Africa Moment with Mercat de les Flors

With triangular connections between Africa, Latin America and Europe, Africa Moment aims to generate spaces for creation and thinking through the body, to contribute to the positioning of African creation and its diaspora within the national and international scene, transforming the performing arts sector towards diversity and inclusion at a transversal level.

The VI International Live Arts Gathering Africa Moment’22 will be celebrated from November 21th to December 14th in Barcelona and Terrassa, with an avant-garde interdisciplinary program that will offer a training program for professional artists and a digital section with content accessible from all over the world, in addition to its creative residency program, new productions and artistic scholarships. For the first time, this sixth edition will launch the AM22PRO section, exclusively for professionals in the sector.

This event is promoted by the Africa Moment association, founded by Cameroonian bioarchitect Angel Fulla.

This year the festival presents the show Kolochi Baw by Cia Aïda Colmenero Dïaz and Smeer, by Trixie Munyama. The Mercat incorporates the piece Cheered lies, by Mozambican choreographer Panaíbra Gabriel Canda, into the festival.

Residences for creation and training for professionals at Graner

Graner collaborates for the fifth consecutive year with the Africa Moment platform and in its 2022 edition it will host two creation residences open to the public and the training program aimed at professionals. The residences hosted are from the artists Ana Maíra and Khadim (Ana María Favacho and Khadim Ndiaye) with Berço das águas project and Andrea Bonilla with Buscando a Antonia project. The creation residencies at the Graner will take place from November 28 to December 8 and there will be an open session with the public on December 9.

The training program, entitled Creación | Reflexión / Cuerpo, is aimed at professionals in the performing arts, the body, live arts and music and will take place from December 3 to 11. The teachers are Panaíbra Gabriel Canda (Mozambique), Trixie Munyama (Namibia), Mu Mbana (Guinea Bissau), Oulouy (Ivory Coast / Spain), Martín Padrón (Spain), Ana Maíra Favacho (Brazil) and Andrea Bonilla (Colombia), and to participate a previous selection call has been opened.