with different local partners and associations presents
The project, to explore the culture of the native Brazilian Indians whose existence is threatened, will be presented in March 2018 during
the “International Weeks against Racism”
Seminars, Films, Conferences, Audio-visual presentations, Photo ExShibition, Sharing of Experiences, Dance, Song, Body Painting
ARMANDO SAMPAIO LACERDA: Director “Juruna”
DIOGO AMHO JURUNA: Son of Mario Juruna, Xavantes Tribe
SHIRLEY DJUKURNA: Krenak tribe, Cultural Ambassador
Dr. WOLFGANG KAPFHAMMER: Anthropologist and Ethnologist
PATRIZIA GIANCOTTI: Anthropologist and Photographer
Dr. CARLOS ANTONIO SOARES: Rainforest Expert
Speaker from SURVIVAL INTERNATIONAL
Our traveling exhibition wants to celebrate cultural diversity. We want to offer to schools and to a
broader public the possibility to personally get to know Amazonia, an Unesco world heritage site with
the greatest biodiversity on our planet.
You can directly experience this through pictures, videos, films, seminars, photo exhibits and cartoons,
story telling, and through the presence of important native masters.
©Renato Soares
The Amazon awakens in us the primal notion that there is a world that is „still untouched as in the morning of creation“. However, the land, the indigenous people and their knowledge are under threat of extinction. We want to celebrate their existence by exploring the cultural and natural heritage of this
region that has the greatest biodiversity in the world: through film, audio-visual presentations, workshops, seminars, photographic exhibitions and exchange of experiences – all in the presence of natives from the Xavante and Krenak tribes.
At the core of the project is the ancient knowledge of the “earthly guardians”.
We want to raise awareness of their cultural heritage, but also the problems that affect this often forgotten part of the planet.
Through various mediums, the public will become acquainted with an extraordinary ecosystem in which man lives in a sort of mystic union with fauna and flora. We will explore the symbiotic relationship with nature, while showing how traditions are passed on through song, dance, religious beliefs and healing with the pharmacopoeia of the rain forest.
Sounds and pictures of the Amazon
Patrizia Giancotti is a lecturer in anthropology at the University of S. Freud in Milan. She is a photographer, writer, author and host of programs for RAI, the Italian National Radio. She lived for over 10 years in Brazil and spent a great deal of time in the regions of Mato Grosso, Rio Grande do Norte, Bahia, Roraime, Amazonia and Acre, together with the indigenous inhabitants of Pataxo, Xavante, Yanomani and Kaipò.
Director of the Documentary Film “Juruna, o Espirito da floresta” (“Juruna, Spirit of the Forest”).
Armando Lacerda has directed over 15 documentaries. Many have received awards, including „A Guerra do Contestado“ (Director/Producer, 1999, for Camara TV; „Campanula de Prata“ at the 8th Festival del Cinema Ambientale di Seia in Portugal).
As a journalist and documentary filmmaker since 1973 at the University of Brasilia, Lacerda has decided to pursue specific policy of social issues.
This is why he made his first full-length film, “Juruna, Spirt of the Forest”, which is about Brazil and its native inhabitants. Civil values and human principles are at the core.
Among his films are:
· ArraesTaí (co-Director,1979)
· TaguatingaemPé de Guerra (Director, 1980)
· O SonhonãoAcabou, di SérgioRezende (Assistant to the Director, 1982)
· O EvangelhoSegundoTeotônio, di Vladimir Carvalho (Producer, 1986)
· Janela para osPireneus (Director and Producer, 1996)
· A Guerra do Contestado (Director and Producer, 1999, TV Câmara)
· ThomazFarkas (Director and Producer, 2000, TV Câmara)
During the discussion, the son of Mario Jurunas, the protagonist of the film, will be available for questions.
Mario Juruna, the startling voice of the indigenous peoples, has denounced the genocide and indifference of those responsible for threatening these cultures.
Film "JURURA, O ESPIRITO DA FLORESTA"
The film tells the story of Mario Juruna, the only Indio who had a seat in the Brazilian Parliament. His son Diogo Amhó searches for relatives of his father, and with their help, they create a stunning picture of the drama within this complex world of the indigenous peoples. Juruna serves as an example for the
whole range of resistance and survival that indigenous societies face in the advance of so-called civilization.
Encounters and seminars on the Krenak tribe, their history and stories of today, through music, songs,
dance, painting and religion.
Shirley is leader of the Krenaks, a tribe mistakenly declared extinct in the 19th century. She is a descendant of one of the great chiefs, who led his people with great courage and a strong value system.
Shirley is a teacher and talented storyteller, who shows us important life lessons through the myths and legends of her people. She tells us the meanings and techniques of body painting, ritual dances, songs and customs of the Krenak people, who call for solidarity and inclusiveness of all people.
For years, this charismatic and courageous woman has been working to spread the culture of her people and many others affected by the ecological disaster of a dam break at the Rio Doc (caused by lack of maintenance of the Vale mining company.
Film „Guerra sem fim“ - 60 Minuten
Wolfgang Kapfhammer is an anthropologist in the Cultural and Social Anthropology section of the Department for Comparative Cultural Research at Marburg University. His research interests are the anthropology of religion, cosmology, and indigenous people of the Amazon.
He conducted several periods of fieldwork among the Sateré-Mawé of the Lower Amazon, Brazil, and has published on the evangelical movement. He is currently working on a research project about religious change and environmental relations among the Sateré-Mawé.
Senior Campaigner for Brazil of the NGO Survival International
www.survivalinternational.org
Survival International is a worldwide movement fighting for the rights of indigenous people
Born in São Paulo, PhD. in Sociology, Founder of Save the Forest and the Rainforest Academy, 1994.
The Atlantic Rainforest was declared a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1992. Seen biologically, this area consists of a variety of different ecosystems. The richness of species in the Mata Atlântica is remarkable, even exceeding the biodiversity of the Amazon rainforest. Due to the different altitudes and latitude, there is great diversity in flora and fauna. It is thought that there are over 1.5 million different species, many of which are found only in the Atlantic Rainforest.
Salve Foresta (Save the Forest) is a German-Brazilian organization that, alongside the indigenous
people, is working to save the Rainforest.
The main goal of the association is to „promote projects that restore a symbiosis between human
culture and nature“. We can only save the forest if we help the people who live there…
taz. die tageszeitung vom 24. 1. 1997 Wirtschaft und Umwelt (Business and Environment). IM TAZARCHIV
Christian Russau, author and activist, born 1969 in West-Berlin, studied Political Sciences, Philosophy and Latin American Literature in Berlin and São Paulo (1988-1995). His thesis in Political Sciences was about Hannah Arendt. He knows Brazil since 1989 and has been working for years on industrial megaprojects and their consequences for human rights and the environment. His main focus is on german corporations abroad, mainly in Brazil. He is working with several NGOs such as the Berlin based Forschungs- und Dokumentationszentrum Chile-Lateinamerika (FDCL), with the german network of Brazil-solidarity groups KoBra - Kooperation Brasilien (Freiburg), and with the group GegenStrömung they are working mainly on hydrolectric dams and their consequences. He writes regularly for the monthly magazine Lateinamerika Nachrichten and he is member of the directory board of the Association of Ethical Shareholders in Germany, which buys of each corporation only 1 share to be able to participate in the annual shareholder meetings and to be able to criticize in public the human rights abuses and environmetal destruction perpetrated by the corporations. An overview of his publications can be found at www.outro-mundo.org
Photographer, specializes in documenting art, culture and biodiversity of Amazonia/ Brazil.
Since 1986, he has been visiting various indigenous groups and lived with them over longer periods of time. With this work, Soares also wants to redeem himself from the guilt he feels towards the native people. AMERINDIOS is a large ethnographic archive, a precious document of images of the Brazilian
natives. The photographic exhibit will be complemented by texts, didactic material, conferences, seminars and videos. Renato collaborates with the National Geographic and the Scientific American.
Some of his photos will be shown at the Louvre in Paris on October 20, 21, 22, 2017
The proposal consists of seminars, discussions, conferences, photo exhibits, cartoons, videos -
also produced by indigenous individuals themselves, encounters, musical workshops, dance and body
painting...
The program we offer to the high school/university will be discussed and adjusted to the needs
of the students.
The subjects can include geography, history, anthropology, environmental studies, ethics,
religion, art and music...
The event will take place in the following languages: German, english, portuguese, french,
italian, indigenous languages.
The program will be adjusted according to the budget available, the language spoken in the host
country and the required topics.
The Program:
- Introduction of Guests.
- Moderation by Dr. Wolfgang Kapfhammer
- Presentation including photography of Patrizia Giancotti
- Showing of film “Videos nas Aldeias”
- Presentation by Dr. Carlos Soares, Founder of the Rainforest Academy in Brasilien
- Presentation by Director Armando Lacerda and Diogo Juruna, son of Mario Juruna.
- Showing of Documentary film/ „Juruna, o Espirito da floresta“
- Shirley Krenak: Workshops and Seminars
- Showing of film „Guerra sem fin (Endless War)“, the story of the Krenak.
- Look at the current situation of the indigenous people.
- Discussion
Organizing conferences with the guests and lecturers of the program
Film showings (long, short) about Amazonia and their people, also films that have been made by the indigenous people themselves in their village.
Organisation of the photo exhibit "Amerindios" by
The project AMERINDIOS OF BRAZIL by Renato Soares is a documentation about the manifold ethnic groups in Brazil who are a tremendous enrichment for the country. So far 305 ethnic groups with 274 languages have survived. Thanks to Renato's journey which he started in 1986, it was possible to set up
a photo archive of 60.000 images that depict the rich socio-cultural mosaic of Brazil.
The exhibit consists of fifty photographs depicting more than 60 ethnic groups.
Today, focusing on and talking about indigenous peoples is topical and important. The eradication of these natives began centuries ago with their conquest in the name of „progress“ and it still has not ended. Just think of the five million inhabitants who lived in Brazil before the Portuguese arrived.
Today there are only around 700,000.
With this initiative, we want to focus on the wisdom of these ancient peoples and the breathtaking beauty of their land, where they live in symbiosis with a rich ecosystem.
The destruction and disappearance of the people and their world affects all mankind.
In the past 500 years, the native inhabitants of Brazil have had to see how the fertile soil of theirplantations, hunting and fishing areas as well as their holy and sacred tombs have been transformed into agricultural enterprises or monocultures. With this change have come disease, depression, alcoholism and suicide.
The natives have always suffered racism, discrimination and genocide in the name of civilization. It is a continuing war between the natives and the current „owners“ of the land, who do not want to restore the dignity and justice to the original inhabitants.
Among the roughly 250 groups of Indios living in Brazil and at risk, we remember Enawenênawê of Mato Grosso, threatened by a project of seventy-seven dams; the Kaipo of Xingu, victims of the Belomonte project: the Yanomami of Roraima were slaughtered in order to steal the land and died from mercury poisoning from gold prospectors:, the Awá from Maranhao were driven out by bulldozers and chainsaws: die Uru Eu Wauwau massively threatened by farmers.
Although the territorial rights of the tribes were officially recognized in 1991 and the United Nations adopted the Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples on 13 September 2007, these rights are not respected due to corruption, economic interests, inertia and lack of political will.
According to Francesca Casella, Director of Survival Italia, public opinion on this subject is now changing.
And this is our contribution: to show the value and beauty of the Amazon and its people and to highlight the dramatic problems that they are facing. We want to sensitize and inform students, teachers and visitors to this incredible world through our project. It is an opportunity to reflect, through meeting with Brazilian natives. These are prominent personalities, scientists and directors who are working to spread the importance of cultural heritage and biodiversity, which today are more than ever threatened with extinction.
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©Patrizia Giancotti
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