Eventos

Between September 24th and 26th, 2025, the Center for Afro-Brazilian Arts of the University of São Paulo (NECAAB) will hold the Afro-Brazilian Arts Meetings, with support from the Image and Sound Laboratory in Anthropology of the University of São Paulo (LISA-USP), Postgraduate Program in Social Anthropology (PPGAS-USP), group “Research in Musical Anthropology” (PAM-USP) and Center for Anthropology, Performance and Drama (NAPEDRA-USP).

This year's edition is themed "WITHOUT GROUND, THERE'S NO ANGOLA," and activities include artistic expressions, traditional knowledge, decolonial practices, and ancestral technologies cultivated over nearly three decades at USP. It will be an opportunity to learn from masters and mistresses who are guardians of this knowledge and to discuss the centrality of territory in preserving memory, transmitting knowledge, and strengthening Black struggles. The program will be free and open to the public. Check it out:

Day 24 - Axé, word and presence. The foundation of our culture interpreted by masters
6 PM | Open House!
6:30 PM | Artistic presentation by the Guerreiros de Senzala Capoeira Angola Group
7 PM | Performance: Water Puts Out the Fire, with @aya.danca
7:30 PM | Opening remarks by Mestre Pinguim @pinguindabahia
Discussion circle with capoeira and samba de roda masters
Samba Chula with @mestrazeliadoprato and @mestreaurinodemaracangalha

Day 25 - Images and Experiences
2:30 PM | House Workshop, with @aliwmartins
4 PM | Audiovisual Exhibition "Images and Experiences," moderated by @aline_fatimarte
5:30 PM | Workshop: Artisanal Fabric Printing: Poetics of Ancestry, with @robertosantosarteoficial
7 PM | Performance: The Fire I Give You, Naflá @flaflefli
Open stage!

Day 26: Caruru from Cosme and Damião
10 AM | Open House! Caruru Making
6 PM | Children's Caruru
7 PM | Abassá da Capoeira
Samba Chula with Mestra Zélia do Prato and Mestre Aurino de Maracangalha
9 PM | Closing Show with @aryanimarciano

One of the highlights of the event will be the Audiovisual Exhibition "Images and Experiences," on September 25, 2025, from 4 to 8 p.m. Curated by Aline Fátima and Rose Satiko Gitirana Hikiji, the selected films reveal the power of Afro-Brazilian cultural practices in the production of meaning, the invention of worlds, and the everyday resistance to attempts at erasure, aiming to open a space for the intersection of memory, body, and territory.

PROGRAM FOR THE AUDIOVISUAL EXHIBITION "IMAGES AND EXPERIENCES IN AFRO-BRAZILIAN ARTS"
Curated by: Aline Fátima and Rose Satiko Gitirana Hikiji

Images and Experiences in Afro-Brazilian Arts is an audiovisual installation that is part of the 2025 Afro-Brazilian Arts Meetings program, in partnership with the VIII USP Ecofalante Exhibition and LISA.

In a year marked by institutional challenges involving the historic space of the Afro-Brazilian Arts Center within the University, this edition, themed "No Ground, No Angola," proposes a debate on the centrality of territory in preserving memory, transmitting knowledge, and strengthening Black struggles. This installation aims to open a space for the intersection of memory, body, and territory. The selected films reveal the power of Afro-Brazilian cultural practices in the production of meaning, the invention of worlds, and the everyday resistance to attempts at erasure.

September 25 (Thursday) from 4:00 PM to 8:00 PM

Talk 7:00 PM (Room 1) - Moderator: Aline Fátima

Anyone who wants to see me, come to São Braz tomorrow (2021)
Directed by: Eliany Funari
Running time: 10'14''
Guided by the narratives of master samba dancer Dona Zélia do Prato, the camera allows itself to be guided by the sounds and affections that sustain generations in the Recôncavo Baiano, resonating the fertile ground of ancestry.

Caruru do Núcleo (2024)
Directed by: Aline Fátima
Duration: 15'
The sharing of food becomes a ritual and a pedagogy, a gesture of permanence that reaffirms NECAAB as a space for encounter and community building.

Tabuluja (Wake Up!) (2017)
Directed by: Shambuyi Wetu, Rose Satiko Hikiji, Jasper Chalcraft
Running time: 11'25''
Shambuyi Wetu, an artist from the Democratic Republic of Congo who has taken refuge in São Paulo, uses his performances to create narratives about the diaspora experience and the situation of homme noir (black man) around the world.

Everything has Kusiwa (2016)
Directed by: André Lopes and Dominique Tilkin Gallois
Running time: 25 minutes
The Wajãpi of Amapá have their Kusiwa graphic patterns recognized by IPHAN as intangible cultural heritage of Brazil. In 2015, young Wajãpi researchers decided to share a video of the characteristics of these marks and their owners, the care and effects of their use, and their concerns about the practice of these paintings in new generations.

Montando a Baiana (2024)
Directed by: Aurélio Prates and Kelwin Marques
Running time: 12'32''
In the royal processions of the Maracatu Nations, in the mid-20th century, the figure of the Baiana began to be occupied by transvestites, chickens, and other bodies for which femininity was not assumed.

The Signs Are Invisible (2024)
Directed by: Gabrielle Ferreira
Running time: 24 minutes
Five Black students reveal what it's like to be inside the University of São Paulo, one of the most elite institutions in the country, in 2015, at a time when the pro-quota movement was at its height. (VIII USP Ecofalante Exhibition)

Adó, Master of Sounds (2025)
Directed by: Jorge Vasconcelos (Lampa)
Running time: 33'
Delves into the rich history of Ediney de Sena, known as Mestre Adó, an emblematic figure of capoeira angola in Santo Amaro, in the Recôncavo region of Bahia. Among his many skills and abilities, his mastery of sounds and musicality occupies a prominent place.

CURATORIAL TEXT
by Aline Fátima

Images and Experiences in Afro-Brazilian Arts is an audiovisual installation that is part of the 2025 Afro-Brazilian Arts Meetings, held biannually by the USP Center for Afro-Brazilian Arts. The films screened are curated in partnership with the VIII Mostra USP Ecofalante and LISA.

Aiming to open a space for the intersection of memory, body, and territory, the selected films reveal the power of Afro-Brazilian cultural practices in the production of meaning, the invention of worlds, and the everyday resistance to attempts at erasure.

Each work presents a unique entry into this field of disputes and celebrations. In "Quem quer me ver vai lá em São Braz amanhã," guided by the narratives of samba master Dona Zélia do Prato, the camera allows itself to be guided by the sounds and affections that sustain generations in the Recôncavo Baiano, resonating the fertile ground of ancestry. In "Caruru do Núcleo," the sharing of food becomes a rite and pedagogy, a gesture of permanence that reaffirms NECAAB as a space for encounter and community building.

Transnational shifts and dialogues emerge in Tabuluja (Wake Up!), where bodies, performances, and voices cross borders, revealing the power of connections between Africa and the diaspora. Montando a Baiana (Mounting the Baiana) inscribes, in clothing and ornamentation, the symbolic force that guards collective memories and ways of existing that challenge cultural homogenization.

The gesture of writing, painting, and marking is revealed in "Tudo tem Kusiwa," in which the knowledge of Indigenous peoples asserts its cosmology in line and aesthetics, reminding us of the plurality of matrices that make up the Brazilian experience. The signs are invisible, highlighting the struggle for space in public universities, which becomes truly fertile when permeated by Black and peripheral experiences. In "Adó, Mestre dos Sons," the power of musicality and sonority reaffirms the centrality of masters and mistresses as pillars of continuity in Afro-Brazilian popular culture.

We invite you to a meeting with Prof. Dr. Marco Antônio Gonçalves on September 02, 2025, at 3:00 p.m., in the auditorium of the Image and Sound Laboratory in Anthropology (LISA-USP).

The event "Glances, Imaginaries, and (m)Flames: Weaving Anthropologies in Times of Crisis" proposes a reflection on the contemporary challenges of anthropology and on how images, cinema, and other visual/expressive practices can inspire new languages, worlds, and methodologies in the face of current climatic, social, and political emergencies.

Marco Antônio Gonçalves is a Full Professor of Anthropology at the Department of Cultural Anthropology of the Institute of Philosophy and Social Sciences of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (IFCS-UFRJ) and at the Graduate Program in Ethnography and Cultural Criticism at UFRJ. Since 1998 he has worked as a Researcher at the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq), Research Productivity. He is a Scientist of Our State, a program linked to the Carlos Chagas Filho Foundation for Research Support of the State of Rio de Janeiro (FAPERJ). Master's and PhD in Social Anthropology from the Postgraduate Program of the National Museum, at UFRJ. His research focuses on Visual Anthropology, Anthropology and Cinema, Cosmology, Creation of Cultural Worlds, Indigenous Ethnology, Narratives and Subjectivities. He completed his postdoctoral studies at the University of St Andrews (Scotland) between 1996 and 1997, under the supervision of Joanna Overing. He was a Visiting Scholar Senior, with a Grant from the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (Capes), at New York University (USA), between 2015 and 2016, supervised by Faye Ginsburg. He did a Senior Internship with a CNPq Grant at New York University, in 2018, supervised by Faye Ginsburg. He was a Visiting Professor at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium), in 1998 and 2005, and at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain) in 2000; Guest Researcher at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (France), in 2006, 2010 and 2011, collaborating with Carlo Severi, Phillipe Descola and Anne-Christine Taylor. He did his Post-Doctorate at the Sorbonne Letttres (France), between 2021 and 2022; Guest Researcher at the Université Paris Nanterre (France), at the Laboratoire d’ethnologie et de sociologie comparative (EREA-LESC), between January and February 2024.

Over the past three years (2023–2025), Marco Antônio Gonçalves has taught open courses at the Cinematheque of the Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janeiro (MAM Rio), addressing themes such as “Alterities/Alterations”, “Cinema to Postpone the End of the World: Imaginaries, Re-existences, Transformations” and “Cosmopoetics of Disobedience”. These experiences will be evoked in this discussion.

Online broadcast link: https://youtube.com/live/NsafnnqFpNg?feature=share

• The event will take place at Rua do Anfiteatro, nº 181, favo/sala 10, Cidade Universitária, SP
• Free entry, subject to space limitations
• No registrations
• There will be a certificate of participation

LISA-USP is pleased to invite you to the AntropoCena screening of Adó, Mestre dos Sons (Adó, Master of Sounds), directed by Jorge Lampa Vasconcelos. Vasconcelos will be present to discuss his work. Rose Satiko Gitirana Hikiji will moderate the discussion.

Vasconcelos is a musician, singer, cantador, singer-songwriter, and guitarist. He is also an adjunct professor of popular music at the Center for Culture, Languages, and Applied Technologies at the Federal University of Recôncavo da Bahia (CECULT-UFRB). He has a solid academic background: he received a bachelor's degree in Popular Music in 1993, a master's degree in Arts in 2002, a doctorate in Music from the State University of Campinas (Unicamp) in 2010, and a postdoctorate in Social Anthropology from the University of São Paulo (USP) in 2020. Vasconcelos is the coordinator of the Clube da Canção extension project and is a member of the research groups Memory, Space, and Cultures at UFRB (MESCLAS), Research in Musical Anthropology at USP (PAM), and Diaspora at the State University of Feira de Santana (UEFS). His artistic career is marked by performances with Teatro a Bordo, Matulão do Lua, Forró do Viajante (SP), and Solo (BA), among others.

In 2025, he directed the film Adó: Mestre dos Sons (Adó: Master of Sounds), which delves into the rich life of Ediney de Sena, also known as Mestre Adó. He is an iconic figure of capoeira Angola in Santo Amaro, in the Recôncavo region of Bahia. His mastery of sounds and musicality is among his many skills and abilities. In his territory, which is steeped in the ancestry of Afro-diasporic cultures, he is the oldest active master and has traveled extensively. The result of years of research, experiences with the master and his Angola Cativeiro Cultural Group, and postdoctoral studies at the Department of Anthropology at USP under the supervision of Rose Satiko Gitirana Hikiji, this 33-minute film is a testament to Mestre Adó's legacy.

AntropoCena is an initiative of LISA and aims to bring to the public the audiovisual production carried out by researchers from USP, through screenings and debates.

• The event will take place at Rua do Anfiteatro, nº 181, favo/sala 10, Cidade Universitária, SP
• Free entry, subject to space limitations
• No registrations

The Jaime Cortesão Chair invites you to the event “ÒMÌNIRA - Disputes and achievements for the black presence in history”, from May 12 to 15, 2025, at the Milton Santos Auditorium (Geography and History Building | FFLCH-USP). The objective is to discuss topics related to anti-racist struggles, the black presence in history and forms of resistance within the university.

The Image and Sound Laboratory in Anthropology (LISA-USP) will be represented by Rose Satiko Gitirana Hikiji at the panel “The tone of music: harmony and dissonance”, on Thursday, May 15, 2025, at 7 pm.

Check out the full event schedule on the website: https://cjc.fflch.usp.br/eventos

Registration is now open for the extension course, promoted by LISA-USP, "The path to Alabê: rhythms of the orixás and Brazilian music", coordinated by Profa Rose Satiko and taught by Vitor Israel Trindade de Souza and Elis Sibere dos Santos Monte Trindade de Souza. 

The course addresses the rhythms of the Orixás, with their dances and musical manifestations, including their influence on Brazilian Music. The motto and reference will be the instrumentalists/priests of the Orixás, fundamental in Brazilian musicality. The dialogues offered in these meetings are based on the self-taught methodology of the Solano Trindade Family, with the fusion between theory and practice, and the proposal of movement, sound and well-being as epistemology. It will be offered from 12/09 to 14/11/2024 , from 2pm to 5pm, in the LISA-USP auditorium. 

More information and registration, visit the website: https://sce.fflch.usp.br/node/5676

Launch of the film “Jijet: How we study our corners”

Wednesday, 05/15/2024, 5pm
LISA Auditorium - Laboratory of Image and Sound in Anthropology. Rua do Anfiteatro, 181, Favo 10, USP.

Synopsis:
Tekaru is a young zo’é participating in collaborative research in the context of the activities of the Iepé Institute’s Zo’é Program. He recorded and transcribed a series of songs and dedicated himself to studying them in dialogue with other young people and with his grandfather Kwa’i, explaining them carefully to anthropologist partners. The film follows this research, which involves recording, transcription and exegesis. It also addresses a fundamental stage of study that takes place “inside your chest”, when you walk alone through the woods. While we study, we must remember: never repeat a song.

After the session, a debate will take place with the presence of Zo’é leaders and the film’s directors.

Event held: CEstA (Center for Amerindian Studies), LISA (Laboratory of Image and Sound in Anthropology) and PAM - Research in Musical Anthropology.

Direction of the film: Iepé Institute, Cuminapanema Ethno-environmental Protection Front and Tekohara Zo’é Organization.

Duration: 30 minutes.

Technical sheet
Direction and Screenplay: Hugo Prudente and Lia Malcher
Coordination: Dominique Tilkin Gallois
Search: Tekaru; Kubi’euhu; Kwa’i, Kubi’e Jawaret, Hugo Prudente and Lia Malcher.
Cinematography and editing: Lia Malcher
Camera assistant: Kubi’e Jawaret
Subtitles: Hugo Prudente, Tekaru and Ke’i apo
Production: Ant de Fogo Filmes
Carried out by: Iepé - Institute for Indigenous Research and Training; FPE-CPM/FUNAI - Cuminapanema Ethno-environmental Protection Front; Tekohara Zo’é Organization.
Support: Rainforest Foundation Norway; Nia Tero.
Duration: 30 minutes

The film “São Palco - Cidade Afropolitana” will be shown on 10/05 at the Quilombo Urbano Aparelha Luzia. The free event will start at 8:30 pm and feature a debate with the protagonists and directors after the screening.

Synopsis of the film:
What do African artists who arrived in Brazil in recent years carry with them on their journey? How do the African diasporas dialogue—the new creative diaspora and the one that turned the Atlantic into a cemetery? What stages are occupied, built, and filled with the performances of artists who cross the ocean? Ancestry is updated in performances that construct an Afropolitan present in a metropolis where it is necessary to be bold, to color the gray. São Palco – Cidade Afropolitana presents the city of São Paulo as a meta-stage occupied by artists from Togo, Mozambique, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Angola, among other African nations, in dialogue with the Brazilian population and its openings, contradictions and tensions.

On April 25th, the film "São Palco - Cidade Afropolitana", by Jasper Chalcraft and Rose Satiko Gitirana Hikiji, will be shown at the Maria Antonia University Center. The exhibition is part of the second NauCine meeting, a partnership between the MariAntonia Center and the Urban Anthropology Center (NauCidades) of the Faculty of Philosophy, Letters and Human Sciences (FFLCH) at USP, that aim to celebrate the 36 years of existence of the laboratory of the USP Urban Anthropology Center (LabNAU). The event will take place in the Carlos Reichenbach room in the Rui Barbosa building.

Schedule:

4:30 pm – Presentation of guests

5 pm - Screening of the film followed by a debate with directors, researchers and guests

Synopsis of the film:

What do African artists who arrive in Brazil in recent years carry with them on their journey? São Paulo is the stage for a creative diaspora that builds an Afropolitan present in dialogue with a country marked by openings, contradictions and tensions.

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