August 9th

16:00 – Open Talk: Stories of Indigenous Lives and invitation to screen their documentaries (Museu da Pessoa)

Participants:

Cacique Antonio Wilson Guajajara
Chief Iracadju Ka’apor
Leadership: Tatusia Awá-Guajá
Guardians of Memory: Awahú Ka’apor, Dailson Marico Guajajara, Cleane, Lianna, Guajajara, Inamupihu

Awá-Guajá
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participants are traditional local leaders from the Pindaré Indigenous Territory (TI), TI Alto Turiaçu, TI Caru and young people who were part of the Maranhão Indigenous Lives project developed by the Museu da Pessoa under the sponsorship of the Vale Cultural Institute. Mobilization and training actions for the recording and dissemination of life stories of the elderly by young people resulted in the Guardians of Memory movement, to expand actions to value the memories of indigenous peoples

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Installation with documentaries made by the Guardians of Memory

Testimonials made for the Maranhão Indigenous Lives project, which included the participation of traditional local leaders from the Guajajara peoples, in the municipality of Bom Jardim, Ka’apor, in the municipality of Zé Doca and Awá-Guajá, in the municipality of Alto Alegre, all in Maranhão, and the Guardians of Memory.

19:00 – Opening with curators Djuena Tikuna and Magda Pucci

8 p.m. – Presentation by Djuena Tikuna with representatives of the Guajajara, Awá Guajá and Ka’apor peoples

August 10

10 am – Workshop: Tell Your Story

The Guardians of Memory Arakurania Awá-Guajá, Jocy Guajajara, Reruhu Ka’apor, and Vitor Guajajara Nascimento invite participants to tell and record a story from their lives.

Sitting in circles to tell and listen to stories is an ancient practice. And each of us has memories and experiences, remarkable experiences, milestones of change, and discoveries. Each memory that seems so particular to us is filled with the memories and experiences of the groups to which we belong, reflects the history of a

time.

The Guardians of Memory invite each person to participate in this experience and learn about ways to preserve their history.

16:00 – Open Talk: Casa do Saber Mba’ekuaa

Participants
Justino Melchior (Tukano//AM),
Terezinha Aquino (Guarani Kaiowá/MS)
Irene Gavião (Gavião/ MA)
Ercilia Perez and Carmen Torres (Warao/Venezuela/MA).
Mediation: Paola Gibram

(SP)

Songs that heal, that circulate knowledge, that recall, that act on the visible and invisible worlds. The songs sung by shamans, shamans, and healers go beyond the relationship between humans and open the way to relationships with other planes and beings. In these songs lies the ancient knowledge of each people, contained in each word, each form of singing. A meeting of great indigenous connoisseurs, the Casa do Saber Mba’ekuaa proposes that voices, sounds, experiences, knowledge, and traditions of Justino Melchior (Bayaroá community), Terezinha Aquino (Guarani Kaiowá), Irene Gavião, Ercilia Perez and Carmen Torres from the Warao people living today in São Luis do Maranhão be brought to the circle

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19:00 – Bayaroá Group Presentation (AM)

Participants:
Justino Yupuri Baya (Tukano)
Maria de Fatima Pena Lana (Desana)
Clovis Lana Pena (Tukano)
Armar Lana Pena (Tukano)
Luiz Aldemar Rezende Barreto (Tukano)
Stefany Barros Pena (Toucan)
Elvira Sampaio Alcantara (Tariana)
Rosa Raquel Lima Barros (Piratapuya)

The Bayaroá group is made up of people belonging to the Tukano, Tuyuka, Desana, Pira-Tapuya, Tariana and Bará peoples and originated from the gathering of indigenous people who left their villages and went to live in the São João neighborhood, on the outskirts of Manaus. The name Bayaroá comes from the word bayá which means “master of dances and rituals”, according to Seridu Justino Tukano, healer (kumua) master and bayá from the Bayaroá community. The Bayaroá community represents, in a certain way, a microcosm of the culture of the Alto Rio Negro, since it encompasses different groups that share ways of life and social organization. The group’s performance consists of melodies that are associated with songs with themes about romantic situations, states of mind, and animals. They use in their presentation the Japurutu flutes, which produce a hypnotic effect and are like the “spirit of sound”, and the cariço, a kind of Amazonian

bread flute.

August 11th

10:00 – Workshop: Music from Rio Negro – Justino Melchior (Tukano/AM)

In this workshop, the singing master Mr. Justino will demonstrate musical instruments from his community, such as the Japurutu and the cariço flutes, which are a fundamental reference in the Alto do Rio Negro region. Cariço (in Nheengatu) is a bread flute, which also gives its name to a dance in pairs. They are taquara tubes tied with fibers. The pitch of the tubes is variable, and the execution always takes place in a group. It can be done by two or more people, one of whom plays the role of “master” and the others respond. Japurutu is played in pairs: a female and a male, with the male playing the lowest sounds and the female the sharpest. Japurutu has no holes and the different heights are produced

from harmonics.

16:00 – Open Talk: Contemporary Indigenous Music

Participants:
Eric Terena (MS)
Ian Wapichana (RR/SP/)
Guildy Blan (AM),
Djuena Tikuna (AM),
Mediation: Brisa Flow (SP)

A chat about the contemporary indigenous music scene formed by young indigenous artists who have used music as a weapon of resistance and struggle for the rights of native peoples, seeking to give expressive visibility to their lives, which have always been silenced. Mediated by singer-songwriter Brisa Flow, producer and DJ Eric Terena, musician Ian Wapichana from Roraima, music producer from Solimões Guildy Blan, and singer Djuena Tikuna, also curator of this festival’s edition, participate in this panel

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This scene has been expanding more and more, especially in the media and always combined with the movements and organizations that constitute a moment of strong indigenous leadership.

19:00 – Presentation by Ian Wapichana (RR/SP) part. esp. Brisa Flow

Ian Wapichana is an artist, audiovisual producer, music producer, multi-instrumentalist musician, writer, and poet. Belonging to the Wapichana, a native people, north of Pindorama. Fascinated by the plurality of peoples, he began his musical and visual experiments in order to demystify and break colonized thoughts about the native peoples that inhabit this vast territory. In this show, Ian will include the participation of the transdisciplinary artist Brisa Flow, who works with musical languages that mix rap with ancient songs, jazz, electronic and neo/soul. Daughter of Araucano artisans, she works on the art scene as a singer, music producer, performer, and researcher. She builds art based on the experience of her body in the world, creating paths that detach from the restraints of coloniality

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8 p.m. – Guildy Blan and Grupo Yoi (AM) presentation

Voices: Genário Araújo and Guildy Blan Tikuna
Keyboardist:

Dailson Araújo

Guildy Blan Tikuna is a singer and producer from the indigenous community of Umariaçu, in the city of Tabatinga, on Amazonas. In order to represent his Tikuna people and promote the appreciation of their mother tongue, elements of dance rhythms such as cumbia, which is very present on the border between Amazonas, Peru and Colombia, reggaeton and other urban styles enter his music. The group participated in the Wiyaé Show at the Amazonas Theater at the invitation of Djuena Tikuna. In 2022, one of his songs was awarded the best indigenous song by Alto Solimões at the National Radio 100 Years Music Festival in the city of Rio de Janeiro. His father Genário Araújo and keyboardist Dailson Araújo participate in this performance. The Guildy Blan show is an invitation to dance

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August 12th

10:00 – Workshop The songs that warm the enchanted and the sacred instruments (AM) Djuena Tikuna and Diego Janatã

Workshop that presents aspects of Tikuna culture and music. We sang the song of the enchanted. It is the heritage of our ancestors who live in each of us. During the experience, we bring to the public a bit of what we are, how we understand the world through our musicality, how we express ourselves through singing, with the graphics of Jenipapa’s paintings, and with handicrafts. During the experience, we shared what we have learned in the communities, on the edge of the fire, on the banks of the river, in the middle of the forest, in the villages in the countryside, and in the city, listening to the wisdom of the elderly and the curiosity of the younger ones. Stories will be told from the time of the ancients, when the immortals Yoi and Ipi saved the land of Samaumeira that darkened the world

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16:00 – Kaiowá Songs Workshop with the group Okaragwyje Taperendy (MS) and Launch of the Kaiowá-Portuguese Dictionary

Traditional Kaiowá communities have a rich and diverse repertoire of Mborahéi ‘songs’, which are, among their musical genres, the closest, from a melodic and textual point of view, to non-indigenous songs. The Mborahéi allow them to come into contact with a profusion of concept words associated with mythical scenes, existential experiences, and the group’s cosmology. In this workshop we intend to delve into Kaiowá history and cosmo-theo-anthropology through songs. We will introduce the Kaiowá vocabulary corresponding to the songs in focus, body exercises developed based on some mythical images and experiences experienced by the indigenous people with the Veraju group, rehears the steps and movements that accompany the songs. In this way, we hope to provide an intercultural experience in the field of sound, corporeality,

and indigenous poetics.

8 p.m. – WYTY Documentary Premiere: Os Cantos de Resistência Gavião Pykopjê

Direction: Djuena Tikuna and Diego Janatã and Vinicius Berger

The songs of the Gavião people echo through the transition forest between the Cerrado and the Maranhão Amazon. The Pykopjê, as they call themselves, live under the resistance of their culture, which finds joy in their ancestral singing. Historically, the Gavião Pykopjê are remembered for being one of the fiercest groups among the Timbiras, as they proved to be a major barrier to the fronts of agricultural and pastoral expansion that invaded the Maranhão hinterland at the end of the 18th century, bringing much war and suffering to the

indigenous peoples.

Contrary to the genocide, the Pykopjê strengthen their identity as a people and survive culturally by holding their traditional festivals called Amji Kin, bringing together all the people in celebration with disputes, log races, food, exchange of gifts, and lots of singing along with their Timbira relatives and other guests. One of the most important festivals in this context is Wyty: “The Hawkeye Festival” – one of the initiation rites responsible for keeping alive the tradition of these songs as an inheritance for the new generations, so that they can always remain

in joy.

21:00 – Okaragwyje Taperendy Presentation – Guarani Kaiowá (MS)

Participants:
Iziney Aquino Hilton
Terezinha Aquino
Milka Alziro Hilton
Christian Hilton Aquino
Ifigeninha Hirto
Wreike Alziro Hilton
Sadrake Alziro Hilton
Wilner Alziro Hilton
Josias Carvalindo Batista

The Okaragwyje Taperendy group was created by Kaiowá spiritual leadership Joel Hilton in 2017. Joel taught the members the prayers and songs learned during his childhood and youth, with his grandparents, with his mother and father. In addition to being inspired, he created some songs. The group Okaragwyje Taperendy performed at various events in Dourados, Campo Grande, Corumbá, and Ponta Porã. It also carried out and is carrying out several cultural revitalization actions in the area of graphics and language. In 2019, the group recorded its first CD with 24 songs, which is titled after the group’s name

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