Clique aqui para Português Maré means ‘the tide.’ The name comes from when the favela community was first started in a wetland area with many of the houses built on stilts to withstand the waters. […]
Clique aqui para Português Fighting to continue to make space for often-silenced voices, the Evictions Museum, Vila Autodromo and the Network of Social Museology of Rio de Janeiro partnered to offer a three-day course entitled “Social Museology: Poetics […]
Clique aqui para Português In Friday afternoon’s pouring rain, mothers, relatives, and favela community members gathered on Rio Branco Avenue, next to the Candelária Church in downtown Rio de Janeiro, to protest the unlawful killing of […]
Clique aqui para Português The Maré Arts Center was packed this past Thursday as the Theater of the Oppressed LGBT Lab hosted the First Favela LGBT Culture and Citizenship Exhibition. Attendees, ranging from high school […]
Clique aqui para Português Emotion and excitement filled the Gilberto Gil auditorium at Rio’s National Historic Museum (MHN) this past Thursday, May 18 on International Museum Day as the museum received Vila Autodromo’s archive of […]