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M.A.L.O.C.A. Arts and Crafts for Mental Health and Income Generation Empower Women of Caxias [PROFILE]

By Camilla Piccolo • December 6, 2019

Clique aqui para Português This article is part of a series of profiles of initiatives in Rio’s Sustainable Favela Network. Initiative: M.A.L.O.C.A. (Alternative and Organized Liberation Movement for Citizenship and Social Support) Contact: Facebook | Instagram […]

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Imbariê Arts Festival Celebrates Gathering, Puts Rio’s Peripheries on the Map as Art Producers [IMAGES]

By Thábara Garcia • Translation by Edmund Ruge • November 28, 2019

Clique aqui para Português The third edition of the Imbariê Arts Festival (FAIM) took place November 15 in Duque de Caxias, a municipality in Greater Rio de Janeiro’s Baixada Fluminense region. The FAIM is a […]

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BaixadaCine Film Club Looks to Turn Belford Roxo Into the ‘City of Love’ for Film

By Thábara Garcia • Translation by Edmund Ruge • November 11, 2019

Clique aqui para Português Challenges to the production of culture in Brazil have imposed themselves more and more in 2019. In only ten months, we have already heard the announcement of theater closings, the risk […]

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Hip Hop in the Baixada: Project in Caxias Uses Rhythm as Therapy for Kids

By Fabio Leon • Translation by Júlia Hara Medeiros • August 31, 2019

Clique aqui para Português Stepping into the classroom at the Lira de Ouro Arts and Music Society, also a historic carnival block founded in 1957 in downtown Duque de Caxias, in Greater Rio de Janeiro’s […]

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Poet ‘Deley de Acari’ from the Acari Favela Recounts his Trajectory and Vision, Announces First Book [INTERVIEW]

By Neuza Nascimento, Theresa Williamson • Translation by Abigail Cramer • August 19, 2019

Clique aqui para Português At age 64, Vanderley da Cunha, known as Deley de Acari, has been a poet, writer, human rights activist, and cultural mobilizer in the Acari favela, in the North Zone of […]

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