A still from the film 'Uyra: The Rising Forest'. Close up of a person with a painted face and chest, large false eyelashes and blue contact lenses. Their face is painted white, with red and yellow sections over their eyes. Their lips are painted blue. They wear a large leaf behind their head, a beaded necklace and a silver head wrap. They are holding a tree branch that has been made into a staff, with small feathers dangling from it.

Uýra: The Rising Forest

Name: Uýra: The Rising Forest
Start: 2023-12-08T20:00:00+00:00
End: 2023-12-08T22:30:00+00:00
Location: Centre For Contemporary Arts (CCA)

Fri 8 December | 8:00pm - 10:30pm

Centre For Contemporary Arts (CCA)

350 Sauchiehall Street
Glasgow, G2 3JD United Kingdom (Show on map)

Event Type:: Screening
Venue phone:: 0141 352 4900
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Film Synopsis: UÝRA: The Rising Forest

Director: Juliana Curi | Countries of production: Brazil, United States | Year: 2022 | Length: 70 min

Language: Portuguese with English subtitles | Age: 12+ years

A dazzling journey into the Amazon with trans-indigenous artist Uýra.

The art of resistance lives and breathes – colourful, striking, riveting – through Uýra, a trans and Indigenous performance activist. Travelling through the Brazilian Amazon, Uýra imparts the Indigenous youth she meets with the power to embrace how their queerness, Indigenous ancestry, and deep connection with the forest all intertwine. In the deadliest country in the world for environmental activists, trans and Indigenous people, Uýra plants the seeds of both fury and hope. Despite immeasurable violence, the forests and people of the Amazon sink their roots deep, strong, into their land.

Opening with a performance celebrating protest and ancestry by artist Saoirse Amira Anis. After the film, dive into a hands-on workshop on protest art, led by visual artist Priscila Fróes.

Content notes: Contains discussion of structural racism, indigenous erasure and brief allusion to genocide. Use of transphobic and homophobic language.

Access notes: Mainly bright images with explanatory dialogue throughout. Brief scenes with loud music and flashing lights towards the end of the film (00:43, 00:45,).

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Beyond the Screen

The event will be opened with a live performance by Saoirse Amira Anis, and followed by an arts as activism workshop with Priscila Fróes.

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