Conceição Evaristo is the opening act at Festival da Palavra de Curitiba 2024 which runs in Curitiba, Brazil from June 16 – 22, 2024. The festival theme is “Resistance.”
Festival da Palavra de Curitiba (English: Curitiba Word Festival) was first hosted in the Brazilian city of Curitiba in 2023. That edition ran from September 27 to October 1 bringing together national and foreign guests to explore the richness and intersections of the word in various manifestations: literature, dance, music, theatre, activism, and more. Some of the standout guests of the one hundred who featured were Mozambican Paulina Chiziane, the first black woman to win the Camões Prize in 2021, and the Portuguese José Luís Peixoto, winner of the José Saramago Prize in 2001.
The second edition is set to return to the town in South Western Brazil this month with a series of activities starting on June 16. With the theme “Resistance”, the festival will provide an intense week of debates, workshops, performances and tributes, bringing together big names in national and international literature, from books to slam.
There will be 200 guests, 150 from Brazil and 50 internationals, such as Conceição Evaristo, Luiza Romão, Maria Adelaide Amaral, Daniel Munduruku, Liliana Heker, João Almino, Maria Valéria Rezende and many others.
“The festival brings together names and themes that contemplate the diversity of voices and perspectives in a great celebration of the word in its most diverse manifestations, bringing together knowledge and experiences in the scene of literature, dance, theatre, music, and other developments,” said event curator Luci Collin.
This year’s edition pays homage to two big names: Conceição Evaristo, who will open the event with the presentation E Escritovência, on June 16th, at 8 pm, and Paulo Leminski, poet and writer from Curitiba, who will turn 80 in 2024.
If you are in that part of the country please check out the festival; here is the full program.
