Métisse à Nantes

President / Director: 
Nicolas Chéri-Zécoté
Address: 
7 bis rue Jacques Cartier
44300 Nantes
France
Telephone: 
International: +33 2 40 94 58 39; National: 02 40 94 58 39
Registration date: 
Wednesday, February 27, 2002
Registration details: 

Registration details can be found in the Journal Officiel.

Status: 
Ongoing
Type: 
Ancestral
Antillean focus
Commemorative
Community/social
Defence of Citizen Rights
Indian Ocean focus
Pan-African focused
Scope: 
Regional/local: A smaller organization or association focused on local/regional activities.
Historical overview: 

Métisse à Nantes was initially the Association Culturelle Antilles Afrique Guyane Réunion (ACAGR), created in 1993 in order to manage the folk group Malanga. In February 2002, the ACAGR took the name of Métisse à Nantes.

Métisse à Nantes offers workshops and an exhibition space, organises round tables and conferences, themed activities and an annual festival.

Under the aegis of the association Les Anneaux de la Fraternité and with the support of the city of Nantes, Métisse à Nantes launched the first traveling museum on the subject of slavery and the slave trade "La Coque Nomade” (the Nomad Hull) later renamed La Fraternité - Le Bateau pédagogique (the Brotherhood - the Pedagogical Boat), a replica of l’Aurore, a slave ship from the eighteenth century.

Summary of objectives: 
  • To promote diversity of generations and communities, to fight against exclusion, improve social cohesion, act and mobilise so that everyone finds their place in Nantes’ northern districts
  • To improve the reception of immigrants
  • To encourage a greater associative dynamism in the implementation of joint projects
  • To encourage the sharing of knowledge and the teaching of various cultural characteristics (arts, languages, sports…)
Links to other associations: 
Keywords: 
African culture
African roots
Anti-discrimination
Anti-racism
Caribbean identity
Commemoration
Defence of citizen rights
Réunion
Slave ancestry