Programme

16:00 - 18:30 Macramé amulet workshop
19:00 - 22:00 Maracatu workshop
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16:00 – 18:30 Macramé amulet workshop

Join Reinventades for a creative macramé amulet workshop where you will learn basic knotting techniques and create your own necklace using thread, beads, and a gemstone of your choice. During the workshop, you will reflect on a personal intention or quality you would like your amulet to represent, such as confidence, focus, or creativity.

You will be guided through the different steps of the process, with plenty of space to experiment and make the design your own. No previous experience is needed: all materials are provided. A relaxed workshop to meet other students, try something new, and create a handmade piece with personal meaning.

19:00 – 21:00 Maracatu workshop by Baque Flamingo

Originating as an Afro-Brazilian anti-colonial resistance, Maracatu is a percussive musical ensemble and a decolonial practice. By drumming together, we physically take up space and demonstrate how cultural expression serves as both a shield and a weapon.

Baque Flamingo is a collective founded in 2019, in which they play Maracatu de Baque Virado, from the Northeast of Brazil. They play and sing to bring about change, connection, and empowerment in ourselves and around us. They fight for queer liberation, anti-racism, economic equality, feminism, environmentalism, and religious freedom. Most importantly, they act in solidarity with communities that actively resist against structures of oppression. That is why it is so important to them to learn from Maracatu Nations and support their continued manifestation and resistance.