Clique aqui para Português Despite months of doomsday publicity in international media outlets about the Rio Olympics, tourists from around the world have flocked to Rio in the last few weeks for the 2016 Summer Games. […]
Clique aqui para Português On Friday August 5, millions of people around the world watched as passinho dancers took to the stage at the Olympic Opening Ceremony. This moment, emblematically put to the favela anthem “Rap da […]
Clique aqui para Português With a premiere screening of the film, Bad & the Birdieman, Festival Reimagine Rio was officially launched on July 30 in Chacrinha, a favela located in Jacarepaguá, in Rio de Janeiro’s West Zone. […]
Clique aqui para Português On June 23, the Largo do Cruzeiro square in Providencia in central Rio de Janeiro hosted the Festival Subindo a Ladeira (Climbing the Hill Festival), with groups from inside and outside the favela taking part. The […]
Clique aqui para Português Jacarezinho, a favela in the North Zone of Rio de Janeiro, was founded during the industrialization boom of the 1920s, which offered extensive employment and was the principal reason for the […]