Ehuana Yaira Yanomami

The Yanomami people have lived for millennia in land on the border between Brazil and Venezuela. For decades now, illegal gold mining has been destroying their rainforest habitat and threatening their existence as a people. Their rivers, plants, traditions, language, health, and lives are in danger. Confronting this extractivist threat, the Yanomami leader Ehuana Yaira uses her art to resist and exist, to testify against the violence suffered by her community every single day, and to show the strength of the female rainforest.

Still living in the village of Watorikɨ (Serra dos Ventos), where she is raising her four children, Ehuana Yaira, speaks with the journalist and writer Eliane Brum and the anthropologist and translator from Yanomami Ana Maria A Machado about the present situation of the Yanomami, and about her art as a form of expression and protest. This session is jointly organized with Survival international.

The conversation will be followed by the screening of the film A Queda do Céu as part of the Barcelona Independent Film Festival, l’Alternativa. Tickets for the screening available here. 

This conversation takes places within the framework of Resident CCCB, an international residency program of the CCCB in collaboration with Universitat Oberta de Catalunya and supported by Fundació Privada MIR-PUIG.