OUR HISTORY
19 years of relevance, legacy-building, and shaping futures
Created in 2008, Festival Latinidades is the largest Black women’s festival in Latin America. For nearly two decades, we have brought together thousands of people to celebrate Black excellence in the arts, knowledge production, and politics through an Afro-centered and intersectional curatorial approach.
Since its very first edition, we have profoundly influenced Brazilian cultural production. We emerged as the country’s first festival dedicated to Black women and, ever since, have placed urgent issues at the center of our programming: racism, sexism, social justice, ancestry, and equity.
Latinidades goes beyond the stage. We expand horizons and provoke new futures. We have built an ecosystem where culture becomes a tool for collective articulation, and where Black women lead through creative power, critical thought, and living memory.
Our commitment is to symbolic and material redistribution. We generate income and visibility for artists, intellectuals, traditional knowledge keepers, communicators, and cultural producers who, for far too long, were pushed to the margins of the cultural scene.
The impact is tangible: we helped establish July 25th as a landmark date in the movement of Black women in Brazil, influenced public policies, and opened pathways for new languages, aesthetics, and cultural formats across Brazil and Latin America.
Our signature
multilingual programming,
aesthetic innovation,
social commitment,
and curatorial excellence.
Here, Black women do not merely resist: they lead, create, and transform.
We are part of the Afrolatinas Network, a cultural organization with social impact, led by Black women and legally established in 2011. Afrolatinas Network was born from the mobilizing force of Festival Latinidades and, over the years, has expanded its areas of action, connecting Black women in culture across different territories of the diaspora. Afrolatinas is an ecosystem of resistance, innovation, and social transformation, working continuously through education, political articulation, and the production of Afro-centered knowledge.