facultyexplore advaya’s teachers
Explore advaya's faculty of teachers, scientists, practitioners, philosophers and storytellers, who share multidimensional, local and diverse narratives from across the world.
Bayo Akomolafe
Sophie Strand
Satish Kumar
Vandana Shiva
Veronica Strang
Manda Scott
Beloved Sara Zaltash
David Abram
Dr Andreas Weber
David Whyte
Helena Norberg-Hodge
Dr. Predrag Slijepcevic
Charles Eisenstein
Aisha Paris Smith
Brontë Velez
Maria Clara Parente
Maria Clara Parente is a Rio de Janeiro based writer, artist, journalist, and film director who researches other ways of inhabiting this planet towards decolonial futures.
With a background in performance theatre and media studies and a master’s degree in Literature (PUC-Rio). After a short course at Schumacher College(UK), in 2018, she co-directed the documentary series What is Emerging?, winner of the award Best screenplay at the Rio Web Fest in 2019. Regenerar: Possible Paths on a Damaged Planet (2022), her first feature documentary, premiered in the Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival and won Best Director at Tietê Film Awards and Best International Documentary film(OFF Cine Doc Spain) awards. She is the author of the poetry books "Nas Frestas das Fendas" (2020) and "Empurrar o Chão" (2022).
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Cultivating response-ability amidst the trouble
Ahead of advaya's upcoming online course: Re/membering our Rooted Selves, we speak with co-curators Naida Culshaw and Maria Clara Parente on what it means to cultivate response-ability in transitional times. How does making kin and relating differently, re-storyation and shapeshifting, and reweaving ourselves into the threads of the past, help us continue to be present to the trouble, in resilient and continuous ways? This timely and timeless conversation traverses ideas of world-endings, narrative shifting and re-writing, connection through stories and art, and the importance of slowing down, which may not be what you think it is.
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Storytelling our way home: weaving threads and illuminating patterns
How do we cultivate response-ability? How do we engage in the present? How can storytelling be an active act toward these ends, and what does it mean to activate the ‘muscle’ of stories? What could playing with string figures teach us? In this webinar, co-curators of advaya’s upcoming course, Re/membering our Rooted Selves, Maria Clara Parente and Naida Culshaw, dialogue with some of our course teachers: Anna Denardin, Aza Njeri, Lana Jelenjev, P. Mary Vidya Porselvi and Andreza Jorge.
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Cultivating response-ability amidst the trouble
Ahead of advaya's upcoming online course: Re/membering our Rooted Selves, we speak with co-curators Naida Culshaw and Maria Clara Parente on what it means to cultivate response-ability in transitional times. How does making kin and relating differently, re-storyation and shapeshifting, and reweaving ourselves into the threads of the past, help us continue to be present to the trouble, in resilient and continuous ways? This timely and timeless conversation traverses ideas of world-endings, narrative shifting and re-writing, connection through stories and art, and the importance of slowing down, which may not be what you think it is.
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Storytelling our way home: weaving threads & illuminating patterns
How can storytelling help us find our way home and ground ourselves in the present of these times? In this webinar, co-curators of advaya’s upcoming course, Re/membering our Rooted Selves, Maria Clara Parente and Naida Culshaw, dialogue with some of our course teachers: Anna Denardin, Aza Njeri, Lana Jelenjev, P. Mary Vidya Porselvi and Andreza Jorge.