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Alemão’s 14th Annual ‘Circulando’ Celebrates Artistic Interventions and Creative Resistance [IMAGES]

By Jorge Sanchez Garcia • December 6, 2018

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, […]

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‘The Favela Is Sending Its Message!’ Alemão Poetry Slam Celebrates Its First Anniversary [IMAGES]

By Antoine Horenbeek, Edmund Ruge • June 6, 2018

Clique aqui para Português Rhymes echoed down Complexo do Alemão’s Central Avenue on Sunday night, May 27 as dancers, poets, and rappers convened to celebrate the one year anniversary of Slam Laje, Alemão’s first poetry […]

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Institute Launches Journal to Disrupt Hegemonic Thinking, Speaks of ‘Potency of Peripheries’

By Edmund Ruge • May 28, 2018

Clique aqui para Português On Saturday, May 19, the Maria and João Aleixo Institute (IMJA) launched PERIPHERIES Journal, a biannual publication on the power of the world’s peripheral territories. Available online for free and in […]

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Broken Connection Part 1: When There Is No Internet Access

By data_labe, Escola de Jornalismo Énois • Translation by Desirée Poets • January 22, 2018

Clique aqui para Português This is the first article in a four-part series on Internet access in favelas and urban peripheries in Brazil. For the entire original article in Portuguese by Escola de Jornalismo Énois and data_labe published […]

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Parque Manguinhos Library Will Reopen: A Community Victory

By Renata Dutra • Translation by Rachel Fox • August 3, 2017

Clique aqui para Português “Reading ought to be an act of love,” said Paulo Freire. For residents of Manguinhos, a cluster of favelas in Rio de Janeiro’s North Zone, the mere existence of a space […]

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