The Year That’s Passed and Much to Come: Sacatar Annual Report 2023 Unveiled!

…Residency programs no longer provide “time off” — cellphones keep artists tethered to “home” — but residencies still provide places of experimentation, inspiration, and rejuvenation. Society depends on artists to illuminate who we are as human beings. Politicians can’t do it. Scientists can’t do it. Artists perform this critical function through their syncretic, complex works. Residencies like Sacatar provide artists the prospect — a time and place outside their normal living — from where they can see the way forward. And Bahia provides contemporary and historical examples of the synthesis of tradition and innovation, fused with respect and even joy, which is an approach to systemic change all should embrace…

𝗧𝗮𝘆𝗹𝗼𝗿 𝗩𝗮𝗻 𝗛𝗼𝗿𝗻𝗲
President, Instituto Sacatar

…In 2008, we placed seven successful applicants to Sacatar into a group that we thought might be willing to put together a fun, creative community event. Indeed, with that group, “the circus came to town” – and they came by sea, delighting children and adults alike. In the early days of their residency, we introduced those seven Fellows to “Picolation,” a local gent who, for the last 20 years, has been selling picolés — popsicles — on the streets of Itaparica in a fancifully decorated pushcart with loudspeakers. He is called “Picolation” because he sells his popsicles in English: mango is mangation, coconut is cocoation, orange is laranjation, and so on. A few weeks ago, I asked “Picolation” to collaborate with me on a video to announce Felix Toro as the new Executive Director of the Instituto Sacatar…

𝗠𝗶𝘁𝗰𝗵 𝗟𝗼𝗰𝗵
President, Sacatar Foundation

(Short extracts from the 2023 Sacatar Annual Report’s Statements from the Founders)
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