This article reflects on the changes in the way of organizing the most traditional celebration of the patron saint of the Remanso quilombola community in Chapada Diamantina (Bahia): the São Francisco das Chagas party, celebrated annually. The text presents the context of the party in order to reveal the specific forms of resistance that culminate in a process of politicization of its agents. It is an experience that reveals the emergence of unique knowledge and practices, subject to disputes, absence of support and denial of rights and which are linked to other local ways of celebrating: Marujada Quilombola do Remanso and Caruru ceremonies dedicated to Saints Cosme and Damião. With these three moments as central to the analysis, the article points to identity celebrations as important spaces for the construction of policies and mediation, emphasizing their organization process and the performance of women at the base of decision-making, in the organization and in the conduct of rituals. When looking at the senses of these three ways of celebrating, we have a historical invisibility and vulnerabilities that cross a daily life whose power is affirmed from its identity base, Jarê, a religion of African origin exclusive to the Lavras Diamantinas region, where the Remanso community is located.