International Literary Festival of Xingu values female protagonism in the Amazon
The sixth edition of the event, supported by the Government of Pará, brings together art, literature, and culture in Altamira until Saturday (16)
With support from the State Government, through the Cultural Foundation of Pará (FCP), the 6th edition of the International Literary Festival of Xingu (Flix) began this Wednesday (13) in Altamira, southwestern Pará. The program, which runs until August 16, promotes a broad celebration of Amazonian culture with a focus on female protagonism in the arts and literature.
This year, Flix brings the theme “Amazonian Women – Literatures and Other Poetic Margins,” reinforcing the appreciation of diversity, resistance, and cultural identities of the region. The event gathers writers, poets, journalists, researchers, and artists from different territories of the Amazon, highlighting Pará journalist Cristina Serra, who is currently part of the Metrópoles website and ICL Notícias team.
The coordinator and idealizer of Flix, Professor Ivonete Coutinho, emphasizes the role of the festival as a space for cultural integration. “Flix is not just an exhibition or a book fair; it is a great cultural festival that brings together cultural makers from all over the Xingu region. And to gather knowledge from different regions, we always count on the support of the Cultural Foundation of Pará, which can be considered the founder of Flix,” she emphasized.
Diverse programming and regional integration
Flix offers a wide range of programming that includes storytelling, theatrical performances, musical shows, a race, a poetry slam on the waters of the Xingu River, as well as workshops, lectures, round tables, and book launches.
The president of the Cultural Foundation of Pará, Thiago Miranda, highlighted the active participation of the State in the realization of the event. “The Cultural Foundation of Pará has been involved in various aspects of organizing Flix, from curation to promoting workshops, debates, and lectures,” he explained.
Opening with activities and tributes
The official opening took place on the night of the 13th at the Vilmar Soares event center. During the day, the space was already bustling with book launches, debates, cultural presentations, and a workshop dedicated to the mythical female figures of the Legal Amazon, led by professor and art educator Mariene Gomes de Almeida.
For her, the concept of “Amazonian witch” carries symbolic and ancestral strength. “Being an Amazonian witch is to be a defender of life, the environment, the waters, the planet, and children. It is also to be a defender of the rights we have, reclaiming that which is ours as women, who are always caring, who are always looking out for those in need of help,” she defined.
Service:
VI International Literary Festival of Xingu (Flix)
Dates: August 13 to 16 – Time: 9 AM
Location: Vilmar Soares Event Center
Address: Sudam I neighborhood, Jader Barbalho Avenue, s/n°.
Check out the program:
August 14 – Thursday
9 AM to 11 AM: Panel: literature in times of artificial intelligence
Location: Dorothy Stang Auditorium
9 AM to 10 AM: Presentations of the legend of the giant snake, the legend of açaí, and the theatrical piece: the last judgment of the earth
Location: Flix Curumim Stage
10 AM to 12 PM: Panel (Flix Curumim) – Ecopoetics in Amazonian children's literature
Location: Eneida de Moraes Auditorium
10:45 AM to 11:45 AM: Presentation of the fable ‘Lion King’
Location: Flix Curumim Stage
2 PM to 4 PM – Workshop
a) Amazonian Natural Gynecology
Location: Workshop Room
b) GeogrArte Xingu
Location: Workshop Room
c) How to Venture into Literature and How to Venture into Cordel Literature
Location: Launch Room
2 PM to 3 PM: Lecture – ‘Alice in the land of lies’
Location: Eneida de Moraes Auditorium
3 PM to 4 PM: Presentations of the dance of the legend of the Victoria Regia, the legend of Matinta Pereira, and the legend of cassava
Location: Flix Curumim Stage
3:30 PM to 5 PM: Lecture – Project development, fundraising, and accountability – third sector entity
Location: Eneida de Moraes Auditorium
4:30 PM to 6 PM: Panel (Flix Curumim) – COP for children: innovative and participatory methodology in facing climate change and developing citizenship
Location: Curumim Space
5:30 PM to 6:30 PM: Film screening – Xikrin indigenous documentary
Location: Dorothy Stang Auditorium
7 PM to 9 PM: Conference – Brazil facing COP 30: through the lenses of the Federal Government and journalists
Location: Dorothy Stang Auditorium
10 PM: Cultural artistic show
Location: Cultural Flix Stage
August 15 – Friday
6 AM to 7 AM: Flix Run
8:30 AM to 10 AM: Book launch panel: ‘Eros's Mischief in Amazonian Myths’
Location: Eneida de Moraes Auditorium
9 AM to 11 AM: Panel – Literatures: connections with decolonial narratives
Location: Dorothy Stang Auditorium
9 AM to 9:30 AM: Apae presentation
Location: Flix Curumim Stage
9:40 AM to 10:15 AM: Presentation of the five secrets of the forest
Location: Flix Curumim Stage
10 AM to 12 PM: Children's playful activities: storytelling of indigenous tales
Location: Flix Curumim Space
2 PM to 4 PM – Workshop
a) Responsible Creative Station: Soreya Torres and Tamires Ribeiro
Location: Flix Curumim Space
b) Bilingual
Location: Workshop Room
c) Internal Storm: Poems and Reflections on Anxiety
Location: Workshop Room
2 PM to 3 PM: Panel – Culture in network: municipalities of the Transxingu region
Location: Dorothy Stang Auditorium
2:30 PM to 4 PM: Lecture – Conference: Towards COP 30: feminisms, entrepreneurship, and sustainability
Location: Eneida de Moraes Auditorium
3 PM to 4 PM: Social projects and environmental education of the Juruna People of KM 17 of Vitória do Xingu
Location: FLIX Curumim Stage
3:30 PM to 6 PM: Honorable mention panel – Women in the Amazon: trajectories and protagonism in Transamazonica and Xingu
Location: Dorothy Stang Auditorium
4 PM to 6 PM: Sarabalsa
6 PM to 7 PM: Book launches
Location: AAL Stand
6 PM to 7 PM: Launch and guidelines for book publication
Location: Launch Room
6:30 PM to 8:30 PM: Conference – COP 30 – Is there room for Literature?
Location: Dorothy Stang Auditorium
7 PM to 7:30 PM: English music presentation CDR
8:45 PM: Cultural presentations from municipalities
Location: Cultural Flix Stage
10 PM – Cultural artistic show
Location: Cultural Flix Stage
August 16 – Saturday
8 AM to 10 AM: Panel – University challenges: issues about the Amazon
Location: Eneida de Moraes Auditorium
9 AM to 12 PM: Book launches
Location: Launch Room
9:30 AM to 10:30 AM: Talk Show – Confessions of an Amazonian
Location: Flix Curumim Stage
10:45 AM to 12 PM: Panel – Ecofeminism in the Amazon – literatures, knowledge, and resistance
Location: Dorothy Stang Auditorium
2:30 PM to 4 PM: Talk Show – Girls and women of the north: dialogue between fiction and reality
Location: Eneida de Moraes Auditorium
3 PM to 4 PM: Book launch panel: The Ferryman of the Xingu River
Location: Launch Room
5 PM to 7 PM: Conference – Literatures, women, migration, and diaspora
Location: Dorothy Stang Auditorium
4 PM to 5 PM – Panel: A dance experience in the forest with the screening of the film “Enchantments of Us”
Location: Flix Curumim Stage
4:30 PM to 6 PM: Sarabalsa
6:30 PM to 7:30 PM: Award ceremony for the III Cultural Notice
Location: Dorothy Stang Auditorium
7:45 PM to 9 PM: Closing panel
Location: Dorothy Stang Auditorium
10 PM to 12 AM – National show by singer Fafá de Belém
Location: Cultural Stage.
