The Caboclo is the light of the bush, it is the root that heals
COLETIVO ESTAMOS AQUI
The Caboclo is the light of the bush, it is the root that heals
Because they were born here.
Because Brazil is the village.
Because the land belongs to them.
Because nobody does anything alone.
We are here because they are,
and on their leaves we lie down.
They arrived before us and teach us every day:
handling the herbs,
walking in the woods,
listening to the signs,
to feed the yearnings,
singing to exist,
to heal, to intuit.
Because in intuition they communicate to us.
When we enter the woods they walk together and guide us.
Leaves are forces that never come alone.
Be aware.
Knowing is knowing which leaves we can use or not,
and through faith we learn to discern,
choose and withdraw.
Caboclo discernment is accurate and we only understand it with time:
for shortness of breath,
for the pains of life,
for the weight of the past
for the suffocation of the world.
The leather Caboclo,
of feather,
from the sertão,
from the pristine forest,
from the slab
They never give up on people or abandon the land.
Care, healing and presence are the strengths of those who always know where the arrow falls.
The Caboclo is the root that we worship with love.
Caboclo is a line of work,
spiritual force line,
crossing of energy from the woods.
Brazilian ancestors.
The caboclo is Indian, countryman, cowboy, herdsman, native, from the north, from the south.
The Caboclo is the one who connects us with what we were.
He's who should be the owner of this place,
it's the bush light.
Who said we have no ancestry?
And when the drum plays in the village,
And when He calls those who live far away.
And when He calls also those who came from the other side,
malungos, in the ships.
Faith in Caboclos and Caboclas,
faith in leaves,
faith in the sacred.
Credits - O caboclo é a luz do mato:
Interview: Ana Maria de PaulaCinematography e Editing: Brisa CarvalhoProduction: Gabriela Acerbi Pereira
Credits - Live Samba de Caboclo:
Welison Raphael de Paula Ferreira - Percussion and Production Débora de Oliveira Romano - Production Gabriela Cardoso Gonçalves - Percussion and ProductionRenato Felipe Pereira dos Santos - Percussion and ProductionEricles da Cunha Estevam Luiz - Percussion and ProductionJoão Gabriel Moura - Percussion Gabriela Acerbi Pereira - Percussion and Production Ana Maria de Paula Cruz - ProductionSabrina Carvalho - Production and cinematographyLilia Clementino - Colaboradora Maria Augusta Clementino - Contributor and cultural agentMaria Antonieta de Paula - Contributor and cultural agentSilva Aparecida da Cunha - Contributor and cultural agentIle Asé Omi Talade - Contribution and Location for Rehersal Galpão Candeias (responsável Carlão) – Location for the Live
“Estamos Aqui” is a creative collective that operates as a network of alliances articulating projects devoted to the so-called popular cultures – black, ghetto, traditional, rural, cabocla, and Afro-indigenous matrix from the South of the State od Minas Gerais in Brazil. It is grounded in the city of Poços de Caldas, yet our city neighbors are also incorporated as a partner to the work we develop. The (financial) resources of the collective goes to preserve, maintain, and structurr activities engaged in the modes of living of the cultural makers assuring that their cultural universe, their knowledge and techniques keep evolving. We refer to: the community of the Congada, Associação de Ternos de Congo, Caiopó Firt Nation groups, Folia de Reis, Catira, Romeiros, Terreiros and religious communities rooted at African matrix, Herbswomen and men, Benzedeiras, Indios-raizeiros, and ghetto movements associated to the urban black culture such as Hip Hop, Samba and Pagode.