Talks
Talk 3 – May 25th – 6 pm – Rui Estrela and Raquel Lima – Art and life – art as a form of activism in a decolonial education
Education through art from a space of disobedience. How can art change the way of educating? What is the place of the children of the African Diaspora who are part of this territory? What education can we have in times when Global Citizenship is advocated? Can art design a future in order to guide what can be built in the present?
Project coordinated by Mónica de Miranda as part of the research group Post-Archive at CEC with support of FCT.
Raquel Lima (Lisboa, 1983) is a poet, performer, art educator and a PhD Candidate in the program Post-Colonialisms and Global Citizenship of the Centre for Social Studies in the University of Coimbra, with her research focused on orature, slavery and afrodiasporic movements. She co-founded the cultural association Pantalassa (2011) and was the General Coordinator and Artistic Director of PortugalSLAM – International Festival for Poetry and Performance (2012-2017). She has a ten-year journey of oral poetry, a movement that has taken her to over a dozen countries in Europe, South America and Africa. During this period, she presented her work in literature, oral narration, poetry slam, spokenword, performance and music events, namely FLIP – Festa Literária Internacional de Paraty, FLUP Rio – Festival Literário das Periferias, FOLIO – Festival Literário Internacional de Óbidos, Festival Silêncio, Palavras Andarilhas, among others. She published her poetry in several languages and, besides the performances, she have been organizing poetry workshops, highlighting the ‘Workshop Poetry and Gender: for an intersectional poetic writing’, She is now collaborating with the research project Post-Archive: Politics of Memory, Place and Identity, from the School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon. She published her first book and audiobook of poetry in October 2019, entitled Ingenuidade Inocência Ignorância, by the editors BOCA and Animal Sentimental. She is part of the Anti-Racist Nucleus of Coimbra (NAC).
Rui Estrela is a militant and community organizer that has been working political thought and practices from a decolonial point of view, using mutual aid and popular education as tools to achieve social transformation. Rui holds a diploma in Political Science and International Relations from the Lusophone University of Humanities and Technologies and is studying Social and Solidarity Economics in the ISCTE University Institute of Lisbon. working solidarity responses in spaces of diminished democracy as forms of combat against the violence of Institutional Racism, based on the experience of the Plataforma Gueto movement.