De 11 a 18 de fevereiro, a 11ª edição da Festa Literária das Periferias, a Flup 2022 ocupará o Museu de Arte do Rio (MAR) e o Museu da História e Cultura Afro-Brasileira (Muhcab) com uma programação que integrará mesas de debate com shows, performances e espetáculos de dança. A escolha da região da Pequena África, no Centro do Rio de Janeiro, como local da festa não é à toa. No ano em que lembramos o centenário da Semana de Arte Moderna, a Flup 2022 celebra o modernismo negro, homenageando Lima Barreto, Pixinguinha, Chiquinha Gonzaga e Josephine Baker. Entre as atrações, estão o afrofunk de Taísa Machado, o show de Amaro Freitas e as mesas “Fluxos Transatlânticos” e “Uma experiência Luminosa: O Jazz, a Lei Seca e o Exílio em Paris”.
Flup 2022 questions the narrative that establishes modernism as a phenomenon centered on eminent figures from São Paulo's intellectuality. Certainly, Oswald and Mário de Andrade's São Paulo seemed to stand out as the country's cultural vanguard, since the modern art festival had effectively taken place in the city's Municipal Theater. We know today, however, that the protagonism of “Paulistas” comes from an erasure of Brazil's cultural diversity, reflecting historical inequalities, such as the marginalization of black culture.
While Modern Art Week was taking place in São Paulo, Paris hosted the first meeting of black musicians in the diaspora. It included Pixinguinha and his group, Oito Batutas – also formed by Donga, Raul Palmieri, Nelson Alves, China, Jacó Palmieri, José Alves Lima and Luis Pinto da Silva. The Brazilians met with North American musicians, who left the south, went to the north of the United States and emigrated to France. A black music scene was then formed, which resulted in an exchange between Brazilian rhythms, 19th century ballroom dances, jazz and Caribbean musical expressions.
Black musicians shared the stage, played together, exchanged instruments, and then created new music, made up of many mixtures. After the meeting in Paris, Pixinguinha started playing the saxophone, and two instruments arrived in Brazil: the banjo and the drums. The opening of the Festa Literária das Periferias 2022, on 11/02, takes place on the same day that Pixinguinha arrived in France and will see the launch of the biographical exhibition Pixinguinha: um maestro batuta, curated by Julio Ludemir, Marcelo Campos and Maurício Barros de Castro, which brings photos, posters, reports and works by artists such as Arjan Martins, Jaime Lauriano, Mulambo, Yhuri Cruz and TTK, Rabisco do Santo Amaro, in honor of the Master and this meeting of black musicians that changed music in Brazil and the world . The program will also feature a debate panel with actor, journalist, writer and samba singer Haroldo Costa.
American singer and dancer Josephine Baker revolutionized the status of black women in her four visits to Brazil, with performances that credit her as an anti-racist feminist and first-class LGBTQIAP+ icon. Flup will have the 17/02th dedicated to the “icon of a crazy decade”, with a show by actress Aline de Luna, a debate with Terri Francis, a black woman from the USA who wrote the biography of Josephine, and Audrey Pulvar, journalist and writer French. The Party will also feature an Afrofunk experience with Taísa Machado, the post-modern Josephine Baker, and her science of Rebolado.
Lima Barreto, who died in November 1922, had his marginalized condition as the starting point for the investigation of national identity, portrayed in the classic “Triste Fim de Policarpo Quaresma” (1911). The forgotten Great of 22 will be honored on 18/02 at the table “Heritages of Little Africa", with the participation of Ynaê Lopes dos Santos, Tom Farias and Eduardo de Assis Duarte, to talk about a black elite that existed in the 20s and was deleted. The day will also feature a show with Leandro Santana (director of Muhcab). The day before, Jaime Lauriano, Lilia Moritz Schwarcz and Pedro Meira discuss the exhibition of posters produced from 22 excerpts of works by Lima Barreto, which the trio helped to heal. The party ends with a tribute to the great black composer and conductor Chiquinha Gonzaga, often whitened on stage and screen, made by singer and composer Juçara Marçal.
In an ode to Rio de Janeiro, Flup will provide an overview of the city's cultural effervescence in the 1920s, “the crazy years”, discussing how its characters contributed to modernism.
Full of attractions and diversity, a Music Stage will be set up for the presentation of renowned Rio samba groups, including Samba das Rosalinas; Velha Guarda da Portela followed by the show by singer Teresa Cristina; Amaro Freitas; Majur; DJ Rennan da Penha; a Gospel Choir; and much more. Flup 22 will also pay homage to master Bangbala, the oldest ogã in the country, who was born the year Oito Batutas began, in 2019.
