Thursday, 8 July
After the performance of FAM, at the Mercat de les Flors
Cossos i moviment: alliberar el cos de la pressió social [Bodies and movement: releasing the body from social pressure]
Discussion with Kathy Sey, Laia White and Clara Peya about the show FAM by Les Impuxibles. Our bodies, skin colour and hair are some of the distinctive physical features that set the boundaries of colour that govern relations in our society. The members of the group will make a few reflections, leading us to analyse the world we live in critically and humbly through our eyes and bodies.
With Kathy Sey, Clara Peya, Adriana Peya and Laia White.
Friday, 9 July
After the performance of Black Battles with Dogs, at Teatre Tantarantana
L’esdevenir negre del món [The black becoming of the world]
“Africa is here, and Africa is us. The reason Africa is the way it is today, with all its crises and miseries, is because of us. We are the dogs that bark and are there to protect the western Eden, the island of safety that has been depicted in this work as a construction site. Performing this script highlights the dynamics of oppression, stupidity and maliciousness that govern our world, that drove colonialism and are still the drivers of all current forms of oppression, both in our country and worldwide”. These are the words of Roberto Romei, director of this stage production of Bernard-Marie Koltès’s play at Teatre Tantarantana. He spoke to playwright and director Denise Duncan in a conversation that looked at the ways in which power is perpetuated beyond the colonial episode recreated in the show. We will retrieve the thoughts of Cameroon historian and political theorist Achille Mbembe, such as those making reference to what he called “the black becoming of the world”, to reflect on the alienation of the black proletariat.
With Denise Duncan and Roberto Romei
Tuesday, 20 July
After the performance of No es país para negras [No country for black women], SAT! - Sant Andreu Teatre
“I’m black or African. What does it mean to be an Afro-Spaniard? I was born and raised in a country in which my nationality is not acknowledged because I have a different skin colour. I grew up feeling that I did not belong anywhere.” These are the words of Silvia Albert Sopale, author and performer of a stage production that reflects on how society sees (or fails to see) people of African descent and how this can affect us to our core and the construction of our identity. No es país para negras is a work that shows instances of micro-racism, the most subtle forms of racism.
With Silvia Albert
Discussions will be held in collaboration with the UN’s International Decade for People of African Descent (2015-2024) team in Spain.
Free activities
