Creativity as Resistance
Our second gathering, Creativity as Resistance, explores the idea that to create is to resist to dream beyond what confines us, to rebuild from what’s been lost, to celebrate resilience and renewal, and to imagine what comes next.
This event brings together women whose practices span textile design, journalism, film, photography, and food each using creativity as a tool for connection, healing, and transformation. Though their roots reach to Cordova, Bangladesh, Iran, India, Cameroon, and Palestine, they all call Barcelona home. Their stories reflect the many ways imagination becomes action through storytelling, craft, community, and care.
Join us for an evening of conversation, poetry and shared food from Gazzawi Cuisine BCN a Palestinian kitchen led by women refugees who have rebuilt their lives in Barcelona.
Wednesday, 29 October
El Cinc at Sala Apolo 19h
10€ entry – tickets here https://www.sala-apolo.com/es/evento/melam-creatividad-como-resistencia-6812
Panel & Performances featuring:
Mallika Chaudhuri — Founder of @indoi, exploring craft, heritage and sustainable design through textiles.
Agnes Esseonti – @essonti — Visual artist and curator whose work explores identity, memory and belonging through an Afrofeminist and decolonial lens.
Deepa Parent @deepa_emme — Journalist and writer (The Guardian, La Vanguardia), documenting stories of courage, gender and resistance.
Paroma Basu @paromabasu — Documentary photographer and photojournalist drawn to stories exploring the connections between people, nature and cultural tradition.
Food by @gazzawi.cuisine a Palestinian kitchen led by Asma and her family, who fled genocide and are rebuilding their lives in Barcelona. Each dish carries memory, culture and hope.
Also featuring:
Spoken word performance
DJs & networking
Join us for an evening of conversation, poetry and shared food, where creativity becomes a living act of resistance.
Melam is a cultural collective founded by two Barcelona based creatives Sejal Parekh, a British-Indian interdisciplinary artist, and Davina Rajoopillai, a British-Sri Lankan cultural consultant and creative producer.
Together, they create spaces that bring storytellers, artists and makers from Cataluyna, across disciplines and diasporas to celebrate heritage, dialogue and collective imagination.