Description

Black Thought: Museums and City is a training conducted by Isabella Santos, founder and creative director of Sampa Negra, and Siméia Mello, co-founder and director of Instituto Ella Criações Educativas. The course aims to reflect on museums and the city from a black perspective, articulating conceptual debate, critical reading of collections, and territorial experience. Throughout the meetings, participants are invited to think about the relationships between memory, heritage, institutional narratives, and black presences, expanding the ways of reading the city from other centralities.
The proposal brings together perspectives built from Afro-tourism, education, research, and human rights training, approaching the fields of action of Sampa Negra and Instituto Ella Criações Educativas. By recognizing black thought as a structuring heritage of Brazil, the course relates the Afro Brazil Museum Emanoel Araujo and the city of São Paulo as fields of meaning production, narrative dispute, and memory reinscription. By articulating museum collections and urban territory, the training expands cultural, artistic, pedagogical, and critical repertoire for educators, cultural agents, researchers, tourism professionals, and those interested in diaspora heritage and black cultures.
The training is organized in three complementary moments: an online opening meeting, a face-to-face experience with a guided visit to the Afro Brazil Museum Emanoel Araujo and an Afro-tourism route through downtown São Paulo, and an online return and deepening meeting. By articulating class, guided visit, and walk, the course proposes an integrated experience, in which museum and city are understood as spaces of narrative dispute, memory production, and black presence reinscription.
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Dates, times, and format
• May 4th
Online opening meeting
From 7pm to 8:30pm
Format: online and synchronous (live)
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• May 6th
Face-to-face experience in São Paulo
Period: morning and afternoon
Activities: guided visit to the Afro Brazil Museum Emanoel Araujo collection in Ibirapuera Park, and Afro-tourism route guided through downtown São Paulo, in dialogue with the themes addressed in the course
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• May 11th
Online return and deepening meeting
From 7pm to 8:30pm
Format: online and synchronous (live)

• A certificate of 15 hours will be provided by Instituto Ella Criações Educativas.
‌• Additional material will be provided
‌• The online classes will be recorded and available via link for access for 3 months after the completion of the training.
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