The Scream of the Streets

07/22/22 • 26 min

This episode is the launch of our second season “Art and Culture on the Peripheries.” In this series we concentrate on urban contexts through conversations with cultural producers working in the Brazilian peripheries. For this episode “The Scream of the Streets” we talked in person with the visual and grafitti artist Eder Muniz, known in the streets of Salvador as Calangoss. Eder Muniz shares his journey as a young Black man growing up in his neighborhood and how street art freed him from oppressive structures to become a global artist known for his images and messages left in every part of his city. With his daily works on the streets, Calangoss has become an unforgettable reference for Brazilian art in the world.

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O grito das ruas

Esse episódio é o lançamento de nossa segunda temporada “Arte e Cultura nas Periferias”. Nessa série concentramos nos contextos urbanos através de conversas com os agentes culturais atuando nas periferias brasileiras. Para esse episódio “O grito das Ruas” conversamos presencialmente com o artista visual e grafiteiro Eder Muniz, conhecido como Calangoss nas ruas de Salvador da Bahia. Eder Muniz compartilha sua jornada como jovem de um bairro periférico e como a arte de rua o libertou até tornar um artista mundialmente conhecido pelas imagens e mensagens deixadas por todo canto da sua cidade natal. Com seus trabalhos diários nas ruas, Calangoss é uma referência inesquecível da arte brasileira pelo mundo.

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Capoeira in the Diaspora

This special episode is a collaboration between Brazil Culture Connections and Break The Boxes Stories. Jamie Lee Andreson, Ph.D. cohosts with Azmera Hammouri-Davis, MTS, who interviews her original Capoeira instructor, Cleber Sousa de Santos, Mestre Peti. Mestre Peti is a father, brother and an international master of Capoeira who's taken his craft from his home city of Salvador da Bahia to various parts of the world over the last three decades. Azmera began learning from Mestre Peti when she was seven years old in Pompano Beach, Florida, and has continued to learn from him ever since. Mestre Peti founded the Bantos Cultural Capoeira School in 2020, having trained over 6,000 students respectively. He describes the cultural importance of using Capoeira as a vehicle for social change in the community of Cosme de Farias, and the physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual discipline Capoeira cultivates. Azmera reflects on the historical significance of this Afro-Brazilian martial art, and how Capoeira has provided her with “fruits of the spirit” through a powerful community around the world committed to social transformation.