A Lecture and Photographic Slide Presentation by Johnette Iris Stubbs at Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA), 11, Mansingh Road > 5:30pm on 11th October 2013
Time : 5:30 pm
Entry : Free (Seating on First-Come First-Served basis)
Event Description :A Lecture and Photographic Slide Presentation by Johnette Iris Stubbs
Throughout the world, Brazil is well known for their football talents, their samba or bossa nova music and the annual festival of Carnival. What many people do not know about Brazil is that outside of sports, much of the cultural manifestations in music, dance and art have origins in the Yoruba belief system from Africa. In Brazil, it is called Candomble.
In this presentation, the aim is to share information about the Yoruba culture, it’s historical presence in Brazil and the affects of that presence on the religious and cultural life in Brazil, most notably in the north of Brazil, a region called Bahia. This may also shed light on the similarities between the aesthetic, spiritual and cultural richness of the Yoruba belief system and belief systems here in India.
The Yoruba belief system is most importantly an oral tradition, passed by practicing communities throughout West Africa for thousands of years and carried worldwide through migration and the global spice and slave trades. The main tenets of this system begin with the idea of one creator, Olodumare, the ideas of Ifa, the creator’s sacred messages to mankind and the Orixas, deified ancestors who help guide mankind through as many reincarnations as necessary for them to attain their destiny.
There are many written histories explaining the Yoruba system, and a great deal of research on different aspects and it’s affects on societies around the world. Several very well known photographers such as Chester Higgins and Pierre Verger have done ethnographic and documentary studies in this areal. This lecture brings together a distillation of that information as well as some images from the past on a community practicing Candomble in Brazil from 1996 to 2003.
Johnette Iris Stubbs began her journey to Brazil with the intention of documenting not only the existence of people of African descent in this area, but also to show the cultural similarities to other people of African descent despite vast separations in time and space. This journey has further led her to seek those similarities in communities around the world even as far as South Asia.
Johnette Iris Stubbs is an artist and photographer based in New Delhi.
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Entry : Free (Seating on First-Come First-Served basis)
Place : Lecture Room, Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA), 11, Mansingh Road, New Delhi - 110001
Metro : Nearest Metro Station - 'Central Sectt.' (Yellow Line and Violet Line)
Landmark : opposite Raksha Bhavan
Landmark : opposite Raksha Bhavan
Event Description :A Lecture and Photographic Slide Presentation by Johnette Iris Stubbs
Throughout the world, Brazil is well known for their football talents, their samba or bossa nova music and the annual festival of Carnival. What many people do not know about Brazil is that outside of sports, much of the cultural manifestations in music, dance and art have origins in the Yoruba belief system from Africa. In Brazil, it is called Candomble.
In this presentation, the aim is to share information about the Yoruba culture, it’s historical presence in Brazil and the affects of that presence on the religious and cultural life in Brazil, most notably in the north of Brazil, a region called Bahia. This may also shed light on the similarities between the aesthetic, spiritual and cultural richness of the Yoruba belief system and belief systems here in India.
The Yoruba belief system is most importantly an oral tradition, passed by practicing communities throughout West Africa for thousands of years and carried worldwide through migration and the global spice and slave trades. The main tenets of this system begin with the idea of one creator, Olodumare, the ideas of Ifa, the creator’s sacred messages to mankind and the Orixas, deified ancestors who help guide mankind through as many reincarnations as necessary for them to attain their destiny.
There are many written histories explaining the Yoruba system, and a great deal of research on different aspects and it’s affects on societies around the world. Several very well known photographers such as Chester Higgins and Pierre Verger have done ethnographic and documentary studies in this areal. This lecture brings together a distillation of that information as well as some images from the past on a community practicing Candomble in Brazil from 1996 to 2003.
Johnette Iris Stubbs began her journey to Brazil with the intention of documenting not only the existence of people of African descent in this area, but also to show the cultural similarities to other people of African descent despite vast separations in time and space. This journey has further led her to seek those similarities in communities around the world even as far as South Asia.
Johnette Iris Stubbs is an artist and photographer based in New Delhi.
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A Lecture and Photographic Slide Presentation by Johnette Iris Stubbs at Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA), 11, Mansingh Road > 5:30pm on 11th October 2013
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