Every month, CinéMansA offers a film program dedicated to African and Afro-diasporic cinema, including fiction, documentaries, classics, and contemporary works. The program explores the diversity of narratives, forms, and aesthetics while questioning cultural and social imaginaries.
Designed as a space for discovery and collective reflection, CinéMansA combines screenings with opportunities to engage with filmmakers, critics, researchers, and artists, offering chances to extend the conversation beyond the screen.
Audiences are invited to experience cinema as a shared experience, where the screening becomes a moment of dialogue, learning, and encounter.
Bande sonore is a series of collective listening sessions dedicated to Afro-diasporic music, viewed as spaces for memory, transmission, and connection. Each session highlights a particular genre, artistic trajectory, or cultural context.
The program offers an experience structured around attentive listening, storytelling, and exchange. Music becomes an anchor for telling stories, evoking places, and questioning cultural exchanges.
Participants experience these encounters as moments suspended in time, where collective listening encourages the sharing of emotions, memories, and knowledge.
N.A.R.D.A.L. is a program of reflection and creation inspired by the intellectual and political legacy of the Nardal sisters. It offers cycles entrusted to guest women, who explore themes related to Afro-descendant dynamics.
Through discussions, readings, performances, and encounters, the program creates a space where critical thinking, personal narratives, and artistic creation come together. Each cycle asserts a unique voice while remaining part of a collective history.
Audiences are invited to participate in moments of sharing where speaking, listening, and transmission play a central role.
En résonance is an event where literature, performance, music, and dialogue intersect. The program offers hybrid forms that explore Afro-descendant identities, memories, and heritage.
Each event is designed to be an immersive experience, combining readings, artistic performances, and discussions with the audience. En résonance favors sensory formats, where words, sounds, and bodies interact.
Audiences are invited to experience these moments as spaces for collective resonance, combining attentive listening, emotion, and shared reflection.
Hors-champ is a series of meetings devoted to the blind spots in news coverage of the African and Afro-diasporic worlds. Each meeting takes a current event as its starting point to examine what remains outside the frame: invisible subjects, underrepresented narratives, and complex realities that are rarely or poorly covered in the media.
Drawing on research in the humanities and social sciences, journalism, and knowledge from civil society, Hors-champ offers rigorous and accessible insights. The phenomena addressed are recontextualized, explained, and put into perspective using data, archives, and analysis to shed light on the social, political, and geopolitical issues they reveal.
Designed as a space for collective transmission and discussion, Hors-champ invites the public to take a critical look at information, to shift their perceptions, and to better understand the contemporary dynamics of the African world, based on their own roots.
Palabres is a program dedicated to shared speech and oral transmission. Inspired by traditions of discussion and storytelling, it creates spaces where collective thought can unfold.
Through storytelling, discussions, and encounters, Palabres promotes speech as a tool for connection, memory, and reflection. The program explores narratives from African and Afro-diasporic cultures, with an emphasis on listening and dialogue.
The audience participates in open discussions, where everyone is invited to listen, share stories, and reflect together.
Veillée sonore offers opportunities to come together around Afro-diasporic music, combining traditional and contemporary creations. The program is based on a philosophy of sharing and transmission through sound.
These evenings are designed as collective experiences, where listening, presence, and connection take center stage. Music becomes a vehicle for memory, social connection, and shared emotion.
Audiences are invited to experience these evenings as moments of conviviality and collective attention, conducive to exchange and encounter.
Trajectories explores Afro-diasporic narratives through journeys, geographies, and experiences that are often overlooked. The program focuses on stories in motion and cultural exchanges.
Through a combination of screenings, meetings, and discussions, Trajectories offers spaces for reflection on identities, migration, and heritage. It highlights unique stories while placing them within broader contexts.
The public is invited to discover these multiple trajectories and engage in collective reflection on contemporary narratives.
The MansA Book Club is a monthly event dedicated to promoting and discovering authors from the African world, whether they are emerging or established, and writing in French or other languages.
Literature, poetry, essays, comic books... Based on their latest literary works or older pieces, and in conversation with a journalist or literary critic, authors share their journeys, their writing processes, and their favorite themes.
The goal is simple: to welcome authors to Paris who are rarely heard in France, and to offer them a space and an audience to present their work and their literary news.
Every month, MansA invites you to a group podcast listening session. Spend an hour discovering documentaries or audio dramas—intimate, literary, or political stories—from Africa and its diasporas. Each session is also an opportunity to go behind the scenes of audio creation through discussions with authors and production teams.
Reboot explores digital and interactive cultures through formats that combine artistic creation, technology, and new narratives. The program focuses in particular on the cultural uses of video games and emerging narrative forms.
Through encounters, performances, and experiments, Reboot questions the place of digital technology in contemporary imaginations, in relation to the African and Afro-diasporic worlds. It opens up spaces for reflection on the practices, aesthetics, and narratives produced by these technologies.
The public is invited to discover, experiment with, and discuss these forms in a setting that encourages curiosity and exchange.
MansA Heritage is a program dedicated to the memories, stories, and living heritage of cultures of African descent. It highlights cultural legacies through events combining music, performance, archives, and historical transmission.
The program explores how these legacies continue to shape the present, creating bridges between history, contemporary creation, and cultural practices. MansA Heritage pays particular attention to popular forms, embodied narratives, and collective memories.
The public is invited to discover, listen to, and share this heritage during events designed as spaces for celebration and transmission.
The Banque d'archives populaires (Popular Archives Bank) is a project dedicated to preserving and passing on personal stories that make up a collective memory of African migration and its legacy. Photographs, family films, letters, and testimonies become archives in their own right, carrying stories that are often absent from official accounts.
The program explores ways of collecting, preserving, and sharing these materials, combining artistic approaches, research, and public participation. It connects personal stories with social history, promoting forms of living memory.
Participants are invited to contribute to, consult, and activate these archives during public events, kiosks, or other occasions designed as spaces for transmission and dialogue.
