Registration details can be found in the Journal Officiel.
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.
- 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…)