The documentary series brings records of popular Afro-Brazilian parties

Project digitized audiovisual collection of traditions such as Congada, Festa do Divino and Jongo held in communities in SP and MG states

the documentary series Field notebooks features six videos with record of Afro-Brazilian folk festivals held in the 90s in the cities of São Paulo and Minas Gerais. The films were assembled from the digitization of the audiovisual recording collections of the Cachuera Cultural Association! made in communities that maintain traditional forms of expression such as jongo, congada and other manifestations.

Field notebooks has record of Feast of the Divine in São Luís do Paraitinga (1992-1993), Congada of Ilhabela (1993), Jongo of Guaratingueta (1993), Caiumba or Batuque de TietêPiracicaba and Capivari (1993), all in SP, e del Kingdoms of the Black Brotherhoods of the Rosario dos Arturos, in Contagem (1992), and Justinópolis, in Ribeirão das Neves (1996), both in MG.

The videos will be available weekly, from 05/24, at 16:00, on the Youtube channel of the Associação Cultural Cachuera! (youtube.com/@accachuera). Access is free.

The project has been contemplated by PROAC 2021. According to the association, the objective of the project is to know and make known the cultural, artistic-religious, philosophical riches that the opaque veil of candor has insisted on hiding from us Brazilians, including the Afro-Brazilians – in this part of the country in particular, domain of the economic “locomotive”.

A Cachuera Cultural Association! is a reference organization in the research, documentation and dissemination of traditional Brazilian popular culture. Founded in 1998, the association was awarded the Order of Cultural Merit and the Prize for Popular Cultures in 2007, both awarded by the Ministry of Culture/Federal Government.

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