The group of bumba-meu-boi Touro da Ilha is heir to large cattlemen in the northern area of Teresina. Symbol of resistance! The only battalion in activity today, which remains under the command of Mr. Chiquinho. Most of its players were taught by masters such as Pedro Barros, Boi Estrela Dalva (Parque Alvorada) and Mr Valdemar, former owner of Terror do Nordeste (Poti Velho). Matracas, chiadeiras (maracás) and leather tambourines enliven the game. Dance, singing and theater mix. Caboclos of feather and caboclas of ribbon guide the group in their presentations through the streets of the city.
Despite being concentrated in the months of June and July, the activities of Bumba-meu-boi Touro da Ilha last the whole year. On Hallelujah Saturday, it is the birth of the ox. The group meets, prays a rosary, and the battalion meetings begin shortly thereafter. It's time to rehearse the choreographies, learn new tunes and remember the old ones. At the bonfire of São João, June 23, the ox is baptized. The godfathers and godmothers bless the toy and the group. That way the battalion can appear on the street, properly protected. Between August and September, the ox is killed in a great ritual festival that takes place between August and September. Year after year, tradition is reinvigorated and reborn in the North Zone!
Bumba-meu-boi Island Bull
Ancestry, Faith and Hope
Ronald Moura
Ronald Moura is an attentive photographer and social communicator, in solidarity with the struggles of Good Hope. This essay was carried out by him, in 2017, during the Popular Communication Project - Women in the Terreiros da Esperança, organized by the Ferreira de Sousa Defense Center and by Flores.Ser Comunicação Coletiva.
His sensitive gaze manages, in this essay and in many others, to reach the singularities in the daily life of ReExistência of the Boa Esperança community. Faith, spirituality, ancestry, places of affection, childhood and games are some key words that refer to this work.
In the images you can find the house of Santo do Pai Joceilson, Dona Davina and her altar of strength, faith and light, as well as children playing between São Joaquim and Cristo Rei. These are pieces of images that make up everyday life.
Por Maurício Pokemon
Por Maurício Pokemon
Por Maurício Pokemon
EXISTENCE
Mauritius Pokemon
EXISTENCE emerged on Av. Boa Esperança, a peripheral region and birthplace of the city of Teresina. This has been lashed by urban “modernization” projects which print a violent social, natural and cultural sanitation, without any listening to the region's inhabitants: descendants of Indians, cowboys, quilombolas, rezadeiras, potters and fishermen.
Riverside men and women were photographed in their backyards overlooking the river, and began to star in life-size walls in more valued areas of the city. Discussions were inscribed on faces and streets via the Collage technique, confronting the forged devices of advertising and consumption. The action managed to reactivate the eyes of the press and society for that struggle, which still resists; and gave rise to an artistic research platform in riverside communities by Maurício Pokemon, entitled EXISTENCE.
Through the SESC Amazônia das Artes 2017 program, the artist traveled through 10 states in the Legal Amazon, immersing himself in other locations and getting closer to his ways of existing. In this stage of the work, the artist expanded his investigation into the possibilities of dialogue with vestiges of urban subjectivity, such as the Pixo, posters, signs and murals previously marked on the walls.
Por Maurício Pokemon
Por Maurício Pokemon
Por Maurício Pokemon
Por Maurício Pokemon
good hope green inventory
Mauritius Pokemon
Teresina was born as Vila Nova do Poti, from riverside communities of indigenous and quilombola ancestry, who lived in what is now the northern part of the city. In an aerial mapping of the city's urban area, we have the Avenida Boa Esperança region as one of the few with preserved native vegetation and an intrinsic relationship with the livelihood of those who live there: fishermen, mourners, artisans, potters... However, the community it is going through a critical moment of “modernization” and a threat to its existence—which also means a threat to the anthropological, cultural and natural conditions, so specific and vibrant in that region.
Maurício Pokemon made new immersions with Good Hope between November 2018 and March 2019.
In this period of residence between the avenue and Campo Arte Contemporânea, the artist produced an inventory of analogue photographs on the literal and symbolic relationships of those people with the green. The coexistence with riverside dwellers and the landscapes that surround them generated witness images of the organic dialogue between the community's daily life and the nature of the riverside, and resulted in an exhibition at Campo Arte Contemporânea linked to interventions in community homes, in May and June 2019: the Green Inventory of Good Hope.
Sarah Fontenelle
Sarah Fontenelle
Sarah Fontenelle
Sarah Fontenelle
Sarah Fontenelle
On Paruca's table there is cure, there is watermelon and there is pumpkin. It has letters, faith, saints, poems, stories of intertwined lives. The entire house in Paruca breathes. Her house is a cosmos. The whole house is your body. Walls made of poems. Bookshelves made of cards. Tables made of recipes against loneliness. Everything that is made of healing herb there is.
How then to get out of this place? No, she replies that she will fight. And if necessary, turn into a rattlesnake. Body-House-Mind-Spirit-Territory-Paruca, how to dismember the pieces intertwined by space-time?
There are hardly so many memories in this small record made by journalist Sarah Fontenelle Santos, in March 2020, after the visit of the Inspection Panel of the World Bank in the Boa Esperança community. At the time, we also mapped territories and their re-Existences. Paruca, before the World representatives, defended his place as a snake that needs the earth. After the toil, we went to his house in search of one more finger of affection and one more reason to fight.
Paruca's Letters
Luciana Rebordosa
Luciana Rebordosa
Luciana Rebordosa
Luciana Rebordosa
painting our fight
Luciana LuRebordosa
Pintando Nossa Luta, title created by one of the children who participated in the graffiti workshop by artist LuRebordosa (Luciana Leite). This photo essay that eternalizes colors, longings and desires from childhood to adults, is the result of a mobilizing action of affections, carried out by the artist in the community. With some spray paint cans, an idea in her head and a lot of energy, she brought together the people of the community to put the dreams of territories on the walls. These walls and walls also live, they smell and color, they are more than concrete, they are dwellings. Housing that is body, that is spirit, that is territory.