Tulipa’s Society Amsterdam and Teatro Munganga open their doors for a series of traditional singing and drumming workshops, enriched by events of sharing knowledge on Brazilian Candomblé and the tradition of priestesses. JUNE 2024 - AMsterdam
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Workshop traditional chanting and drumming - 2024 - Introduction
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DIVINA NGOMA with Marcela Aracati, Beth Fadel, Tarim Flach and Ebomi Kaloyá
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Candomblé for Beginners
with Mother Gunzolande, Prof. Ubiracy, Acarajé da Lilly and others!
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Some participants of the workshop series Caixa do Divino at Círculo 2024!
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CÍRCULO - Decolonial resistance, priestessing, chanting and women’s drumming
Dear community of singers, artists, activists and those who support the continuation of different forms of knowledge on the planet,
Tulipa's Society Amsterdam and Teatro Munganga invite you to join our 2024 CÍRCULO of traditional chanting and drumming workshops, community gatherings and exchanges. Throughout the month of June, we will celebrate the long lineage of priestesses carrying out oral and music traditions connected to decolonial struggle and cosmological permanence of ancient forms of knowledge in opposition to cultural domination.
The events are sponsored by Spark Fund Mama Cash, which supports women, girls, and trans and intersex people in their fight for their rights, and AFK - Amsterdam Fund for the Arts.
Please note: the series is centered on non-European immigrant women, and non-binary people, but everyone is welcome to join the events and support the community. If you are ever in doubt if this space is for you or how to participate, feel free to contact us!
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Workshops Caixeiras do Divino
Dates: 05, 12, 19, 26 June, 01 and 03 July (six meetings)
18:30 - 21:30
We will practice Caixa do Divino* which is the only drumming tradition exclusively led by women in Brazil and exists in the context of Candomblé Houses and Maroon Communities as part of the celebrations of the Orixá Oxalá, an ancient force of nature. The priestesses, Caixeiras, sing and praise the prophecy that The Earth will know one hundred years of peace, under the rule of children. In the last week we will also practice Jongo, a chanting and drumming form demanding freedom for people under enslavement.
The workshop will be given by Mameto Kaloyá, a non-binary queer Roma diasporic descendent born within the context of Candomblé (Maroon communities and houses) who holds the title of Egbomi (poorly translated as young priestess) in the traditional community and Candomblé House of Redandá (Cipó-Guaçu- Brazil). Kaloyá has been, since an early age, inheriting multiple drumming and chanting practices from elders, and has learned from Caixeiras of the Fanti Ashanti House how to play and sing the “Caixa do Divino”. They are a long-time participant in the Festa do Divino held by Associação Cachuera!. Kaloyá will be joined by Marcela Varconte, black maroon descendant, researcher and chanter of the tradition of Jongo and part of Grupo Cachuera! The two apprenticed together under Master Daniel Reverendo.
*Caixa do Divino chantings are slow and steady litanies accompanied by drumming. You will be encouraged to learn how to play and sing simultaneously. Chanting happens in Brazilian Portuguese, with words and concepts from Brazilian creole dialects influenced by Yorubá, Kimbundo, and native languages spoken in Candomblé houses and native communities.
Donation: 10 euros per workshop. Exceptions/reductions possible - please get in touch
Language: The workshop is held in Brazilian and English, but chantings are in popular Brazilian Language
No attendance requirements: you can join how many meetings you can/want .
People identifying as male are welcome to watch the workshop but can’t chant/play the drums.
Info: https://circulo-amsterdam.tumblr.com/
Tickets: https://munganga.nl/
Or directly with the organizers
Contact: [email protected] and [email protected]
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Brazilian Candomblé for beginners Date: 13th June - Thursday 19h - 22h talk+oracle+performance+food
In this event, we will talk with Mother Gunzolandê (online), an important "Mãe Criadeira" (mother responsible for the education and initiation of newborns) in the Redandá Candomblé House. Mother Gunzo, as she is called, is a non-binary LGBTQ+ priestess and has a lifelong journey with gender equality inside the Candomblé tradition and anti-racist struggle in São Paulo, Brazil. Her daughter Kaloyá, will host the event and will share an Opening Orácle reading session. The evening ends with a performance piece by Lyon Zion called “Dança para Exu”
Talk + Oracle + Performance + food
Language: Brazilian/English/Dutch
15 euros
Info: https://circulo-amsterdam.tumblr.com/
Tickets: https://munganga.nl/
Or directly with the organizers
Contact: [email protected] and [email protected]
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“8 pedras”(Renata Amaral) - Movie and after talk with the anthropologist Tarim Flach Date: 20 June - Thursday 19h -22h
Terecô, Tambor de Mina, Candomblé, Bumba Boi, Guarani People and Agudá community in Benin.
8 short episodes about masters and communities of Brazilian popular traditions finalized from 30 years of audiovisual records from the Maracá Collection.
Music documentaries bring 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.
Renata Amaral Graduated in composition and conducting, master and doctoral student in musical performance at Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), she has performed throughout Brazil and Europe alongside artists such as A Barca, Ponto br, Tião Carvalho, Sebastião BIano and Orquestra Popular do Recife. Researcher and double bassist, since 1991 she has gathered the Maracá Collection, having produced more than 30 CDs and 12 award-winning documentaries of traditional genres. She held artistic residencies in Maranhão and Benin. She is the director of the film Pedra da Memória. Alongside the groups A Barca, Ponto br and Terno de Mestre Biano, she recorded seven CDs and gave more than 500 presentations in schools and universities with circulation, recording and art-education projects focusing on traditional culture.
We will have an after talk about the movie moderated by the anthropologist, trans and decolonial activist Tarim Flach. We will taste a delicious soup served by Marília e suas delícias.
Movie + Talk + Soup
Entrance: 5 euro (reduction possible: contact us)
Language: Brazilian with subtitles in English
Info: https://circulo-amsterdam.tumblr.com/
Tickets: https://munganga.nl/
Contact: [email protected] and
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Divine Celebration - Caixeiras, Jongo, Batuque, Forró and more. Date: 29 June - Saturday 15h - 22h
To celebrate our encounter at CÍRCULO in 2024, we will close with a party starting with the workshop participants singing and drumming litanies to Oxalá, followed by Jongo drumming with researcher and chanter Marcela Varconte, musician Elisabeth Fadel and others, Forró das Flores and DJ Pyranã. We will also cut the traditional Divino Cake to make our lives sweeter and Caldinho de Feijão.
From 15h to 18h open doors Caixeiras litanies to Oxalá, from 18h on presentations and Djs
Concerts + Party + Cake + Food
Entrance: 15 euro (exceptions possible: contact us)
Everyone is welcome!
Info: https://circulo-amsterdam.tumblr.com/
Tickets: https://munganga.nl/
Contact: [email protected] and
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BRAZIL - Diasporas and forced migration
The “Caixa do Divino” is the only exclusively womxn drumming and singing tradition in Brazil and exists in the context of Candomblé Houses (afro-indigenous diasporic semi-autonomous land) and Maroon Communities as part of the celebrations of Oxalá, an ancient force of nature that praise for the prophecy of The Earth having hundred years of peace through the ruling of children.
Brazil is the country that had historically the largest forced migration population from the African continent in the world during more than 400 years of enslavement operated by the Portuguese Empire and financed by colonial enterprises based in France, Spain and The Netherlands. There would be a lot to be said about the global implications of this nefarious economic strategy and the immense welfare that was taken and stolen from the colonised country. Activities such as gold and silver mining, sugar cane, cotton and coffee plantations, and animal breeding are among the activities that support this economic strategy, enforcing an intense exploiting project for the benefit of Eurocentric economies. This economic strategy is still in place in the current globalized economic context, and it had and has immense implications for the livelihood of millions of people and the environment, including the destruction of the Amazon and other forest biomes, contributing to the current alarming climate change crisis affecting the whole planet.
During the implementation of this economic strategy based on the slavering labour model, the whole of the Americas suffered the biggest known genocide in history; in 100 years of colonisation, 97% of the native population was brutally killed. In this regard, besides not being the focus of this project, we believe that it is important to highlight that the Eurocentric perspective tries to re-tell colonisation stories, removing or hiding the horrors done to the original populations in the Americas, to their territories and the global consequences it has until nowadays.
In this context, this project aims to acknowledge the complex diasporic ethnic culture or resistance and the permanence and continuity of people (s) and lands throughout this violent process, despite and beyond all the difficulties. This resistance process made Brazil one of the most prominent and welcoming places for immigrant populations. Brazil has the largest remaining indigenous protected territories in the world, the largest African-descendent population outside the African continent, the largest Japanese community outside Japan, the largest Lebanese community outside Lebanon, and huge communities of Italian, Spanish, German, Chinese, Romani and Jewish people, among many others. Nowadays, despite the process of forcing their mixing, this diversity of populations living in Brazil holds a place where anyone can become and name themselves, for the good and the bad, as Brazilian. One of these mixing strategies, not from the perspective of oppression but from the standpoint of resistance, resulted in the interchange of two main traditional structures: the Amerindian cosmology and the African diaspora.
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AMERINDIAN COSMOLOGY
Amerindian cosmology - Before colonization, the ruling organizations of the territory where Brazil is nowadays were based on a nomadic diasporic structure that had, as a singularity, the constant invention and creation of new people with new cosmogonic myths. Amerindian culture in Brazil was based on short-term land occupation (between two and four years) as a territory unity or village. Through this short-term land use strategy, each clan or group of indigenous people would use their moving strategies, integrating their livelihood into forests and non-forest landscapes, creating new agglomeration strategies for a long time composed of new ethnic stories. These groups brought new and renewing narratives of who we are, where we are going, and our contribution to the Earth. At the same time that this strategy was essential and the basis of the resistance against colonisation, genocide and ethnocide, it also made it impossible to catalogue the diversity of the population and their livelihood strategies. During the past and current colonization and exploitation periods, Amerindian people know how to re-start from zero, leaving the past behind and passing new legacies to the younger generations. Nowadays, this strategy contributes to the overcoming of historical trauma and wars created by racialised structures, and it might be a central logic and strategy for peace.
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African diaspora
The second important element we want to highlight is the capacity to initiate people to participate in and belong to a diasporic community. People used to arrive in Brazil to be enslaved together with people they had never seen before. Portuguese slave masters were very precise in separating people from the same village or cultural background, knowing that in this way, it could be more challenging to organize a resistance strategy. In this way, people would not have a common language, not share the same background and have no cultural interface. Many people were even taken from their mothers at birth to be raised in another plantation area, and many were born in "slave reproduction" plantations, where women were raped to give birth to more people to be enslaved. In the heart of maroon communities, a fantastic technology was developed: through the ritual of initiation, people would get a new name, a new family, a new function and most importantly, a sacred stone called the stone of memory, so they would never forget where they came from and why.
In the most extensive maroon lands, notably Quilombo dos Palmares, for example, which was the biggest city in the world during the 17th century, queen Aqualtune was brought as a political exile from the Matamba Kingdom, which is in North Angola. Queen Aqualtune raised 12 leaders and built a diasporic and anti-colonial kingdom that was open to anyone coming from genocide and ethnocides across the slavered territories. According to anthropologists’ studies, this maroon land has 30% indigenous people, 10% Romani people, 5% Jewish people beyond the wide variety of enslaved people coming from west and central African territories, and even refugees and deserters from the European armies fighting in the region.
The diasporic culture was then created as an incredible mixture of ancient knowledge and undercover rituals within or translated into Portuguese popular Christianity in syncretism.
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Caixeiras do Divino in Brazil
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The known history of Caixeiras do Divino comes from an ancient myth found in the Azores archipelago, which was used as a port for boats from Africa and Asia before landing in Brazil. The festivity for the "Divino" found a quick fertile ground in Benedito Brotherhoods, organizations of maroon people present throughout Brazil that exist in multiple forms until nowadays. The party is the festivity that praises a prophecy: the Earth will have 100 years of peace under the rule of children, which it has never had before.
In the state of Maranhão in Brazil, more precisely in the house of Nagô people, political exiles from the kingdom of Dahomé (originated in Benin), a peculiar thing happened: a matriarchal structure in which only women were allowed to become priestesses, musicians and leaders from the cultural expressions. Nowadays, the women are the drum and singing masters and conduct the “Divino” festivities.
The ”Divino” festivity includes a weekly meeting during one month, where the flags of hope, faith and charity are raised as well, and the drum masters sing and play for the children emperor and empress in days-long structures of verses, litanies, chants and numerous drum bits, aiming that the Earth finally find its peace.
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Caixeiras do Divino in Amsterdam and Tulipas Sisterhood
The community of womxn immigrants from Lusophone countries is very big in The Netherlands. In our case, especially the Brazilian women's community is composed on a large scale of undocumented migrants or womxn in risk situations and gender vulnerability in Brazil. We see a lack of acknowledgement, visibility and voice of Brazilian womxn in the Dutch activist culture and general awareness around our traditions and initiatives resisting centuries of colonisation, genocide, and multiple forms of forced immigration. We also consider it important to have initiatives that give value to Lusophone non-European immigration presence and to provide activities that support the possibility of having our culture present in the Netherlands.
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The Munganga Theater has been operating for the last 37 years in Amsterdam, and it is a meeting point for all the Brazilian, Lusophone community and Dutch sympathizers. The Munganga Theater program includes musical and theatre performances, thematic debates, and events that aim to maintain the connection between the Brazilian cultural heritage and the interested community living in the Netherlands. Cláudia Maoli is one the leaders of Munganga theatre and has been supporting small initiatives and Brazilian theatre and education for children in Amsterdam, as well as facilitating encounters with indigenous leaders and informative festivals.
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Joana Faggin is a Brazilian immigrant who has long worked with governmental and non-profit organizations to support land reform and gender equality in rural areas in Brazil. Joana has been part of the group “Caixeiras do Divino” since its first activities in Amsterdam in 2019 and is active in searching for support for the traditions that historically resisted the time changes, as well as bringing visibility to Brazilian traditional and non-commercial culture in the Netherlands.
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