Coord.: Marta Araújo e Catarina Martins (CES)

About
This training course addresses the persistence of racism in contemporary democratic societies, seeking to reflect on its manifestations in various fields and to identify alternatives to combat it. Favouring qualitative and participative methodologies, the course aims to offer an opportunity to dialogue on these issues through interdisciplinary approaches in order to transform daily practices. In this context, particular importance will be given to the arts and their role. The course includes a performance of Theatre of the Oppressed.

Target audience: students, teachers (primary, secondary and higher education), researchers, activists, social intervention technicians, and the general public.

Free but compulsory registration, limited to 20 participants. With a certificate of participation.

Programme
October 14, 2022 (CES-Alta, room 2)
10h00 - Race, Racism and Anti-Racism: debates and approaches | Marta Araújo (CES)
This session will present the main academic and political debates around the concepts of 'race' and racism, considering their growing relevance in contemporaneity. We will then further into the debates on racism and anti-racism in the Portuguese context, considering the influence of wider discussions on the history and memory of colonialism.

14h00 - Racism and representations: what is the place of race in the arts? | Gonçalo Cholant (FLUC)
This seminar aims to address the construction and representation of race in different variants of art and culture, trying to understand how the choices made by who produces and who receives the artistic object, be it in literature, cinema, television, etc., end up creating broader narratives about race relations. Topics such as the construction of stereotypes, forms of resistance to racism, contemporary "woke" revisionism and the relevance of representation will be addressed.

_{Gonçalo Cholant holds a PhD in Modern Languages: Cultures and Literatures (2019) from the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra. He is also Visiting Assistant Professor in the Section of Anglo-American Studies at FLUC. He works as a researcher on the following topics: American studies, Afro-American literature, Caribbean literature, autobiography, women's writing and feminist studies, representations of violence and trauma. Cholant holds an MA (2012) in Feminist Studies from the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra (FLUC), Portugal, and a BA (2008) in English Language and English Language Literatures from the Federal University of Pelotas (UFPel), Brazil.}
 

October 15, 2022 (Teatro da Cerca de S. Bernardo)
Theatre of the Oppressed performance: Serviçal Até Quando? by GTO-LX

GTO-LX presents a performance in an artistic-lecture format, entitled Serviçal Até Quando? It's Zeba's story, but it could be yours... Zeba is a domestic worker and an immigrant and during this theatre forum we invite you to see the challenges that capitalism, patriarchy and racism pose in her life.

_{LABORATÓRIO AMI-AFRO (GTO-LX) | The GTO-LX develops its activities since 2003, constituting itself as a Non-Profit Association in 2005. It is an organization committed to stimulating the active and conscious participation of citizens in the construction of society, developing community intervention projects. Since 2008, GTO LX has acted with disadvantaged communities and descendents of immigrants - addressing issues such as ethno-racial discrimination and gender equality – accompanying them in a training process with the techniques of the Theatre of the Oppressed, valuing their personal experiences and promoting individual and community awareness. Part of GTO-LX, the Ami-Afro Laboratory (2012) has been carried out in an artistic residence format, developing aesthetic and cultural research within the framework of the Theatre of the Oppressed. It aims to be a space where young people and adults of African descent can gain "another Consciousness", rediscover their identity and identify and represent the problems that affect them - bringing together in the same space young people from different contexts of the metropolitan area of Lisbon.}
 

Under  the initiative «Afro-Portugal: Contas de Torna-Viagem», organised by Teatro Académico de Gil Vicente and Teatro da Cerca de S. Bernardo