talk “(Re)thinking identity in adoption: historicization, search, and contacts,” and an AdopARTE workshop aimed at adopted adolescents. It was a space for listening, reflection, and collective creation around identity, adoption trajectories, and multiple ways of constructing meaning, memory, and belonging.
These activities are part of the collaboration between AdopARTE and the foster and adoptive family associations that make up CORA and its section CORA Joven. New actions are planned in Valladolid, Pamplona, Granada, and Bilbao in the coming months.