Due to events related to the Covid-19 pandemic, the event has been postponed and a new date will be announced soon.
Featuring audios and videos recorded in several states, the activity is a trip through Brazil through our popular traditions today, their masters, communities and artists. Discussing issues such as memory linked to composition, the creative tools of oral transmission, complementarity and dilution in the creator / consumer relationship, functionality of formal construction, authorship x recreation and others, these traditions are revealed as contemporary and timeless art.
The starting point of the project is the Maracá Collection, which brings together thousands of audiovisual records collected since 1991 in more than 100 communities in 56 municipalities, in 15 Brazilian states. These records, which reveal an important panel of our popular culture, have already given rise to dozens of publications - 30 CDs, 12 documentaries, 2 books and several articles. Recognized as one of the main collections of traditional genres in Brazil, in 2019 he received the Latin Grammy Research Award, and several other awards such as Rodrigo Melo Franco Andrade - IPHAN (2011 and 2017); Aesthetic Interactions, Brazilian Music Award, Rumos Itaú, Funarte and others, as well as approvals in public notices from companies such as Natura, Petrobras, Chesf, Caixa, Votorantim, Itaú, etc., for the realization of their records.
The collection is the result of nearly 30 years of intensive and passionate coexistence with our traditional cultures, their guardians and artists, bringing historical records of several masters and players who have died and other rare cycles and moments. Always carried out with the best technical quality available, the records bring not only a huge diversity of manifestations, but the unusual consistency that accompanied many of these communities year after year in a long and well-founded coexistence, following their calendar of cycles and celebrations at different times of the year. year, interviewing masters and players, making special records at their request, living closely with these groups and guardians, creating deep bonds of friendship and trust.
Tradition is the pragmatic expression of memory, serving as a reference and impulse for the future. Sung by its masters generation after generation, the repertoire of popular traditions merges, adapts, becomes unique, and results in a surprising aesthetic elaboration. This collection brings a wide panel of traditional Brazilian culture today, showing an exuberant and vigorous popular culture, where the talent of the artists and the vitality of these traditions reveal diversity and identity in a contemporary Brazil, where piercings and cell phones coexist without conflicts with lace and rosaries .
The images serve as a trigger to deal with themes such as memory linked to composition, the creative tools of oral transmission, complementarity and dilution in the relationship between creator / consumer, functionality of formal construction, authorship X recreation and others, where these traditions are revealed as art contemporary and timeless.
Renata Amaral - Graduated in composition and conducting, master and doctoral student in Musical performance at UNESP, has performed throughout Brazil and Europe alongside artists such as A Barca, Ponto br, Tião Carvalho, Sebastião Biano, Orquestra Popular do Recife and others . Researcher and double bass player, since 1991 he has brought together one of the most significant collections of popular Brazilian traditions, having produced more than 30 CDs and 12 documentaries of traditional genres that received some important cultural awards such as the Latin Grammy, Rodrigo Melo Franco de Andrade, from IPHAN ( 2012 and 2017), Rumos Itaú Cultural, Guarnicê Trophy, Cláudia Award, 23rd Brazilian Music Award, etc. He twice received the Interaction Aesthetics award from Funarte, performing artistic residencies in Maranhão and Benin. Author of Pedra da Memória, with her groups A Barca e Ponto br, recorded 5 CDs and made over 500 presentations in circulation, registration and art education projects. He teaches courses and workshops with a focus on Traditional Culture in schools and universities.