Educational and Cultural Exchange Trips to Brazil

• Our critial question is what can we experience and learn about the Quilombo dos Palmares and Afro-Brazilian Arts ?

Who Is Liberation Arts

Liberation Arts is based in Central Virginia in a cluster of communities that are part of the national intentional communities movement. We are of capoeira, regenerative agriculture, and community living.  We share in the idea that freedom requires self-defense, self-substance, and self-expression. 

We train We farm We do Art Together!

Join us and any part of the Trip

Schedule 2027 

November 

- Alagoas 

-- Palmares, Alagoas

• Nov 20th Brazil Black Consciousness Day, on the Palmares plateau

-- Marceo

• Hip hop Night - Downtown Colonial Marceo

Schedule 2028

January  

- Bahia

-- Salvador

-- Itapirica

• Capoeira in Barra Grande

The Story of this Trip

Since the 1970’s Louisa County Virginia intentional communities have been a viable alternative lifestyle option for hundreds of people. Key parts are rural homesteading, subsistence living and ecovillage community structure. 

Brazil has grassroots organizing tools and cultural practices that can greatly benefit the intentional communities movement in North America. Brazil’s proletarian civil movements innovative for  equitable redistribution of land resources and for restorative justices practices. The Quilombos movement (with over 400 years of history as networks and villages of African peoples in northern Brazil) formed systems of collaboration, labor and commerce.

Our exchange team feels well positioned to bridge Brazil and Virginia. We lead with the cultural sensitivity while appropriately sourceing traditional farming and resistance culture practices. Our goal is to create contemporary frameworks useful to American campaigns of equity, justice, and sustainable living practices.

The commuities of Central Virginia hosts annual conferences each fall focused on sustainable living and social justice. Our mission is to spread the knowledge we return with to benefit thousands of people trying their best to live better and more conscientious lives by joining the North American Intentional Communities Movement.