The Barcelona LGBTI Centre is launching a new programme of activities entitled “interferències. memòries col·lectives” [interferences. collective memories] which will run until 31 May.
The aim of this programme is to make space for interferences in official accounts and narratives, within the discourse that has been constructed around memory. These interferences talk of unheard voices, doubts, gaps, uncomfortable perspectives, collective gazes.
It is for this reason that we want to construct memories from our own bodies, through our own voices. Memories in plural that are conjugated in the present.
The activities in the “’interferències. memòries col·lectives” programme will run until 31 May, and include two photographic exhibitions. “Encarnar la ferida” [Embodying the wound], from the cymbionte colectiv_, an artistic and curatorial collective whose work is based on situated experience and the activation of queer methodologies, and “Un archivo inexistente” [A non-existent archive] byFelipe Rivas San Martín, a Chilean visual artist, essayist and sexual dissidence activist.
There will also be a number of participatory workshops for discussing trans and butch identities, for digging up archives that hold dissident memories or for editing the Catalan Wikipedia [Viquipèdia] with a focus on bisexualities.
We will also be hosting round tables on issues such as genealogies and feminist archives, the invisibilised history of lesbians in Catalonia, the diversity of lesbian experiences as evidenced by the documentary “Alteritats” or the repression of women, perpetrated by the Francoist Patronato de Protección a la Mujer [Women’s Protection Board].
And on four Saturdays in May, you’ll be able to enjoy a guided route that reveals the history of lesbians in Barcelona, based on the graphic novel “Darrere les persianes”, by Isabel Franc and Rosa Navarro, which will be presented at the LGBTI Centre in June as part of the activities to mark 28J.
The image for the programme “interferències. memòries col·lectives” was designed by Camila González S., based on an intervention using visual materials (magazines, fanzines and posters, among others) that are found in the archives of the Casal Lambda Armand de Fluvià Documentation Centre, located on the top floor of the Barcelona LGTBI Centre.
All the activities in the programme are free of charge. To participate in the workshops and routes, you need to send an email to inscripcions@centrelgtbibcn.org, as there are only a limited number of places.
The round tables and book presentations have Catalan Sign Language (LSC) interpreting.
Admission to the exhibitions is free of charge and they can be visited freely during the opening hours of the LGBTI Centre:
Mondays: from 3.30 pm to 8.30 pm
Tuesdays to Fridays: from 10 am to 2 pm, and from 3.30 pm to 8:30 pm
Saturdays: from 10 am to 2 pm and 3 to 8 pm
