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ILÊ AIYÊ, JITOLÚ, CURUZU, SENZALA DO BARRO PRETO are having a party
Today is Carnival Saturday. Day for you to see the most beautiful of the beautiful making the drums roll, the body dancing and the voice expressing the song of love for the black race.
As in Ilê, we asked the Voduns for permission to show you a little of the universality of this block that is also a school for all of us.
Read, listen and see the strength, beauty and wisdom of the people of Ilê, who this year enter the avenue revering MotherHilda Jitolú, the root from which Ilê sprouted, honoringAugustine Neto, the hero of Angola, both centenarians; and celebrating 30 years ofBand'Ere.
With the request for blessings to the various nations, we begin this report:
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At Ilê Aiyê, everything starts with the request for a license and guidance from the Voduns. In the Jejê Nation Terreiro, under the guidance of Mãe Hilda Jitolú, the oldest Afro block in Brazil was born in 1974, in Curuzu, in the Liberdade neighborhood, in Salvador da Bahia. It is in this same place that every year, on Carnival Saturday, the parade begins with the request for permission and blessings to the Voduns, in a ritualistic way. Faithful to his people, Ilê always pays reverence, first of all, to the house where he was born. This movement, in itself, already indicates the direction of Ilê's actions: our place is beautiful, our people are beautiful, our culture is beautiful.
The preparation for the moment to show yourself at the carnival is a continuous work during allof the year. Education, at the headquarters of Ilê Aiyê, is the guiding principle of all actions. But, attention: for the people negro, life is holistic, not fragmented, so care for spirituality, political movement and celebration of life - the party - is included in the educational routine.
The call from the heart of Antônio Carlos dos Santos, Vovô do Ilê, and Mother Hilda's blessing for him to follow the call, was the primary reason for the existence of the Bloco Ilê Aiyê. He, an employee at the Petrochemical Complex, eldest son and breadwinner of the family,spoke with the mother who wanted to leave the Polo to continue with the block. She agreed, supported and even accompanied all the Ilê parades, from the first, in the middle of the military dictatorship. Who tells us this story and others from Bloco Ilê Aiyê is Professor Arany Santana, the first woman to assume the Secretary of Culture of Bahia.
In 2023, we celebrate the centenary of a hero from Brazil and a hero from Angola: Mãe Hilda Jitolú and Agostinho Neto. Both believed, wanted and fought for freedom and respect for black people.
She, Mãe Hilda, the Doné founder of Ilê Axé Jitolú, descendant of slaves, poor, woman, without having had access to school, with her soft speech and few words, guided with wisdom, determination and knowledge, the decisions of the leaders of the Block and Cultural Institution Ilê Aiyê, whose actions revolutionized the way black people see themselves.
Leaving Curuzu for all of Brazil, the black people began to beat their chests and repeat Ilê's mantra: "the most
Mother Hilda's centenary broadcast
TV Correio Nagô
"Centenary of Mãe Hilda de Jitolu", the educator who saw the power of the dreams of the children and young people of Curuzu and, even without ever having gone to school, dreamed and realized together with her daughters, sons and the community, the Mother School Hilda, whose teaching content also includes ancestral and historical knowledge, art - mainly music and dance, and respect for oneself and one's origins.
beautiful of the beautiful, it's me, it's me", and it had an effect. Today, black people have changed their flat iron hair for braids and black power. ; he changed his sober-toned clothes for vibrant colors, which represent the joy they bring in their chest and make us sing, even in the face of countless difficulties. So many changes brought Ilê: political, educational, social, behavioral... both individually and collectively, that it would be difficult to account for all that Ilê is and represents for the Brazilian nation.
Angola is ancestral home. It's root that strengthens. It is Nkisi's wisdom.
The connection with Angola is visible in the everyday life of the people of Bahia. Ancestry and culture are present in several ways: through the cult of the Nkisis, influence on gastronomy, the way of being, physical appearance and, more recently, devotion to Mama Muxima, patron saint from Angola.
The country, which was previously honored with the theme related to Queen Nginga, now celebrates and honors the centenary of Manguxi, as Agostinho Neto, the leader of the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola and the country's first president, is affectionately called.
they live
the felt lands of africa
in the harmonious sound of consciences
included in the honest blood of men
in the strong desire of men
in the sincerity of men
in the pure and simple reason for the existence of stars
they live
the felt lands of africa
because we live
and we are the imperishable particles
and unassailable
from the felt lands of Africa
The felt lands of Africa
Poem by Agostinho Neto
Theme of the Block Ilê Aiyê 2023
“Centenary of Agostinho Neto: The Hero of Angola’s Independence”
Agostinho Neto - photo Wikimedia Commons
Moved by the ideal of freedom, the nationalist poetry of Agostinho Neto speaks of dreaming and fighting for the independence of his country, reflecting the revolutionary man and combatant of the anti-colonial struggle. With a degree in Medicine from the University of Lisbon, in Portugal, but having studied in Angola as a child and teenager, Agostinho was arrested several times, but he was not intimidated by the desire to see his country free. In 1956, the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola - MPLA was founded, which united several patriotic movements. From then on there were arrests, deaths, armed struggle, until the poet reached the position of 1st President of Angola.
"With the 'Carnation Revolution' in Portugal and the overthrow of Salazar's fascist regime, continued by Marcelo Caetano, on April 25, 1974, the MPLA considered that the minimum indispensable conditions were in place, both internally and externally, to sign a ceasefire agreement with the Portuguese Government, which happened in October of the same year.
President Neto returned to Luanda on February 4, 1975, and was the target of the greatest popular demonstration in Angola. He personally directs, from that moment on, all action against the multiple attempts to prevent Angola's independence, proclaiming the Generalized Popular Resistance."
Grandpa, founder and president of Bloco Ilê Aiyê, says that the theme of Angola will be addressed throughout the year and that the Bloco will try to create Cadernos de Educação.
Benjamim Sabby, deputy cultural attaché of the Angolan embassy in Brazil and director of Casa de Angola in Bahia
Mestre Mário Pan, conductor percussionist of Ilê Aiyê.
Ilê Aiyê inaugurated a new perspective for the carnival in Bahia: it put the black world on the avenue and colored lives. Hear what people have to say about Ilê Aiyê and this year's carnival theme
Professor Dr. Rita Dias from the Federal University of Recôncavo da Bahia
Divaldo Vincente, from the Casa de Angola Cultural Center in São Paulo
Professor Dr. Silvio Humberto, councilor of Salvador, founder of the Steve Biko Cultural Institute
Rose Braga, cultural producer
Goya Lopes, designer
ILÊ AXÉ JITOLU
Located at Rua do Curuzu, na Liberdade, since its creation in 1950, Ilê Axé Jitolu, founded by Mãe Hilda, of Jejê tradition, continues in the same way that Doné left it in 2009, year of your passing. Nothing was changed in the reform carried out to celebrate its centenary, only the walls and doors were painted and the plants got new pots, proudly tells us their youngest daughter of the six children, D. Hildelice Benta dos Santos, the elected by the Voduns to continue the work of D. Hilda, the Doné of the house.
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With a welcoming peace, a gentle step and a calm and sweet voice, she welcomes us and tells the story of Ilê, who also belongs to her genetic and religious family. History is inseparable. However, to participate in the activities proposed by Ilê Aiyê or even to work at the institution, it was never mandatory to belong to the African matrix religion.
A woman of few words and illiterate, Mãe Hilda was wise, firm in the defense of African culture and, above all, believed in and supported the paths chosen by her children, whether by blood, saint or community.
It was within Ilê Axé Jitolu, with the support of Mãe Hilda, that the Bloco Ilê Aiyê was born and established. Everything was done inside the terreiro. Meetings, sale of booklets, sewing and delivery of costumes. Founded by Antônio Carlos dos Santos, known as Vovô, a nickname he acquired at the school where he studied, and Apolônio de Jesus, known as Popó, Ilê paraded for the first time in 1975, showing the culture of black people and singing the song by Paulinho Camafeu: "that block is this? I want to know. It's the black world we came to sing for you." It was the beginning of the presence of Afro blocks during Carnaval.
By the way, Ilê Axé Jitolú is a place where dreams can come true, you just have to study, work and trust.
Doné Hildelice tells us that her mother dreamed of opening a school. And it opened. With the help of her daughters, teachers, she welcomed the children right there in the Terreiro. The shed, the place for the ceremony, was improvised for classes. To fit two classes, the space was divided with fabrics. The strength and will to transform lives through Education was greater than the difficulties that prevented them from fulfilling Mãe Hilda's dream, which was also shared by all the people of Ilê.
At the feet of the Voduns, with the blessing and advice of Mãe Hilda, and the help of the entire Jitolu family, Ilê Aiyê brought about significant changes in the lives of many people, but mainly, for black people.
MOTHER HILDA
"Mother Hilda, an icon of the black struggle in Bahia, was awarded several times for her valor. On July 2, 1968, she was awarded the Dois de Julho medal and in 2001 she received the symbolic key to the city to reign during carnival. Mãe Hilda was also nominated to form the group of women who competed for the Nobel Peace Prize. young people. On December 12, 2005, he received the Human Rights Award from the Federal Secretariat for Human Rights. His value within Candomblé also earned him an invitation to perform the duties of Zumbi dos Palmares in 1980 and in the 300 years of Zumbi, in 1995, occasions when he went to Serra da Barriga, in Alagoas, to carry out religious tasks"
Analia Moreira - THE BODY CONCEPTIONS IN THE ASSOCIATION BLOCO CARNAVALESCO ILÊ AIYÊ: A STUDY BASED ON THE HISTORY OF THE BLOCK AND THE PEDAGOGICAL PRACTICES OF THE BANDA ERÊ AND MÂE HILDA SCHOOLS.
Ilê Aiyê is the path
“I am strong black
I'm going my way
I know I'm not alone
Ilê comes to guide me
I light the living black flame of passion
African is the nation that leads my singing”.
(Living resistance, Zenilton Ferraz, Jorge Garcia and Narcizinho, 2003).
The Ilê Aiyê block is more than a carnival block. It's year-round action. So that women feel like goddesses and sing, dance and delight with their beauty; or a man raises his drum high and plays the sound that commands the party, you have to feel the beauty within yourself first. The beauty that we see abroad, when the block passes during Carnival, is the reflection of the intense work of valuing the black people carried out throughout the year, tirelessly, every day, for almost half a century. There are several projects developed at Senzala do Barro Preto, headquarter of Ilê, which build the affirmation of black beauty, offering the black people of Bahia options for paths to follow.
Everything at Ilê is done in a thoughtful way and involves Education, after all, Mãe Hilda, an innate and visionary educator, already dreamed of educational projects. Escola Mãe Hilda is the oldest project in Ilê.
One of the basic concepts of Ilê's educational projects is interdisciplinarity, where the content of one action complements the other, creating a network of dialogue between body, rhythm, mind and spirituality, all of this aligned with the construction of knowledge that passes through the field. technique, politics, concepts, philosophy, history, ancestry and also self-history. The story of each one.
There are several projectsbeing developed within the Senzala do Barro Preto aimed at the black population of Salvador: Escola Mãe Hilda, the Banda Erê, a Noite daBlack Beauty, the N Music Festivalegra, the Booklet, the Education Notebooks, the Vocational School, um project aimed at elderly people and all the preparation for the carnival parade.
"The values that guide the training of people in the block are cultural-religious,
faith in life and in people, trust in oneself and in other people, faith, above all, in the strength and protection of ancestors, respect for being
human, for older people, for those who need courage encouragement, availability for struggles, sharing, exchange, solidarity,
community life." (ILÊ AIYÊ, 2014, p. 30)
All the "quotes" that are below the image of the headquarters of Ilê were said or are quotations written in the monograph of completion of the Degree in History by Dandara Sílvia Matos: THE IMAGE OF AFRICA IN THE SONGS OF ILÊ, THE MOST BEAUTIFUL OF THE BEAUTIFUL. Click on the title of the monograph and read a text rich in information, fluid and tasty to read.
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Created in 1992 with the support of Mâe Hilda, who "opened the doors of Ilê Aiyê for Band'Erê to enter", as Mestre Mário Pan tells us in the video on the side, the project "ooffers children the teaching of music, percussion and singing, accompanied by content on citizenship, literature and African and Afro-Brazilian history. to participate in
band the child must be studying in regular education and attending classes. Many male and female students later became part of the Banda Aiyê, either in percussion or in the singing wing."
Master Mário Pan, from Banda Erê, conductor percussionist of Ilê Aiyê, Master student PPGMUS UFBA, Prof. of Music at Ucsal, Coord. do Tambores do Mundo, employee of the NGO - CCOR
Banda Aiyê it's the main bandmember of the Ilê Aiyê Block
Banda Aiyê - 2018 - Assum Preto / Kithi Magazine Archives
Gleicy Ellen - Goddess of Ebony 2020/21/22
Creating a harmony between the ancestral practices present in the environment of religion of African origin in Brazil and the research and inspiration in the history and experience of African countries, Ilê Aiyê created its own aesthetics where the expression and communication of the beauty of the black people is the driving force of all actions, among them, the event that chooses the "Goddess of Ebony".
Placing the black woman in the place of Goddess, Ilê symbolically announces: a black woman is beautiful and shouldbe treated like a goddess: respectedin alla his strength, faith and wisdom.
"The reflections of this party are identified in the self-esteem of black women, who start to value themselves, study, create their own aesthetics and fight for equal spaces in society. "
Night of Black Beauty,
to chooseTheEbony Goddess
"Ah, ah, ah, dance in the ilê
oh oh, my ebony goddess
ah, ah ah Agostinho Neto
national hero portrayed in the ilê"
Luar de Luanda by Julinho Magaiver and Rosselini Leite
Black Music Festival
The festival, whose symbol is the black bird, the bird with the most beautiful song in Brazil, has existed since the foundation of the ilê Aiyê block and takes place annually. In it, the choice of six songs is made: three songs from the "Poetry Music" category and three from the "Theme Songs" category.
Poetry songs can be composed with subjects of free choice, as long as they are related to the culture of black people.
For the theme songs, first a theme to be worked on is selected, then a detailed research is carried out where the data is transformed into aprimer that are distributed to composers. This booklet, after Carnival, is transformed into Education Notebooks,content used at Escola Mãe Hilda.
With theme “Centenary of Agostinho Neto: The Hero of Angola's Independence”.
The Education Notebooks are a source of study and research for students at Escola Mãe Hilda. Fundamental part of the methodology adopted by the school. With the notebooks, students study the theme song throughout the year. This year it is Angola's turn again.
Queen Nzinga, theme of Ilê Aiyê in 1984, remains present at Escola Mãe Hilda.
Discover the three winners of the category below
"Theme Song of the Black Music Festival of Ilê Aiyê
"LUANDA LUAR" - 1st place
Composers: Julinho Magaiver and Rosselini Leite
ÊH...LUANDA MOONLIGHT
I AM ILÊ AND I CAME TO SING ANGOLA!
"THE FRESHNESS OF MULEMBA AND OUR TRADITIONS"
Ê LUANDA MOONLIGHT, ÊH KILAMBA AIYÊ...(BIS)
EVOK YOUR CORNER ILÊ AIYÊ
AND IT TELLS THIS TOUGH STORY
OF KILAMBA MANGUXI
HERO OF ANGOLA
OF THAT PEOPLE THE POET PRESIDENT
AND LIKE A BLACK PALANCA THE ILÊ AIYÊ
DO QUILOMBO KIBUNDO CURUZÚ
BRINGS STRENGTH AND ENERGY TO YOU IN FAITH
KWE AXÉ JITOLÚ (BIS) FOR MOTHER HILDA - HER CENTENARY
ÊH...LUANDA MOONLIGHT
I AM ILÊ AND I CAME TO SING ANGOLA!
"THE FRESHNESS OF MULEMBA AND OUR TRADITIONS"
Ê LUANDA MOONLIGHT, ÊH KILAMBA AIYÊ...
AH, AH, AH DANCE IN THE ILÊ!
ÔH ÔH, MY EBONY GODDESS...
AH, AH AH AGOSTINHO NETO
NATIONAL HERO PORTRAITED IN ILÊ (BIS)
OUR RED COFFEE LANDS
WHITE COTTON
CORN GREENS
WE HAVE TO GO BACK
OUR DIAMOND, GOLD, COPPER AND OIL MINES
WE HAVE TO GO BACK
LINDA ANGOLA (BIS)
ILÊ ANGOLA - 2nd place
Composers: André LDP and Josiel Texeira*
ILÊ, JITOLÚ, CURUZÚ SENZALA DO BARRO PRETO is having a party...
AND ANGOLA ALSO CLAMPS TO CELEBRATE...
48 OF ILÊEEE AND 100 YEARS THAT TODAY WOULD HAVE THE GREATEST POET...
COME SING ILÊ THE HISTORY OF A BLACK PEOPLE,
THAT FROM THE ASHES WAS BORN A VOICE OF HOPE FOR A BETTER WORLD...
A DOCTOR WRITER, AN ICOLO E BENGO,
CRADLE WISDOM A TEACHER MOTHER, A TEACHER FATHER...
AGOSTINO NETO, BLACK HERO OF HISTORY,
IN PORTUGAL HE GRADUATED AND BECAME PRESIDENT OF ANGOLA...
A DREAM OF FREEDOM COMES FROM LUANDA IN 1922...
A MANGUXI KILAMBA, DID NOT LET IT BE DEFEATED...
TOOK IT IN THE CHEST AND IN THE RACE AND I WAS SURE IT WOULD WIN...
“FROM THE POEM TO THE REVELATION, THE ILÊ EXPRESSES IN THE SONG”.
“MARIMBA AND QUISSANGE TO OUR CARNIVAL”
“WE HAVE TO GO BACK”
“THE BEAUTIFUL HOMELAND ANGOLA, OUR LAND OUR MOTHER WE WILL COME BACK...” Bis
HÓ ILÊ... ANGOLA ILÊ... ILÊ ANGOLA...
48 DE RESISTANCE REMEMBERS THE CENTENARY OF HISTORY... BIS
"TO THE MASTER WITH LOVE - 3rd place
Composer: Vinicius Lima
COME SEE ILÊ REPAGE RESENT HISTÓRIA
FIRST PRESIDENT OF AGOLA
MEDICAL WRITER POLITICAL HEROIC TRAJECTORY
LINDO YUMMY IS SHOWING IN ILÊ AIYÊ
PDDER TO COURT WITH HIGHNESS DOCTOR AGOSTINHO NETO WHICH IS THE BALL OF THE TIME
PROCLAIMED THE INDEPENDENCE OF ANGOLA WITH AXÉ
PRIDE OF ITS PEOPLE RESPECT COLOFÉ
WITH KNOWLEDGE CHAIRED THE MASTER WITH LOVE AGOSTINHO MODUPÉ
REVERENCIAR ILÊ PROTAGONIZAR MPLA - is this the current party?
FREE ANGOLA
LUSOPHONE OVER SEA
BAIANÊS LINGUAJAR
LET'S EXTRAVASE DAMAGES PANDEMIA SAD
ILÊ CELEBRATES AUGUSTINE
CENTENARY OF THE HERO OF ANGOLA
QUILOMBO REVOLUTIONARY ACTIONS
OGUM OPENING WAYS
KUNTA KINTÊ ROOTS
DOUTOR AGOSTINHO NETO ILÊ AIYÊ
A Dúpẹ́ Ilê Aiyê
And this report will continue shortly; there's also Escola de Mãe Hilda, Doné Hildelice, complete interviews with the composers, interviews with the people who make up Ilê...
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