The Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, The Portuguese Program, and LACLxS 

Present

VORO’PI: ART AND EDUCATION IN BETWEEN WORLDS 

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm
GILMAN 479

With NAINE TERENA, GUSTAVO CABOCO, AND JAMILLE PINHEIRO DIAS 

Voro’pi is an educational initiative that approaches the arts as a way to galvanize counter-histories, fight structural inequality, and learn about protagonists from different contexts. The Terena, an Indigenous people living in Brazil, teach us that Voro’pi is an entity that roams the cosmos through groundwater and safeguards visible and invisible riverbeds. In response to improper human interference with the flow of water, Voro’pi can cause storms, floods, and other water-related events. Voro’pi seeks fairness. He empowers those who can appreciate the balance between worlds. Bearing the name of Voro’pi, this event will bring together Indigenous perspectives in transit to consider how aesthetics can help educate the senses to fight structural inequality, generate counter-histories, and make still water move.

For more information: https://krieger.jhu.edu/modern-languages-literatures/event/voropi-art-and-education-in-between-worlds/