Activation – Sertão Negro – Maria Grampinho Film Club and roundtable discussion with Ceiça Ferreira and Lucilene Kalunga
On December 13, the Cineclube Maria Grampinho [Maria Grampinho Film Club] will be will take place, followed by a roundtable discussion with Ceiça Ferreira and Lucilene Kalunga. The third of four sessions of Cineclube Maria Grampinho, which are part of the work Sertão Negro at the 36th Bienal de São Paulo will take place from 3 pm to 5 pm at Sertão Negro’s work, on the first floor.
The activation features the screening of the short films Avôa (‘4, Lucas Mendes, 2022), Grandes Senhoras [Great Ladies](’14, Milena Manfredini, 2023, classificação: livre), Meada Cor Kalunga [Kalunga Color Yarn](’23, Marta Kalunga, 2022, classificação: livre), A velhice ilumina o vento [Old Age Illuminates The Wind](’20, Juliana Segóvia, 2022, PG 13), followed by a roundtable discussion with Ceiça Ferreira and Lucilene Kalunga.
Ceiça Ferreira is a professor and researcher in the Film and Audiovisual Course at the State University of Goiás (UEG). She holds a PhD in Communication from the University of Brasília (UnB). She is co-founder of Sertão Negro Ateliê e Escola de Artes. She is the creator and director of Cineclube Maria Grampinho, whose curatorial proposal highlights black cinema.
Lucilene Kalunga is a Kalunga quilombola and was coordinator of the Youth Parliament, a program of the Chamber of Deputies that aims to encourage high school students to discuss politics, citizenship, popular participation, and representative democracy. She also served as Municipal Secretary for Racial Equality in the municipality of Cavalcante in Goiás between 2009 and 2010 and as Coordinator of the Human Rights Commission of the Goiânia City Council.
The Cineclube Maria Grampinho [Maria Grampinho Film Club] aims to be a space for screening and discussing films directed by or starring black people. Inspired by Maria da Purificação, known as Maria Grampinho, a historical figure from the city of Goiás who, despite her invisibility, carried stories and dreams with her, the Maria Grampinho Film Club was founded and is directed by Ceiça Ferreira, at the Sertão Negro Atelier and School of Arts, in Goiânia. It is in the hut in the backyard of this studio-school that monthly sessions are held and the notion of “backyard cinema” is explored, reflecting on the importance of this space so central to popular, traditional, and black cultures as a territory of affection, encounters, and learning. Dedicated to the screening and discussion of films directed by or starring black people, Cineclube Maria Grampinho is a non-profit educational space that aims to educate audiences, democratize culture, and create new narratives in Brazilian audiovisual media.
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Activation – Sertão Negro – Maria Grampinho Film Club and roundtable discussion with Ceiça Ferreira and Lucilene Kalunga
36th Bienal de São Paulo – Not All Travellers Walk Roads – Of Humanity as Practice
December 13, 2025
Saturday, 3 pm
Sertão Negro’s work, 1st floor
Ciccillo Matarazzo Pavilion
Ibirapuera Park, gate 3
Av. Pedro Álvares Cabral, s/n
São Paulo, SP
free admission