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 Fighting to continue to make space for often-silenced voices, the Evictions Museum, Vila Autodromo and the Network of Social Museology of Rio de Janeiro partnered to offer a three-day course entitled “Social Museology: Poetics […]
Clique aqui para Português Emotion and excitement filled the Gilberto Gil auditorium at Rio’s National Historic Museum (MHN) this past Thursday, May 18 on International Museum Day as the museum received Vila Autodromo’s archive of […]
Clique aqui para Português Although Bárbara Nascimento is a friend and co-organizer with André Gosi in Vidigal, a South Zone favela which has experienced significant gentrification in recent years, “no one has the slightest idea” about […]
Clique aqui para Português On Saturday, April 1, the community project Raízes Locais (Local Roots) led a group of visitors on a historical tour of the Complexo do Alemão in Rio’s North Zone. The visit […]