
La Familia Gitana & ZHA!
Isto é PARTIS & Art for Change 2025
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La Familia Gitana
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La Familia Gitana & ZHA!
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
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