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Home News Tales from the foot of the Baobab

15 Oct 2014

Tales from the foot of the Baobab


The baobab is perhaps the world’s most ancient living thing, reaching up to 6,000 years old. A tree that has witnessed times immemorial, and is the guardian of all its stories. So what tales would we like to tell it? What stories would we want it to store for future generations? Grupo Contrafilé and Campus in Camps invite you to sit in on some storytelling and discussion at the foot of the baobab, part of #31Bienal’s Mujawara da Árvore-Escola (Mujawara – in Arab, ‘neighbourliness’– of the Tree-School).



October 25, Saturday • 2.30pm – 5.30pm

O Retorno [The Return], with the group Não em Nosso Nome

Vida e morte da árvore no antropoceno [Life and Death of a Tree in the Anthropocene], with Pedro Cesarino




November 1, Saturday • 2pm – 5pm

Chamado da terra [Call of the Earth], with MOPAT (The Palestine for All Movement)

A arte de sediar existência – uma história em defesa do território artístico e cultural [The Art of Hosting Existence – a Story in Defense of Artistic and Cultural Territory], with Núcleo Bartolomeu de Depoimentos




November 15, Saturday • 2pm – 5pm

Palavras soltas no colo de um baobá [Loose Words in the Baobab’s Lap], with Maurinete Lima

A árvore da vida e o baobá [The Tree of Life and the Baobab], with Peter Webb

Sou porque somos [I Am Because We Are], with TC Silva












| images 1, 3 and 4: ©Leo Eloy / Fundação Bienal de São Paulo

| image 2: ©Sofia Colucci / Fundação Bienal de São Paulo

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