Shirley Chisholm Trailblazer Award Nominee
In 2025, I was honored to be nominated for the Shirley Chisholm Trailblazer Award as part of the Provost’s Student Excellence Awards at Teachers College, Columbia University. This award recognizes students who embody the legacy of TC alumna Shirley Chisholm—a fearless advocate, leader, and changemaker—by making meaningful contributions to the TC community.
This nomination reflects my ongoing commitment to education, spirituality, the arts, and creating spaces of belonging for all.
Presenting at Harvard: Reclaiming Theater as Ritual — Embodied Storytelling and Spiritual Nurturing
In April 2025, I had the honor of presenting my workshop “Reclaiming Theater as Ritual: Embodied Storytelling and Spiritual Nurturing” at the Harvard Divinity School’s Spirituality and the Arts Conference. This annual gathering brings together artists, educators, and scholars to explore the rich intersections of spirituality and creative practice. The 2025 conference focused on how emerging, Indigenous, and alternative spiritualities find voice through the arts while engaging broader social dynamics, such as coloniality, ecological concerns, and power structures.
My workshop invited participants to experience theater as a sacred and transformative practice—a space for spiritual reflection, healing, and ecological reconnection. Drawing from the visionary approaches of Antonin Artaud and Augusto Boal, I guided participants through practices including embodied storytelling, improvisational slam poetry, and physical theater.
We explored how performance can cultivate spiritual characteristics such as presence, flow, and ritual, offering space for resilience, joy, and communion.
Aldir Blanc Law
Federal Law 14.017/2020, known as Aldir Blanc Law, was created to support artists due to the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown.
In 2020 they opened a Public Announcement offering financial aid to artists that would send projects within cultural areas. Each city in Brazil was responsible for organizing and managing the law in a way that could suit each Hall City.
In Osasco, I sent two projects in the performing arts and audiovisual area. You can check the official Announcement on the button below and look for my full name, Katherin Garcia Duarte da Silva.
The first project was a video class about "Body and Word: The Ressignification of Text in Theatrical Scene," where I talked about the text-centrism in theater productions at Osasco. You can watch the video by clicking on the button below.
The second project was the video performance "À Vista," already commented on below.
Clandestinas - Festival Internacional de Vídeo Dança (2020)
In 2020 I developed a video-dance project based on the performance "À Vista" contemplated by the "Aldir Blanc Law" in Osasco that encouraged and helped artists during the pandemic. The project was also part of the International Video Dance Festival, Clandestinas.
The video was made in the backyard and recorded with a camera on a tripod. The audios were recorded by cell phone with my voice and instruments such as drum and agogô edited in an amateur way.
In 2018 the Cia. Clareou received the certification as a Point of Culture in Osasco City from the Ministry of Culture and a prize of R$60,000 REAIS ($ 11,425.52) in recognition for all company's work in the city.
Premiação Pontos de Cultura (2018)
The photo was taken on the day of the award ceremony and the Ministry of Culture representatives.The Cia. Clareou participated in the Osasco National Poetry Festival with the theatrical poetry "Selva de Pedra," and we were awarded "Best Makeup" and "Revelation Actress."
Festival Nacional de Poesia de Osasco (2018)
"Satyrianas" is a theatrical festival that takes place every year in the city of São Paulo. In 2018, the performance "À Vista" was part of the festival's program and performed in one of the main cultural squares of the city, the Praça Roosevelt.
Satyrianas (2018)
The “360° Oeste” was a cultural project produced by Cultura011 and awarded by Jandira, SP - Brazil. The “À Vista” performance was part of the project, receiving the prize of R$4,000 REAIS. It was possible to recreate the mirror-creature and the costume with this value. “À Vista” was performed in Jandira for four months in 2018.
