Mireia Estrada Gelabert

• jiwarbarcelona.com
• @Iots8

Mireia Estrada Gelabert is a cultural manager and curator of artistic projects related to immigration, interculturality and social integration in Catalonia, Spain and Morocco. In 2011 she founded Jiwar Creation and Society, an association that for 8 years offered residencies for artists from all over the world and worked to extend the creative dynamics of the residency by looking for spaces of deliberation and dialogue. She studied in Barcelona, France and Quebec, where she did a Masters degree in French-speaking African literature. From 2005 to 2019 she developed a series of teaching resources for schools in Girona related to the challenges of interculturality. She is a member of the Advisory Council of the Teatre Lliure in Barcelona. She currently combines her work in cultural management with teaching in secondary schools.