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HORIZONS – rooting collective collaboration ✨

Closing the cycle

As this year — and our half-year cycle of maiz brasil — comes to an end, we gather once more. Over the past months we explored reimagination, arts as poetic and embodied practice, shared food and conversations, and reflected on the multiple crises affecting our earth — in Brazil and across the world.

Now we invite you to join us for our final gathering:

🌱 HORIZONS – rooting collective collaboration
An online moment to look back at our journey and then dive into Henrique Lody’s workshop: Building from the future.

Henrique will guide us through a path from prefiguration and imagination into grounded collective action — nurturing the emergence of communities, navigating collaborative challenges, and stepping into shared visions.
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🗓 December 11

⏰ 17:30–18:00 (Berlin time) | 13:30 - 14:00 (Brasilia) Reflection with and Constanze Lemmerich

⏰18:00 - 19:00 (Berlin time) | 14:00-15:00 (Brasilia) Workshop with

💻 Online via Zoom

🌐 Language: English with Portuguese translation available .fern

Please register with a short mail via Link in Bio https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/IgpZ4NjPRuejo7HlHLdUWg

Let’s root, imagine, and build together.
Everyone is welcome. 🤎

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HORIZONTES – enraizando a colaboração coletiva ✨

Evento final do ciclo maizbrasil

Ao mesmo tempo em que o ano chega ao fim, também concluímos o nosso ciclo de meio ano do maiz brasil. Nos últimos meses exploramos a reimaginação, as artes como prática poética e incorporada, compartilhamos comidas e conversas, e refletimos sobre as múltiplas crises que atravessam nossa terra — no Brasil e no mundo.

Agora te convidamos para o nosso encontro final:
🌱 HORIZONTES – enraizando a colaboração coletiva
Um momento online para revisitar nossa trajetória e depois entrar no workshop de Henrique Lody: Construindo a partir do futuro.

Henrique nos guiará por um caminho da prefiguração e imaginação para ações coletivas enraizadas — fortalecendo o surgimento de comunidades, enfrentando desafios colaborativos e entrando em nossas visões compartilhadas.

✨ We have the honor of opening the Snoezelen Room — A Space for Rest & Resilience — this Saturday, 29.11, with a second screening of Olhar de Cícera! ✨

What is the Snoezelen Room?

The Snoezelen Room is a fluffy space experiment — a soft, sensory place shaped by ambient music, cosy corners, poetry moments, Anthropocene reflections, and small resilience-building workshops. It’s a space where we rest together, play together, listen and retell. Warm bubble tea for chilly days.

For everyone coming from the antifascist rally in Berlin or Gießen, there will be warm soup and tea waiting. ❤️‍🔥

As the Snoezelen Room unfolds at .place, the program will reveal itself on site — bring time and spontaneity. We’re creating a place to soften in presence.

Organized by: .dreems

29.11 — 2 PM

🎬 OPENING SCREENING:
“Olhar de Cícera” (PT/ENG)
maizbrasil invites you to watch inspiring and nurturing documentary Olhar de Cícera: a powerful and intimate look into daily life and resistance in the MST’s Marielle Vive land camp in São Paulo.

🟥 What is the MST?
The MST — Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra — is Brazil’s Landless Workers’ Movement, one of the largest social movements in Latin America. For over 40 years, they’ve organized rural families to reclaim unused land, fight for agrarian reform, and build communities rooted in collective work, education, food sovereignty, and dignity.

The film offers a portrait of this hope rooted in the earth — showing how the struggle for Popular Agrarian Reform has transformed land and lives.
activist & artist from Brazil, will open the screening and be present during the event.

🌱 Come rest, gather, and breathe.

Where?
Offline Place — Lichtenrader Str. 49, 12049 Berlin

Reimagining Ecological Landscapes

A TERRA É TUDO, TUDO É TERRA

Photo Exhibition

The exhibition explores the issue of land in Brazil. Based on journalistic research, it sheds light on struggles for food sovereignty, cultural recognition, reforestation, and sustainable agriculture.
Together, they form a landscape where social and ecological challenges are deeply interconnected.



FRIDAY and SATURDAY at
Spore Initiative

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FEIJOADA

Sandra Bello– Quilombola activist and coordinator of Quilombo Allee e Griôte will share her culinary art, prepare a community vegan feijoada, and present her perspective on resistance and food.


Limited portions so: First come- first serve!

​​SEEDING NEW LANDSCAPES
Roundtable with:

Walla Capelobo – multidisciplinary artist. Their practice addresses sensitive issues of existence, supported by Afro-Indigenous South American technologies, speculative ecologies, present-day archaeologies, dreams, and delusions.


Pablo Martins Fontes da Silva – Lawyer on the Human Rights Litigation team at the Cordilheira Institute. Together with the Association of Victims' Families (AVABRUM), he is providing legal support for the lawsuit against TÜV Süd.


Raimunda Francisca Vieira Paz – Head of the Center for the Defense of Life and Human Rights in Balsas (MA), president of the Camponês Association (ACA), and activist for the rights of traditional peoples and communities, she works to preserve the Cerrado and promote socio-environmental justice.


Saturday, 1. November 2025
4pm
Auditorium
SPORE Berlin

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Reimagining Ecological Landscapes - DAY 2

BEYOND PROPERTY: IMAGINING WITH THE EARTH | Film Screening

Calls earth earth calls, directed by Raquel Versieux and Roberto Freitas (Brazil 2023, 31 min)
The peasant community “Caldeirão da Santa Cruz do Deserto” once sheltered 5,000 people living in self-sufficiency and food sovereignty in the city of Crato, Brazil. It was violently massacred by the Brazilian State’s military forces in 1937. This event remains largely unclarified in the nation’s history, and its memory is the thread intertwining the voices of women living on and with the land in this region. Dona Ana, a member of the Landless Workers’ Movement (MST), and Silvanete Lermen, a healer and farmer cultivating ten hectares of agroforestry in the semi-arid region, weave together a film about women, faith, land conflicts, water, bodies, poetry, knowledge, memory, and possible collectivities. Do you hear the earth calling us?

Quilombo, Continuum, directed by Juliana Streva (Brazil 2023, 24 min)
Inspired by the poetics and politics of Beatriz Nascimento, Quilombo, Continuum traces the living pulse of quilombo as memory, movement, and worldmaking. Through a spiral temporality, the film journeys across the reactivation of quilombo legacies in the territory now called Brazil, where past and present fold into one another. Weaving the voices of Amefrican thinkers, artists, and activists, it listens to the Black Radical Tradition as it reimagines territory across time and space. Against the enduring myth of racial democracy, Quilombo, Continuum emerges as a counter-archive, an act of cinematic remembrance and reimagination of quilombo praxis today.

Mãri hi - The Tree of Dream, directed by Morzaniel Ɨramari (Brazil 2023, 17min)
After the creator planted the seeds of the dream tree, the tree grew, the flowers blossomed, and the forest dwellers began to dream. Even the dogs started to dream. Guided by the voice of Indigenous leader and great shaman Davi Kopenawa Yanomami, this hypnotic film guides us through the dreams of the Yanomami people. As the camera drifts through the Amazon rainforest, we come to understand their appreciation of the power of dreams.

Reimagining Ecological Landscapes - Day 1

GRAMMARS OF THE SOIL

Screening of an excerpt of the “A Mãe de Todas as Lutas”, directed by Susanna Lira featured by Shilery Krenak (Brazil 2022, Portuguese with English subtitles)

Roundtable discussion on the challenges of socio-ecological struggles, land, and enduring strategies of transformation with:

Juliana Robles de la Pava, postdoctoral researcher and art historian involved in the project Muddy Measures: When Wetlands and Heritage Converse, which engages with colonial histories of exploitation and extraction

Danilo Chammas (Instituto Cordillheira), lawyer and legal representative of the family and victims of ecological disaster - AVABRUM

Ronaldo Barros Sodré, Professor at the Department of Geoscience and Geography at the Federal University of Maranhão​​​​​

Friday, 31. October 2025
7pm
Auditorium
SPORE Berlin

Credit
Image 1: Júlia Pontes
2: Film “A Mãe de Todas as Lutas” (2022)
3: Juliana Robles de la Pava
4: Danilo Chammas, campanha
5: Ronaldo Barros Sodré

Save the date! 31.10 & 1.11

🌿 Reimagining Ecological Landscapes
Forging alliances and learning with struggles from Brazil

Join us for two days of films, conversations, food and collective practices that connect art, ecology and resistance from Brazil to Berlin.

In a time of ecological collapse and political uncertainty, how can we repair what seems irreparable? How might we imagine justice that embraces not only human suffering but also the wounds of the earth?

This gathering invites us to reflect, listen, and learn with activists, scholars, and artists from Brazil confronting the enduring violence of extractivism. Marking ten years since the Mariana dam collapse and revisiting the Brumadinho disaster, we discuss paths toward reparation and collective transformation.

Friday, Oct 31 – 19h
Grammars of the Soil
Film excerpts from A Mãe de Todas as Lutas (dir. Susanna Lira) + roundtable with
Juliana Robles de la Pava, Danilo Chammas, Ronaldo Barros Sodré, moderated by Constanze Lemmerich (maiz brasil)
→ On art, law, and territory: reimagining our relations with the earth

Saturday, Nov 1
10h–12:30 — Gestures for the Soil
Workshop with clay, mud & ashes by Viviane Tabach
📩 Register: [email protected]

🍲 12:30–14h Communal Vegan Feijoada
by Sandra Bello / Quilomboallee

🎥14h–15:30 Beyond Property: Imagining with the Earth
Film screening featuring:
calls earth earth calls, directed by Raquel Versieux & Roberto Freitas (Brazil, 2023)
Quilombo, Continuum, directed by Juliana Streva (Brazil, 2023)
Mãri hi: The Tree of Dream, directed by Morzaniel Ɨramari (Brazil, 2023)

16h–17:30 Seeding new Landscapes
Roundtable with Walla Capelobo, Pablo Martins Fontes da Silva, and Raimunda Francisca Vieira Paz, moderated by Constanze Lemmerich (maiz brasil)
→ On everyday resistance and collective dreams of transformation

Languages: Portuguese ↔ English (whisper translation to German)
📍SPORE - Hermannstraße 86, Berlin

Organized by maiz brasil & Spore Initiative
et cooperation with Misereor, FDCL, ECCHR, KoBra, pepp e.V., Lateinamerikaforum, Instituto Cordilheira, AVABRUM, , Centro de Direitos Humanos da Diocese de Balsas, UFMA.

A nossa relação com a terra é crucial em tempos de alterações climáticas e degradação do solo. Com este encontro, voltamos nossa atenção para a agroecologia — uma abordagem holística da agricultura que contém as sementes da transformação e oferece um caminho para a soberania alimentar, a participação política, o cuidado coletivo e a justiça climática.
Baseada no entendimento de que “a terra não nos pertence; nós pertencemos à terra”, a agroecologia desafia as narrativas antropocêntricas de poder e extração, oferecendo, em vez disso, uma maneira de sustentar a própria vida.

🌱 17h30: Encontro
✨ 18h: Sowing Doubt — performance de Juana del Mar
🥣 18h30: Sopa vegana de Sandra Bello (Quilombo Allee)
🗣️ 19h30: Palestra com Jan Dreier e Paula Gioia sobre agroecologia e resistência, moderada por Juliana Streva
🎥 20h30: Olhar de Cícera – Exibição de filme sobre a vida e a resistência do acampamento Marielle Vive do MST, Brasil, em cooperação com Nomadenkino

Lugar: KTS13 | Karpfenteichstraße 13, 12435 Berlin, Germany
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Data: Sexta-feira, 8 de agosto | 17h30–22h

(Idiomas: Inglês/Português)

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Our relationship with land is crucial in times of climate change and soil degradation. With this gathering, we turn our attention to agroecology—a holistic approach to agriculture that contains the seeds of transformation and offers a path to food sovereignty, political participation, collective care, and climate justice. Based on the understanding that “the earth does not belong to us; we belong to the earth,” agroecology challenges anthropocentric narratives of power and extraction, offering instead a way to sustain life itself.

🌱 5:30 p.m.: Gathering
✨ 6 p.m.: Sowing Doubt — performance by Juana del Mar
🥣 6:30 p.m.: Vegan soup by Sandra Bello (Quilombo Allee)
🗣️ 7:30 p.m.: Lecture with Jan Dreier and Paula Gioia on agroecology and resistance, moderated by Juliana Streva
🎥 8:30 p.m.: Olhar de Cícera — Film screening about life and resistance in an MST camp in Brazil, in cooperation with Nomadenkino

Place: KTS13 | Karpfenteichstraße 13, 12435 Berlin, Germany
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Date: Friday, August 8 | 5:30 p.m.–10 p.m.

(Languages: English/Portuguese)

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Unsere Beziehung zum Land ist in Zeiten des Klimawandels und der Bodendegradation von entscheidender Bedeutung.
Mit diesem Zusammenkommen richten wir unser Augenmerk auf die Agrarökologie – einen ganzheitlichen Ansatz in der Landwirtschaft, der den Keim für Veränderungen in sich trägt und einen Weg zu Ernährungssouveränität, politischer Teilhabe, kollektiver Fürsorge und Klimagerechtigkeit bietet.
Basierend auf dem Verständnis, dass „die Erde nicht uns gehört, sondern wir der Erde gehören”, stellt die Agrarökologie anthropozentrische Narrative von Macht und Ausbeutung in Frage und bietet stattdessen einen Weg, das Leben selbst zu erhalten.

🌱 17:30 Uhr: Zusammenkommen
✨ 18:00 Uhr: Sowing Doubt – Performance von Juana del Mar
🥣 18:30 Uhr: Vegane Suppe von Sandra Bello (Quilombo Allee)
🗣️ 19:30 Uhr: Vortrag mit Jan Dreier und Paula Gioia über Agrarökologie und Widerstand, moderiert von Juliana Streva
🎥 20:30 Uhr: Olhar de Cícera – Filmvorführung über das Leben und den Widerstand des MST Camps Marielle Vive, Brasilien in Zusammenarbeit mit Nomadenkino

Ort: KTS13 | Karpfenteichstraße 13, 12435 Berlin, Deutschland
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Datum: Freitag, 8. August | 17:30–22:00 Uhr

(Sprachen: Englisch/Portugiesisch)

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