Starts this Saturday (27) to 19th Paraty International Literary Festival (Flip). In its second edition, held completely virtual, the event will have two to three tables per day until December 5th and will bring together Brazilian and foreign writers and intellectuals.
Among the guests are the Canadian Margaret Atwood, American Alice Walker and the miners Ailton Krenak e Conceição Evaristo. All programming will be broadcast on Flip’s YouTube channel, where it is already possible to activate reminders to follow the tables this weekend.
The opening debate of the event’s main program will take place this Saturday at 4 pm. The indigenous filmmaker and leader Carlos Dad talk with Cristine Takuá, professor and founder of Instituto Maracá, an NGO for the protection and dissemination of indigenous heritage.
The guests at the table will unfold the conversation from the end Guarani Nhéry, guiding the entire Flip 2021 program. Nhe’éry (pronounced nheeri) is how the Guarani people refer to the Atlantic Forest, the forest formation with the most biodiversity in the world.
Unlike past editions, which chose an honored author, this year’s event was designed by five curators who proposed a central theme for the debate.
Another change in this edition of the party is the choice to pay a collective tribute rather than recognizing a single writer. Thus, this year’s tribute goes to all indigenous thinkers, connoisseurs and masters who had their lives interrupted by Covid-19.
According to the curatorial text of the 19th Flip, collective issues such as the climate crisis, social inequality and the Covid-19 pandemic mobilized the organization of the event to propose a reflection on other ways of being in the world.
“Flip flourished in a municipality that has a significant part of its territory occupied by socio-environmental protection areas, in a region recognized as a Mixed World Heritage Site by UNESCO, a title that in itself instigates the obligation to never separate culture and nature”, he argues the text.
Tying this theme to the main proposal of the event, the material highlights the importance of literature to think about the world and the relationship with the plant kingdom, citing some examples of literary masterpieces that had an important focus on plants: Guimarães Rosa, Clarice Lispector, Fernando Pessoa, Mãe Stella de Oxóssi and Emily Dickinson are highlighted in the text.
See below the presentation of the curators of the 19th Paraty International Literary Festival:
Brother Vianna, an anthropologist by training, coordinates the work of this curatorial collective made up of Anna Dantes, a collaborator of the Viva Huni Kuin School for over ten years and one of the founders of Selvagem – Cycle of studies on life.
Evando Nascimento, writer and philosopher, pioneer in the reflection on literature and plants in Brazil.
João Paulo Lima Barreto, anthropologist of the Tukano people, from Alto Rio Negro, founder of the Indigenous Medicine Center in Manaus.
Pedro Meira Monteiro, professor at Princeton University and one of the founders of the Amazon Poetics workshop, at the University’s Brazil LAB.
Reference: CNN Brasil
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