La Familia Gitana & ZHA!

Isto é PARTIS & Art for Change 2025

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ZHA!

Aos avós

La Familia Gitana

Saber o que queremos
A Porta de Uma Cabana
Vou Com os Meus Amigos
Destino
Minha Terra
Sou Como o Mar
Marinheiro

ZHA!

É tão bom ser pequenino
de Fernando Maurício e Rodrigo Bueno
Penso em ti
Gratidão

La Familia Gitana & ZHA!

Improvisação

La Familia Gitana (The Roma Family) is a group of young musicians from Bairro do Fim do Mundo (Cascais), united by their blood ties and their desire to share Romani culture with the world. ZHA! is a community-based project stemming from a desire to promote the living traditions of Roma communities.

Brought together by their pleasure and pride in Romani art, ZHA! joins La Familia Gitana for a joint show that combines music and dance with original repertoires and songs that are part of the legacy of Romani culture.

ZHA! is promoted by Visões Úteis Associação and funded by PARTIS & Art for Change.

Image ©João Octávio Peixoto

ZHA! is a community project stemming from a desire to promote the living traditions of the Roma communities and to develop a work of participation and co-creation based on their artistic and cultural heritage, in the city of Porto. Through creative, educational and artistic activities, it aims to take action against the social exclusion of this ethnic minority by valuing, preserving and disseminating its cultural practices, promoting personal and social skills for greater empowerment of its participants and demystifying beliefs and preconceptions around Roma communities, facilitating their integration in more inclusive and participative paths through life. This project has culminated in the recording of the album É a nossa vez! (It's our turn!), with 8 original songs and 3 video clips, launched at a Listening Party at the Batalha Cinema Center; the LARAY show presented at the TMP Rivoli Grand Auditorium; the doc.ZHA! - a documentary released as part of the final meeting, again at Batalha; and also the website to publicize the project and an essay on action-research reflection, with the project as a case study.

La Familia Gitana is a group of young musicians from Bairro do Fim do Mundo, in Cascais. Ari was the driving force behind this dream, and his guitar was soon joined by Rui on guitar, Hugo and BA on cajon drums, and Ângelo’s vocals, as well as the more recent addition of Moisés on keyboard. Inspired by the legacy of their parents and extended family, who often join them on the stage, they decided to transform their own social events and parties into moments of sharing with other audiences. They grew, they believed and after they took to the stage for the first time in December 2016, as part of a community project – Take.it – where they also rehearsed and created, they participated in a educational project – Oficina Portátil de Artes (Portable Arts Workshop) – before moving on to bigger stages, more diverse audiences and the possibility of taking Roma music to more people.


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Credits

La Familia Gitana

Voice

Ângelo Vasques

Guitar

Ari Monteiro

Rui Marques

Cajon

Ângelo Quintino (B.A)

Hugo Fernandes

Keyboard

Moisés Montoya

Dancers

Miriam Vasques e Tatiana Soares

ZHA!

Artistic direction

Inês de Carvalho

Social direction

André Sousa

Movement direction

Marta Coutinho

Video

Vasco Mendes

Performers

Elton Prudêncio (voz, guitarra), Eltynha Prudêncio (voz, palmas), Fernanda de Córdoba (voz, guitarra), Francisca Durão (zapateo flamenco, palmas), José “El Pájaro” Ausina (voz, cajón, palmas), Letícia Maia (dança, palmas), Marta Coutinho (dança, palmas), Micael Soares (voz, palmas), Rui Maia (dança, palmas, voz), Vítor Maia (voz, piano, palmas), Vitor Huguinho Maia (cajón, palmas), Zé Carlinhos Prudêncio (cajón, palmas)

Video participants

António Ribeiro (Beirinho), Fátima Ribeiro, Filomena Francês, José Cabreira (Zé Vilhaça), José Carlos Prudêncio (Zé Carlos), José Maria Fernandes (Zé Maria), Licínia Maia, Lúcia Fernandes, António Maia (Espanhol), Maria Glória Miguel (Suani)

Production coordination

Cláudia Alfaiate

Accounting

Helena Madeira

Production

Visões Úteis

Funded by

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