Although Paco Inclán (Valencia, 1975) is a multidisciplinary man, all his activities are linked to stories that in turn generate stories.
Thus, Paco Inclán, a Spanish teacher for refugees, the manager of romantic editorial projects, the motor of cycles on migrant meals is the same Paco Inclán who signs books inspired by experiences during his cultural collaboration projects in Ecuador, Vigo or California.
The last of them had as its title a phrase that just a few weeks after being published we all used assiduously:
Given the circumstances
(Jekyll & Jill, 2020).
In his wanderings, Inclán is used to wandering aimlessly in search of unexpected emotional impressions.
“Psychogeographic drift helps me travel the world observing situations that are not on the surface.
That allows me to delve into reality, even making use of fantasy ”.
He explains that during these journeys he is dedicated to "altering maps and inventing cartographies, looking for inconsequential details, seeing what happens when nothing happens."
Inclán also gives Spanish classes to refugees.
Some of his students were African migrants from the Aquarius ship who, in June 2018 and after weeks of drifting through the Mediterranean, found a host city in Valencia.
“Twelve days after their arrival I started teaching them Spanish.
The first class consisted of explaining the meaning of hello and yes.
That created a very special bond with the students from the beginning.
For me teaching is also creating scenarios of comfort and safety.
The media commotion passed, but they continue to fight to regularize their situation here. "
If there is an objective that can define the various tasks of Inclán, it would be to "connect art and culture with everyday life."
Organizing, for example, a cycle on migrant kitchens "where gastronomy is stripped of any elitism to present it as a tool for rapprochement";
always socializing creative processes, learning from his students and the environments in which he investigates.
Among its most recent activities is the launch of InTeresa, a festival of living arts in a town of 150 inhabitants of the Alto Palancia region, “collecting anecdotes from the neighbors, because these small towns also have their history, but not it is usually documented ”.
Another of the projects in which he is immersed has emerged from his writing workshops and which he believes will be useful to dismantle prejudices about people with disabilities.
“I have known José Vaquerizo,
Vake,
for 20 years.
He is writing a novel about his life and I am helping in the creative process.
As a result of the cerebral palsy that he suffers, he is in a wheelchair, but he has been a bronze medalist at the Paralympic Games in Beijing, and world champion in Portugal and Brazil.
He has also done the entire Camino de Santiago four times.
For him this journey is a metaphor for life: "There is a whole story from which we have a lot to learn."
At this time, given the circumstances, the pilgrim Inclán focuses on stories of proximity and experiments using his own city as territory.
It is very possible that right now he is investigating the trace of the Salvadoran soccer player Mágico González with a Valencian club from Cádiz CF that is near his neighborhood, or kicking the town of Aielo de Malferit to discover if it is true that it was there where, such As certain stories claim, Coca-Cola was actually invented.