AFRICAN ART COURSE The long centuries in which our society was organized around slavery left us many burdens to overcome. One of them is that we are still so far removed from Africa, the continent from which one of the matrixes of our culture comes, perhaps the predominant one. The rare opportunities we have here for direct contact with African artistic production allow us to perceive so many familiar elements, so many permanencies, that we ask ourselves: why do we keep so far from what is so close to us? That's why the Centro Cultural Vale Maranhão is committed to the AFRICANA: the dialogue of forms, which will be on display until December 15th. The exhibition presents the art of 60 people, with very different characteristics and sculptural languages. It is art linked to its traditions, associated with social functions that have a strong meaning for communities, an art that expresses concepts and continues to be produced. Given the opportunity to have the presence of a collection of such special pieces, it seems important to us to deepen the educational opportunity that the exhibition represents. We created a course aimed at teachers from the public school system and taught by the specialist in African and Afro-Brazilian art Juliana Bevilacqua. The course aims to contribute to the teaching of African culture and history in Brazilian schools, as provided for in Law 10.639/03. We invite the municipal and state departments of education to be partners in this initiative, supporting us by mobilizing interested teachers and making their working hours available to participate in the course. Applications will be made by e-mail contato@ccv-ma.org.br. Participants will receive teaching material to be worked on in the classroom. The material is a donation from the CCVM and must be kept at the school for other teachers to have access to. African Art TEACHER Juliana Bevilacqua Historian, PhD in Social History from the University of São Paulo. She is the author of the book Iron Men. Blacksmiths in central Africa in the 19th century (FAPESP; Alameda, 2011) and co-author of the book África em Artes (Museu AfroBrasil, 2015). She has worked as a researcher at institutions such as the AfroBrasil Museum, Museum of Archeology and Ethnology of the University of São Paulo and MASP. She was a visiting professor at the Universidad de los Andes (Bogotá, Colombia) through the Conecting Art Histories program (The Getty Foundation, Los Angeles). She is a collaborating professor in the Non-European Art Questions research line in the postgraduate program in History at Unicamp. CREDIT HOURS 12 hours DATES, TIMES AND PLACES October 24th to 27th (Wednesday to Saturday) Class 1: from 9am to 12pm – 75 vacancies Class 2: from 2pm to 5pm – 75 vacancies November 8th to 10th (Thursday to Saturday) Class 3: from 8 am to 12 pm – 75 vacancies Class 4: from 2 pm to 6 pm – 75 vacancies