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PhD student in Communication Sciences - Communication and Arts, at the FCSH, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, and a scholarship holder of the EUTOPIA Alliance Programme (NOVA/FCT/CY CERGY PARIS). Member of ICNOVA, Culture, Mediation and the Arts Research Group and the Photo Impulse Project. With artistic training in dance and theatre, she is an actress-performer, author and director, graduated in Anthropology from ISCTE-IUL (2017) and develops different art education projects for children. Activist Human rights, anti-racist, has written and published articles in different media in Portugal and in Brazil. As a PhD student of the EUTOPIA Alliance Programme (FCT/NOVA/CY CERGY PARIS), she is part of UMR 9022 Héritages : Culture/s, Patrimoine/s, Création/s - a multi-tutelle laboratory supported by CY Cergy Paris Université, CNRS and the French Ministry of Culture. She is part of the curatorial team of the exhibition The Photographic Impulse (un) Tidying up the Colonial Archive - Photo Impulse Project / ICNOVA / MUHNAC - Portugal. She is artistically residing at MUHNAC - Museum of Natural History and Science / University of Lisbon - Portugal, as part of her doctoral research "Performance(s) Calico bedspread: Black Women and Their Reverberations. Auto-ethnography and practice-based research". Main areas of interest: research based on artistic creation, disciplinary crossings, autoethnography, gender, communication, decolonial thinking and visual culture.
Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Rita Cássia Silva
Gender
Female

Citation names

  • Silva, Cássia Rita
  • Silva, Rita
  • Cássia, Rita

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
BE16-7419-CC64

Knowledge fields

  • Social Sciences - Sociology - Anthropology
  • Social Sciences - Media and Communications
Education
Degree Classification
2021 - 2026
Ongoing
Sciences of Communication - Communication and Arts (Doutoramento)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
2023/04/18 - 2023/04/24
Concluded
Seminar Sociology of the Image, with Sílvia Rivera Cusicanqui (Outros)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
2023 - 2023
Concluded
Reckoning with Racism - The Social Memory of the Slave Trade, Symposium (Outros)
Museu Nacional de História Natural e Ciência, Portugal
2023 - 2023
Concluded
Racism in the Public Square The Role of Museums in Difficult but Necessary Conversations (Outros)
Museu Nacional de História Natural e Ciência, Portugal
2016 - 2019
Attended
Capoeira Berimbau de Ouro Master Nilson. (Outros)
Capoeira Berimbau de Ouro, Portugal
2019
Concluded
Closing Seminar of the Roadmap for an Antiracist Education. (Outros)
Instituto Politécnico de Setúbal Escola Superior de Educação, Portugal
2017 - 2018
Attended
Anthropology (Mestrado)
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
2014 - 2017
Concluded
Anthropology (Licenciatura)
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
"Professional Practices in Anthropology. Professor Francisco Oneto. Final graduation work: "Once upon a time my childhood - Changes in the perception of childhood and education of the new generation". Grade: 17 " (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
14
2017
Concluded
Open Course World. An Anthropological Examination. (Outros)
ICS Instituto de Ciências Sociais - Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
2013
Concluded
Curriculum Development in Arts Methodologies and Practices, area of Theatre - PEEA (Outros)
Ministério da Educação, Portugal
2009
Concluded
The Living Monologue Workshop. (Outros)
Language Craft, Línguas, Artes e Cultura, Portugal
2005 - 2006
Attended
Theatre - Dramaturgy (Licenciatura)
Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema, Portugal
2001 - 2005
Concluded
Dance classes: Jazz, Improvisational Jazz Dance, Classical Ballet, Bar on the floor, Oriental Dance, Duende Dance research, Contemporary Dance, Afro Dance, Integral Yoga, Butoh, Capoeira. (Outros)
Estúdio de Dança 7ª Posição, Lisboa, Portugal
2001
Concluded
Theatre Workshop: Suburban Scenes/Realism. Based on texts by the Brazilian playwright Nelson Rodrigues. (Outros)
Open Space Studio, Lisboa, Portugal
2001
Attended
Open Courses: Flamenco Dance and Salsa. (Outros)
Xuventude de Galicia - Centro Galego de Lisboa, Portugal
1997 - 2000
Concluded
Course on Acting for Television and Cinema. (Alapfokozat)
SATED - BAHIA, Brazil
1996 - 2000
Attended
Afro-Brazilian Dance (Alapfokozat)
Bloco Afro Malê Debalê, Salvador, Bahia , Brazil
1998 - 1999
Attended
Professional Technical Course in Actor Training. (Alapfokozat)
Sitorne - Estúdio de Artes Cénicas, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
1997 - 1999
Attended
Classical Ballet (Alapfokozat)
Escola Contemporânea de Ballet, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
1995 - 1999
Attended
Afro Contemporary Dance Silvestre Technique, among others. (Alapfokozat)
Balé Folclórico da Bahia, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
1997 - 1998
Attended
Professional Education Technical Medium Level in Dance. (Alapfokozat)
Escola de Dança da Fundação Cultural do Estado da Bahia, Brazil
1992 - 1996
Concluded
Afro Modern Dance and Ballet. (Alapfokozat)
SESC - Sala de Dança Mestre King Bispo, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
1993 - 1995
Attended
Afro-Brazilian Dance. (Alapfokozat)
Bloco Afro Muzenza, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
1994 - 1994
Concluded
Course in Acting for Television. (Alapfokozat)
C. I. D. A. Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
1992 - 1994
Attended
Brazilian Dances. (Alapfokozat)
C. S. U. Liberdade, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
1992 - 1992
Concluded
Theatre Course - Initiation. (Alapfokozat)
C. S. U. Liberdade, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
Affiliation

Others

Category
Host institution
Employer
2023/01/21 - Current State (anti) Asylum, Fragments (performance), Exhibition The Photographic Impulse (un)tidying the colonial archive Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Comunicação da Nova, Portugal
Museu Nacional de História Natural e Ciência, Portugal
2021 - 2022 Acted as an actress in the Children's Theatre Play The Joyful History of Music in 62 Minutes. With actors Pedro Gomes and Pedro Vicente. Directed by: Mauro Toledo Teatro Bocage, Lisboa, Portugal
Teatro Bocage, Lisboa, Portugal
2021/09 - 2021/10 Research and script writing, Talk-Show Indiscreet Dinner - RTP Muxima Bio, Portugal
Television , Portugal
2021/05/10 - 2021/07/31 Epiphanies Arts Project: audioblog with and for people who dream of equality. Radio performances. Series of five episodes inspired by real stories of women/mothers and children. Republica Portuguesa Direção-Geral das Artes - support, Portugal
APURO - Cultural and Philanthropic Association, Porto, Portugal
2020 - 2020 Epiphanies, Performance. Disciplinary intersections (arts and anthropology). Artistic creation. Presentations: Lisbon / Almada. República Portuguesa - Ministério da Cultura - Fundo de Fomento Cultural - support, Portugal
Teatro Bocage, Lisboa, Portugal
2019 - 2019 Scientific Research Fellow FCT / CAPP / ISCSP. Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Ciências Sociais e Políticas, Portugal
Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Administração e Políticas Públicas, Portugal
2019 - 2019 Blood Sweat and Tears, short film. Directed by Kristjan Knigge. Screenplay by Stephanie Ginger. Independent Production. Character: Adelina. Algarve. ImpactFilm50 Project , United Kingdom
2018 - 2018 Performance Art in Transition, artistic creation in the Life in Syntropy Project, with inspiration in the philosophical reverberations of the farmer Ernst Götsch (Syntropic Farming). Mértola. Alentejo Project Life in Syntropy - support, Portugal
Câmara Municipal de Mértola, Portugal
2018 - 2018 Theatre classes with children. Bocage Theatre Project, Lisboa Junta de Freguesia de Arroios - support, Portugal
Teatro Bocage, Lisboa, Portugal
2017 - 2018 Transcriber. Lisboa. VoiceInteraction, Portugal
2016 - 2017 Institutional Collaborator ISCTE-IUL Library. ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
2016 - 2016 Project Talking With Clarice. Artistic creation, experience "In the Heart", blind theatre version. I International Lusophone Congress, All Arts All Names, Portugal
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
2015 - 2016 Theatre classes and monitoring with children from the 1st cycle of basic education. Junta de Freguesia da Ajuda - Lisboa., Portugal
2012 - 2016 The Princess Hors Skin, Actress. Adaptation of a traditional Portuguese tale. Staged by Amadeu Neves. Ler Devagar Bookshop, Lisbon. Malaposta Cultural Centre, Odivelas. Grupo Lamiré, Lisboa, Portugal
2012 - 2016 History of Portugal, Actress. Adapted and directed by Amadeu Neves. Ler Devagar Bookstore, Lisbon. Malaposta Cultural Centre, Odivelas. Grupo Lamiré, Lisboa, Portugal
2012 - 2016 Art Education Project Contos Mexidos (Stirring Tales): stories that open. Creation and implementation. Storytelling for children from 2 to 10/11 years old. Lisbon. Projeto Contos Mexidos, Lisboa, Portugal
2015 - 2015 Performance Cordão - the samba that I learned. Dramaturgy and acting. Creation and acting: Renata Carvalho. Livraria Ler Devagar, Lisboa, Portugal
Livraria Ler Devagar, Lisboa, Portugal
2014 - 2014 Performance Da Saudade - Woman, Citadine and Nature - Listen . Site specific. Project of artistic creation Talking With Clarice. Tudanzas Festival, Barcelona, Spain
Bacantoh Company, Barcelona, Spain
2013 - 2013 Performance Da Saudade - Woman, Citadine and Nature - feeling the pulse of the earth. Project Talking With Clarice. Festival Tudanzas, Barcelona, Spain
Companhia Bacantoh. Casal Pou de La Figuera, Barcelona., Spain
2013 - 2013 Performance West Wind. Inspired by the work Close to the Wild Heart by the author Clarice Lispector. Project of artistic creation Talking With Clarice. Festival Restart, Lisboa, Portugal
Casa Independente, Lisboa, Portugal
2010 - 2013 Art Education Project Expression Life, creation and implementation. Body and theatre expression classes for children. A Voz do Operário da Ajuda e Centro Educativo do Restelo, Lisboa., Portugal
2008 - 2013 Art Education Project - drama and body language classes. FAPLX, Lisboa, Portugal
Agrupamento das Escolas Pedro de Santarém e Quinta de Marrocos, Lisboa., Portugal
2012 - 2012 People of Prophets, performance. Fictional composition in real time, based on Khalil Gibran. Festival INNI, Eclipse Arte, Lisboa, Portugal
Auditório Orlando Ribeiro, Telheiras, Lisboa., Portugal
2012 - 2012 Pulsating Heart, Directed by António M. Rodrigues. Character: Aphrodite. Festival INNI, Eclipse Arte, Lisboa, Portugal
Auditório Orlando Ribeiro, Telheiras, Lisboa., Portugal
2012 - 2012 The Siberian Avatar, adaptation of the play Anastasia, by Vladimir Megre. Directed by António M. Rodrigues. Character: Anastasia. Eclipse Arte, Lisboa, Portugal
Auditório Orlando Ribeiro, Telheiras, Lisboa., Portugal
2008 - 2010 Art Education Project Expression Life, creation and implementation. Dramatic Expression classes for 5th, 6th and 7th grade students. Lisbon. ATL Dados Mágicos. Escola Pedro de Santarém, Lisboa, Portugal
2008 - 2010 Art Education Project Expression Life, creation and implementation. Body Expression for Children. Associação Quinta do Grilo, Loures., Portugal
2008 - 2010 Art Education Project Expression Life, creation and implementation. Creative Dance classes for children. Centro Paroquial de Carnide, Creche e Jardim de Infância., Lisboa. , Portugal
2008 - 2008 Stereótipo, Anonymous Theatre. Directed by Marcos Pedrosa. Characters: Photographer Alípio Pio Passarinho, American Man. CML - support, Portugal
Praça do Comércio/CML, Lisboa, Portugal
2008 - 2008 Authorship, design and scenic performance of the tale Land of Beautiful Trees. In celebration of the Day of the Indigenous Peoples. Jardim Escola João de Deus. Alvalade, Lisboa., Portugal
2007 - 2007 Duende M., Mime Theatre / Performance. Street art festival. Câmara Municipal de Póvoa de Varzim, Porto, Portugal
2007 - 2007 We Buy and Sell Feelings, short film. Director: Vítor Pedrosa and Francisco Sousa. Screenplay by Emmanuel C., Andreia N., Francisco S., Production: Andreia Nunes. Universidade Lusófona, Lisboa., Portugal
2007 - 2007 RTP - Program Watch Your Tongue, by José Mário Costa, Maria Regina Rocha and João Lopes Marques. Episode: Telling snakes and lizards. Character: A Brazilian woman with the surname Silva. Até o Fim do Mundo Produtora, Lisboa, Portugal
2007 - 2007 Environmental Education and Citizenship Project. Threatened Species of the Mediterranean scrubland. Workshop on Theatre, Body Expression / Dance for professionals and students of the environment,. ADPM, Mértola, Portugal
2007 - 2007 Drama for primary school children, at Silva Porto School. Projecto Petiz. Parceria entre a EIL e a Universidade de Aveiro, Lisboa, Portugal
Agrupamento de Escola Quinta de Marrocos, Benfica, Lisboa., Portugal
2004 - 2007 Art Education Project: Theatre and Movement for children and young people. Arte Máxima/Ser Solidário (2004/05). Academia das Artes Actor Studio (2006). Teatro Bocage (2007), Lisboa., Portugal
2006 - 2006 Co-responsible for the Production of the EuroBahia Project, with Nuno P. Henriques. Palco e Bancada, Algueirão., Portugal
2005 - 2005 Training course for kindergarten monitors and educators. Theme: Scenic Choreography. Secretariado Diocesano de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal
2003 - 2004 Coordination and Secretarial Assistant (Gym), support to Dr. Liliane Viegas, Lisbon. ISPA - Instituto Superior de Psicologia Aplicada, Lisboa., Portugal
2003 - 2003 Silvia's Gift, feature film. Directed by: Dionisio Perez Galindo. Screenplay: Dionisio Perez Galindo, Pilar Gutiérrez, Miguel A. Gómez. Character: Deisy. Cinemate, Lisboa, Portugal
2003 - 2003 Preparation of a group of Portuguese revellers for Unidos da Tijuca Samba School - Rio de Janeiro Carnival. Theatrical, samba and Afro-Brazilian dance workshops. Ginásio Mega Craque, Lisboa., Portugal
2003 - 2003 Live School Bus Project. National Children's Art Festival Riscos e Rabiscos. Actress and Field Coordinator. North, Central and South Tours. ACADE, Lisboa., Portugal
2003 - 2003 Participation in the show Electrodoméstico, with Daniela Mercury. O Canto da Cidade, Bahia, Brazil
Pavilhão Atlântico, Lisboa, Portugal
2002 - 2002 At Christmas 3 Charming Stories III. Staged by Fábio Azevedo. Characters: Ana Maria, Ludmila. Trindade Theatre, Rivoli Theatre and Law Faculty - Coimbra. Cia. de Teatro Magia e Fantasia, Oeiras., Portugal
2001 - 2002 Art Education Project Theatrical Initiation Workshop 1 and 2 at Estúdio Dance Etc. by Margarida Calais. Lisbon. Estúdio Dance Etc., Lisboa, Portugal
2001 - 2001 Suburban Scenes Exhibition, based on the playwright Nelson Rodrigues. Directed by António Terra. Character: Nurse. Lisbon. Open Space, Bazar do Vídeo, Lisboa , Portugal
Open Space, Bazar do Vídeo, Lisboa , Portugal
2000 - 2000 Intervention performance, based on the French playwright Valére Novarina. Staged by Thierry Tremouroux. Historical Centre of Salvador, Bahia. SATED - BAHIA, Brazil
Alliance Française, Salvador, Brazil
2000 - 2000 Canticle, Performance from the poem Black Canticle by the Portuguese author José Régio. Extra presentation: Bloco afro Malê Debalê, Salvador. Projecto Pelourinho Dia & Noite. Salvador, Bahia., Brazil
Casa do Tecelão, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
2000 - 2000 Buscapé Project. Preparation of children and adolescents at risk and with disabilities. Carnival parade. Oficina de Investigação Musical, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
Escola Mestre Pastinha. Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
2000 - 2000 Choreographed scenic performance. Bahiatursa's Music and Dance Group. Festival Internacional de Música e Cultura Latino Americana de Roma - FIESTA, Roma, Italy
Ippodromo Capannelle, Roma, Itália., Italy
2000 - 2000 Performance Yabá - Fire Dance. Dance Movement of the Orixás. Scenic conception in duo with the dancer Irênio Santos. Projecto Pelourinho Dia & Noite. Salvador, Bahia., Brazil
Casa do Tecelão, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
2000 - 2000 Hostess of the Portuguese delegation with President Jorge Sampaio - Commemorations of Brazil 500 Years. Dance body of the Cia. de Folguedos e Danças Populares Sue Ribeiro. Porto Seguro, Bahia. Fundação Cultural do Estado da Bahia, Salvador, Brazil
Cia. de Folguedos e Danças Populares Sue Ribeiro, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
1998 - 2000 Cultural producer for the Drugs I'm Out Theatrical Project and cast producer for the Poupa Ganha Bahia Advertising Campaign, TV Itapoan. Salvador, Bahia. Produção Cultural, Salvador, Brazil
1998 - 2000 Choreography with children in theatre: Fables, The Little Witch Who Was Good, Playing for real, Puxa Vida, Espaço Xis, Salvador Sitorne Estúdio de Artes Cénicas, Brazil
1997 - 2000 Performances with Cia. de Folguedos e Danças Populares Sue Ribeiro. Performances in various events and projects: Pelourinho Dia & Noite and Rock in Rio Café. Salvador, Bahia. Cia. de Folguedos e Danças Populares Sue Ribeiro, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
1999 - 1999 Percussionist Music II Choreographic Exhibition Semester 98 - 2 Sine qua non. Author and Direction: Luciana Souza. Escola de Dança da UFBA. Teatro do Movimento, Salvador, Bahia., Brazil
1999 - 1999 Performer in the show Guarnicê. Author and Direction: Patrícia Medeiros. Escola de Dança da UFBA. Teatro do Movimento, Salvador, Bahia., Brazil
Escola de Dança da UFBA. Teatro do Movimento, Salvador, Bahia., Brazil
1998 - 1999 Body preparation Basic Theatre Courses I and II. Sitorne Estúdio de Artes Cénicas, Brazil
1998 - 1998 The Sítio do Picapau Amarelo - Sketches from the work of Monteiro Lobato. Staged by Teresa Oliveira. Character: Aunt Nastácia Grupo Filó, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
Biblioteca do Espaço Xis. Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
1998 - 1998 Dancer, 6th Internal Competition of Choreography. 1st Place. Choreography: Vacuum. Choreographer: Vera Passos. Escola de Dança da Fundação Cultural do Estado da Bahia, Brazil
Teatro do Espaço Xis, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
1998 - 1998 Choreographer, 6th Choreography Internal Competition. Choreography: Head Made. Escola de Dança da Fundação Cultural do Estado da Bahia, Brazil
Teatro Espaço Xis. Salvador, Bahia., Brazil
1998 - 1998 Dancer, International Dance Festival. Juvenile Modern Dance. 3rd Place. Choreography: Discoveries. Choreographer: Fátima Suarez. Escola Contemporânea de Ballet, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
Teatro Yemanjá. Salvador, Bahia., Brazil
1998 - 1998 Dancer, Show Movimentos Modernos. Direction: Fátima Suarez. Escola Contemporânea de Ballet, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
Teatro da Casa do Comércio, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
1998 - 1998 Dancer, Olodum Dance Company. Choreographer: Jailson Purificação. Presentations at the Yemanjá Theater. Convention Center. Salvador, Bahia. Bloco Afro Olodum, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
Cia. de Dança do Olodum, Brazil
1997 - 1997 Nordestinados, an Armorial Performance. Staged by Ricardo Biriba. Teatro Vila Velha. Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
1997 - 1997 D. S. T. Better Not Have. Directed by Clóvis Oliveira. Characters: Wife, Young man. Presentations in companies and schools in Bahia. Salvador, Bahia. Grupo de Teatro Lorotas e Carambolas., Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
1997 - 1997 Dancer, Choreographic Panel of the UFBA. Choreography: To look with naked eyes at the dance of each one. Choreographer: Luciana Pitteéngil. Salvador, Bahia. Escola de Dança da UFBA. Teatro do Movimento, Salvador, Bahia., Brazil
1997 - 1997 Performance in homage to the choreographer Clayde Morgan and the solo Baron Samedi. Performers and Direction: Suzana Martins and Sílvia Rita. Salvador, Bahia Teatro Vila Velha. Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
1997 - 1997 Dancer, National Dance Workshop 1997. Choreography: Entropy. Choreographer: Simone Requião. Stage: Terreiro de Jesus. Salvador, Bahia. Escola de Dança da Fundação Cultural do Estado da Bahia, Brazil
1997 - 1997 Dancer, 10 Years of Shopping Center Barra. Choreographer: Sandra Santana. Salvador, Bahia. Shopping Barra, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
Teatro Castro Alves , Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
1996 - 1996 Theatre play Glauber, The Conquest of Eldorado. Staged by Fábio Viana. Characters: Dandara, Suplicant, Choir. Salvador, Bahia. Teatro ACBEU, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
1996 - 1996 Dancer, UFBA Choreographic Panel. Choreography: Green Lament. Choreographer: Meiriane Carvalho. Salvador, Bahia. Escola de Dança da UFBA. Teatro do Movimento, Salvador, Bahia., Brazil
1995 - 1996 Co-responsible for the scenic choreography with Dancer/Teacher Roquidélia Santos. Malêzinho Group. Itapuã, Salvador, Bahia. Bloco Afro Malê Debalê, Brazil
1993 - 1996 Bahian Charms Show. SESC Dance Group. Direction: Profa. Raimunda Sena. Teatro da Casa do Comércio and Teatro de Arena COPEL. Salvador, Bahia. SESC, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
SESC - Sala de Dança Mestre King Bispo, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
1995 - 1995 Brazil, Monologue from Cazuza's lyrics. Staged by Lázaro Passos. Salvador, Bahia Colégio Delta, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
Teatro Vila Velha. Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
1993 - 1995 Omi-Dùdú Nucleus. Performative experiences in conferences about the Brazilian negritude and in events of afro fashion shows. Afro aesthetic photographic sessions. Salvador, Bahia. Núcleo Omi-Dùdú, Movimento Negro, Salvador, Bahia, Brasil, Brazil
Núcleo Omi-Dùdú, Movimento Negro, Salvador, Bahia, Brasil, Brazil
1994 - 1994 Performance The Ballet of the Dead God, by Flávio de Carvalho. Staged by Carlos Pronzato. Contemporary Theatre Company La Fragua. Gallery XIII and Cultural Space Cabincla. Salvador, Bahia. Gallery XIII, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
1994 - 1994 Theatre - Epopéia de Canudos, by Marielson Carvalho. Staged by Carlos Pronzato. Characters: Speaker, Choir. 1st Ilheus Theatre Festival and Feira de Santana Theatre Festival, Bahia Festivais de Teatro, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
1993 - 1993 Elements Performance, Stúdio 13 Theatre Group. Staged by George Brasil. Salvador, Bahia. C. S. U. Liberdade, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2019/02/01 - 2019/09/30 Cricity: As Crianças e o seu Direito à Cidade.
Research Fellow
Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Investigação em Sociologia Económica e das Organizações, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing

Other

Designation Funders
2021/05/18 - 2021/05/18 Photo Impulse
Researcher
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Comunicação, Portugal
Ongoing
Outputs

Publications

Conference abstract
  1. Silva, Cássia Rita. "Who Are the Children Being Talked About? Children in Danger?". Paper presented in ICCA - II International Conference on Childhood and Adolescence, Lisboa, 2018.
    Published
  2. Cássia, Rita (BE16-7419-CC64). "Talking With Clarice - Artistic Creation Project - Performance". Paper presented in I International Lusophone Congress All the Arts All the Names, Lisboa, 2016.
    Published
Newspaper article
  1. Silva, Cássia Rita. "On the right to memory", AfroLis, 2023, https://afrolis.pt/sobre-o-direito-a-memoria/.
  2. Silva, Cássia Rita. "Ways of living", AfroLis, 2023, https://afrolis.pt/modos-de-viver/.
  3. Silva, Cássia Rita. "Sketch of a scenario - shadow", AfroLis, 2023, https://afrolis.pt/esboco-de-um-cenario-sombra/.
  4. Silva, Cássia Rita. "Evoé, Joacine!", Jornal É Agora, 2023, https://jornaleagora.pt/evoe-joacine/.
  5. Silva, Cássia Rita. "Look, reflect, debate, share, decolonise, practice empathy", AfroLis, 2023, https://afrolis.pt/olhar-refletir-debater-partilhar-descolonizar-praticar-a-empatia/.
  6. Silva, Cássia Rita. "" - I am, because you are."", AfroLis, 2023, https://afrolis.pt/eu-sou-porque-tu-es/.
  7. Silva, Cássia Rita. "Memories of Mother's Day 2020 and some reflections", AfroLis, 2023, https://afrolis.pt/recordacoes-do-dia-das-maes-de-2020-e-algumas-reflexoes/.
  8. Silva, Cássia Rita. "Vicissitudes of language...", AfroLis, 2023, https://afrolis.pt/vicissitudes-da-linguagem/.
  9. Silva, Cássia Rita. "Nothing "new": Emancipated Black women and social violence against their bodies", ÁfroLis, 2023, https://afrolis.pt/nada-de-novo-mulheres-negras-emancipadas-e-as-violencias-sociais-contra-os-seus-corpos/.
  10. Silva, Cássia Rita. "To 25 April yet to come: Women's and Children's Rights", ÁfroLis, 2023, https://afrolis.pt/ao-25-de-abril-que-ainda-ha-de-vir-dos-direitos-das-mulheres-e-das-criancas/.
  11. Silva, Cássia Rita. "Racism, xenophobia and/or sexism: consequences in the lives of children and young people in educational settings", AfroLis, 2023, https://afrolis.pt/racismo-xenofobia-e-ou-sexismo-consequencias-na-vida-de-criancas-e-jovens-nos-ambitos-educacionais/.
  12. Silva, Cássia Rita. "Meritocracy fallacy in territories where there are social, racial and gender inequalities", AfroLis, 2023, https://afrolis.pt/falacia-da-meritocracia-em-territorios-onde-ha-desigualdades-sociais-raciais-e-de-genero/.
  13. Silva, Cássia Rita. "The lack of representation in Portuguese academia: Black women don't think?", AfroLis, 2023, https://afrolis.pt/a-falta-da-representatividade-na-academia-portuguesa-mulheres-negras-nao-pensam/.
  14. Silva, Cássia Rita. "Black Women Who Dreamed of Being Scientists", AfroLis, 2023, https://afrolis.pt/mulheres-negras-que-sonharam-ser-cientistas/.
  15. Silva, Cássia Rita. "Black Mothers' Family Discontinuities — Colonial Continuities", AfroLis, 2023, https://afrolis.pt/descontinuidades-familiares-das-maes-pretas-continuidades-coloniais/.
  16. Silva, Cássia Rita. "About the importance of knowing the life stories of black people", AfroLis, 2023, https://afrolis.pt/sobre-a-importancia-de-conhecer-as-historias-de-vida-de-pessoas-negras/.
  17. Silva, Cássia Rita. "What does the silencing of the President of Brazil, Lula da Silva, at the Celebrations of Democratic Freedom in Portugal mean?", Estrategizando, 2023, https://estrategizando.pt/noticia/o-que-significa-o-silenciamento-do-presidente-do-brasil-lula-da-silva-nas-comemoracoes-da-liberdade-7100p0wEHm000.
  18. Silva, Cássia Rita. "Open Letter, 2022 - 2026 and beyond: Eradicating colonial continuities bilaterally and transnationally is urgent, deeply needed", HedFlow, 2022, https://hedflow.com/2022/08/21/erradicar-as-continuidades-coloniais-e-urgente-carta-aberta-ao-lula/.
  19. Silva, Cássia Rita. "Open Letter, 2022 - 2026 and beyond: Eradicating colonial continuities bilaterally and transnationally is urgent, deeply needed", Media Estrategizando, 2022, https://estrategizando.pt/noticia/carta-aberta-5100pCzE1w000.
  20. Silva, Cássia Rita. "Open Letter, 2022 - 2026 and beyond: Eradicating colonial continuities bilaterally and transnationally is urgent, deeply needed", Afrolink, 2022, https://afrolink.pt/carta-a-lula-da-silva-para-erradicar-as-continuidades-coloniais-como-o-racismo/.
  21. Silva, Cássia Rita. "New Year", Media Estrategizando, 2021, https://estrategizando.pt/noticia/recomeco-de-ano-V100pCpEnu000.
  22. Silva, Cássia Rita. "Violence Against Children, Are Violence Against Women, Their Mothers", Media Estrategizando, 2020, https://estrategizando.pt/noticia/violencias-contra-criancas-sao-violencias-contra-as-mulheres-suas-maes-V100pCtCnu000.
  23. Silva, Cássia Rita. "Sacred November", Media Estrategizando, 2020, https://estrategizando.pt/noticia/sagrado-novembro-8100pCsCnX000.
  24. Silva, Cássia Rita. "Poisonous phrases lacerate the soul, do not educate and kill", Media Brasil 247, 2020, https://www.brasil247.com/authors/rita-cassia-silva.
  25. Silva, Cássia Rita. "Poisonous phrases lacerate the soul, do not educate and kill", Jornalistas Livres, 2020, https://jornalistaslivres.org/frases-venenosas-dilaceram-a-alma-nao-educam-e-matam/.
  26. Silva, Cássia Rita (BE16-7419-CC64). "Artists Boosting Tourism - Abandoned in COVID-19 Times?", Diário do Distrito Setúbal, 2020, https://diariodistrito.pt/artistas-que-impulsionam-o-turismo-abandonados-em-tempos-de-covid-19/.
  27. Silva, Cássia Rita. "Brief Social Portrait", Diário do Distrito Setúbal, 2020, https://diariodistrito.pt/breve-retrato-social/.
  28. Silva, Cássia Rita. "Alternate residence as a rule? A danger for children in contexts of domestic violence", Diário do Distrito Setúbal, 2020, https://diariodistrito.pt/residencia-alternada-enquanto-regra-um-perigo-para-criancas-em-contextos-de-violencias-domesticas/.
  29. Silva, Cássia Rita. "Artists boosting tourism without support - Letter to the Ombudsman", Diário do Distrito Setúbal, 2020, https://diariodistrito.pt/artistas-que-impulsionam-o-turismo-sem-apoios-carta-a-provedora-de-justica/.
  30. Silva, Cássia Rita. "Appeal to the Portuguese Government - Violence: Alternate Residence in a pandemic context", Diário do Distrito Setúbal, 2020, https://diariodistrito.pt/apelo-ao-governo-portugues-violencia-residencia-alternada-em-contexto-de-pandemia/.
  31. Silva, Cássia Rita. "Social protection in the context of public disasters", Diário do Distrito Setúbal, 2020, https://diariodistrito.pt/protecao-social-em-contexto-de-calamidade-publica/.
  32. Silva, Cássia Rita. "Appeal to the Portuguese Government - COVID 19: Protection for all people", Diário do Distrito Setúbal, 2020, https://diariodistrito.pt/apelo-ao-governo-portugues-covid-19-protecao-para-todas-as-pessoas/.
  33. Silva, Cássia Rita. "Until when will there be racism against black women in Portugal?", Geledés, 2020, https://www.geledes.org.br/ate-quando-havera-racismo-contra-as-mulheres-negras-em-portugal/.
  34. Silva, Cássia Rita. "Until when will there be racism against black women in Portugal?", Público, 2020, https://www.publico.pt/2020/01/24/sociedade/opiniao/ate-havera-racismo-mulheres-negras-portugal-1901460.
  35. Silva, Cássia Rita. "Women and children in the legal context of domestic violence", Diário do Distrito Setúbal, 2020, https://diariodistrito.pt/a-mulher-e-a-crianca-no-contexto-legal-da-violencia-domestica/.
  36. Silva, Cássia Rita. "New times: alternating residence as a rule?", Diário do Distrito Setúbal, 2019, https://diariodistrito.pt/novos-tempos-residencia-alternada-enquanto-regra/.
  37. Silva, Cássia Rita. "On equal rights in Portugal: a next victim?", Público, 2019, https://www.publico.pt/2019/09/24/sociedade/opiniao/igualdade-direitos-portugal-proxima-vitima-1887757.
  38. Silva, Cássia Rita. "Children must have access to the Victim Statute", Diário do Distrito Setúbal, 2019, https://diariodistrito.pt/criancas-tem-de-ter-acesso-ao-estatuto-de-vitima/.
  39. Silva, Cássia Rita. "Somewhere, a Child", Diário do Distrito Setúbal, 2019, https://diariodistrito.pt/algures-uma-crianca/.
  40. Silva, Rita. "Mother Preta Mané and Her Sons", Diário do Distrito Setúbal, 2019, https://diariodistrito.pt/mae-preta-mane-e-seus-filhos/.
  41. Silva, Cássia Rita. "Let us dignify Women and Children, both victims", Diário do Distrito Setúbal, 2019, https://diariodistrito.pt/tratemos-de-dignificar-a-mulher-e-a-crianca-ambas-vitimas/.
  42. Silva, Cássia Rita. "Children Victims of Domestic and Institutional Violence", Diário do Distrito Setúbal, 2019, https://diariodistrito.pt/criancas-vitimas-de-violencias-domesticas-e-de-violencias-institucionais/.
  43. Silva, Cássia Rita. "By a cultural transformation that does not violate human rights, in Portugal", Diário do Distrito Setúbal, 2019, https://diariodistrito.pt/por-uma-transformacao-cultural-nao-violadora-dos-direitos-humanos-em-portugal/.

Intellectual property

Copyright registration
  1. 2006. "Various texts: Books, Theatre Plays, Cultural Art Projects, Music Lyrics".
    Registered
  2. 2005. "Theater Play The Forest in Flames.?!".
    Registered
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2019 Who Are the Children Being Talked About? Children in Danger? We Colloquium, ISEG
Muxima Bio, Femafro, Ella Found (Lisboa, Portugal)
2018/01/27 Who Are the Children Being Talked About? Children in Danger? ICCA 2nd International Conference on Childhood and Adolescence
Social Paediatrics Section of the Portuguese Society of Paediatrics (SPS-SPP) and Portuguese Society for the Study of Abused and Neglected Children (SpeCan) (Lisboa, Portugal)
2006/03/31 Body Expression as a way of transmitting content. Workshop Ler... Livros, Pautas de Música, Receitas e Etc. Dia Internacional do Livro Infantil.
Direcção Municipal de Cultura da Câmara Municipal de Lisboa (Lisboa, Portugal)

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event
Event name
Institution / Organization
2022/12/21 - 2024 Researcher-artist in artistic residence at the exhibition The Photographic Impulse (un)tidying up the colonial archive. Participant in the curatorship of the exhibition
Exhibition
The Photographic Impulse (un)tidying up the colonial archive
Museu Nacional de História Natural e Ciência, Portugal
2023/10/07 - 2023/10/07 Speaker. Nacional Meeting of Feminist Students. Cycle of Debates: Higher Education and Feminisms. 1st Panel: Women in Higher Education.
Meeting
Nacional Meeting of Feminist Students. Cycle of Debates: Higher Education and Feminisms
Núcleo Feminista da Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
2023/09/29 - 2023/09/29 On late Portuguese colonialism: a brief immersion, presentation and conversation.
Meeting
II Meetings Women in Decolonisation. Ways of Seeing and Knowing, Curated by Maria do Carmo Piçarra
Hangar Centro de Investigação Artística, Portugal
2022/07/13 - 2022/07/15 Moderator of Panel 13 of Photo Impulse Project - Visual culture of colonial "sciences" 2: Portuguese colonialism.
Conference
Counter-Image International Conference 2022 - Photo Impulse Final Conference: Decolonizing visuality
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
2019 - 2019 2nd (Inter) National Meeting of Women in Roda de Samba. Collaboration in the dissemination, production and presentation of the event. Brazilian project which pays tribute to the female participation in Samba. It takes place in several Brazilian states, as well as abroad, in places where women of Brazilian nationality live (Diaspora).
Concert
2º Encontro (Inter) Nacional de Mulheres na Roda de Samba
Mulheres Brasileiras em Diáspora, Fábrica Braço de Prata, Portugal
2017 - 2017 Finalist of the Scientific Initiation Competition ISCTE-IUL. Oral and auditory presentation through audio transmission, of a proposal for research initiation: Suspended Lives - Afrodescendants / Luso-Africans born in Portugal: an ethnographic study and anthropological reflection on the colonial past, the uncertain future, and the present that is contrary to truth
Meeting
Research Week
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
2016 - 2016 Finalist of the Scientific Initiation Competition ISCTE-IUL. Oral presentation of a proposal for research initiation: IGNORE OR DIALOGUE? A deepening on (im) possible transnational and conflictive affective unions, constituted by Brazilian immigrant women and Portuguese men, residing between the years 2000/2016, in Lisbon, Portugal
Meeting
Semana da Investigação
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
2015 - 2015 Finalist of the Scientific Initiation Competition ISCTE-IUL. Oral presentation of a proposal for research initiation: Ressignifications.
Meeting
Semana da Investigação
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal

Interview (newspaper / magazine)

Activity description Newspaper / Forum
2023/05/01 Interview given to journalist Vicente Nunes, of the Brazilian newspaper Correio Braziliense on 01/05/2023, on violations of the fundamental rights of women/mothers and children Correio Braziliense
2021/06/25 Interview given to journalist Carolina Franco, from the Portuguese independent journalism platform Gerador, on 25/06/2021 about the development of the EAA - Project for disciplinary crossings between the arts and anthropology Gerador
2018/06/01 Interview given to journalist Ana Dias Cordeiro of Portuguese newspaper Público on 1 June 2018, on violations of the fundamental rights of children and women/mothers in Portuguese territory Público

Interview (tv / radio show)

Program Topic
2021/08/16 - 2021/08/16 Welcome - RTP África Epiphanies Artes: audioblog with and for people who dream of equality, series with 5 radio performances
2020/09/17 - 2020/09/17 Welcome - RTP África Epiphanies, Performance
2018 - 2018 Interrupted Mothers - Television Debate Violations of fundamental rights, society, culture, racism, xenophobia against children, women/mothers