Yawanawá Concert: Song, Storytelling, and Hapé with Rasu Yawanawá

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Join us for a magical night of music, stories, and hapé with Rasu Yawanawá. The Yawanawá are an Indigenous people living on their ancestral lands along the Gregório River in the Amazon rainforest of Acre, Brazil. This April, Rasu Yawanawá of the Mutum Village will be visiting the Bay Area to share their living culture and current community initiatives.

We warmly invite you to join us for an evening of song, story, and ceremony centered around the traditional medicine of hapé. Come immerse yourself in the spirit of the forest and learn from an unbroken Indigenous lineage rooted in community, reciprocity, and harmony with the natural world.

Live Music
Experience the traditional saite (songs) and oral stories of the Yawanawá people, offerings passed down through generations and shared as living expressions of culture, prayer, and remembrance.

Hapé Ceremony
Receive hapé, a sacred Amazonian forest medicine traditionally used for grounding, clarity, and spiritual alignment. Please note participation is entirely optional and offered with care and respect.

Indigenous Market
Explore a curated market featuring handmade art, jewelry, hapé, and ceremonial items created by Indigenous artisans of the forest. Each piece carries cultural meaning and directly supports the makers and their communities.

Supporting Indigenous Communities
Attendance at this gathering supports the Yawanawá people in reciprocity for their cultural sharing, with proceeds contributing to community initiatives and cultural preservation in the Brazilian Amazon.

More about Rasu Yawanawá
Rasu Yawanawá is a representative of the Yawanawá people and part of a new generation carrying forward the traditions, music, and spiritual practices of their culture. Through song, ceremony, and cultural exchange, Rasu shares the living wisdom of the forest while supporting the continuation of Indigenous identity and tradition.

Rooted in ancestral knowledge and guided by the teachings of elders, Rasu is part of a lineage that continues to protect, preserve, and share the cultural and spiritual heritage of the Yawanawá people with communities around the world.