Since 2020, the EUROM and the popular school Versembrant join efforts with the High School of Art La Industrial of Barcelona to raise awareness of Europe’s recent past through rap music and urban art.
The project “Rap for memories” gathers, each year, a group of first-year students in a series of workshops of rap music and graffiti carried out by the team of Versembrant in collaboration with teachers of different disciplines. These activities aim to reflect on coexistence, tolerance, human rights, and social justice while exploring the intersection of urban art and personal and collective memories. The outputs of each edition include a collection of rap songs, a collective mural painting project in the exterior wall of La Model former prison, and a short documentary video with the reflections of students, teachers and team involved in the activities.
The project is supported the City Council of Barcelona with the collaboration of Montana Colors, and is co-funded by the programme Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values of the European Union (CERV).
About the partners
Versembrant is a traveling popular school, a project that aims to raise the critical awareness of young people, through urban art and hip hop. They develop workshops of rap, artistic production, and visual arts on racism, xenophobia, sexism, and now also on memories, aspiring to put aesthetics at the service of criticism.
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