Black and/or Catalan Theater?

How many works of Black theatre have you seen in the past month? And in the past year? Does Black theatre have a real presence in Catalonia, or is it still an emerging practice that remains almost invisible?

This conversation will focus on the experiences, genealogies and urgent concerns of Afro-descendant creators working in the performing arts.

We will ask ourselves about the qualities and needs of Black theatre and, most importantly, about the need for Black theatre itself: its political force, its ability to build community and its capacity to shift the mindset of a society that still sees from only one vantage point.

Activity curated by Carla Rovira

With the participation of Silvia Albert Sopale


Silvia Albert Sopale

Silvia Albert Sopale is an Afro-Spanish actor and playwright. She is the founder of Periferia Cimarronas, Spring Chair at the KJCC, and a member of the Spanish Academy of Performing Arts. She is also the co-founder of Hibiscus, the Association of Afro-Spanish and Afro-descendant People, the Black Barcelona Festival and the Tinta Negra collective. She is the author of No es país para negras (2014), Blackface y otras vergüenzas (2019), Parad de pararme (2021), Cuentos desde la Periferia (2023), Mahmud y no solo Mahmud (2023) and Lotö. Un ritual de emancipación corporal (2024).