[SOLD OUT!] The OAR takes part in the ninth edition of “Religion Night” in Barcelona, with two tours at the Museu Etnològic i de Cultures del Món
As part of “Religion Night”, on 14 September, the Office for Religious Affairs (OAR) and the Museu Etnològic i de Cultures del Món (MUEC) are jointly organising the activity “Living heritage and religions: Barcelona’s communities at the Museu Etnològic i de Cultures del Món”, at the Montcada site. The activity consists of two simultaneous guided ours, one in Catalan and the other in Spanish, looking at the African and Asian collections.
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The activity “Living heritage and religions: Barcelona’s communities at the Museu Etnològic i de Cultures del Món” is being jointly organised by the OAR and the Museu Etnològic i de Cultures del Món (MUEC). The activity is part of the programme of the Night for Religions, Convictions and Beliefs in Dialogue, organised by AUDIR and offering a space to properly approach interculturality in and from the city. The session is one of the many collaborations the OAR has established with various cultural institutions in the city, based around matters that affect a wide range of religious and spiritual traditions and their communities, right across the board.
The collaboration this activity is based on, between the Montcada site of the MUEC, a facility devoted to anthropology where many of the artefacts are linked to ritualism, and the OAR, which works to introduce people to the plurality and spiritualities and beliefs in the city, responds to this goal of representing and recognising interculturality and religious and spiritual plurality. “Living heritage and religions” will connect some of the collections at the MUEC with the traditions and communities that make up today’s religious and spiritual diversity and which these pieces may reach out to. The activity will also reflect on processes for reappropriating heritage on the part of communities living in Barcelona, taking spirituality as an element of analysis and dialogue.
The activity consists of two simultaneous guided tours, where people from different religious communities in the city will present some of the pieces from the collections at the MUEC from their perspective. One of them will focus on pieces of African origin and the other on Asian collections. In the tour focusing on Africa, Luis Fernando Brito Fernández, ‘babalorixá’ (priest) ‘Diandayare’ of the Yoruba Condomblé cult in Brazil, will be looking at statues linked to the Yoruba tradition (*) to talk about Afro-Caribbean diasporas. In the second part of the tour focusing on Africa, Ayalkibet Hundesa will be looking at Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity through the processional crosses of Ethiopia and other pieces linked to this tradition.
As for the tour of Asian collections, the focus here will be on the spirituality of South-East Asia, specifically Buddhism and Hinduism, through a guided tour of statues from these two traditions, with Glòria Puig, chair of the Catalan Coordinator of Buddist Entities, and a representative from the Puja Association of Bengali Cultural Festivities.
The activity “Living heritage and religions: Barcelona’s communities at the Museu Etnològic i de Cultures del Món” is being held as part of the ninth edition of the “Night for Religions, Convictions and Beliefs in Dialogue”, an initiative by the association AUDIR with the support of Barcelona City Council and the Fundació “la Caixa”. The initiative has the goal of opening up dialogues between members of the public and religious and spiritual communities to break down prejudices and promote understanding and the culture of peace, providing the context for various activities on this theme, organised by the public administration and by religious and spiritual organisations alike.
LIVING HERITAGE AND RELIGIONS: BARCELONA’S COMMUNITIES AT THE MUSEU ETNOLÒGIC I DE CULTURES DEL MÓN
The two guided tours will take place simultaneously, with one in Catalan and the other in Spanish. You need to specify which language when you register for the event.
- Date: 14 September
- Time: 11 am to 2 pm
- Tour in Catalan (Africa and Asia, with a break in the middle)
- Tour in Spanish (Africa and Asia, with a break in the middle)
- Venue: Museu Etnològic i de Cultures del Món – Montcada site (Montcada, 12-14).
- Registration: activitatsoar@bcn.cat, giving your name, surnames and email address, and specifying which language you prefer. Free activity with limited capacity.