Ciranda: Saberes
Anna Zêpa e Maria Giulia Pinheiro
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Date
- 18:00 / Cancelled 18:00 / Sold out Thursday, 18:00
Location
Room 1 Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
Ciranda: Saberes is a special edition of Ciranda: Jogo de Palavra Falada, a poetry gathering inspired by poetry slam, created in 2018 by Brazilian poets Anna Zêpa and Maria Giulia Pinheiro.
In three rounds, artists read or interpret works by deceased authors, reviving their poetry through the spoken word. The proposal combines tradition and contemporaneity, activates memories and opens space for other narratives.
In this edition, the knowledge summoned comes from thinkers from across Brazil whose works do not necessarily occupy the shelves of ‘literature’, but whose legacies are central to understanding Brazil.
In this edition, André Tecedeiro reads Estamira (GO), Gisela Casimiro reads Stella do Patrocínio (RJ), Izabelle Louise reads Nêgo Bispo (PI), Natacha Campos reads Carolina Maria de Jesus (MG) and Tatiana Salem Levy reads Jaider Esbell (RO). In addition to the guest readers, we will also have an open mic during the event, subject to registration.
This event is part of the complementary programme of the exhibition complexo brasil, curated by José Miguel Wisnik, Guilherme Wisnik and Milena Britto.
Biographies
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André Tecedeiro
Poet, playwright and visual artist. He has a degree in Painting (FBAUL) and Psychology (FPUL). He has a master’s degree in Visual Arts and Occupational Psychology. He has published eight books of poetry in Portugal, Brazil, Colombia and Spain, including A Axila de Egon Schiele (Porto Editora, 2020), recommended by the National Reading Plan. His poems have been featured in more than twenty literary magazines and anthologies. He has written seven plays, premiering in 2025 O Lago dos Cisnes (Teatro do Vão, CCB); Começar Tudo outra Vez (Raquel André and Tonan Quito, Culturgest ) and Trote Torto (Ana Luena & José Miguel Soares).
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Anna Zêpa
Anna Zêpa (Natal, 1983) is a poet and artist working in literature, cinema and theatre. She has published four books: Primeiro Corte (2013), aconvivênciadosnossosrastros (2015), Da perda à pedra a queda é livre (2016 and 2024) and Instantes Manhãs (2019). In addition to Ciranda, she is part of the literary projects 37GRAUS (literary-musical show), Litheratório (poetic sound laboratory) and Jusante (poetic-musical album with names from Brazilian slam). She has written lyrics in musical partnerships with Kiko Dinucci, Meno Del Picchia, Zé Nigro and Jonathan Silva. She is a master’s student in Film Project Development at ESTC/IPL and a founding partner of Rabo de Olho Filmes.
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Gisela Casimiro
Gisela Casimiro (Bissau, 1984) is an artist, writer, translator, speaker and activist. She has published Erosão, Giz and Estendais. She wrote the plays Casa com Árvores Dentro and Vida: Uma Aplicação. She supported the dramaturgy of Blackface, by Marco Mendonça, and the creation of Belonging, by Raquel André. She has translated Thomas Sankara, Audre Lorde, Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, Julian Knxxx, and Stella Nyanzi. He has exhibited works at Armário, Balcony, ZDB, Municipal Galleries of Porto, Lisbon and Almada, MACE, Appleton and the Emanoel Araújo Afro-Brazil Museum. He is part of the António Cachola collection. She co-founded UNA – União Negra das Artes.
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Izabelle Louise
Izabelle Louise was born between the mangrove swamp and the sea, between Fortaleza and Itarema (1996, Ceará, Brazil), between words and images. She is a descendant of the Tremembé indigenous people and a PhD student in Fine Arts at the University of Lisbon, with a period of academic mobility at the Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg. She researches and creates based on the relationship between indigenous cinema and enchantment, which she has named enchanted image.
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Maria Giulia Pinheiro
Maria Giulia Pinheiro (São Paulo, 1990) is a creator, playwright, director and cultural agitator. A doctoral student at the University of Coimbra, she received the New Female Playwright Award in 2022. She is the author of six books of poetry and drama and serves as artistic director of FALA. Creator of shows such as Viemos Roubar os Vossos Maridos (2025) and performance projects such as Todo Mundo SLAM (2019-2025) and Slam no CAM (2025-2026) and Ginginha Poética (2019-2025), she also develops training spaces such as Núcleo de Dramaturgia Feminista (2017–2025) and ZONA lê (2014-2025). Her work has been presented in Brazil, Europe and Africa.
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Natacha Campos
Natacha Campos is the daughter of Angolan parents, born in the late 1990s, and has been involved in dance, theatre and performance. Her research focuses on the confrontation between the visible and the invisible, the intimate and the public, in an attempt to find common denominators in the seemingly antagonistic.
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Tatiana Salem Levy
Tatiana Salem Levy is a writer, researcher at NOVA University Lisbon, and columnist for the newspaper Valor Econômico. She has published the novels A Chave de Casa(São Paulo Literature Prize), Dois Rios, Paraíso, Vista Chinesa and Melhor não contar. She is also the author of two children’s books, Curupira Pirapora (FNLIJ Award) and Tanto Mar (ABL Award), the essay A experiência do fora: Blanchot, Foucault e Deleuze and the book O Mundo Não Vai Acabar, which brings together chronicles published since 2014. Selected by the British magazine Granta as one of the 20 best young Brazilian writers, her books have been published in 16 countries.
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