Born in the Kariri-Xocó village (Alagoas) and raised in the Fulni-ô village (Pernambuco), Wakay is a representative of the Fulni-ô, Kariri Xocó and Fulkaxó peoples of northeastern Brazil. For 20 years he has led the Thá-Fene Indigenous Reserve, in Lauro de Freitas, Bahia. Heir to the knowledge, knowledge, and practices of Indigenous Medicines, inherited from father to son. Co-founder of Owca Ayam (Multireferential Environment of Experiences and Learning by Indigenous Medicines).

Singer of authorial music in his native language – Yathê, and also in Portuguese, seeking to build a repertoire that transmits his messages of preservation of nature, peace and harmony in a loving and creative way between people, peoples and nations.

Oca is a performative production where the artist aims, through corporeality, to promote landscape constructions against narratives to hegemonic discourses about indigenous identities and territorialities in contemporary times. Consequently, to signal fables about the (r) existence in the urban peripheral context, presenting the elaboration of strategies for territorialization and reaffirmation of the original identity in the multiple contexts crossed.

Artist of the Karapotó people, graduating from the Visual Arts course at the Federal University of Pernambuco, has been working since 2012 in the field of visual arts, performance, installation, curatorship, art education and audiovisual.

In his work he addresses questions about the configurations of indigenous identities in contemporary times, especially about ethnic groups in northeastern Brazil, and the multiple contexts in which they are inserted, consequently about the sociopolitical problems that cross them. He believes in the art, science of his ancestors and his body as a discursive tool of resistance and anticolonial force. Originally from the Terra Nova community, São Sebastião (AL) and resides in Recife since 2015. He is a member of the research group Science and Indigenous Art in the Northeast of UFPE, artist-researcher in the project Cultures of Anti-Racism in Latin America – CARLA at UFBA. Since 2021, he has been the general coordinator of the Karaxuwanassu Indigenous Association in Urban Context – ASSICUKA. He believes in indigenous art as anti-colonial resistance. He is the creator of this year’s Indigenas.br Festival brand and performer.

We – The Ka’apor

The struggle for territory is in the blood of the Ka’apor people, uniting the new and the old, through the songs and the ancestral play of the flute in a ritual, we come into contact with the strength of a warrior people from the Maranhão Amazon.

Elas — The Krikati Women

A song echoes through the Maranhão Cerrado on a night of moonlight and bonfire, the ancestry of this voice, brings the strength of the warriors who say that the now belongs to them, of the Krikati Women.