Barcelona

DJ Set spanning alternative hip-hop, experimental electronic music, and soulful songwriting, Awir Leon is a musician and composer who made a name for himself in music after a career as a dancer, notably with Emanuel Gat. This dual background gives his music a singularly physical sense of rhythm. For the past ten years, Awir has been composing the music for Amala Dianor's shows.

A guided tour to explore the traces of Le Havre’s colonial history in the urban landscape. A journey that invites you to gain a deeper understanding of the past and its echoes in the present.

An interactive workshop to discover the history of the slave trade and slavery. An approach adapted for children to share local history and encourage discussion.

A workshop for families where participants rework a photograph using paint or engraving tools to highlight the disappearance of coral reefs (ages 5 and up)

A play performed by students from the drama class of the Conservatoire Arthur Honegger. A 1h45 performance, for ages 14 and up.

To celebrate its 350th anniversary, the Opéra National de Paris has entrusted Clément Cogitore with staging Jean-Philippe Rameau’s opera ballet, «Les Indes Galantes». The premiere took place in September 2019. «Les Indes Galantes» was selected by The New York Times as one of the best opera productions of 2019, nominated best opera production 2019 by the Giornale della Musica and won the Forum Opera trophy of the best new opera production 2019. In 2020, Oper! Awards presented him with the prize for best director.

The proposal is entitled In the Depths and takes the form of a performative lecture. It begins with the real history of the Atlantic as a space of violence and memory: the slave trade, ports with a Black presence in Spain (Barcelona, Seville, Cadiz), and how this past has been silenced or fragmented. From there, it takes a creative leap into the realm of the imaginary: how artists such as Drexciya have paved the way for thinking about the ocean not only as a tomb, but also as an archive, as a place of possibilities and future.

Inspired by Nkisi’s ongoing research into the ethnographic music archives (1893 till present), ‘Serpent Songs’ invokes the serpentine movements of sound and the migratory paths of its vibrations. The musical composition delves into the psycho-acoustics inherited from ancient musical traditions. Here, music emerges as an enchanted consciousness; a vessel for its mythopoetic remembrance. Inspired by the primordial snake ancestors of these ancient traditions who shaped landscapes, rivers, and hills, ‘Serpent Songs' traces the trails of music they left behind.