Projects to support intercultural dialogue: #1

In South America, one of the most diverse places on the planet, indigenous cultures have developed unique practices for understanding and relating to other cultural groups (those that represent radical otherness). Rituals and exchanges of various kinds (gifts, song and dance exchanges, commensality) are spaces for dialogue, practices that create space to mark, understand, and overcome polarization in different cultures, creating possibilities and common narratives.

Shine a Light and Usina da Imaginação have collaborated to fund 10 innovative projects to promote dialogue between groups that often wouldn’t have the chance to talk. The "call for small projects to encounter the other" funds activities, rites, research, works of art, and other ways of encountering otherness.