Clique aqui para Português On Wednesday, July 10, community residents and representatives from local organizations gathered in the Complexo da Maré favelas in Rio de Janeiro’s North Zone to recognize the two-year anniversary of the […]
Clique aqui para Português Initiative: The Graffiti Museum and Verde Vale (“Green Voucher”) Project at the National Organized Graffiti Workshop Space (RONGO) Contact: RONGO Facebook | Graffiti Museum Facebook | Email Year Founded: 2011 / 2013 […]
Clique aqui para Português Originating among African-Americans in protest of the exclusion promoted by dominant economic and cultural systems, the hip hop movement easily won over Brazilian communities in the mid-1980s—ten years after taking off […]
Clique aqui para Português Resistance emerges in innumerable expressions, the diversity of which was highlighted at the “Circulando–Dialogue and Communication in the Favela” event in Complexo do Alemão, in the North Zone of Rio de Janeiro, last Saturday, […]
Clique aqui para Português Initiative: Museu de Favela (“Favela Museum”) Contact: Website | Facebook | Email Year Founded: 2008 Community: Cantagalo and Pavão-Pavãozinho (South Zone) Mission: To transform the favelas of Cantagalo and Pavão-Pavãozinho into a monument commemorating […]