Aldeia-Escola-Floresta (Brazil) will use the Grant for the community art program of the Maxakali indigenous people in Minas Gerais. By bringing together the different generations through art, these workshops are a strategy of the community leaders to transmit their identity and culture, in addition to providing a space of attention to children and youth, encouraging them to imagine a future for themselves through art.

Aldeia-Escola-Floresta is a community project of the Maxakali indigenous people in Minas Gerais, Brazil. Founded in 2021 by the couple of teachers, artists and filmmakers Sueli and Isael Maxakali, together with local leaders and sympathizers, it is constituted as a space for knowledge exchange, reforestation, restoration of springs, art and film workshops and strengthening of the musical, ritual and cosmological complex known as yãmĩyxop. With the aim of strengthening the transmission of their traditional knowledge and arts, the community performs its rituals with the yãmĩyxop (the spirits of the Atlantic Forest) and has created new contexts for the transmission to be strengthened and multiplied. Since its foundation, shamans, cultural specialists, teachers and leaders have organized workshops for collective learning of artistic practices, aimed at youth and children. These occasions combine the sharing of Yãmĩyxop stories and traditional Maxakali knowledge with the languages and media of the visual arts, such as drawing, painting, watercolor, weaving, installations and graphic techniques.