{"id":73439,"date":"2023-01-25T11:01:58","date_gmt":"2023-01-25T14:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/?p=73439"},"modified":"2023-08-14T09:12:17","modified_gmt":"2023-08-14T12:12:17","slug":"urban-peripheries-literary-festival-comes-to-mare-for-the-first-time-and-pays-homage-to-marielle-franco-lima-barreto-and-pai-santana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/?p=73439","title":{"rendered":"Rio’s Urban Peripheries Literary Festival Comes to Mar\u00e9 and Pays Homage to Marielle Franco, Lima Barreto and Pai Santana"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The 12th edition of FLUP took place at the Mar\u00e9 Arts Center in Nova Holanda from December 5 to 11, 2022. The title for FLUP 2022 was Mar\u00e9 de Periferias. Photo: FLUP Collection<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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The Urban Peripheries Literary Festival, commonly known as FLUP<\/a>, is an international literary event held in the favelas and peripheries of Rio de Janeiro\u2014areas traditionally excluded from literary fair circuits and book festivals. In 2022, the 12th edition of the event took place at the Mar\u00e9 Arts Center (CAM<\/a>), located in the North Zone favela of Nova Holanda<\/a> in the Mar\u00e9 Complex, from December 5 to 11. The title chosen for FLUP 2022 was Mar\u00e9 de Periferias<\/a><\/em>, a play on the name of the host community, meaning \u201ctide of peripheries.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Welcome banners at the event. Photo: FLUP Collection<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The event has previously been held in the favelas of Prazeres<\/a>, Vidigal<\/a>, Babil\u00f4nia<\/a>, Mangueira<\/a>, and in 2019 was held at the Rio de Janeiro Museum of Art (MAR<\/a>). During the pandemic, the event was taken online, returning to in-person at the 2022 edition.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll those involved in the 12th edition of FLUP worked to blur the boundaries that distance Brazil or bring it closer to Mar\u00e9. But there\u2019s no denying that much more than defining what\u2019s at the center and what\u2019s on the edge [of the city], it\u2019s this division that allows the State to come here with tanks, rifles and boots at the door in a genocidal disrespect [for residents] which will someday be condemned by history.\u201d \u2014 Julio Ludemir, general director of FLUP<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In the introduction letter and invitation to the event<\/a>, Ludemir expressed hope that FLUP will reach all audiences: \u201cMay FLUP invade Brazil. May Brazil invade Mar\u00e9. And in these ebbs and flows, may we finally erase the fictitious lines that separate us from ourselves.”<\/p>\n

The event held a series of debates<\/a> with the title Quilombo do Lima<\/a><\/em> with the intention of celebrating writer Lima Barreto<\/a>. There were also launches of literary works and various musical performances as well as the semi-finals and finals of the National Slam and School Slam poetry competitions.<\/p>\n

On the first day, the festival opened with a beautiful ceremony Saluting the Orix\u00e1s<\/em><\/a>, reaffirming the commitment to anti-racist struggles and religious freedom<\/a>. Following the opening ceremony was the launch of the book Pai Santana, the Orix\u00e1 of Soccer<\/em><\/a> by Ecio Salles<\/a>, author and also one of the founders and organizers of FLUP, who passed away in 2019. The book was Salles\u2019 final intellectual work and is a biography of Eduardo Santana, known as Pai Santana<\/a>, former masseur at the Vasco da Gama sports club and an important figure with respect to religions of African origin.<\/p>\n

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Performance by the group Awur\u00ea. Photo: FLUP Collection<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The first day of FLUP closed with a lot of music, including performances by Bahian trapper Evy, singer Kamy<\/a>, and pagode group No Lance<\/a>. There was also a samba circle performance by group Awur\u00ea<\/a> which was created with the aim of celebrating and reclaiming the importance of African influence in Brazilian culture, identity, and ancestral awareness.<\/p>\n

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Performance by the group Awur\u00ea. Photo: FLUP Collection<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The second and third days of the event were filled with poetry, featuring the opening and qualifying rounds of the National Slam competition on December 6 and the final of the Mar\u00e9 School Slam on December 7, won by poet and Mar\u00e9 resident Stacy Ferreira. Math de Ara\u00fajo<\/a>\u2014School Slam mentor, poet and writer from Mar\u00e9\u2014said it was a surprise to be invited to participate in the project. He had the task of orienting other poets from two different groups, one from Redes da Mar\u00e9<\/a> and another from Fight for Peace<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\u201cI was remembering how I became interested [in poetry], so it was almost like a return to my past to see these young people that are just starting\u2026 Slam is just a game to grab attention. The real purpose is what comes beyond it. We write poetry from the need to translate and think about our reality.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Poet Deley de Acari and School Slam champion Stacy Ferreira. Photo: FLUP Collection<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

On the same day the event held the roundtable Intimate Diary: When Writing Itself Translates the World<\/em>. The discussion was mediated by Ang\u00e9lica Ferrarez<\/a> and included the participation of Concei\u00e7\u00e3o Evaristo<\/a>, multi-award-winning Brazilian author, and Yanick Lahens<\/a>, Haitian author and winner of the Prix Femina<\/a> for her novel Moonbath<\/a><\/em>. The event closed with samba and poetry performances with Lucas Afonso and Nova Raiz do Samba<\/a>.<\/p>\n