PAPAGAIO Brazilian Cultural Festival Vienna 2024

The annual Brazilian Cultural Festival in 2024 will focus on indigenous culture. The 12th Brazilian Cultural Festival Vienna is organised by the Austrian-Brazilian educational and cultural association PAPAGAIO in cooperation with the Weltmuseum Wien, which is showing the exhibition (Un)Known Artists of the Amazon until April 2025.

Duration: 10.30 am – 5 pm
Participation: free
No registration. We ask for your understanding that the number of people in the Weltmuseum Wien Forum is limited for security reasons.
Meeting Point: Weltmuseum Wien Forum

Programme at the Weltmuseum Wien Forum

10.30 am – Opening
‘As Bachianas Brasileiras I’ – Luciene Weiland
A welcome to the audience

10.40 am – Welcome
Forum Weltmuseum Wien
Weltmuseum Wien – Brazilian Embassy – PAPAGAIO Association
Award of the Golden Papagai 2024
‘As Bachianas Brasileiras II’ – Luciene Weiland

11.30 am – Dance performance
‘Cunhã Poranga’ – Franci Gruteser

The Cunhã represents the female power in the villages.

11.45 am – Film screening ‘Ñande piso, ñande yvy – Our soil, our earth’

Curators: Edileuza Penha & Marcelo Cuhexe Krahô 
The films will be shown in the original version (Portuguese, indigenous languages) with English subtitles.

AGUYJEVETE AVAXI'I – Kerexu Martim, 21 min.
The documentary film sheds light on the revival of the cultivation of traditional maize varieties by the Guarani M'bya people in the indigenous village of Kalipety, where the land has dried up due to decades of eucalyptus monocultures.

A FEBRE DA MATA (2022) – Takumã Kuikuro, 10 min.
The fever of the forest
The shaman and his family go fishing. During the fishing trip, a jaguar approaches and begins to make frightened noises. The shaman immediately returns to his village and warns his people of the approaching danger.

LEVANTE PELA TERRA (2022) – Marcelo Costa Cuhexê Krahô, 30 min.
Standing up for the land
The documentary was shot during the ‘Levante Pela Terra’ action camp in Brasília in June 2021. Indigenous leaders from all regions of Brazil gathered in the federal capital to protest against the PL490 bill, which has a negative impact on the demarcation of indigenous reserves.

O QUE ME LEVA NÃO É MERCADORIA DE BOLSO – Barbara Matias Kariri, 5 min.
What motivates me is not pocket money

Discussion with present directors and curators

1.00 pm – Literature programme

‘The state of Rondônia in the Amazon’
Curator: Izabel Cristina da Silva

Dr Flaviana Garcia (entrepreneur, author, representative of the ‘Escritoras Ajebianas de Rondônia’ / Rondônia Writers' Association)

1.30 pm- Room Curumim
Installation: ‘The snake connects the worlds’ – Vanessa Tölle & Elaine Bomfim

‘Boto da Amazônia – The river dolphin of Amazonia’ – Izabel Cristina

Animated films for children
‘Gav ī: The voice of the clay that speaks to the earth’
COMIN – FLD, Collective

2.00 pm – Lectures & presentations on art, culture and science

‘Brazilian Indigenous Groups and the Portuguese Colonialist Language as a Means of Decolonisation’
Renato Alvim, Ph.D. & Silvia Sollai, Ph.D. (California State University Stanislau)

‘The use of mathematics in the development of renewable energy sources’
Felipe Teles Barbosa, Ph.D. (Institute of Biochemical Engineering, BOKU Vienna)

‘Indigenous Diversity and the Struggle for Indigenous Rights in the 21st Century’
Isabella Kariri (Indigenous activist and student of political science – UNIRIO/Federal University of Rio de Janeiro)

‘The age of plastics: the real villains of this era?’
M. Eng. Maurício Azevedo (Speech BRASÖS – Network of Brazilian Scientists in Austria, Slovakia and Slovenia)

4.00 pm – Brazilian music show – Bernardo Lobo (solo)

Presentation of the new CD ‘Bons Ventos’ (Favourable Winds)

Followed by a programme at Jo&Joe Vienna near Westbahnhof

6.30 – 10.00 pm – Hotel JO&JOE
‘Meeting point of art’ – DJ Lizardy

Dance workshop with Franci Gruteser 
Production: Vanessa Noronha Tölle

Programme at Das Spektakel

25 November to 4 December 2024

6.30 pm – Vernissage – art exhibition at Art.Space, Das Spektakel, 1050 Vienna: ‘Indigenous Roots / Raízes Indígenas’
Curator: Vanessa Noronha Tölle

Invited indigenous photographers:
Isabella Kariri & Ester Xucuru

Exhibiting artists: Aline Viana, Ana Maria, Cirlete Knupp, Cleuza Braga, Elaine Bomfim, Elania Matos, Felipe Leite, Gildecio Costaeira, Léo Fonteviva, Maria Dutra, Marlete Borba, Moni Pimenta, Randes Silva, Rosane Marochi, Rosangela Scheithauer, Simone Decanini, Ticiana Parada, Vania Aranha

Room Curumim / Children's Room in cooperation with the Brasil Áustria House of Culture (‘Casa de Cultura Brasil Áustria’) and students of the C.E. Ministro Petrônio Portela and E.M.E.F. Prof. Laonte Gama
Organisation: Elaine Bomfim

Installation ‘The snake connects worlds’
Vanessa Noronha Tölle

4 December 2024
3 – 5 pm Children's programme

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