Recife hosts cultural event to celebrate afro-diasporic traditions

Cultural producers Priscila Ferraz and Tayná Passos organized the Ebó: Tradições e Resistência meeting at the Ilê Dùn cultural space in the Barro neighborhood of Recife, Brazil.

The event serves as the culmination of a project designed to preserve collective memory and ancestral knowledge through art, education, and gastronomy. The gathering features a diverse program including live painting by the artist Bia, known as MatrizB, and performances ranging from spoken word poetry to traditional music.

The schedule includes storytelling for children, a multi-language performance by Falik, and musical sets by Coco do Rosário, Maria Pagodinho, and Poli. The event also hosts a poetry slam for cis and trans women organized by Slam das Minas PE. The organizers included a fair for black women entrepreneurs to promote local economic autonomy and creative economy.

Four independent businesses are participating, offering products such as beauty items for black skin, handmade crochet pieces, ethnic-racial literature for children, and original jewelry. The project follows a series of training workshops held in 2026 on subjects like botanical printing and sustainable crafts. The initiative grew from a 2024 poetry gathering in the Boa Vista neighborhood. It received financial support from the Recife Municipal Culture Incentive System.

The project aims to create spaces for circulating traditional knowledge that remains active within local communities.