Debates on oral education are part of the program for the 22nd National Museum Week at the CCVM

15 to 17 May 2024

The transmissions of traditional knowledge are marked by collective experiences, at sacred moments, holidays, or in the daily lives of communities, expanding the concept of education. Based on this principle, the Vale Maranhão Cultural Center will comprise the program for the 22nd National Museum Week, which this year has the general theme Museums, Education and Research. There will be open conversations, storytelling and workshops with the theme Oralities: practices of educating for the community.

The choice of the topic was based on the urgency to recognize the various forms of dissemination of traditional knowledge as legitimate methods of education. Orality is the way in which, in order to remain human, we confer meaning to the world in an original movement. Those who guard this ancient movement are the original and popular communities, because they are the ones that maintain a relationship with daily life and territory. This is what underpins what we call theory today in academic environments. Even though it occupies this important place in the transmission of knowledge, orality is still relegated to a secondary role of education. Contesting this reality, the CCVM’s schedule for the 22nd National Museum Week opens space for orality to be considered with due prominence, explains Gabriel Gutierrez, director of the CCVM.

Check out the schedule

May 15, at 19:00

Open Talk Oral tradition, educational practices and dynamics for updating the senses, with Vovó Cicí de Oxalá, José de Ribamar Bessa, Prof. Dulce Ferreira

The purpose of this conversation is to promote understanding of the legitimacy of oral traditions as sophisticated educational practices. The proposal will be based on the dialogue between points of view based on experience with the production of knowledge and memory of oral culture.

May 16, from 14:00 to 17:00

Oficina Saberes do Terreiro*, with Vovó Cicí de Oxalá and Marlene Costa (photo)

Doing as a catalyst for the production and transmission of knowledge. The joint construction of meanings and ways of reading the world based on the techniques, songs and stories that organize food production in Afro-Brazilian religions.

*Registrations can be made in person, on the day of the workshop, in order of arrival, starting at 10 am, at the reception of the CCVM.

May 16, at 19:00

Open Talk Singing, Telling, and Celebrating: Elaborations on Shared Life, with Nadir Cruz, Ademar Danilo and Mãe Jô do Terreiro Tumajamacê

The purpose of this conversation is to encourage elaborations about the experience at the festive meeting. Celebration as a sensitive practice of educating for social life, understanding the world, and producing meanings.

May 17, at 19:00

Storytelling Afro-Brazilian Tales

We will receive Vovó Cicí de Oxalá to share stories of Afro-Brazilian folk wisdom.