Brazil Footprint is a Research and Engagement network and public programme for the support of ecologically minded, decolonial and intersectional discourses and art practices across Brazil and the UK. It was founded in 2021 by Dr Francesca Laura Cavallo as a part of 'Acting before the Emergency', a research project at the University of Kent supported by Research UK through the Global Challenges Research Framework.  

In 2021 we partnered with the Barbican Centre for an online programme of films and conversations with Indigenous and Afro-Brazilian Artists to coincide with Claudia Andujar's exhibition. Focusing on the Amazon region in 2022, we curated a public programme with artists from the region at the Science and Industry Museum in Manchester as part of their Amazônia late event for Salgado's exhibition. With returned in 2023 across multiple sites in Manchester, London and Canterbury. The programme started in April with a workshop at the University of Manchester with Daiara Tukano and Marilene Ribeiro, continued with the Amazonian Film Festival curated by Vanessa Gabriel Robinson at the Gulbenkian Art Centre in Canterbury and culminated with a short residency with Wapichana Artist Gustavo Caboco in collaboration with The Santo Domingo Centre of Excellence for Latin American Research at the British Museum and Holmleigh Primary School.

We have now paused our programming activities for the festival but continue to exist as a platform to facilitate connections, plant seeds and build bridges for collaboration and climate justice.

We are grateful to our supporters and collaborators.

Founder Dr Francesca Laura Cavallo. Cultural strategy advisor: Vanessa Gabriel Robinson. Show and tell coordination: Ana Didonet. Partners 2023: Centre for Interdisciplinary Research on Art and Language and CLACS Centre for Latin American Studies, the University of Manchester, Centre for Indigenous and Settler Colonial Studies at the University of Kent, Holmleigh Primary School.