We are posting some updates re. research activities by members of the University of Manchester’s Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. This time, from Prof Peter Wade, co-director of CLACS.
After the success of the Festival of Latin American Anti-Racist and Decolonial Art held as part of our CARLA project (Cultures of Anti-Racism in Latin America), a series of events have been organised by our collaborators in Argentina, Brazil and Colombia to promote CARLA’s online exhibition and showcase the work of our artistic partners. In Argentina, for example, a second edition of the book Marrones Escriben has been produced by the artistic collective Identidad Marrón, and launched in various places, including Hamburg. In Argentina too, the occasion of the Dia Nacional de lxs Afroargentinos y la Cultura Afro (8 Nov) was used to show the play No es país para negras, II, presented by Teatro en Sepia. This was followed by a debate on structural racism, which featured special guest Lorena Cañuqueo, of Teatro Mapuche El Katango, a company that, as part of its participation in CARLA, has been collaborating with Teatro en Sepia.
In Brazil, an exhibition and talks on anti-racist Indigenous art are being held until 2 December at the Museo de Arte Sacra of the Universidade Federal da Bahia. In Colombia, a major event with the title Entrecaminos Antirracistas y Feministas was held on 3 November under the aegis of the Universidad Nacional de Colombia’s Escuela de Estudios de Género.
The CORALA project (Comics and Race in Latin America) has also been active, with a research trip to Lima that brought together the UoM project team and the six comics artists that are collaborating with the project – two each from Argentina, Colombia and Peru. One outcome was a zine to which we all contributed. We are currently planning another trip to Cali, Colombia, where we will all meet up again with a packed agenda of public engagement activities, organised in conjunction with the local branch of the Área Cultural of the Banco de la República, two local universities and some local cultural centres.
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