Maisa Sally-anna Perk

She is the organiser and presenter of the open stage group ExpresArte, a platform for upcoming artists from various artistic disciplines, which was created in 2009 and has been organising Poetry Jams in collaboration with Xarxa Antirumors and other collectives since 2019. She is also co-organiser of the festival Black Barcelona Encuentro and a co-founder of Tinta Negra, a collective of actors and artists from Catalonia’s black diaspora.

She collaborates with numerous artistic projects and festivals. In 2019 she took two monologues penned by herself to the stage: Palabra de Negra and El cielo no tiene límites, and, in 2020, the dramatized tale Palabra de una niña negra and Black woman’s word (the English version of Palabra de Negra). She is currently working on a new monologue: En proceso.