In partnership with Pathé cinemas in Nice and the Label’Karaïb association, the city of Nice offers a “citizen session for equality” on Thursday 11 May at 1:45 p.m., at the Gare du Sud. Around the viewing of the horror film “Antebellum”, the spectators are invited to wonder around the slave trade and slavery.
The national day of memories of the slave trade, slavery and their abolition takes place on May 10, every year since 2006, in metropolitan France. This date commemorates the adoption in 2001 of the Taubira law. “Concerned with the duty of memory and education for equality”, Nice has chosen to approach this day with a cinema-debate. An active, committed and participatory way of‘honorary and of wonder around the suffering inflicted by slavery. It is also time to mention its various abolitions in human history and on a global scale.
The medium of reflection of the day is the anti-racist thriller entitled Before war. Made by Americans Gerard Bush and Christopher Renzit will be released in theaters in 2020. It then resonates particularly with the news after the death of George Floyd and the demonstrations Black lives matter against racism and police violence around the world. Veronica Henley, best-selling author, played by the actress and singer Janelle Monáe, finds herself trapped in a dreadful world. To escape it, she must unravel its mysteries. It is then that she will have to face her past, her present and her future.
Tales and conferences
The film is screened at 2 p.m. at the Pathé Gare du Sud cinema. The broadcast will be preceded by an artistic introduction by the African storyteller Modibo. This is why the public is expected from 13h15. Director of Cinemas Pathé, Savanna Samokineas well as Maty Diouf, deputy delegate for the fight against discrimination, women’s rights, humanitarian actions will welcome the public. A representative of the Rectorate of Nice will also be present.
Two conferences follow the screening. Jean-Marc Giaume, assistant to Christian Estrosi, delegate for Scientific Culture and the Natural History Museum, leads a sequence at 4 p.m. entitled: « The meeting between Aimé Césaire and Léopold Sédar Senghor, at the origin of the recognition of a cultural identity”.
Then, at 4:30 p.m., it’s the turn ofArnaud Bartolomei, lecturer in modern and contemporary history at the Université Côte d’Azur to intervene. It is in three stages that he proposes to return to the slave trade and slavery, from history to memory. It starts with The history of the Atlantic slave trade and the slave system, to then talk Racism, discrimination and social inequalities: the contemporary legacy of the slave system. To conclude, he chose to ask about the memorial issues of the slave trade and slavery for today’s societies.
2023-05-10 18:13:20
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