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With 15 years of experience, Casa Preta, an urban quilombo and cultural center, has built a history of coordination, promotion, training, and cultural and environmental preservation in public and community policies with an ethnic-racial approach in territories in the Amazon and other states such as Bahia, Pernambuco, Maranhão, and São Paulo.
She worked for eight years with Rede Mocambos, at the national level, focusing on digital culture, social technologies, and public policies in traditional territories. Since 2016, she has been part of the National Network of Collaborative Producers, organizing, together with other partners, the 1st National Meeting of the Network of Free Collaborative Producers in the Amazon. In 2016 and 2017, she created his Digital Laboratory for Free Communication, which offers digital services and runs community communication workshops.
As a result of the joint strengthening of community organizations, the experience of Casa in forming the Aiyê Network has impacted collectives such as Quintais Eco-Poéticos and Associação De Catadores/as de Reciclagem da Ilha de Caratateua, structuring agroecological actions in peri-urban backyards. Active in different networks, it mobilizes Terreiros, Pontos de Cultura, Quintais Produtivos, Associação de Catadores e Catadoras da Reciclagem, groups of researchers from colleges and universities, artists, schools, and community groups from the perspective of agroecology, education and culture, and the creative and solidarity economy.
In the field of cultural structure, for some years now, the Sankofa Program for the preservation, memory, and dissemination of black culture in the Amazon has been operating, with its main hub being the permanent workshop for the production of drums and percussion instruments, allied with the O-orun rhythmic learning group. This foundation inspires and promotes a range of cultural activities, the most important of which is Sambada, when the culture of popular celebration takes hold and promotes joy, spirituality, mobilization, encounters, and cycles of creative economy. The social technology of collaborative cultural producers integrates training practices in free software, digital inclusion methodologies, and community cultural production guided by the principles of solidarity economy. These are local development initiatives carried out in telecenters where young people, producers, cultural managers, entrepreneurs, and artists participate in the management of the space and the training process, creating and marketing products and services of the creative economy in free software and licenses in a self-managed manner. Social technology qualifies spaces for digital inclusion in free culture education laboratories, contributing to the registration of their communities.
Collaborative Production Companies are a social technology conceived by the digital culture and free software movement, integrating diverse training practices in contexts such as Casa Preta, allying themselves with black culture and artistic creative processes. This technology produces an alternative for local development based on a productive and organizational arrangement.
Thus, Casa Preta, which has been part of the National Network of Collaborative Production Companies for years, promoting digital culture, proposes to incubate the Sankofa Collaborative Production Company, coordinating a set of actions and partners that, over the last few years, have been responsible for Sambada (a popular culture festival) and the permanent workshop for the production of drums and percussion instruments, associated with the rhythmic experiments in which Bloco O-orun is the highlight.