Presented by Dina Batista and Amazonian Vito Israel, both producers of digital content for at least ten years, the weekly program addresses central issues of Amazonian cultural diversity.
Amazon is as valuable a global brand as Coca-Cola. It adds value to products around the world, yields spectacular images and much is said about its riches. What is not talked about is the people who live there. Or rather, the people. Its professionals, traditions, culture, gastronomy and ancestry remain isolated, even in a globalized world. “It’s up to us to choose how we want to be remembered and it’s high time we took our place of speech. Everyone deserves to know our region through our eyes”. And it is with the power of this discourse that the duo of presenters Dina Batista, from Belém do Pará, and Vito Israel, from Manaus, in Amazonas, intend to get the Amazonians to speak and be heard beyond their own borders in the Chat in Tucupi.
The interviews promoted by the duo Dina and Vito enter weekly on the Youtube channel, in audiovisual and in podcast on all audio streaming platforms. During the month of November, the project will promote the Alter do Chão Expedition, where more than ten Brazilian personalities will embark to explore the destination that has become a darling of Brazilians.
In a celebration of the voices of the region, in the first season of the program, the duo invites personalities such as Vanda Witoto, leader of the Witoto people and coordinator of the movement of Indigenous Students of the State of Amazonas, to the conversation. From inherited habits like sleeping in hammocks to questioning current genocidal policies, Vanda calls on the new generation to walk a path back to their origins. “People are sometimes ashamed of their indigenous ancestry, but the European blood in their veins is praised, when in fact this origin is colonizing, the result of the historical rape of women in Brazil”, she asks. “To build our future, it is necessary to recognize and honor our roots and, whoever was born in this territory, has an indigenous history”, she adds.
Raissa Santos, vice-champion of the first Netflix reality show, ‘The Circle Brasil’, and Harim Feitosa, entrepreneur in the Amazon fashion market also participated in the season.
The second season is already in the oven and has the participation of names such as the singer from Pará Keila Gentil, the historian and current Secretary of Culture of Belém Michel Pinho and the historian of Amazonian gastronomy Sidiana Macedo, whose work investigates the cuisine of Pará at the end of the nineteenth century and mid-twentieth century.
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