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, Denise Duncan, Vicenta Ndongo and Miquel Ripeu

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).