SHAP SHAP is a non-profit organisation created in 2015 in Geneva to fight against global inequality and racial and gender-based discrimination through cultural projects. Active in diverse sectors such as culture, equality, diversity and international solidarity, SHAP SHAP is an independent structure creating synergies between these domains to contribute to a better world.
SHAP SHAP collaborates with artists and scholars from Geneva and many countries in Africa and Latin America to offer a hybrid form of creative, diffusion, research and exchange activities under multiple formats such as performances, concerts, DJ sets, street art, public meetings, publications, studies, roundtables, residencies.
These activities aim to:
– Reinforce the artistic, social, political and economic status of artists from the global South[1], outside of formal networks and/or from minority groups [2], and support them to produce work and emerge on local and international scenes;
– Fight against gender-based inequality, racial discrimination and social and economic injustice in the cultural sector and advocate for equal opportunities for all;
– Reach out to the greater public and public institutions with inequality and discrimination issues;
– Foster exchanges and dialogue.
[1] Artists from Africa, South America, and their diasporas
[2] A person or group that is subjected to unequal treatment and discrimination because of their difference from the dominant group.
TEAM
Board (Artistic direction, strategy and research)
NATALIA COMANDARI (AKA ANITA KIRPPIS) Artist
JAMAL NXEDLANA Artist, cofounder of Bugglegum Club
MICHAELA BÜSCHI PHD in development, cofounder of Voisins Coworking
SARAH CAMARA Director of Institut français St Louis Senegal
Members of the association
COLIN DELLEY
MARIAME ABDOU
Executive direction
MÉLANIE ROUQUIER (Founder) Direction
SHALANDA PHILIP Cultural mediation, production
ROSINE BEY Production
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SHAP SHAP is a non profit organisation. All funds are driven to support our mission and the making of the projects.
Association Shap Shap
Postfinance
IBAN CH15 0900 0000 1471 2181 3
BIC POFICHBEXXX
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