Talk – «The Rebellion of the Narrative: Mediating Conflicting Cultural Heritage»
Talk — The rebellion of the narrative: mediating conflicting cultural heritage at Castillo de Mata, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.
Join the conversation: Canarian experiences to broaden European cultural dialogue.
This June 30th LPGC2031, Training for the Contact Zone and Unlikely Connections meet at Castillo de Mata, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, to give voice to the rebellion. You can join the conversation which will feature experts such as: Pino Sosa, President of the Association of Historical Memory of Arucas; Yasmin Bouzaoui, Vocational Training Teacher and Equality Agent; Aglahum Mahmud Alamin and María Heredia, part of the LPGC2031 Intersectional Group.
What do we do when a building, a monument, an archive, or a cultural celebration activates tensions in the community? How do we work with heritage that evokes violence, exclusion, forced silences, or conflicting memories? In these contexts, cultural mediation becomes a key tool: not to resolve the conflict in a closed way, but to open it to debate and activate processes of listening, encounter, trust, and transformation. Within the framework of the European project Training for the Contact Zone (TCZ), from LPGC2031 and Unlikely Connections, we invite you to participate in this free event, which will be divided into two parts:
– The morning at Castillo de Mata will combine presentations of experiences, open conversations, and participatory dynamics to share approaches and tools applied to mediation on memory and conflicting heritage.
– In the afternoon, visits will be made to spaces such as El Museo Canario and Casa de Colón, to open dialogues with their managers about memories, heritage, and narratives present in the city. And we will end the day with a visit around hidden memories in Vegueta, open to the public.
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