Festival Latinidades arrives in São Paulo this week

After passing through Brasília and Rio de Janeiro, the Festival Latinidades arrives in São Paulo this week. Created in 2008, the event is considered the largest black women’s festival in Latin America, promoting a space for political and cultural articulation around July 25, International Day of Latin American and Caribbean Black Women. In São Paulo, the Festival Latinidades runs from Friday (21st) to Sunday (23rd), at the São Paulo Cultural Center (CCSP) and at the Favelas Museum. With a multilingual program, which involves workshops, lectures, debates, business circles and music, this year’s festival explores Good Living as its theme, a concept that finds resonance in the ways of life of forest peoples and traditional peoples of Latin America and that reverses the current logic of functioning of the world and economies, giving way to care for people and the environment, rather than the pursuit of profit and development at all costs. Attractions In the first two days of the event, attractions will be at the Centro Cultural São Paulo, next to the Vergueiro subway station. On Friday, the program begins at 2 pm, in Sala Jardel Filho, with a tribute to the writer, researcher and intellectual Helena Theodoro, a great reference in research on black culture, carnival, samba and art, African and Afro-Brazilian religious experiences and racial relations. There will be a presentation by the Mocidade Unida da Mooca Samba School, which will show its samba-plot for next year’s Carnival: Oyá Helena. A little later, at 4 pm, in the same place, the panel Building a culture of well-being among black and indigenous women begins. On the same day, also starting at 2 pm, the Espaço Ilera Latinidades takes place, a novelty for this year’s edition. Ilera is an organization focused on culture, health and ancestry and will promote a series of experiences, among them, one of popular culture for children. On Saturday, at 2 pm, the artist and Mexican senator Susana Harp will give a lecture on the topic Collective Law in the Law on the Cultural Heritage of Indigenous and Afro-Mexican Peoples and Communities. At 3 pm, the Decolonial Pedagogies take place. Still on Saturday, there will be a traditional Haitian dance workshop and also experiences at the Espaço Ilera de Bem-Estar. Also part of the program is Feira Preta Latinidades, which takes place on Friday and Saturday, from 2 pm to 8 pm, at Centro Cultural São Paulo. On both days, concerts are also planned at the Centro Cultural São Paulo. Saturday’s highlights will be the singers Ellen Oléria and Zezé Motta. On Sunday, the program changes its environment and will be entirely at the Favelas Museum. From 10 am, the State Forum of the National Front of Hip Hop Women will take place. To close the event, a performance by Katú Mirim is scheduled, starting at 5 pm. The complete program of the festival in São Paulo, in addition to the distribution of tickets, can be checked on the website of the event in São Paulo. After São Paulo, the Latinidades festival goes to Salvador, with attractions from the 29th to the 30th of this month. Empresa Brasil de Comunicação (EBC) supports the 2023 edition of Festival Latinidades.

Agência Brasil