Young Africa: art and diaspora. An experience at the University of Lleida

Abstract

This article is the result of an inter-university, international and transdisciplinary experience carried out at the University of Lleida with the collaboration of the University of Zaragoza in the academic year 2021-2022, in which other groups and institutions also participated, on Young Africa: art and diaspora. Two seminars were held, a theoretical-practical one with students of the Degree in Social Education on the black-African artistic object as a reference of cultural pluralism and another international seminar with three papers on Art, resilience and rehumanisation, which dealt with music, dance and orality as a resilient therapy in African and Afrodiasporic traditions; an initiative on Top Manta, which is the brand of the commercial project of the Sindicato Mantero and, finally, a practical proposal to intervene from the artistic context in groups at risk, i.e. three proposals combined with an exhibition on Black African masks entitled "Learning to see the invisible".