Painting, living room dances, crafts, culture courses, theater, music, memory workshops, maintenance or yoga gymnastics are just some of the activities to which the elderly in Saragossa They can sign up for another year. For this 2025-2026 course, the Zaragoza City Council Offer 832 free workshops that will be taught in the coexistence centers of major in all the neighborhoods of the city with a total of 16,746 squares, 10% more than two years ago.
The objective, as pointed out by the councilor delegate of the Major, Paloma Espinosa, is “to promote decent and healthy aging, which can continue to participate in society with health and well -being so that it contributes to better quality of life.” For this new call, the City Council has invested 452,000 euros in this program that is consolidated and improved through the concert with the Federico Ozanam Foundation.
Active aging activities and experience workshops
There are a wide variety of activities to meet the different interests and needs of the elderly, such as improving psychosocial skills, preserving memory and other cognitive abilities. Creativity and artistic skills are also encouraged and cultural knowledge of various kinds can be acquired, to enhance the personal and social development of the elderly.
In addition, the workshops are designed with different levels of difficulty to meet the needs of all partners, covering from the initiation to advanced levels. This structure guarantees that each participant can find activities appropriate to their experience and skills.
The activities are organized in three main areas, in addition to a fourth modality called experience workshops, which are voluntarily taught by the users of the centers:
• Communication and culture. It includes 66 workshops aimed at promoting learning and personal relationships, with activities such as literary workshops, gatherings, culture courses, history, art, music and theater.
• Artistic development and expression. Composed of 120 workshops, this area offers activities such as drawing, painting, crafts, living room dances, popular dances and textile work, promoting teamwork and social relations.
• Health and quality of life. With 352 workshops, this is the area of greatest volume, since it has a high demand. These are activities that promote the physical, mental and emotional well -being of the elderly. It includes memory workshops, maintenance gymnastics, psychomotor skills, postural hygiene, dance therapy, taichí and yoga, among others.
• Experience workshops: 294 workshops are offered, with a variety of courses taught by the users themselves on topics such as history, dance, cutting and clothing, Aragonese clothing, crochet, drawing and painting.
Requirements and application period
Among the requirements, the main one to participate is to be a partner of any of the 32 coexistence centers of the elderly distributed by the districts. The application deadline for the workshops offered will be communicated soon through the municipal website, social networks, WhatsApp channel and timely dissemination means.
