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Beyond the Surface: Exploring Mercury Contamination in the Amazon through Art and Literature

How does Amazonian art visually and verbally narrate the contamination of the human andnon-human landscape by heavy metals? How can the creative process and the artistic effectof image and word convey poetry by exploring symbols, images and narratives that link thepolitical force of art with the promotion of environmental awareness? Considering traditionalknowledge, spirituality, and connections […]

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Trips, vortexes and banzeiros: Immersion in the Amazon rainforest and the nature of the media

In numerous travel accounts about immersion in the Amazon rainforest, the metropolitan subject faces an oppressive experience due to the intense heat, dense vegetation, fauna noises, and persistent insects, resulting in disorientation, torn clothes, and fever. Some are even swallowed by the jungle, as exemplified in the novel “La vorágine” by José Eustasio Rivera. Despite […]

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Amazon Month

Series of events about the Amazon, including an exhibition by Denilson Baniwa (ongoing) and a talk by Patrícia Vieira on April 5 at 6pm. March-April 2024 Galveias Palace, Lisbon In collaboration with the Lisbon City Hall. Program

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Screening of the film A Flor do Buriti

Screening of the film A Flor do Buriti, followed by a discussion with the film directors João Salaviza and Renée Nader Messora, moderated by Patrícia Vieira. March 23, 2024 9:30 pm Casa do Cinema de Coimbra In collaboration with the Caminhos do Cinema Português film festival.

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Book launch Arahuata Inuaelü nenakaaürüte karitiin nereretaaüre. Ninichu kuruuaje nenakaaürü Urarinaaürü nereretaau / Los antiguos me contaron. Mitos y cuentos urarinas delbajo Chambira

Launch of the book Arahuata Inuaelü nenakaaürüte karitiin nereretaaüre. Ninichu kuruuaje nenakaaürü Urarinaaürü nereretaau / Los antiguos me contaron. Mitos y cuentos urarinas delbajo Chambira. Lima: CAAAP/IIAP/U. of St. Andrews, by Emanuele Fabiano, Graeme Burnley & Samuel Nuribe. The book was also handed to local Indigenous communities and to Urarina teachers during the intercultural training of FORMABIAP.   In […]

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Lecture Series 2024

Linguistic heritage in private hands: comparing materials from the Arawak languages (Peru) with the case of California In recent years the California Language Archive at the University of California, Berkeley (CLA; cla.berkeley.edu) has been acquiring archival materials — recordings, dcouments, photographs — on the Arawak peoples of Peru from a group of anthropologists, linguists, and ethnomusicologists […]

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Movie Release Bakish Rao: plants in struggle

Bakish Rao: plants in struggle is a science fiction that speculates on plantations and the future of the planet from the perspective of plants and through experimentation with the plant universe. Thus, with the human perspective de-centred, the film is a collaborative experience between artistic languages and scientific debates, as well as an essay that […]

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Launch of Piseagrama

February 12, 2024 7 pm Livraria Travessa de Lisboa Launch of the Piseagrama magazine dedicated to ” Vegetalities “, in collaboration with the publishing house n-1! The magazine brings together texts and artistic works that investigate different ways of understanding and relating to plant life.  Piseagrama and N-1 Edições  

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