{"id":32383,"date":"2016-08-05T06:00:59","date_gmt":"2016-08-05T09:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rioonwatch.org\/?p=32383"},"modified":"2016-10-08T05:53:57","modified_gmt":"2016-10-08T08:53:57","slug":"providencia-hosts-cultural-festival-featuring-local-capoeira-theater-cinema-and-environmental-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/?p=32383","title":{"rendered":"Provid\u00eancia Hosts Cultural Festival Featuring Local Capoeira, Theater, Cinema and Environmental Action Groups"},"content":{"rendered":"

Clique aqui para Portugu\u00eas<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

On\u00a0June 23, the Largo do Cruzeiro square in Providencia<\/a>\u00a0in central Rio de Janeiro<\/a>\u00a0hosted\u00a0the Festival\u00a0Subindo a Ladeira<\/a> (Climbing the Hill Festival), with groups from inside and outside the favela taking part. The festival took place over the course of a day and included theater and other performances, hip hop, capoeira, a cinema club and environment action. The square in front of the Nossa Senhora da Penha church was occupied by groups such as Bando Teatro Favela<\/a> (theater), N\u00facleo da Provid\u00eancia da Capoeira Ventre Livre<\/a> (capoeira), Efeito Urbano<\/a> (dance), Horta Inteligente<\/a> (urban gardening and environmental education), and Cine Provid\u00eancia<\/a> (cinema), among others.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe festival came about after we did a skills course organized by Favela Criativa<\/a> (Creative Favela),” said M\u00f4nica Saturnino, 41, one of the event organizers. Another organizer C\u00edntia Sant\u2019Anna, 30, explained that she and M\u00f4nica have been holding workshops in the favela for five years, but it was only last year that the Bando Teatro Favela<\/a> theater group was formed, putting on a play called \u201cEntre Becos e Vielas\u201d (\u201cBetween the Alleys and Narrow Streets\u201d). The play formed part of this year\u2019s festival. M\u00f4nica and C\u00edntia took part in the street theater group Grupo de Teatro T\u00e1 na Rua<\/a>, directed by Amir Haddad: the group perform in Lapa, downtown Rio. The two women spoke about how this experience gave them the desire to occupy the Provid\u00eancia square and have more direct contact with\u00a0residents. \u201cOne of our objectives was to occupy this space, so we occupied the square,\u201d said Sant\u2019Anna.<\/p>\n

\"Capoeira<\/a><\/p>\n

At around 1pm there was a capoeira<\/a> circle with lots of children from Provid\u00eancia taking part, organized by resident and capoeira teacher, Rog\u00e9rio Silva, 35. \u201cIt\u2019s incredible for me to participate in this circle\u00a0because I started playing capoeira here in 1996, when I was 16 years old. And now I\u2019m here with the capoeira master, Mestre Batata. It\u2019s very satisfying to see these kids playing today, getting to know capoeira,\u201d he said. The capoeira group N\u00facleo Provid\u00eancia do Centro Cultural de Capoeira Ventre Livre<\/a> has existed in Provid\u00eancia for more than 20 years.<\/p>\n

Juliana Melo, 27, director and actor from the dance group Efeito Urbano<\/a>, also praised the festival\u2019s initiative. \u201cIt\u2019s through combining our strengths that we manage to achieve things,\u201d she said. Efeito Urbano was created in 2011 and is composed of young Provid\u00eancia residents. They hold free workshops every Wednesday evening from 6-8pm. Mixing hip hop, performance skills and theater, the group will premiere their first performance, “Funk – For\u00e7a Urbana Nacional Carioca” (Funk – Rio\u2019s National Urban Force), on September 18, at the Arena Dicr\u00f3 in Penha<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think art is a weapon that works for good. I carry my dance as if it were a weapon for good,\u201d said Juliana, who started to dance in 2002. \u201cI say to [the kids] that dance is a way for us to work on concepts such as respect, ending discrimination and breaking taboos. Art is a kind of magic. We are a little bit of light in Provid\u00eancia, in the region, sharing our knowledge and bringing people to the stage.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Youth<\/a><\/p>\n

Provid\u00eancia resident Maria L\u00facia, 50, watched all the festival\u2019s shows. She works as a general assistant at the Fluminense Federal University (UFF), crossing the Guanabara Bay every day to work Monday to Friday, and relaxes at the weekend by being at home with her husband and meeting her neighbors in the square. \u201cI really liked the hip hop and capoeira,\u201d she said. \u201cI wish we always had this kind of thing happening in the favela: it animates people.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Cine<\/a><\/p>\n

The last event on the festival program was a screening of ten short films about Provid\u00eancia and the surrounding Port Region<\/a> of Rio. The films were launched at the latest editions of the 72 Hours cinema festival<\/a>: an event where filmmakers submit films they\u2019ve made in less than 72 hours. Alexandre Louren\u00e7o, 37, from Cidade Nova<\/a>, was the curator of the screening and the films shown covered issues such as gentrification<\/a>, racism<\/a>, religion and childhood in favelas. Cine Providencia<\/a>\u00a0was founded in 2014 and Alexandre has been working in the community\u00a0for the last two years. \u201cWe have an archive of 120 short films made in the Port Region alone,\u201d he said. \u201cWe are a mobile organization and we do exchanges with other communities in Rio, such as City of God<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

The short film Olhares da Provid\u00eancia<\/em> (Provid\u00eancia Viewpoints), produced by Alexandre Louren\u00e7o, was created for the 72 Hours festival this year. \u201cIt was great, we had to write and produce the whole thing in three days and it was all done here in Provid\u00eancia,\u201d he said. The film screening moved a lot of the residents in the audience who in many cases could recognize either themselves on the screen, or their neighbors or places in the film that were used for different scenes. At one point lots of children in the audience shouted out \u201cIt\u2019s Vera!\u201d when they saw an image of Provid\u00eancia resident Vera L\u00facia Ferreira, 48, on the screen.<\/p>\n

\u201cI actually didn\u2019t see myself on the screen because at that moment I was serving someone,\u201d said Vera L\u00facia, who lives and has a bar in front of the church square. \u201cEver since I was born my mother always worked serving people. I\u2019ve been in this house for 28 years. After my mother died I took over this bar myself.\u201d Vera L\u00facia said she liked the festival and hoped to see more activities like it in the favela.<\/p>\n

\"Vera<\/a><\/p>\n

C\u00edntia and M\u00f4nica are preparing a new performance, this time about women. \u201cWe know that the favela is a feminine place. The whole world is,\u201d said C\u00edntia. “I got into theater as a way to improve my self confidence and the idea is that through theater we can show people that there are other possibilities, other options. Theater showed me other options; it showed me that I had choices,\u201d she said. \u201cI often talk with people who say, \u2018but everyone can make their own choices\u2026\u2019 I don\u2019t believe it. Here there\u2019s often one option that holds sway, when you need money and someone offers you R$100\u00a0to do something, you know? We want to show that there are other options out there. And we give what we know how to give: theater!\u201d<\/p>\n

As well as organizing the festival and being founding members of the theater group Bando Teatro Favela, C\u00edntia Sant\u2019Anna and M\u00f4nica Saturnino have also created a cultural organization called Associa\u00e7\u00e3o Cultural Colombina, which they run from C\u00edntia\u2019s home in Provid\u00eancia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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