LISA expresses support for the USP Afro-Brazilian Arts Center

The Image and Sound Laboratory in Anthropology of the University of São Paulo (LISA-USP) recognizes the importance of the activities developed by the Center for Extension and Culture in Afro-Brazilian Arts of USP (NECAAB - Resolution DOE 10/31/2007), which has been promoting research, teaching, culture and extension activities at USP for 28 years and enriching university education through Afro-Brazilian cultural heritage. Its activities present an innovative curricular proposal for the university, which should be valued and enhanced through dialogue with the members of NECAAB and the university community as a whole. To this end, the continuity of its activities and its space is essential.

Given the imposition of a renovation of the headquarters of the Center for Afro-Brazilian Arts, located in Block 28, by the Polytechnic School of USP, for partial occupation of the warehouse by this institution, LISA-USP expresses its support for the Center for Afro-Brazilian Arts to have the current space of its headquarters fully maintained for its use and for its activities to be preserved.

We request that the Polytechnic School reconcile its institutional needs with the maintenance of this important space for the promotion of knowledge, culture and Afro-Brazilian education, which also means defending the right to black history and memory at USP.
 

Photographic records of the visit of Silvana de Souza Nascimento, vice-director of FFLCH, and Rose Satiko, coordinator of LISA and NECAAB, to the nucleus' headquarters, on 04/01/2025.