The event was part of the agenda for the initiative's Partnership and Exchange Meeting in the country
Photo: Patrick Mendes / Narra Agency
Routes, paths, movements, trails… Various ways of building cultures of equity – of gender, race, sexuality, class – exist, resist, reinvent themselves, articulate themselves and inspire us to seek reflections and practices that enable a present and future time of less inequalities.
From the 7th to the 9th of May, the Global Cultures of Gender Equity initiative (GlobalGRACE) carried out the experience “Creative Paths for Cultures of Equity”, a series of exchanges, practices and reflections that brought together artists, activists, teachers, researchers /es, open to all who seek inspiration and tools for action and political influence in the arts, in the most diverse cultural and identity experiences.
The event was co-organized by the GlobalGRACE teams from Brazil – made up of Promundo-Brasil, Instituto Maria and João Aleixo, Observatório de Favelas do Rio de Janeiro and the Institute of International Relations at PUC-Rio – and from Mexico – made up of Voces Mesoamericanas and National Autonomous University of Chiapas. The organization was divided between teams from both countries to enable an exchange of experiences from the Latin American context.
During the three days, “Creative Paths for Cultures of Equity” featured workshops for teams from the six countries of the GlobalGRACE initiative, as well as activities open to the public, including conversation circles, jongo and passinho classes and a samba circle at closing. The workshops and conversation circles were held at Galpão Bela Maré and PUC-Rio, in Rio de Janeiro, and had as their themes “The Power of Curation: Reflections on Art and Politics”, “State Violence: Resistance and Power of the Peripheries ” and “Movements, borders and diasporas: practices of memory re/construction”.
Find out more about the program and who participated here .
More about GlobalGRACE
The Global Cultures of Gender Equity ( GlobalGRACE ) initiative is a 51-month research program (2018-2021) funded by the Global Challenge Research Fund (GCRF/RCUK). The initiative mobilizes artistic interventions, curations and public exhibitions to research and enable gender approaches that contribute to well-being internationally. Led by a team of researchers from Goldsmiths, University of London, the initiative is led by academics and members of Non-Governmental Organizations from Bangladesh, Brazil, Mexico, Philippines, South Africa and the United Kingdom. Read the announcement of the initiative in Brazil here .
The event “Creative Paths for Cultures of Equity” was part of the Partnership and Exchange Meeting (EPT), which takes place annually in one of the six partner countries of the GlobalGRACE initiative. The EPT took place this year in Brazil.
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