actions on the territory
Transmitting and promoting history
The association works on cross-cultural projects in connection with a large number of actors, always with the aim of transmitting and promoting knowledge and heritage.
Actions in progress
MANIFEST | EUROPEAN PROJECT
European project | History | Art | Digital
2022-2024
« MANIFEST - New Artistic Perspectives on the Memories of the Transatlantic Slave Trade » is a project with a strong artistic dimension with the selection of 24 to 36 European artists, two residencies (Budapest and Lisbon), workshops (Copenhagen) and a final event (Nantes). An interactive platform will be created on the history of the Atlantic trade of enslaved peoples and its legacies in Europe. The project aims to contribute to a better knowledge of the history and memories of the role of Europe in the trade of enslaved peoples, by highlighting the links and socio-cultural impacts in contemporary Europe
Tan fè tan, tan kité tan
Photographic Exhibition| History | Heritage| Memories
May 2023, Nantes
The photographer and artist Sylvain Demange has been traveling for many years in the West Indies and particularly in Martinique. In 2023, he will present a new exhibition in Nantes, composed of photographs of Martinique, Guadeloupe and Nantes. A dialogue out of time through portraits, photographs of places, with comments by the researchers Aimé-Charles Nicolas and Myriam Cottias. An exhibition where the place of the unconscious transmission is questioned.
In partnership with the association Mémoire de l'Outre-Mer (Nantes)
actions on the territory
international symposium | 30 years of the association
Remembrance Month | History
FRANCE (NANTES) | 2022
On the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the founding exhibition, the Anneaux de la Mémoire and the CRHIA of Nantes University proposed an international colloquium in May 2022: "ESCLAVAGES, des traites aux émancipations, trente ans de recherche historique" (Slavery, from the trade of enslaved peoples to emancipation, thirty years of historical research), as well as an artistic and cultural program
Loire of lights program
Culture and heritage
FRANCE | 2014-2022
Started in 2013, the Loire des Lumières program reaffirms the local focus of the Anneaux de la Mémoire. The aim is to develop the heritage and memories of the history of the Loire over several years through cultural and heritage projects.
memories released
International project
ANTIGUA, CAMEROON, UNITED STATES, FRANCE, HAITI, SENEGAL| 2015-2018
Begun in 2015, « Mémoires Libérées » aims to enhance sites related to the memory of the trade of enslaved peoples and slavery. By collaborating with partners in each country, this program aims to create links and synergies at the local and international level.
Poetry and heritage
Photography and poetry
NANTES | 2016
In partnership with the poetry slam association « Les Lapins à Plumes », we offered young people aged 15 to 30 photo and slam writing workshops on the history of the slave trade in Nantes. A will to appropriate history through artistic practice