{"id":44096,"date":"2018-06-06T08:00:13","date_gmt":"2018-06-06T11:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rioonwatch.org\/?p=44096"},"modified":"2018-06-08T11:37:56","modified_gmt":"2018-06-08T14:37:56","slug":"the-favela-is-sending-its-message-complexo-do-alemao-poetry-slam-celebrates-one-year-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/?p=44096","title":{"rendered":"‘The Favela Is Sending Its Message!’ Alem\u00e3o Poetry Slam Celebrates Its First Anniversary [IMAGES]"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

Rhymes echoed down Complexo do Alem\u00e3o<\/a>\u2019s Central Avenue on Sunday night, May 27 as dancers, poets, and rappers convened to celebrate the one year anniversary of Slam Laje<\/a>, Alem\u00e3o\u2019s first poetry slam.<\/p>\n

As poets from Rio and S\u00e3o Paulo spun rhymes on everything from racism and police brutality to feminism and education, judges picked from the crowd scored performances on a 1-10 scale, choosing three top poets as the evening\u2019s winners. This month\u2019s champions\u2014Dudu Neves, Sabrina Azevedo, and Chal Enigma of the group N\u00f3s da Rua<\/a>\u2014will move on to the Slam Laje finals later this year. Between performances, MC Dall Farra of the favela poetry collective Poetas Favelados<\/a> stoked the crowd in call and response: \u201cThe favela is sending its message! Slam! Laje! Slam! Laje! Open your heart!\u201d The battle, organized by Alem\u00e3o\u2019s own MC Martina<\/a> and Al-Neg, also featured a passinho competition, a mini-show by MC Thai Flow, and a poetic intervention by S\u00e3o Paulo\u2019s PARDOnizadas<\/a> group.<\/p>\n

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Since its founding in May of 2017, Slam Laje<\/a> has held 10 monthly poetry slams, gathering poets and spectators from Alem\u00e3o and across Brazil with the goal of \u201cencouraging marginal poetry and literature in Complexo do Alem\u00e3o, strengthening the cultural movement, and occupying spaces around our favela with passinho and rhyme battles, with wit and resistance.\u201d<\/p>\n

Slam Laje has typically held its events atop the rooftop (the laje<\/em>) of Casa Brota, the favela complex\u2019s first coworking space<\/a>. For its first anniversary, however, the group broke with this tradition, descending the hill and battling at the doorstep of the Instituto Raizes em Movimento, a community-based NGO<\/a> dedicated to human rights, community-led development and cultural memory in Complexo do Alem\u00e3o.<\/p>\n

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For MC Dall Farra, one of the event\u2019s most important strengths continues to be its location in the favela. \u201cThis was a really welcoming event… The majority of poets who do marginal poetry are from the favela or from the periphery, so I think that holding the event in a space that represents them makes a huge difference for people to feel more comfortable.\u201d<\/p>\n

MC Martina told favela media outlet Voz das Comunidades<\/em><\/a> she felt the event “is a really good thing, because we do it with such love. Doing this where I live gives me a really great feeling, like I’m fulfilling my mission.”<\/p>\n

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Community leaders from across Alem\u00e3o attended the Slam, enjoying the poetry and catching up with each other. Present at the event were Voz das Comunidades<\/em><\/a> founder Rene Silva<\/a>, Coletivo Papo Reto<\/a>\u00a0members Thain\u00e3 de Medeiros<\/a> and Raull Santiago<\/a>, Instituto Ra\u00edzes em Movimento<\/a> founder Alan Brum Pinheiro<\/a>, Women in Action in Alem\u00e3o<\/a> and housing movement leader Camila Santos<\/a>, and\u00a0Abra\u00e7o Campe\u00e3o<\/a> founder Alan Duarte<\/a>, among others.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a chance for fraternization, celebrating the one year anniversary,\u201d said Dall Farra. \u201cBut beyond that it also reinforced just how much Slam Laje has become a family.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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