Ocupação Cultural Jeholu

The Ocupação Cultural Jeholu, which completes 4 years of existence in 2022, is an anti-racist black political and cultural movement founded in August 2018 by the journalist and activist Felipe Brito. Like the pedagogy used in the terreiros, it uses performance, art, voice, music and formative processes to awaken racial awareness. Its patron is Jeholu, the lord of pearls, epithet of Obaluaiê, orixá who is turned to for numerous things, including the search for the cure of physical, mental and spiritual illnesses.