Cultural programming at the Pará Pavilion offers performing arts, music, and dance
The groups Guardians of the Amazon and Sancari captivated the audience with performances in the Green Zone on the first day of the environmental conference
The Pará Pavilion, in the Green Zone of COP30, was opened in grand style this Monday (10). In the afternoon, the stage of the space hosted different cultural performances. The program is promoted by the Government of Pará, through the State Secretariat of Culture (Secult), and has already begun enchanting the local audience and tourists.
“We are very happy to present our culture within the COP, which integrates this confluence of knowledge, dialoguing around the environmental agenda and expressing, through artistic languages, the cultural diversity of Pará. We will have performances at the Pará Pavilion throughout these days, until the end of the conference. It is an open space, everyone can come and celebrate this moment, where we show Pará's culture to the world,” said the State Secretary of Culture, Ursula Vidal.
The first performance, by the Guardians of the Amazon Group: Art, Ancestry, and Climate, playfully showcased the Amazonian fauna and flora. Nilton Viter, the leader of the Group, talks about the invitation to participate in the event. “It was incredible, as we participated in the Fida (International Dance Festival in the Amazon) a month ago, and we were champions bringing this theme of COP30, the invitation came up. I believe it is because we show the ancestral side, the untouched side of the Amazon,” he informed.
“We rescue Amazonian culture in the historical context of Curupira, who is the protector of the forests. In our choreography, we show the fires, the sad part, the degradation, but it ends with the Amazon rebuilt, the one everyone dreams of,” concluded Nilton Viter.
Amazon for the world - The second attraction provided a genuinely Pará rhythm. The Sancari Carimbó Group, from the Pedreira neighborhood in Belém, got the audience dancing at the beginning of the night.
“It is very special to participate in a COP in our state, in our capital; it is of great importance to us. Our music, our culture, has to be taken to the world. We do good work, thank God. So, let’s show it the way we know how,” said Master Lucas Bragança, one of the founders of the Sancari Group.
Programming for the upcoming days is available here.
Text: Juliana Amaral - Ascom/Secult
