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100 ACTIVITIES, INCLUDING PERFORMANCES, WORKSHOPS FOR ALL AGES, DISCUSSION CIRCLES, FILMS, EXHIBITIONS, BOOTHS, FAIR, AND THERAPIES, SPREAD ACROSS 6 DIFFERENT SPACES AT RIO’S ICONIC DOWNTOWN FUNDIÇÃO PROGRESSO.
This Saturday, October 19, the Sustainable Favela Network will host its first large-scale event open to the public after seven years of growing activity. The inaugural edition of the Sustainable Favela Festival: Favela Solutions at the Center will be a major solutions festival, bringing together over 1,300 residents from 90 favelas across Greater Rio, as well as the general public, at an iconic downtown cultural occupation. The event will feature over 100 activities, including artistic performances, workshops for adults and children, discussion circles, films, exhibitions, booths, a fair, and therapies. Check out the program brochure and program on Instagram.
1st Sustainable Favela Festival: FAVELA SOLUTIONS AT THE CENTER
October 16, 2024—This Saturday, October 19, 2024, the 1st Sustainable Favela Festival – Favela Solutions at the Center will take place at Fundição Progresso in downtown Rio de Janeiro, from 9am to 5pm, featuring 100 activities and completely free of charge. The festival will occupy this iconic space of cultural production in the heart of downtown Rio de Janeiro with knowledge, technologies, and products generated in the favelas of Greater Rio by 100 socio-environmental collectives and allies of the Sustainable Favela Network. The public, of all ages, is invited to join in learning and exchanging ideas, breaking down historical barriers, and recognizing the power and potential of Rio’s favelas.
Introduction to the Festival
The Sustainable Favela Network has been growing since 2017, and is now made up of 700 members, including community organizers from over 300 favelas and technical allies, working together to fight for climate justice by realizing the potential of favelas as models of sustainable communities.
These community collectives and allies will host their 1st Sustainable Favela Festival this Saturday at Fundição Progresso, located in Lapa, downtown Rio de Janeiro. The festival will showcase socio-environmental and cultural solutions, with activities and discussions from the Sustainable Favela Network aimed at the general public. From cultural performances, hands-on workshops, and discussion circles to exhibitions, booths, a fair, and therapies, the side area of Fundição Progresso, just below the emblematic Lapa Arches, will be buzzing with solutions and hope generated by the city’s favelas.
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- Cultural performances, such as: Music for Peace, “I Was Born in Slavery” ballet with choreography inspired by the story of Zumbi dos Palmares, Ciranda Soirée featuring poetry and dance, Sacred Herbs Cultural Presentation and Workshop, Interpretive Dance Choir, Grau Slam Battle, Environmental Funk, Afro Dance and Percussion Workshop, and the Filhos de Angola Samba Circle.
- Discussion circles on: the importance of memories, Black women’s entrepreneurship, the right to water, social solar energy, tuberculosis, forest bathing, literary ancestry, and more.
- Exhibitions on: Favela Climate Memory, The History of Rivers of Mata Machado, Memories of Cerro Corá, Images of Memory and Struggle, Social Gardening for the Elderly, and more.
- Hands-on workshops for all ages, including: Artistic Intervention with Waste, Green Roof, Printing with Earth Pigments, Grandma’s Recipe Circle, Sustainable CreAtion, Stencil Art, Herb Gardens and Medicinal Plants, Sustainable Knowledge and Aromas, ‘Toys, Invention, and Childhood: What Can Imagination Do?’, The Importance of Colors in Healthy Eating, Solar Oven, Waste that Transforms, Worm Composting, Soil Education, and How to Conduct Community Research Using Kobotoolbox.
- Film club with discussions, featuring: Audiovisual Serving Society, screenings of the films “Fisherman’s Tales” and “Bay,” the short films “Health from an Anti-Racist Perspective” and “Everyone Can Play,” a workshop with researchers born and raised in favelas and peripheral areas, and “We Held the Sky by Telling Stories.”
- Booths, a fair, and solidarity economy workshops throughout the day at the Market Space, with 50 stalls dedicated to exchanging information, products, and experiences with various grassroots collectives.
The Festival will be a celebration of the initiatives and living experiences related to each of the Sustainable Favela Network’s eleven thematic goals, providing a welcoming and dynamic space for the exchange of knowledge and the strengthening of ties between communities and the city as a whole.
Favelas Generate Solutions
Since its launch in 2017, Rio de Janeiro’s Sustainable Favela Network has been growing each month, carrying out collective actions within and between favelas. The network fosters knowledge exchanges, the reclaiming of memory and a sense of belonging, the construction of infrastructure and environmental technologies, research, and political advocacy. All these actions have always taken place within favelas, by us, for us, and have been communicated through the media. The “1st Sustainable Favela Festival: Favela Solutions at the Center”, marks the first time the general public will have the chance to engage in person with the many solutions generated by favelas and peripheral communities, in a large festival for the exchange of experiences and knowledge.
What, When, and Where?
- 1st Sustainable Favela Festival: Favela Solutions at the Center
- Date: October 19, 2024
- Time: 9am to 5pm
- Place: Fundição Progresso, Rua dos Arcos, 24 – Lapa, Rio de Janeiro/RJ
- Program Folder
- Program on Instagram
About the Participating Collectives
The 1st Sustainable Favela Festival: Favela Solutions at the Center is taking place thanks to the activities of over 100 socio-environmental collectives and allies, representing 90 favelas across Greater Rio.
Check out the list of favelas, peripheral communities, and municipalities that will take part of the Sustainable Favela Festival: Acari, Aldeia Rochedo Puri, Anil, Antares, Asa Branca, Babilônia, Bairro Parque Capivari, Bangu, Barros Filho, Benfica, Brasilândia, Caetés, Campo Grande, Campos Elíseos, Cerro Corá, Cesarão, Chapéu-Mangueira, Cidade Alta / Cordovil, City of God, Colônia Juliano Moreira, Complexo da Mangueirinha, Complexo da Maré, Complexo da Penha, Complexo da Vila Norma, Complexo do Alemão, Cosmos, Eden, Engenho Novo, Gardenia Azul, Guaxindiba, Horto, Independência, Inhauma, Irajá, Itaipuaçu/Inoã, Jacarezinho, Jacutinga, Jardim Maravilha, Jardim Paraiso, Lins, Madureira, Magarça, Manguinhos, Mata Machado, Mineira, Morro Arroz, Morro do Conceito-Vilar Dos Teles, Morro dos Macacos, Muquiço, Nova Campinas, Paciência, Palmeirinha, Parada São Jorge, Paraíso, Parque Arará, Parque Horácio Cordeiro Franco/Benfica, Parque Marilândia, Pavão-Pavãozinho / Cantagalo, Pavuna, Pedra de Guartiba, Petrópolis, Pingo d’água, Praça Seca, Praia da Rosa, Providência, Queimados, Ramos, Rio das Pedras, Rocinha, Sacramento, Salgueiro, Santa Cruz, Santa Inês, Santa Marta, Sepetiba, Terra Nostra/Barros Filho, Tijuquinha, Trindade, Vale Encantado, Vargem Grande, Vidigal, Vila Aliança, Vila Autódromo, Vila Cruzeiro, Vila do Pinheiro, Vila Isabel, Vila Kennedy, Vila Parque da Cidade, Vila Santa Luzia, and Vila Vintém.
About the Sustainable Favela Network
The Sustainable Favela Network (SFN) is made up of 700 members, including community organizers from over 300 favelas and technical allies. Together, we work in the fight for climate justice, aiming to realize the potential of favelas as sustainable communities through 11 key areas: Climate Justice, Socio-Environmental Education, Participatory Policymaking, Local Culture and Memory, Food Sovereignty, Collective Health, Solidarity Economy, Right to Sanitation, Energy Justice, Just Transport, and Sustainable Housing. We strive to foster and enhance the qualities that already exist in favelas to boost and amplify their potential. The SFN operates from the perspective of favelas as sources of solutions, including for human sustainability, based on the concept of Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD), which focuses on developing residents and territories according to their strengths. Click to learn more about the network and the Sustainable Favela Festival. The Sustainable Favela Network’s managing organization is Catalytic Communities (CatComm), winner of the Brazilian Federation of Architects and Urban Planners (FNA) award in 2022, among other honors, for its work since 2000 in providing strategic support to favela organizers across Greater Rio.
Event Sponsors
The 1st Sustainable Favela Festival: Favela Solutions at the Center is organized by the Sustainable Favela Network with the support and partnership of re:arc institute, Fundição Progresso, Local Futures, and CEDAE.
Contact
- International/English: +55-21-991976444
- Instagram: www.instagram.com/favelasustentavel
- Email: press@catcomm.org
- Program Folder
- Program on Instagram
*The Sustainable Favela Network (SFN) and RioOnWatch are initiatives of the NGO Catalytic Communities (CatComm).