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In São Toméan culture, úlulu is the burial ritual of a baby's placenta and umbilical cord in the family's large backyard. According to older generations, this ensures that children may grow up and travel the world but will always know how to return to the land where they were born.

In this staged conversation, three voices evoke music, movement, poetry, and landscape in search of threads of transmission and nourishment, while speculating and repeating rituals to harmonize collapse and regeneration. They raise questions: What if belonging to non-human geographies is a solution to the looming extinction? How can this be done without wasting the memory of rituals essential to this transformation? Where can we leave clues for an eventual escape toward return?

1 March, 19h30

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[OPEN STUDIO]

Free entry upon reservation via text to [+351] 913 699 891 or to info[a]oespacodotempo.pt.

Credits

Artistic Direction and Creation
Raquel Lima

Interpretation
Maria Palmira Joaquim, Okan Kayma and Raquel Lima

Set Design
Eneida Tavares

Light Design
Lui L’Abbate

Costume Design
Neusa Trovoada

Sound Design and Original Composition
Okan Kayma

Video / Filming
Sara Morais

Movement
Lucília Raimundo

Indigenous Worldview Consultant
Tobi Ayé

Assistance
Danilo Lopes

External View
Dori Nigro

Production
Joana Costa Santos

Admnistration
Agência 25

Coproduction
Teatro do Bairro Alto, Teatro Municipal do Porto / FITEI

Coproduction in residency
OSSO, Alkantara, O Espaço do Tempo

Support
República Portuguesa - Cultura I DGARTES – Direção-Geral das Artes, Rural Vivo, Câmara Municipal de Lisboa / Polo Cultural das Gaivotas, Santos & Monteiro

© Marta Pinto Machado

Raquel Lima is poet, transdisciplinary artist and researcher. She presented her work at events involving literature, performance, visual arts, music and social sciences, for example in the 8th São Tomé and Príncipe Biennial, the 59th Venice Biennale and the 35th São Paulo Biennial. Her research centers on orature, memory, contemporary practices of escapism, abstraction and healing, and Afro-diasporic movements. She published the book Ingenuidade Inocência Ignorância and is the cofounders of UNA

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