Power + Imagination + Latinidad + Indigeneidad
Experimental charlas una mezcla de conversatorios virtuales, sobre historia, arte, feminismo, comunidad y autodeterminación – Conversations about history, art, feminism, community and self-determination.
EastSide Arts Alliance and NAKA Dance Theater Present:
Artists vs nat’l / Int’l State Terrorism
Oakland <=> Rio de Janeiro
KEV Akhidenor
Hugo Oliveira
Raull Santiago
Cosme Vinicius Felippsen
Tuesday August 31st @11 AM
Artists and thinkers present excerpts from their literary and artistic work to discuss how their practice is woven into the power of the community.
Hugo Oliveira is a native of Morro da Providência, dance artist, educator, researcher, cultural manager and doctoral student in Social Communication at UERJ, with a theme on Passinho Foda in the cut between youth, social networks, art and city. He is a multifaceted professional, active in socio-cultural actions, which gave him experience in institutions such as Instituto Pereira Passos - IPP, ONU-Habitat - in the UPP Social/Rio+Social programs, State Secretariat of Culture - Superintendency of Culture and Territory (Favela Criativa program), in the NGOs Redes da Maré - dance workshops, GRES Portela - A gente quer Arte project, CIEDS - Projeto Bairro Educador and IDEBRA - Professional Training Courses in Urban Dance, and private companies: Atento, Escala Events and Firjan (Rio à Porter and Fashion Business), Rede Globo (Caldeirão do Huck), in the management of projects and programs focused on education, dance, youth, favela and social development. He has carried out international artistic exchanges with young dancers from Rio de Janeiro's favelas in relations with institutions in Switzerland (Passin'House Project), the United States (Ocupancy Desmistifique sua Dança) and Denmark (Detour Urban Dance Festival). He is also the creator of the collective Bonde do Jack, of Providência Gallery, one of the coordinators of the Marielle Franco Pre-College and of the SOS Providência Emergency Committee. He is the pedagogical strategist of O Desafio do Passinho and in his last professional experience he worked as Education Manager at the Museum of Art of Rio.
Raull Santiago was appointed as one of the 50 most creative professionals in Brazil in 2020 by the Wired Brazil Festival. He is a social communicator, documentary producer, cultural producer, human rights activist, for the climate, negritudes and favela life. He worked for two years at Globo News channel, producing documentaries about culture and peripheral entrepreneurship in Brazil. He is founder and member of the collectives Papo Reto Movimentos, Perifa Connection, Favela & ODS and is part of the Assembly of Members of Amnesty International Brazil. He is a researcher in drug policy at the Center for Studies on Security and Citizenship at Cândido Mendes University. He is an ambassador of the Identities of Brazil Institute for Racial Equality. He is a member of the global network of Human Rights Defenders - Front Line Defenders. Creator of Intercâmbios Latinos, a project that connects independent journalists from Brazil to Latin America, in reading about public security and human rights. He has traveled to several countries around the world giving workshops and seeking to understand how the most vulnerable populations were dealing with and creating strategies in the face of the reality of rights violations in the areas where they live, but also giving lectures, training, and working in partnership with Universities, ONGs, activist groups, and social movements, building an international network focused on ending violence and inequality, discussing public security, confronting racism, guaranteeing human rights, memory, and life. He lives in Complexo do Alemão and in 2020 he was part of the Complexo do Alemão Crisis Cabinet for humanitarian aid in the face of the coronavirus pandemic. He has already spoken in two TEDx and in 2021 he became consultant of the brand Tônica Antarctica in Brazil and ambassador of the Reserva brand in the country.
Cosme Vinicius Felippsen, born and raised in the first Favela in Brazil, 31 years old, father of Samuel and Ana, tourism guide, international lecturer on housing and human rights. Lectured in New York in 2013 invited by the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation at the Urban Convergence Conference. Worked in 2014 in Rio+Social as a field agent hired by UN-Habitat. Creator of Rolé dos Favelados. The Rolé is a tour made and led by faveladas and favelados. It has already happened in many places like: Morro da Providência, Zona Portuária / Pequena África & Herança Africana, Maré, Rocinha, Alemāo, Salvador - BA among other places. In Providência alone there have been more than 7 thousand visitors.
He is also part of the SOS Providência emergency committee as one of the 4 coordinators. With SOS we have distributed thousands of basic food baskets and other necessary materials in times of pandemic. With Rolé and SOS I lead the project "A gas for the women of Providence" which is giving assistance to almost 200 women who need gas in the first Favela. President Pastor of the Church of Esperança.
KEV Akhidenor, Facilitator, If the pen is mightier than the sword K.E.V.’s pen is called Excalibur. This Oakland born Nigerian emcee commands international stages with the authoritative manner of Malcolm X and the grace of Lao Tzu. Inspired by Hip-Hop’s golden age, K.E.V. penns his rhymes with a degree of integrity demanded by the art form’s vanguard. K.E.V. began rhyming his way up the ranks in the late 90’s after several years old taking Hip-Hop in. His indulgence into that era’s prevalent artists such as KRS-1, The Roots and Nas assisted KEV in chiseling himself into a high caliber, incendiary emcee. With this trait K.E.V. or Kicking Every Verse quickly became admired by peers, competitors and die hard fans of hip-hop across the world.