About This Event

Join us in person for a film screening of Jardins do Sagrado | O jardim que surge and discussion with Pai Ricardo de Moura. The film addresses the use of medicinal herbs for healing practices in Brazil and as a means of resistance to the challenges of urban life and the Western world. Facilitated by Dr Tatiana Heise, School Modern Languages and Cultures, University of Glasgow. Organised by the Beniba Centre for Slavery Studies. Pai Ricardo is caretaker of the Afro-Brazilian Cultural Resistance Association Casa de Caridade Pai Jacob do Oriente, an Afro-Indigenous-Brazilian Umbanda temple founded in 1966 by his father and mother, Joaquim Camilo and Maria das Dores Moura. Pai Ricardo will also present his new book, Da Macega à Makaia, which examines Afro-diasporic thought, territories, and places.

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