Open House 2025 - Ordinary Time

 

 

time with a

Here we are again, opening the house to share our space-time based on the walls, on the pulse of our presence, on the inconstancy of each little brick, on the calluses on our hands, on the mixture of bodies that tell and write the stories of this common house.

Debut! A debut in the incarnate young body, bringing the memory of our concrete ancestors - from the hospital to the maternity hospital to the abandoned space - remade into an ecocultural point, a place of welcome and coexistence. Fifteen years of C O N D Ô, of people instilling art in this space born in Vila Anglo. With its contamination zones, pandemic scars, radio waves, ways of birding, dreaming together, and making toró.

A common gesture, right from gestation: d i l a t a r .

To open cracks in the against the grain of time, the eater of people. Saying goodbye to the clockwork man and moving forward with the grains of sand in an hourglass, which flow and give way to emptiness. Stretched silences, elastic times, pots without lids, natural fermentation. Between bumps, the hours of carelessness, hugs, mango baths, Ademir's bonfire, rain in the yard.

Here, time brings its grill and has the vocation of a woman. She's a vinyl-woman, her lap expanded, spinning, spinning on the record player. Redrawing the lines of an unrepeatable record, establishing rhythms, cadence and affectations. Refining the flavor of this broth of coexistence that, with its ways of caring, spreads through every crack and crevice, every furrow - watermark - that runs down the lines of a disc or geographical river, mapping the memories of our plural bodies that converge on this space woven in coexistence with the lines of our time together.

 

Check out the program for both days!

 

Garden of Delights

December 6th

10am-8pm

December 07

9am-7pm

During the two days of the Open House, we invite you to get to know, observe and appreciate our little darling, the Garden of Delights! In the edible part of Condô, vegetables, legumes, herbs, spices, medicinal plants, fruits and PANC flourish, grown under the principles of agroforestry. Our organic garden was established in 2020 and serves as the basis for the production of the inputs used in the house! At Casa Aberta, come and be enchanted by the colors, shapes and aromas of our garden.

 

Community composting

December 07

11h-14h

You're probably already aware that Condô Cultural is a community composting site, and that we're active in maintaining this sustainable cycle of composting.

As usual, on the Sunday of the festival we will be at the same time and place collecting and working with the compost!

 

Condô's shop

December 6th

10am-8pm

December 07

9am-7pm

The Condô Shop has exclusive work by the house's artists, and we're counting on you to support their productions!

 

Indigenous Art Point

December 6th

10am-8pm

December 07

09h-19h

The Indigenous Art Point has a variety of pieces, from accessories and utilities to works of art handcrafted by different indigenous communities, each one carrying stories and knowledge. Appreciate the culture that originated in our country, don't miss this opportunity!

 

Open Workshops

December 6th and 7th

11h-14h

It's customary for us to open up our studios to you, so that we can go deep into the bowels of Condô Cultural and each person who lives there, and see the organization from the inside, the spaces for creation and a lot of work!

Come and see the workspace of the people who make up this house: Anderson Santos, Beth Sousa, Cleiri Cardoso and guests Giovana Griolin and Gabriela Toledo, Cris Panariello, Eneida Sanches, Iran Ribas, Itamar Dutra, Karina Walter, Kelvin Koubik, Laura Lolli, Luiza Freire, Maíra Bühler, Nadira Yanez and Silvia Nogueira.

 

Workshops, experiences and talks

 

Zen DeZenho

with Carol Lefèvre

How about trying to draw while meditating?
One stroke at a time, the instant reveals itself: eyes that see, hands that feel, silence that breathes.

In this workshop, we combine Zazen, Zen meditation and observation drawing to cultivate presence, focus and lightness - learning to see reality as it is, without haste and without judgment.

For those who want to start meditating or loosen up their drawing.
No previous experience necessary.

If your heart asks you to pause, rest and breathe - come.

📍 Peróba Room

📅 December 6th

⏰ from 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.

 

Listening to the flows of a new year

with Maíra Gerstner

A new year is approaching and a desire for renewal often presents itself too. How do we listen to the flows that life reveals to us? And how do we mobilize concrete possibilities in the face of the dreams that inhabit us? Starting with meditative practices aimed at listening to the body and some artistic propositions involved with listening to the subtle, we will map out what we are looking for and hoping for in a new cycle of our lives.

📍 Linoleum room

📅 December 6th

⏰ from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.

 

School as refuge: adolescence in a time of climate crisis

with Aterra

A round table discussion with anthropologist Joana dos Arcos about her research on schools - refuge in adolescence, in dialog with Montessori, Griô Pedagogy, Family Agricultural Schools and free learning. Come and join the conversation.

📍 Pigeon Room

📅 December 6th

⏰ from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.

 

Botany without shame

with Anderson Santos

The meeting was born out of the publication Botânica Sem Vergonha (Botany Without Shame), a project by Fernanda and Carol that investigates how the history of science, especially botany, has been erased and distorted over time. These include the silencing of women who contributed to the construction of scientific knowledge and the permanence of popular plant names marked by sexist connotations.

It will be an open, critical and light-hearted conversation, so that we can think together:
- how certain discourses have shaped the way we look at plants;
- why so much female knowledge has been made invisible;
- and how to recover other possible narratives - broader, fairer and more plural.

The meeting lasts 1.5 hours, is free and open to anyone who wants to reflect on science, language, culture and nature.

Come and take part, listen and pave the way for a more diverse and unashamed botany.

📍 Pigeon Room

📅 December 6th

⏰ from 2 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.

 

Coffee with movement

with Isis Marks

A practical class aimed at the general public with no prior experience necessary. An experience to celebrate the body and the opportunity to meet in the exercise of moving together and, perhaps, tuning into a common time. The practice will be inspired by movements and flows typical of nature, such as spirals, breathing, expansion and contraction and vibration.

📍 Linoleum room 

📅 December 7th

⏰ from 09h45 to 11h

 

Zen DeZenho with poetry

with Carol Lefèvre and Flavia Yumi Sakai

We will practice meditation through drawing and poetry, an encounter with the present moment.
In the silence of the line and in the synthesis of words, the instant reveals itself - looking, feeling and expressing become a single gesture.

In this workshop, we combine Zazen (Zen meditation), observation drawing and poetry to train mindfulness and capture reality as it is: ephemeral, present, alive.
The practice invites us to see and record the moment with simplicity and truth - whether through the line that is born in the hand or through poetic writing.

For those who want to start meditating or let their creativity run wild.
No previous experience necessary.

If you're looking for presence and authentic expression, come along.

📍 Peróba Room

📅 December 7th

⏰ from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.

 

Spaceship Gaia: a conversation

with Bia Tadema and Anderson Santos

We invite you to a screening of an excerpt from the conversation ‘Nave Gaia’, between Ailton Krenak and Antônio Nobre, followed by a round table discussion with Bia Tadema and Anderson Santos.It will be a space to exchange reflections on the times we live in - and what it means to keep learning from the Earth.

About the film Nave Gaia In the conversation between indigenous thinker Ailton Krenak and climate scientist Antônio Nobre, we are invited to look at the planetary crisis not just as a problem to be solved, but as a profound symptom of the separation between humanity and nature.Krenak invites us to remember that the Earth is alive, that it is a body of which we are a part, and that the future cannot be built with knowledge alone. Antônio Nobre, on the other hand, brings a scientific perspective, showing how forests - especially the Amazon - are intelligent climate regulation systems, “flying rivers” that sustain life on the planet.Between the two, a rare conversation emerges: science and ancestry meet, not as opposites, but as complementary expressions of the same wisdom - that of recognizing the Earth as mother, teacher and sacred organism.

ACTIVITY WITH ACCESSIBILITY IN POUNDS.

📍 Pigeon Room

📅 December 7th

⏰ from 2 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.

 

Rhythm, Movement and Expression Workshop

with Paula D'Ajello

The Rhythm, Movement and Expression workshop offers a practical experience inspired by the principles of Modern Dance. Through breathing; the use of weight in falls, suspensions and swings; and oppositions in movement such as twists and spirals, participants will be invited to explore the body in its expressive potential.

📍 Linoleum room

📅 December 7th

⏰ from 3:30 p.m. to 5 p.m.

 

Performance and dance

 

Between Bodies

PERFORMANCE

with Isis Marks and Beatriz Alves

Dance artists come together and research the relationship between the time that passes between their bodies.

📍 Slab

📅 December 6th

⏰ from 13:55 to 14:00 and from 18:10 to 18:15

 

The Village Singers

with Kênia Muraoka and women's group

Performance by the popular women's singing group, As Cantadeiras da Vila.

📍 For the Condô

📅 December 6th

⏰ from 3:30 p.m. to 4 p.m. 

 

Open rehearsal: movement and words

with the Arroio group

We in the Arroio group are researching movement using word stimuli.
What do speech and silence, explored in different intensities and rhythms, awaken in our bodies?
This open essay is an invitation to anyone who wants to follow our research in progress.

Director: Isabel Martinelli
Performers: Beatriz Alves, Bianca Laurino, Elisa Wajskop, Gabriela Fellet, Jussara Amâncio, Mayra Tavares, Tatiana Klix

📍 Pigeon Room

📅 December 6th

⏰ from 16h to 16h50

 

Music

 

Gracias a la mañana - Latin experiments

with Tânia Murakami and Rosa Espiral

Gracias a la mañana is an experimental sound encounter that traverses the many layers of our Latinities.

Between flutes, piano, charango and guitar, we weave landscapes that carry body, movement and ancestry. A ritual of listening and presence, where tradition and invention embrace, making room for improvisation, affection and celebration.

This show is an invitation to new listenings, based on the artists' references, invoking the living sound of a multiple, mestizo and infinite Latin America.

📍 Pigeon Room

📅 December 6th

⏰ from 17:30 to 18:10

 

The Majesty of Samba

The project revisits a repertoire of sambas that, from the 1970s onwards, opened the doors of the genre to the record label market at the time, with great success, consolidating popular inventiveness and the boundaries of samba as a universal Brazilian musical genre, giving voice to an immeasurable wealth of composers and interpreters, beyond any borders.

At the time, the members of the musical group: Vanderlei Bernardino (vocals); Pedro Aguerre (vocals and guitar); César Lopes (percussion) and Rubens Nunes (cavaquinho) were children and teenagers. Thus, the repertoire emerges from the emotional memory of a generation while at the same time recovering classics by singers and composers for a new audience today.

📍 In the backyard

📅 December 6th

⏰ 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m.

 

Vissungos: from chants to strings - show by Felipe Mancini

Felipe Mancini presents a pocket show for the release of his latest album: Vissungos: dos Cantos para as Cordas. The album, released in August 2025, features guitar arrangements based on the melodies of Vissungos, Afro-mining chants sung at the time of gold and diamond extraction using enslaved labor. The recording of the album was part of the Rumos Itaú Cultural program (2023-2024).

📍 Pigeon Room

📅 December 7th

⏰ from 11 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.

 

Obinrin Trio - 10 years

The Obinrin Trio is celebrating its 10th anniversary and is returning to the stage with a new show ahead of its second album.
Elis Menezes, Lan Lopes and Raíssa Spada revisit the strength of the voices, drums and ancestry that have marked their history, with the participation of Riba Canhestro and musical direction by Iran Ribas.

A powerful, sensitive and lively reunion.

📍 In the backyard

📅 December 7th

⏰ 5pm to 6pm

 

Disco and Live Set

with VCA.AV

VCA.AV is one of the N DJs who moved on to virtual synths and DAWs after having a journey in electronic music and today are looking for even more analog sounds in classic Brazilian Rap, R&B, Brasilidades and SkateRock, one as a bridge to the other, qualitatively amplified by Scratches, Keyboards and Electronic Drums.

📍 In the backyard

📅 December 7th

⏰ from 6pm to 7pm