Alkantara Festival 2025: Full programme launch

The full programme of the Alkantara Festival 2025 will be presented on 22 October at Galerias Municipais - Galeria Quadrum, by 6:30 pm.

On the same day, we celebrate the opening of Denilson Baniwa’s first solo exhibition in Lisbon: Contra-feitiço. This exhibition marks the beginning of a public sharing of a long journey of dialogues and reflections, focusing on a critique of institutional policies of disappearance, conservation, and memory that cut across and connect Brazil and Portugal. The exhibition (curated by Ritó Natálio / Terra Batida) openening will be accompanied by a show-concert-ritual by Brisa Flow.

The event will have Portuguese Sign Language interpretation.

Alkantara Festival 2025 takes place from 14 and 23 November at Centro Cultural de Belém, CAM – Centro de Arte Moderna Gulbenkian, Culturgest, Teatro do Bairro Alto, Sala Estúdio Valentim de Barros/Jardins do Bombarda (através Teatro Nacional D. Maria II), Galerias Municipais - Galeria Quadrum, ZDB 8 Marvila, Carpintarias de São Lázaro and Espaço Alkantara.


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Bios

Denilson Baniwa

Denilson Baniwa is an Amazonian artist from the Baniwa nation. Their work is grounded in research on the appearances and disappearances of Indigenous peoples in Brazil’s Official History. At the same time, Denilson explores Indigenous cosmologies and their artistic representations as a possible method to share ancestral knowledge and create a database of these cosmologies, thereby safeguarding them. They have participated in exhibitions at CCBB, Pinacoteca de São Paulo, CCSP, Centro de Artes Hélio Oiticica, Museu Afro Brasil, MASP, MAR, Museu do Amanhã, the Sydney Biennale, São Paulo Biennale, Getty Museum in Los Angeles, Museo Amparo in Mexico, Inhotim, among others. In 2024, Denilson Baniwa were one of the curators of the Brazilian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale.


Brisa Flow

Brisa de La Cordillera is a Mapurbe Marrona singer who blends rap with ancestral chants, jazz, electronic music, and neo/soul. Better known as Brisa Flow, she is a transdisciplinary artist working across musical languages and active in the artistic scene as a singer, music producer, performer, researcher, and arts educator. A hip hop MC and daughter of Araucanian artisans, she researches and champions contemporary Indigenous music, the arts of Indigenous peoples, and rap as essential tools to combat epistemicide.