Solano Trindade
{{Short description|Brazilian poet, actor, folklorist, painter, stage director and activist}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Solano Trindade
| image = Solano Trindade (1950).tif
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1908|07|24}}
| birth_place = Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1974|02|19|1908|07|24}}
| death_place = Rio de Janeiro
| occupation = poet, actor, playwright, activist, painter
}}
Solano Trindade (July 24, 1908— February 19, 1974) was a Brazilian poet, actor, folklorist, painter, stage director and activist.{{Cite journal|last=Castellar|first=Maria Rita|title=Um artista do povo|url=http://anovademocracia.com.br/no-61/2571-um-artista-do-povo|language=pt-br}}{{Cite web|title=O poeta Solano Trindade|url=http://jornalggn.com.br/blog/luisnassif/o-poeta-solano-trindade|access-date=2017-06-23|website=GGN - O jornal de todos os brasis|date=19 February 2013|language=pt-br}} Trindade was active in the Brazilian Black Movement, having founded or co-founded several popular theater and art initiatives, such as the Teatro Popular Brasileiro (Brazilian Popular Theater) company.{{Cite web|title=solano trindade|url=http://www.quilombhoje.com.br/solano/solanotrindade.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171011063909/http://www.quilombhoje.com.br/solano/solanotrindade.htm|archive-date=2017-10-11|access-date=2017-06-23|website=www.quilombhoje.com.br}}{{Cite journal|last=Vermelho|first=Portal|title=Solano Trindade – tem gente com fome! - Portal Vermelho|date=19 November 2015|url=http://www.vermelho.org.br/noticia/273039-1|language=pt-BR}}
His poems celebrated his Afro-Brazilian heritage, as well as denouncing racism, poverty and social inequality.{{Cite book|last=Afolabi|first=Niyi|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1XBF2LGnNuYC&dq=%22solano+trindade%22+brazilian&pg=PA208|title=Afro-Brazilians: Cultural Production in a Racial Democracy|date=2009|publisher=University Rochester Press|isbn=978-1-58046-262-4|language=en}}
Biography
Trindade was born in Recife. His father, Manuel Abílio Trindade, was a shoemaker who participated in the bumba-meu-boi and pastoril folk dances; his mother, Emerenciana Maria de Jesus Trindade, was a street food seller and factory worker.{{Cite web|title=Solano Trindade|url=http://www.museuafrobrasil.org.br/pesquisa/história-e-memória/historia-e-memoria/2014/12/30/solano-trindade|access-date=2021-05-15|website=www.museuafrobrasil.org.br}}
Trindade worked for a time as a Presbyterian deacon. In 1934 he participated in the first Afro-Brazilian Congress, held in Recife, and two years later, of the second one, held in Salvador, Bahia. He published his first book in 1936, Poemas Negros. That year he founded two Afro-Brazilian cultural organizations: the Frente Negra Pernambucana (Black Front of Pernambuco) and the Centro Cultural Afro-Brasileiro (Afro-Brazilian Cultural Center).{{cite book |last1=Cooney |first1=Nicola |editor1-last=Appiah |editor1-first=Kwame Anthony |editor2-last=Gates |editor2-first=Henry Louis Jr. |title=Africana : the encyclopedia of the African and African American experience |date=2005 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=Oxford |isbn=9780195223293 |page=215 |edition=2nd |chapter=Trindade, Solano|volume=5}}
After a brief stay in Belo Horizonte and Pelotas, Trindade moved to Rio de Janeiro in the 1940s. There he met other artists and intellectuals, reuniting at the Café Vermelhinho. He joined the Brazilian Communist Party. In 1944 he published the book Poemas para uma vida mais simples (Poems for a simpler life). In 1945 he organized, with Abdias do Nascimento, the Comitê Democrático Afro-brasileiro (Afro-Brazilian Democratic Committee), associated with Nascimento's Teatro Experimental do Negro.
In 1950, together with his wife Margarida Trindade and sociologist Edison Carneiro, he founded the Teatro Popular Brasileiro (TPB), a popular theater group inspired by Brazilian Black and indigenous cultural traditions. Trindade later moved to São Paulo, establishing a second branch to TPB and in 1961, he moved to the city of Embu, in Greater São Paulo, organizing several popular art ensembles. This included works with the renowned ceramist-sculptor Tadakiyo Sakai.
His daughter, Raquel Trindade, was also an activist, artist, and folklorist.
Trindade acted in several films, such as A Hora e Vez de Augusto Matraga by Roberto Santos.
Books
- Poemas de Uma Vida Simples, Rio de Janeiro, 1944,
- Cantares ao Meu Povo, São Paulo, 1963.
- Poemas antológicos
References
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Category:Recipients of the Order of Cultural Merit (Brazil)
Category:Brazilian Presbyterians
Category:Afro-Brazilian people