Clique aqui para Português From Friday July 7 to Sunday July 9, the Horto Residents’ Commission organized the Arraiá do Horto. With the motto “From Arraiá to Arraiá, Horto resists,” the tone of the arraiá Brazilian annual […]
Clique aqui para Português It’s an old story to anyone familiar with Rio’s favelas and their history: the first favela was founded in 1897, when veterans of the Canudos War, most of them former slaves, […]
Clique aqui para Português Last Tuesday, the Coletivo Nuvem Negra (Black Cloud Collective) of Rio’s Pontifical Catholic University (PUC-Rio) and the Institute of International Relations at PUC-Rio hosted a roundtable debate on whiteness and the […]
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 […]
Clique aqui para Português On May 9, journalists were invited to an advanced screening of the documentary “Baixada Never Gives Up.” The film, directed by Italy’s Christian Tragni and Brazil’s Juliana Spinola, introduces the world to […]