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Maré LGBT Theater Group - Photo by Douglas Lopes
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Maré Arts Center Hosts First Ever LGBT Cultural Exhibition

By Tyler Strobl • May 22, 2017

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 […]

Vila Autódromo residents celebrate
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National Historic Museum Receives Archives Documenting Vila Autódromo’s Fight Against Evictions

By Chloe Villalobos • May 21, 2017

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 […]

by Community Contributors

Maré Teachers Create an App for Schools in Conflict Areas

By • Translation by Adam Lee • May 9, 2017

Clique aqui para Português For the original article in Portuguese published by Agência de Notícias das Favelas click here. A project that began four years ago at a school in Baixa do Sapateiro, in the Maré […]

Sometimes a bucket full of soil is the most interesting thing: Elisângela (Horta Inteligente) planting seeds with kids from the Tia Dora daycare
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Planting a Future: ‘Intelligent Garden’ Brings Environmental Education to Providência Kids

By Lisa Hollenbach • May 3, 2017

Clique aqui para Português It is not a simple task to keep the attention of twenty children between two and three years old. But on a Monday afternoon, a young crowd sits straight in their little […]

BRASIL graffiti (Photo by Phie van Rompu)
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Social Constructions of the Favela Part 3: Favela Tourism as Resistance

By Phie van Rompu • May 1, 2017

Clique aqui para Português This is the third article in a four-part series on the social constructions of favelas and the potential of favela tourism to break down negative stereotypes. Sociologist Anthony Giddens argues that, due to […]

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