A batucada walks the audience from the hall to the stage: Arrecife talks art and mental health today, then goes to the gig

It starts sitting down, in a hall, talking about something this island rarely discusses: what art does for people who are unwell. It ends standing up in front of the stage at the Charco, with a rapper who has spoken publicly about her own mental health.

It is today, and it is free.

Six o'clock: the conversation

At the Sala de Exposiciones, Multicines Atlántida, free entry. At the table:

• Eduardo Vera Barrios, psychiatrist and musician. Both at once, and not by accident.
• Mikel Sarmiento, campaigner with the Gipuzkoan association AGIFES.
• Joan S. Luna, editor-in-chief of Mondo Sonoro and author of Son cuatro días, a graphic novel about grief and suicide prevention.

Chaired by the journalists Pilar Rumeu and Rosa Vidal Ross. It closes with the choir of the El Cribo association.

Then the batucada walks everyone to the Charco

And here is what makes this different from a conference: El Cribo's batucada leaves the hall and leads the audience on foot to the stage at the Charco de San Ginés, where Arrecife en Vivo closes.

On stage: Sara Socas, with Erika Dos Santos; a live set from Alea Jacta; and Invictores, a band connected to El Cribo. Sara Socas has talked publicly about mental health: she is not a decorative patron.

Who put it together

It is the first time they have done it jointly: the Canary Islands government's youth directorate, the Cabildo through its social welfare department, the mental health association El Cribo and Arrecife en Vivo.

That is not nothing. Mental health usually ends up in an institutional study day with three speeches and an empty room. Here it ends up inside a rock festival, among people who were already there.

In short

Saturday 10 October, 18:00 — Sala de Exposiciones, Multicines Atlántida, Arrecife. Free entry.
Followed by concerts at the Charco de San Ginés.