A movement that supports Indigenous projects to strengthen and pass on their traditional knowledge.

We support five projects every month:
Guarani, Maxakali, Huni Kuin, Baniwa and Tukano-Dessano-Tuyuka.

CRISTINE TAKUÁ
Living Schools Coordinator

Cristine Takuá, from the Maxakali Indigenous people, is a thinker, apprentice midwife, and educator. She holds a degree in Philosophy from São Paulo State University (UNESP) and taught for twelve years at the Txeru Ba’e Kuai’ Indigenous State School.

She is currently the coordinator of the Living Schools movement and a board member of the Selvagem Association.

Cristine represents the NEI (Indigenous Education Center) within the São Paulo State Department of Education and is a founding member of FAPISP (Forum for the Coordination of Indigenous Teachers of São Paulo State). She is also part of Instituto Maracá, which is involved in the shared management of the Museu das Culturas Indígenas in São Paulo.

She lives in the Ribeirão Silveira Indigenous Land, located on the border between the municipalities of Bertioga and São Sebastião, in the state of São Paulo, with her partner Carlos Papá and their sons Djeguaká and Kauê.

Along with Veronica Pinheiro, Cristine writes the Ways of Knowing Diary, published on the Selvagem website. In her texts, she reports on her journey with the Living Schools and reflects on education, memory and Bem Viver [Good Living].

Residência Casa Escola Viva

No mês de outubro de 2025, a residência artística indígena Casa Escola Viva convida 10 artistas, 2 de cada uma das Living Schools, and the Living Schools coordinators, to create, reflect, and share experiences, over the course of 15 days, about their artistic and collective practices at the Bloco Escola [School Block] in the Museum of Modern Art of Rio de Janeiro (MAM Rio).

Learn more here.

Long Live the Living School exhibition

Between 2 December 2023 and 28 January 2024, Selvagem - cycle of studies about life celebrated the Living Schools with a major exhibition of arts and medicines at the Casa França-Brasil in the centre of Rio de Janeiro.

There were more than 100 works in the exhibition, which welcomed 20,000 visitors and unfolded into conversation circles, guided tours, study cycles and new projects with the Living Schools.

Find out more on the Long Live the Living School, or read the exhibition catalogue below.