Throughout this month, as occurs annually, several cultural spaces promote activities to honor the more than 300 peoples originating from the country. In the state capital, the tickets of the Museum of Indigenous Cultures are already exhausted for the launch, on the morning of next Thursday (17), Manifesto in defense of the tipping of the Atlantic Forest biome as Brazilian material and immaterial heritage Link 1.
Representatives of indigenous peoples living in the Atlantic Forest will be present at the eventmembers of civil society, research institutions and environmental and cultural organizations. The manifesto intends to call as much as possible to engage in the active protection of the biome.
According to data collected by the National Institute for Space Research (INPE) and released by SOS Atlantic Forest and Mapbiomas, in the first half of 2023, more than 4,300 occurrences of deforestation, more than 47 thousand hectares devastated and an average area of 11 hectares of vegetation loss were recorded.
In the first half of 2024, the picture improved. About 2,200 cases were reported, with an area of 21 thousand hectares deforested and an average area of 9.6 hectares.
They are still high numbers and, as the investigation indicates, agriculture continues to star in deforestation.
Next weekend, the indigenous movement agenda is fullabove all, in Vila Itororó, formed by houses of the 1920s. In the neighborhood of Penha, East Zone of São Paulo, the Wassu Indigenous Group, led by Yuri Wassu of Wassu Cocal ethnicity, invites people of all ages to know typical games of the original peoples. The activity will be 1 hour 30 minutes long and will be held on Saturday (19), at 16h, at Espaço Mario Zan, in Largo do Rosário, 20, Penha de França. Admission is free.
With the support of the Municipal Secretariat of Culture, artists indigenous people will also make presentations and conversation wheels, with the themes Memory, Fight and Resistance and Sao Paulo is indigenous land. One of the highlights is the show of singer and songwriter Kaê Guajajara, born in Maranhão and created in a community of Maré, Rio de Janeiro. Consolidated exponent of original popular music, it will go up on the Éden stage of Vila Itororó, in the Bela Vista neighborhood, at 19h, on Saturday (19). The attraction has free admission.
To learn more about the programming, go to the São Paulo City Hall website.
