August 4th

18:30 | Conversation Circle for Indigenous Women on Stage: Songs, Territories, and Resistances (photo 1)

Participation: Cintia Guajajara, Kaê Guajajara and Djuena Tikuna

Mediation: Magda Pucci

Bringing together indigenous women to share songs, memories, knowledge and experiences related to their territories.

19:30 | Exhibition: Stories and Songs Guajajara Aldeia Maçaranduba — Caru Indigenous Land — Alto Alegre do Pindaré (MA)

In Aldeia Maçaranduba, the songs of the Guajajara (Tenetehara) people are rituals of connection with nature, cosmology, and ancient spirits. The short documentary film records the experience of traditional local singers and the cultural resistance faced in the territory.

20h | Guajajara Indigenous Stories and Songs — Lagoa Quieta Village – Araribóia Indigenous Land — Amarante (MA)

The Lagoa Quieta Village, in the Araribóia Indigenous Land, is one of the cultural and spiritual cradles of the Tenetehara/Guajajara people. There, traditional stories and songs are living ancient practices, transmitted by the elders as a way of preserving their identity, mother tongue, and deep connection with the territory.

20:30 |Kaê Guajajara Show (photo 2)

With an acoustic show, Kaê brings his trajectory in new arrangements that bring the guitar, piano, percussion and vocal polyphony closer to references in Brazilian popular music and original songs, with compositions that address themes such as identity, recovery, memory, indigenous resistance and environmental preservation.

August 5

16:00 | Forest Songs Workshop: Indigenous Musicalities in Education

With Magda Pucci

Based on the book “Cantos da Floresta — Initiation to the Indigenous Musical Universe”, by Magda Pucci and Berenice de Almeida, the workshop is aimed at musical educators interested in learning about the diversity of the musicalities of the original peoples.

19:30 | Exhibition: Awa Tea Jãnaha – The Awa Guajá song

Directed by Djuena Tikuna, Diego Janatã and Vinicius Berger, the documentary is officially released at the Festival Indígenas.br 2026

20:00 | Chat about the movie Awa Tea Jãnaha

With Djuena TiKuna, Diego Janatã, Vinicius Berger, Flavia Berto and singers from Coletivo Japua

August 6

17:30 | Jegwaka Area Conversation Round – Time Ornaments

With Arami Argüello, Jaciara Marschner, Rossandra Cabreira and Kellen Vilharva Xamiri Hu’y Rendy.

This performative conversation proposes a reflection on time from the Kaiowá and Guarani perspectives, covering concepts related to the passage of time, to medicinal knowledge, to songs that represent specific moments of existence and their relations with death.

18:30 | Guided tour – Graciela Ñe’ē Jary Exhibition – The Protector of Words

The exhibition is based on entries from the Kaiowa-Portuguese Dictionary, the result of a research journey that spanned the life and work of the indigenist, linguist, and professor of Indigenous History Graciela Chamorro.

19:00 | Graciela Exhibition – An ornament of time

Short documentary, which recounts the trajectory of professor, historian, linguist and researcher Graciela Chamorro. Based on family records, field images, songs and words in the Kaiowá language, the film pays homage to his life and decades of living with the Guarani and Kaiowá peoples of Mato Grosso do Sul.

19:30 | Screening of the documentary Mbaraká – The word that acts (photo 1)
Based on interviews with shamans (nhanderu) and records of Guarani-Kaiowá songs, dances, and ceremonies, the film delves into the universe of shamanic chants, revealing the performative power of the word in its sound, corporeal, dreamlike and spiritual dimensions.

20h | Show Tainara Takua (photo 2)

In her performances, she combines voice, Guarani viola, percussion, bass and flute, incorporating the Guarani language, body paintings and traditional ornaments. Its repertoire celebrates the forest, ancestry, and the balancing relationship between human beings and nature.

August 7th

16:00 | Xingu Women’s Conversation Circle: Culture, Territory, and Life (photo 1)

With the Collective Weavers of the Xingu Territory

17:00 — Xingu Body Painting Demonstration

Xingu body painting is a living expression of the identity, ancestry, and cosmology of the original peoples. The graphics tell stories, mark rituals such as Kuarup and use natural pigments from the forest, such as annatto (red) and jenipapa (black).

18:30 | Hyper Women Exhibition (photo 2)

Direction: Takumã Kuikuro, Leonardo Sette and Carlos Fausto

Fearing that his elderly wife will die, an old man asks his nephew to perform Jamurikumalu, the greatest female ritual in Upper Xingu (MT), so that she can sing one last time.

8 p.m. | Yamurikumã Ritual

With the Collective Weavers of the Xingu Territory, bringing together representatives of the Yawalapiti, Kuikuro, Mehinako and Kalapalo peoples and chieftain Tafukuma Kalapalo

Sounds and Voices of the Original Peoples Course

August 4 to 7

Coordination: Marlui Miranda, Magda Pucci and Pedro Paulo Salles
Throughout the four meetings, listening and contextualizations and musical practices will be conducted, with the dialogue with the indigenous artists invited to the Indigenous Music Festival – Indigenas.br as its central axis

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August 4th
Introduction to indigenous musicalities in Brazil
Presentation of the course and the participants. Overview of indigenous Brazilian musicalities, highlighting the diversity of peoples, territories, biomes, and cosmologies.

Special appearance: Djuena Tikuna

August 5th

Introduction to the musical traditions of the indigenous peoples of Maranhão, addressing their instruments, vocal repertoires, ritual contexts, and ways of transmitting musical knowledge.

Special participation: singer Cíntia Guajajara and representatives of the Japua Awa Guajá Collective.

August 6

Commentary listening to sound records and reflection on the different ways of singing and understanding music among native peoples, highlighting the relationships between singing, territory, spirituality and cultural resistance.

Special participation: Tainara Takua, representative of the Guarani Mbyá people (SC and SP).

August 7th

Introduction to the musicalities of peoples from the Xingu Indigenous Territory, such as Yawalapiti, Kamaiurá, Kuikuro, Kalapalo, and Wauja, presenting aspects of their musical organizations, vocal repertoires, rituals, and the relationships between music, body, and cosmology.