CBESA Co-curates FLUP Festival in Brazil
CBESA was invited to curate the 2024 edition of the FLUP Literary Festival in Rio de Janeiro on November 11-17th. Established in 2012, the international literary festival has welcomed hundreds of artists and writers from the Black diaspora: Patricia Hill Collins, Bernardine Evaristo, Marie Ndiaye, Felwine Sarr, Rokhaya Diallo, Angela Davis, Saul Williams, Patrick Chamoiseau, Yanick Lahens etc.
Organized as a tribute to Beatriz Nascimento, FLUP 2024 reaffirmed Brazil's position as a central axis of global blackness. Nascimento was a Brazilian historian, teacher, screenwriter, poet and human rights activist who paved crucial paths between Brazil, the Caribbean and Africa. Her pioneering studies on quilombo, candomblé and black feminism defied dominant Western narratives and centered Black, black agency and the importance of Brazil in global circulations of Blackness. A victim of feminicide in 1995, Nascimento's work has been recovered in the last decade, particularly thanks to the efforts of Black Brazilian feminists.
The 2024 edition of the festival saw over 14,000 attendees with 214 guest panelists from 82 countries.
The first panel "ATHLETES, ACTRESSES AND SINGERS" a part of the Stories of Afrodiasporic Women converstaion on November 11th kicked off the Festival.
On stage were panelists: Geralda Ferraz, Simony Anjos, Maria Ribeiro, Joanice Conceição, Fabiana Sousa, Antonildes Pires and moderator: Lucia Helena
