Helping Ensemble B11 provide community support in Venezuela.

Following the tragic earthquakes in Venezuela, the Tradidanças Festival and the BUALA Portal intend to support the musical group Ensamble B11 in helping their community.

Following the tragic earthquakes in Venezuela, we reconnected with Belkys Figuera, the coordinator of the musical collective Ensamble B11, who performed at the Tradidanças Festival in 2024 and surprised everyone with the quality and creativity of their work.

This summer, Maria Prata spoke with Belkys Figuera to discover the journey of this original and surprising group that blends Afro-Venezuelan traditions with beatbox drumming, a cappella music following gospel traditions and harmonies, string and percussion instruments, invocations for dance, celebration and ritual with ancestral and contemporary sounds. You can read about it here: Tradidanças, ainda há encontros humanos francos | BUALA

Now, through the Tradidanças Festival and the BUALA portal, we are sharing a fundraising campaign so that the community connected to the musical group EnsambleB11 can continue to directly help people in Venezuela. The use of the collected funds will be disclosed.

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About the author

BUALA

A multidisciplinary portal for reflection, critique, and documentation of contemporary African cultures in Portuguese, with the production of texts and translations in French and English.

TRADITIONS

Festival of Traditions, Dance, Music and Nature, in Carvalhais, São Pedro do Sul

Organized by the local association ATASA in partnership with the Municipality of São Pedro do Sul, Tradidanças is a participatory event that brings together musicians and dancers, both professional and amateur, around traditional Portuguese and world music, uniting the specific heritage of the Serra da Arada region and the municipality of São Pedro do Sul with the rich diversity brought from other places.

Maria Prata, a long-time contributor to the BUALA Portal, has been reporting on the Tradidanças Festival, focusing on Afro-descendant culture.

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Budget and due dates

The goal is to raise at least 500 euros in one week. The intention is to send a significant amount as quickly as possible so that the support they are providing can expand.

The intention is to keep the support open for 3 weeks in any case.

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