Quilombo

The Quilombo Space is a showcase of independent artists and cultural producers from Brazil’s urban periphery. In Brazil, the quilombo was a maroon community where formerly enslaved Africans and their descendents settled, and forged a new society, resisting their exploitation and dehumanization. Today, the term quilombo symbolizes hope, solidarity, freedom, and autonomy for subaltern peoples of Brazil and around the world.

Quilombo Space Editions

Salvador Edition

Quilombo Space has a new host Tedson Souza, Black journalist, Researcher, and university of Ouro Preto professor born in the city of Salvador, Bahia. Doctor and Master in Anthropology from the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA), with a doctoral internship at Brown University, in the United States. Join the performers, musicians, filmmakers, and artists Tedson is bringing to our Quilombo.

Rio Edition

Quilombo Space is curated and hosted by Flávio Lima, director of Casarti, A Casa do Artista Independente, a cultural center that supports the arts in the suburbs of Rio de Janeiro. Join Flávio as he interviews the musicians, filmmakers, poets and artists who are changing the cultural landscape of Brazil today.