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Maré LGBT Theater Group - Photo by Douglas Lopes
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Maré Arts Center Hosts First Ever LGBT Cultural Exhibition

By Tyler Strobl • May 22, 2017

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 […]

Vila Autódromo residents celebrate
#EvictionsWatch

National Historic Museum Receives Archives Documenting Vila Autódromo’s Fight Against Evictions

By Chloe Villalobos • May 21, 2017

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 […]

Attendees watch as the water they brought with them from home is poured into the Guanabara Bay. Photo by Domingos Peixoto from Agência O Globo
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Inter-Religious Event Celebrates Guanabara Bay’s ‘Sacred Waters’

By Raine Robichaud • May 10, 2017

Clique aqui para Português The universal importance of water was the root of the May 3 Dialogues: Faith in Climate – Sacred Waters event, hosted by the Institute for the Study of Religion (ISER) at Brazil’s National History Museum. Wednesday […]

by Community Contributors

Maré Teachers Create an App for Schools in Conflict Areas

By • Translation by Adam Lee • May 9, 2017

Clique aqui para Português For the original article in Portuguese published by Agência de Notícias das Favelas click here. A project that began four years ago at a school in Baixa do Sapateiro, in the Maré […]

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Social Constructions of the Favela Part 4: Tourist Perceptions Before and After Favela Tours

By Phie van Rompu • May 6, 2017

Clique aqui para Português This is the fourth article in a four-part series on the social constructions of favelas and the potential of favela tourism to break down negative stereotypes. The first two articles of this series […]

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