We organised a second edition of Festival Passagens!
In 2023 we hosted Festival Passagens in Quartel Largo Residências, on the 6th and 7th of May.
It was a weekend to learn, discuss and celebrate migration surrounded by music, conversations, food and much more.
Where? Largo do Cabeço de Bola – Quartel Largo Residências
When? 6th and 7th of May 2023
Entrance: From 14h on.
Music
Luca Argel (voice and guitar)
Portuguese-brazilian singer and song-writer, who has been in Portugal for more than 10 years. He usually sings with the groups Samba Sem Fronteiras and Orquestra Bamba Social, very samba-based.
Besides being a musician, he considers himself a political activist and an artist “with musical experiences that do not know borders”.
Colectivo Gira
A movement of immigrant women in Portugal that promotes Afro-Brazilian culture and gender equality through samba. They will show us that samba has no borders and that it is a powerful form of expression and resistance.
Mista Sanches
Produces mostly Lo-fi Hip-hop instrumentals but also works in other genres because of the huge african and afro-brasilian rythm influence on his music.
Hamro Ghar
We will travel to Asia through them. The Nepalese culture will be present through the strong presence of this group and the sounds of the traditional instruments from its country of origin.
Poetry. Estrangeiros no labirinto.
With Manuella Bezerra de Melo and Hannah Bastos.
On Sunday, May 7th, we had the opportunity to travel through the world of poetry.
“Poems, fragments sewn and sutured into the flesh and pieces of loose narratives are resources that weave the map that will guide the immigrant through the labyrinth. As they walk across this map, two poets, two immigrant voices, unite in a performative reading that should lead the foreigner, but not only him, on this path of survival, belonging and transformation of himself and of the entire axis of the earth.”
Text and production: Manuella Bezerra de Melo; Performance: Manuella Bezerra de Melo/Hannah Bastos.
Manuella Bezerra de Melo is the author of “Pés Pequenos para Tanto Corpo” (Urutau; 2019, 2023), “Pra que roam os cães nessa hecatombe” (Macabea, 2020), “Um Fado Atlântico” (Urutau, 2022) and “Nova Poesia Brasileira: território, disputa e resistência” (Zouk, 2013). She organized the collection of anthologies “Volta para a tua terra” (Urutau, 2021; 2022) and participated in others as an author, among them “Um Brasil ainda em chamas” (Contracapa, 2022) and “A Boca no ouvido de Alguém” (Através, 2023). She has poems and short stories published in literary magazines in Brazil, Portugal, Spain, Argentina, Angola, Mozambique, Colombia, Mexico, Ecuador and the USA. She is artistic director and director of “Minha Poetry Slam”, in Guimarães. She holds a degree in Social Communication with a specialization in Brazilian Literature, a master’s degree in Theory of Literature and Lusophone Literatures and attends the Doctoral Program in Comparative Modernities at the University of Minho, in the north
of Portugal, where she has lived since 2017.
Hannah Bastos was born in Paraíba, but lives in Guimarães. With a degree in Portuguese Studies from the University of Minho, she is a member of the Brazilian Studies Group (GEB) and is an autonomous researcher on Afro-diasporic and decolonial experiences. His short story “Papas de aveia” was published by Urutau in the second volume of the anthology collection “Volta para tua Terra”. She coordinates the “Mulheres do Atlântico” club, focused on Afro-diasporic literature produced by women, and is part of the team that organizes the “Minha Poetry Slam” in Guimarães.
Manuella Bezerra de Melo is the author of “Pés Pequenos para Tanto Corpo” (Urutau; 2019, 2023), “Pra que roam os cães nessa hecatombe” (Macabea, 2020), “Um Fado Atlântico” (Urutau, 2022) and “Nova Poesia Brasileira: território, disputa e resistência” (Zouk, 2013). She organized the collection of anthologies “Volta para a tua terra” (Urutau, 2021; 2022) and participated in others as an author, among them “Um Brasil ainda em chamas” (Contracapa, 2022) and “A Boca no ouvido de Alguém” (Através, 2023). She has poems and short stories published in literary magazines in Brazil, Portugal, Spain, Argentina, Angola, Mozambique, Colombia, Mexico, Ecuador and the USA. She is artistic director and director of “Minha Poetry Slam”, in Guimarães. She holds a degree in Social Communication with a specialization in Brazilian Literature, a master’s degree in Theory of Literature and Lusophone Literatures and attends the Doctoral Program in Comparative Modernities at the University of Minho, in the north of Portugal, where she has lived since 2017.
Hannah Bastos was born in Paraíba, but lives in Guimarães. With a degree in Portuguese Studies from the University of Minho, she is a member of the Brazilian Studies Group (GEB) and is an autonomous researcher on Afro-diasporic and decolonial experiences. His short story “Papas de aveia” was published by Urutau in the second volume of the anthology collection “Volta para tua Terra”. She coordinates the “Mulheres do Atlântico” club, focused on Afro-diasporic literature produced by women, and is part of the team that organizes the “Minha Poetry Slam” in Guimarães.
Talks
As faces do racismo na saúde em Portugal.
Curatorship: Samané Assocation.
In the talk “As Faces do Racismo na Saúde em Portugal’, co-curated and moderated by Associação SaMaNe, we talked about the experiences of black and racialized people in accessing and using health services in Portugal, with a special focus on the multiple discriminations that may have experienced.
SaMaNe is an association that works on maternal health issues for black and racialized women in Portugal. The focus of the work is to make visible the difficulties these women encounter during pregnancy, delivery and postpartum. They intend to reach a level of visibility that allows the promotion of the right to equal conditions for black and racialized women who have or intend to have babies in Portugal.
Políticas Migratórias em Portugal.
Curatorship: Casa do Brasil
In the talk “Políticas Migratórias em Portugal” co-curated and moderated by Casa do Brasil in Lisbon, we discussed the major problems of the Portuguese border system, with special focus on the new job search visa and the new changes to the Foreigners’ Law .
Casa do Brasil is a non-profit association of immigrants that, since 1992, has played an active and fundamental role in the reflection, implementation and demand for egalitarian public policies for immigrant communities in Portugal. Through various projects and actions, it develops work in the area of activism, social intervention and the promotion and appreciation of interculturality and integration through art.
Interseccionalidade de migrantes queer: a realidade portuguesa.
Curatorship: Humans Before Borders
In the talk “Interseccionalidade de migrantes queer: a realidade portuguesa” Starting from the uniqueness and complexity of the queer migratory experience, we reflected on how Portugal supports LGBTQI+ migrants or how it is failing them.
HuBB is a collective of well-informed volunteers and activists willing to fight for a world where the rights of refugees and migrants are fulfilled.
Photography.
They took away our voice.
“They took away our voice. So we will tell our story through pictures instead” is the title of the exceptional photographic exhibition which brings together over fifty shots of women who attend photography school.
The “Photography School” was born in northern Greece in November 2020 in a safe space for the female population of the Diavata refugee camp, north of Thessaloniki. From 2020 to February 2023, more than 40 girls and women of the camp aged between 10 and 34 have taken part in the photography school. They come from Afghanistan, Iran, Kurdistan, Iraq, Syria and have stories of oppression, fear, pain, but also of hope and redemption behind them. The project was born with the desire and purpose of giving a voice back to these women whose voice has been taken away. Instead of simply going and taking pictures of them, preferred to give them the tools, techniques and time to be able to talk about themselves. With their photographic works, these women have to their credit, several photographic exhibitions in Europe and prestigious collaborations also with the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR), Doctors Without Borders, Art 4 Humanity and various realities.
Their works have appeared in various international newspapers and magazines (CNN, il Venerdì di Repubblica) and the photos have won various prizes and awards including the “Single Shot” Festival of ethical photography; the World Peace Photo Award; the First prize photography “Champion of Equality; the second place in “Roma Photography”.
The exhibition is conceived by the “Circolo Fotografico Palmarino” and with the support of the Municipality of Palmanova.
If you want, you can purchase their photographs in the Art 4 Humanity website: https://a4humanity.com/29-photographs
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Photography.
Every life matters – About the flight across the Mediterranean Sea.
Sea rescue. This exhibition aims to show what this means. In around 40 pictures taken on rescue missions by the Sea-Eye organisation, the aim of the exhibition isIt show the different dimensions of sea rescue and draw attention to the precarious situation of refugees in the Mediterranean Sea in an artistic setting. Ideally in a not too distant future, civilian sea rescue organisations like Sea-Eye will become unnecessary because there will be state sea rescue or safe escape routes or, at best, people will not have to leave their homes.
Since 2015, Sea-Eye has been active in the Mediterranean with ships financed by donations to rescue people fleeing from distress at sea. These rescue missions usually last several weeks and consist of various stages such as: training the crew outside an European port; searching for and rescuing people in distress at sea; waiting, sometimes for weeks, for a safe port that will allow the ship to dock with the refugees on board.The exhibition also shows these stages.
We are aware that the exhibition shows people in vulnerable moments and we try to deal with this sensitively. Therefore, Sea-Eye does not show faces of refugees.
Furthermore, we are grateful for feedback and suggestions on how the exhibition could look in the future:
Invited Artists.
Raphael Nunes Pacheco
Brazilian, in Portugal since he was 3 years old. Saw the effort and dedication shown by their parents to contribute, adapt and be welcomed in the country. In the middle of all this insecurity and loneliness, escaped into art.
Instagram: @Deslaias
Email: iraphaelnunes@gmail.com
Tatianne Lemos
Varietati is Tatianne Lemos de Araújo Ponte, born and raised in the northeast of Brazil. They are a self-taught artist that walks through various art fields, who started their journey as a tattoo artist, following a very individual style of drawings in a continuous fineline. They strongly believe that art can be in non-institutionalized places and aims to bring awareness to other people regarding these experiences, so that we can be aware of the difficulties of the daily life that we all share.
Instagram: @_varietati @tatitatuink
Maria Clara Lima Pinheiro
Amazonic and brazilian multiartist. Works in many artistic languages such as visual art, urban art, music and fashion and focuses on the amazonical experiences and in the democratization of art.
Email: mariaclaralima1831@gmail.com
Instagram: @mariapinheiroo
Maria Rasheed
Maria Rasheed was born in Syria in 1999 and moved to Lisbon two months ago, where she is staying as a refugee. She studied Fine Arts in the College of Fine Arts of the University of Damascus where she developed special interest towards drawing, sculpting, photography and design.
She moved to Lisbon two months ago, where is currently staying as a refugee. Here, she met the project “Residências Refúgio” and her first collaboration with the project was born.
