Amazons

Nukuri kahtiro turi: the plant world

Talk with João Paulo Lima Barreto and Karen Shiratori

The indigenous peoples of the northeastern Amazon, especially the Yepamahsã (or Tukano), see the plant world as the clothing of the earth. From this point of view, deforestation is considered to be the act of stripping the land. ...

«Cuencas Sagradas». A Journey to Indigenous Governance

Thirty indigenous nations in the upper Amazon, in Ecuador and Peru, are self-organizing in the «Cuencas Sagradas»  alliance to defend the jungle. In this session, the Achuar indigenous leader Uyunkar Domingo Peas Nampichkai talks with journalists Francesc Badia ...

A Piece of Land: The Beginnings and The End

Júlia Viejobueno Cavallé

A look at the future of the rural class and the difficulties involved in sustaining a way of life and of understanding the world.

Claudi Carreras and Andrés Cardona advocate for a deeper understanding of Amazonian culture

As part of the exhibition “Amazons. The Ancestral Future”

Claudi Carreras, the exhibition’s curator, and Andrés Cardona, a photographer from Caquetá, Colombia, have undertaken extensive research and audiovisual documentation on the Amazonian region, which is now on display at the CCCB’s exhibition. In this conversation, they ...

Archaeology of the Jungle

A Morning with Eduardo Neves

Eduardo Neves, the archaeologist of reference in the study of the Amazon jungle, overturns the false conception of “virgin forest” and shows how Amazonia today is the product of thousands of years of indigenous occupation. The session has a pedagogical dossier (in ...

Eduardo Neves

Wild Memory

The archaeologist Eduardo Neves has worked to debunk the myth of the Amazon as a realm without humans, pointing out that it was intensely populated by Indigenous societies which shaped it to become the centre of biodiversity for which is known today, but which is also being ever more rapidly destroyed. In recovering the memory of the rainforest, archaeology shows that another world is possible because other worlds have already been possible.

Soundscapes of the Northwest Amazon: Rhythms, Land and Culture in Pará

Natalia Figueredo

A journey through the evolution of the different musical styles present in Amazonia and their connection with the land.

Txai Suruí

Postponing the End of the World

The activist and youth leader Txai Suruí speaks with the journalist and writer Eliane Brum about the struggle of young people who are trying to combat the climate crisis in Brazil, and about the resistance of Indigenous communities against extractivism, deforestation, enormous fires, and about bodies that make it possible to postpone the end of the world.

Defending the Rights of the Jungle

A morning with Patricia Gualinga

In this conversation, Patricia Gualinga, leader of the Kichwa people and renowned activist, will be talking about the Living Forest and the resistance of her people, an international reference in the defence of indigenous territorial and cultural rights. The session has a pedagogical ...

Patricia Gualinga

Living Forest

Patricia Gualinga, climate activist and defender of women’s rights, whose work has been recognised with the Olof Palme Prize, speaks with the journalist and writer Eliane Brum about the long struggle of the Kichwa people of Sarayaku, in the Ecuadorian Amazon rainforest, to defend nature and the lives of Indigenous peoples.

Eliane Brum: “The climate collapse is the responsibility of a minority"

Eliane Brum is a journalist and writer, and one of the leading voices in exploring the environmental and political struggles of the Amazon. Brum highlights how a powerful and predatory minority is destroying the rainforest and violating the rights of indigenous peoples and communities along ...

Ehuana Yaira Ianomami

Gigantic Women

The artist, researcher, and Yanomami leader Ehuana Yaira Yanomami speaks about the body-land viewpoint of rainforest women and tells the journalist and writer, Eliane Brum about the present situation of her people who are threatened with genocide by illegal mining.

Amazonia, Placing Life at the Centre

A morning with Eliane Brum

Brazilian journalist Eliane Brum highlights the central role of the Amazon in facing the urgent challenge of radically rethinking who we are and how we relate to the environment. The session has a pedagogical dossier (in Catalan) so that the students can work on the ...

Eliane Brum and Gabi Martínez

The Amazon and climate change

What keys can the Amazon give us to radically change the way we relate to the world? What can we learn from peoples who have not separated themselves from nature? Inaugural conference of the ALIA educational programme for the 2024-2025 academic year.

The Cultures of the Jungle

A morning with Rember Yahuarcani

Artist Rember Yahuarcani, a well-known painter and activist from the north of Amazonia in Peru, talks about the ancestral history of the Witoto people of the Amazon jungle and the potential of making indigenous cultures known. The session has a pedagogical dossier (in Catalan) ...

The Political Nature of the Forest

Paulo Tavares

The rainforest is an engineered construction resulting from the diverse ways in which indigenous societies relate to it.