Brazil has 38 artistic events that were considered by the Historical and Artistic Heritage Institute (IPHAN) as Intangible Heritage or Intangible Assets. Classification is intended to life expressions and traditions that communities, groups and individuals around the world receive from their ancestors and pass on to their descendants.

Of these, five are inscribed in UNESCO as Intangible Heritage of Humanity.They are knowledge, celebrations and forms of expressions. 

Capoeira 

Originated during slavery, capoeira was developed as a social rite and solidarity among the slaves. The strategy to deal with the control and violence is a cultural event that brings together singing, tap the instruments, dance, moves, game, play, symbols and African rituals. In capoeira, the teachers, trained in the tradition, transmit knowledge to others. Today, one of the Brazilian identity symbols is practiced in over 160 countries.

frevo

The artistic expression of the Recife carnival is a musical form, choreography and poetry rooted in Pernambuco. The urban music genre emerged in the late nineteenth century, the carnival. Military bands and their rivalries, the freed slaves, the capoeiristas, the new working class and the new urban spaces frevo defined the configuration characterized by the play of arms and legs and frenzied dance. The artistic expression plays an important role in the formation of Brazilian music.

Samba de Roda

In the Reconcavo Baiano is a musical expression, choreographic, poetic and festive of the most important of Brazilian culture. Exerted influence on samba and, to date, is one of the national samba references. It is present throughout Bahia, especially in the Reconcavo, the surroundings of the Bay of All Saints.The African heritage, which merged the Portuguese, following the religious calendar (Catholic and Candomblé) or just as a collective fun, the pleasure of sambar.

Nazare's Cirio

The religious celebration of Bethlehem (PA) is considered one of the world's largest. The Cirio is to highlight the procession of which more than two million people. Instituted in 1793, the second Sunday of October, the image pickup runs five kilometers, from the Cathedral in the Old Town, where Bethlehem was born, to the Square of the Sanctuary, the Nazareth neighborhood. The paraenses consider the party a great time annual demonstration of devotion and solidarity, reiteration of family ties and social and political demonstration.

Kusiwa art

Body painting and graphic art of indigenous peoples Wajãpi in Amapá, summarize the particular mode of knowing and acting upon the universe.There are 48 villages where more than a thousand Indians. Art is linked to social organization, land use and traditional knowledge. The Indians use Kusiwa standards compositions on the back, face and arms. The painting is for every day. And when the adults are painted, young people learn to do kusiwarã compositions in the body.