Gabriela Saenger Silva, a PhD candidate at Liverpool John Moores University, will lead a discussion on legal strategies, protest, resistance, and resilience in land rights movements. Joined by representatives from local, non-profit, and community organisations, this panel will explore indigenous knowledge, technologies, and the fight for land rights.

Panelists will share insights from their work advocating for equality, climate justice, and improved health through the arts, with a focus on both local and global perspectives.

The event will also feature a screening of Corumbiara [18], a 2009 documentary by filmmaker Vincent Carelli. Spanning 20 years, the film documents a series of genocides against Indigenous peoples perpetrated by landowners in the lawless region of Corumbiara, Rondônia, Brazil.

Speakers

Gabriela Saenger Silva

Gabriela Saenger Silva is an arts practitioner, educator, and researcher specialising in education and socially engaged practices. She is a PhD candidate at the Exhibition Research Lab at Liverpool John Moores University, researching contemporary art biennials and different forms of public engagement. She is part of the study group "The Amazon Basin as Connecting Borderland," reflecting on contemporary Indigenous Voices, and one of the community curators of the International Slavery Museum.

Yula Rocha

Yula is a journalist who has worked as a reporter for more than two decades in Brazil, the US and the UK. She keeps telling stories, now as a comms manager at PPP- People's Palace Projects. She also oversees the climate action and Indigenous exchange portfolio for PPP. She has been collaborating with Indigenous artists for many years and just returned from the Xingu Indigenous territory in Brazil. Yula will share her experience working with Indigenous partners with us this evening.