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ARTS IN EUROPE IN POSTMEMORY ERA: LITERATURE, PERFORMANCE, CINEMA
Dulce Maria Cardoso, Fatima Sissani, Pitcho
Colonial Memories Cycle
3rd oct 2019
Culturgest, Lisbon, Season 2019 - 2020
What impact has the transfer of memories from the end of colonialism had on present-day Europe? How do these memories manifests in social, cultural and artistic terms? Belgian-Congolese musician and slammer, Pitcho, French-Algerian filmmaker, Fatima Sissani, and Portuguese writer, Dulce Maria Cardoso, debate the cultural changes brought about by subsequent generations in Portugal, Belgium and France, based on their own artistic experiences. In the beginning of the session, the slammer will present his performance L’ expérience Pi.
MEMOIRS — Children of the Empire and European Postmemories is a comparative research project about European diversity, based on the continent’s colonial legacies. It studies the cases of Portugal, France and Belgium, where there are many echoes of these countries’ presences in Angola, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau, São Tomé and Príncipe, Cape Verde, Algeria and the Congo.
L'EXPERIENCE PI
In this intimate slam performance Pitcho invites us to delve into a universe of syncretic cultures through poems that recount the experiences that forged his being. Accompanied by beat-box artist Joost Maaskant, his slam poetry is an invitation to reflect on the duality that permeates the second generation of immigrants in Belgium.
MEMOIRS PROJECT AT THE MARSEILLE BIENNALE RHMIT
Screening of Outpost of Progress, by Hugo Vieira da Silva
16th to 19th of Oct. 2019
Cinéma Le Gyptis, Marseille, France
Outpost of Progress (Angola/ Portugal, 2016,120') is a film by Hugo Vieira da Silva, based on Joseph Conrad's 1896 short story "An Outpost of Progress". At the end of the 19th century, two Portuguese colonizers, imbued with a vague civilizing intention land on a remote part of the Congo River to organize a trading post. As time passes, they begin to be demoralised by their inability to get rich from the ivory trade. Feelings of mutual distrust and misunderstandings with the local population isolate them in the heart of the rainforest.
Confronted with each other they start a journey towards the abyss
Teatro Griot presents The True Confessions of an Albino Terrorist, an adaptation of Breyten Breytenbach's work of the same name, directed by Rogério de Carvalho.
18th to 19th of Oct. 2019
Théâtre à l'Oeuvre, Marseille, France
Teatro Griot is a company of actors dedicated to the exploration of themes relevant to the construction and problematization of the emerging contemporary and intercultural European identity and its reflection in the theatrical discourse and aesthetics.
The work the company develops arises from the tension between body and territory, between collective memory and individual memory, between collective imaginary and individual imaginary. Teatro GRIOT operates in this interstitial space of geographical and symbolic territories as the neuralgic point of an artistic movement of counter-memory that questions the univocity of history.
GRIOT Theatre Team in Marseille: Director - Rogério de Carvalho; Actors - Ana Rosa Mendes, Daniel Martinho, Gio Lourenço, Margarida Bento, Matamba Joaquim, Miguel Eloy, Zia Soares; Light Designer - Jorge Ribeiro; Sound Designer Soundslikenuno; Assistant - Neusa Trovoada; Producer - Alesa Herero.
Conference Reimagining Europe. Children of Empire and European Post-Memories
19th of Oct. 2019
RHMIT Marseille Biennale, Marseille, France
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LILIAN THURAN - CONFERENCE ON EDUCATION AGAINST RACISM
26th of Nov. 2019, Auditorium of the Rectory of the University of Coimbra.
27th of Nov. 2019, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon.
Lilian Thuram, 1998 world cup winner, is President of the Lilian Thuram Foundation - Education Against Racism. "Nobody is born racist, one becomes racist" is the truth that guides the Lilian Thuram Foundation which believes that racism is an intellectual, political and economic construction. These questions are shared by the MEMOIRS group (ERC 648624) which investigates colonial legacies in contemporary Europe. MEMOIRS and the Lilian Thuram Foundation have proposed a meeting to interrogate the inequalities generated by mechanisms of domination in European society and ways to combat racism through education.
The actions undertaken by the Foundation earned Lilian Thuram the Ethics Prize of the Fondation Keba Mbaye in Sénégal in 2014 and he became Doctor Honoris Causa of Stockholm University in 2017.His first book My Black Stars - From Lucy to Barack Obama (2013) was published in Portugal by Tinta da China publishing house, with the support of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation - Next Future Programme
In addition to the two conferences in Portugal (November 26, 18h00, at the Auditorium of the Rectory of the University of Coimbra; November 27, 2019, 18h30, at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation), on November 25th and 26th, in Coimbra, Lilian Thuram met with high school students under the initiative CES goes to School, and young footballers from the city. On the 27th and 28th, in Lisbon, as part of a collaboration with the French Embassy, Lilian Thuram met with high school students and discussed questions of youth, education, and racism.
More info: https://www.thuram.org/
Curator: MEMOIRS - Children of Empires and European Postmemories is a comparative research project on European diversity from its colonial heritage. It studies cases from Portugal, France and Belgium where echoes from Angola, Mozambique, Guinea Bissau, Sao Tome and Principe, Cape Verde, Algeria and Congo reverberate. The project is based at the Centre for Social Studies of the University of Coimbra.
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