CCCB Resident
International residency programme
The CCCB’s international residency programme invites outstanding personalities from the domains of thought, creation, and journalism to live in Barcelona for a period of two to three months. During their stay, the guests curate projects at the CCCB and create active links with the city’s cultural agents.
With an initial duration of three years, the programme aims to promote discussion of excellence and the creative relationship between Catalonia and the world. It also plans to provide comfortable medium- and long-term working spaces that will favour the forging of deeper relations between the guests and the local cultural context, as well as fostering more sustainable international mobility. The “CCCB Resident” programme is structured around two content areas. In the first, it invites journalists who are renowned for their defence of freedom of expression and a quality public sphere as the ultimate guarantees of democracy and essential for confronting authoritarianism. In the second, thinkers and creators from the global South are invited to enrich the public debate on contemporaneity and shift it into other domains.
This project has been made possible thanks to support and financing from the Mir-Puig Foundation, and support of the Open University of Catalonia.
Residents 2025
Tsitsi Dangarembga, writer and film director from Zimbabwe. Her works, many of which have won international awards and recognition, capture the heterogeneous social reality of Africa, while reflecting on the colonial traces on personal experience and writing.
Patricia Evangelista, investigative journalist and documentary filmmaker from the Philipines. She works in such areas as traumatic experiences of populations in situations of armed conflict, natural catastrophes, and the struggle for human rights.
Yásnaya Elena Aguilar Gil, Mixe writer, linguist and researcher. Her work focuses on the promotion of linguistic diversity and Indigenous Peoples rights in Mexico. She stands out for having her own voice on the reflection of cultural diversity beyond Western standards.
Residents 2024
Patrick Radden Keefe, investigative journalist from the USA and a reference in literary non-fiction. In the months of June and July 2024, Patrick Radden Keefe will curate a lecture series on the question of truth and the current situation of the mass media, as well as participating in several public events.
Eliane Brum, journalist and climate activist who lives and works in the Brazilian Amazon, in the Middle Xingu Region, one of the most affected areas of rainforest destruction. In addition to being an advisor to the exhibition “Amazons: The Ancestral Future”, she will give the lecture “Amazon, Centre ofthe World” on 12 October, followed by the series of conversations “The Rainforest is Woman”, which will be held on 18 and 25 November and 2 and 9 December.
Participants: Patrick Radden Keefe, Eliane Brum, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Patricia Evangelista, Yásnaya Elena Aguilar Gil
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