Territórios de Encontros, Práticas Culturais e Artísticas e Reconstruções Identitárias entre os Ciganos Portugueses/Roma em Lisboa

Abstract

This article seeks to broaden the visibility of the artistic and cultural practices of Ciganos/Roma individuals and collectives by mapping key protagonists, trajectories, processes of creation, production and circulation. It stems from the CIGA.A.MÚSICA project, developed within the framework of the BIP/ZIP 2024 Programme: Local Partnerships, promoted by Lisbon City Council, and adopts a reflexive-critical and participatory perspective grounded in Participatory Action Research. The results, still exploratory, point to a growing presence of Ciganos/Roma artists in the public sphere and before diverse audiences, although forms of invisibilisation persist, linked to historical relations of power, processes of racialisation and structural inequalities that continue to shape the lives of Ciganos/Roma people in Portugal.