{"id":75048,"date":"2023-06-03T09:41:12","date_gmt":"2023-06-03T12:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/?p=75048"},"modified":"2023-07-06T17:21:28","modified_gmt":"2023-07-06T20:21:28","slug":"a-poetic-look-at-museums-week-in-cantagalo-the-favela-is-the-museum-poem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/?p=75048","title":{"rendered":"A Poetic Look at Museum Week in Cantagalo: The Favela is the Museum!"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"During<\/a>
During Brazil’s 21st Museum Week in 2023, M\u00e1rcia Souza, one of the founders of the Favela Museum, talks to visitors and neighbors at the Canudos Exhibition at the Favela Museum. Photo: Marcos Vin\u00edcios<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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

Brazil’s 21st Annual Museum Week took place from May 15 to 21, 2023, with the theme “Museums, Sustainability, and Well-being.” The Favela Museum (MUF<\/a>), located in the Pav\u00e3o-Pav\u00e3ozinho<\/a> and Cantagalo<\/a> (PPG) favela complex in Rio de Janeiro’s South Zone<\/a>, held a series of activities which RioOnWatch<\/em> covered through this poetic account.<\/h4>\n

With a broad program<\/a> of events, MUF welcomed people from across the city to discuss social museology<\/a> as community power and the favelas as an open-air museum. With this in mind, the program included a tour of the history-telling mural-covered houses known as “Canvas-Homes” in the favela which are works of art in themselves; the First Looks<\/em> exhibition at the Tia Elza Daycare Center featuring photography by young PPG students, a collective action to plant seedlings in the community garden, a capoeira workshop with Master Tartaruga, and a visit to the Canudos Exhibition at the Favela Museum<\/a> led by UNIRIO museology students. All activities were aligned with the tone and aims decided by social museology movements for the week.<\/p>\n

“For the 21st edition of National Museum Week, we are highlighting the essential role of museums in contributing to well-being, living well, and the sustainable development of communities where they have an essential role as spaces which foster awareness and strengthen identities and citizen participation.” \u2014 Brazilian Museums Institute<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"M\u00e1rcia<\/a>
M\u00e1rcia Souza guides visitors to MUF during the 21st Museum Week. Photo: Marcos Vin\u00edcios<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In this account in the form of a poem, poet, rapper, and photographer Marcos Vin\u00edcios<\/a> tells of being in Cantagalo at the Favela Museum during Brazil’s 21st Annual Museum Week. The poem features a play on the favela’s name\u2014Cantagalo\u2014which in Portuguese means “rooster crows,” and is often locally shortened to Galo.<\/p>\n

Dawn in Galo<\/h3>\n

“Today, even without the galo<\/em> [rooster] crowing, as the poet says
\nThe essence is maintained, history on the walls and experience on the tip of the tongue
\nEven with so much need you can see in the eyes the fate of wanting to be happy
\nFavela roots, even in the South [Zone] of the map<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"Visitors<\/a>
Visitors at the Favela Museum in Cantagalo during the 21st Museum Week. Photo: Marcos Vin\u00edcios<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Where there are no tiers, everything blends together like rice and beans
\nNorth and Northeast are present, as much as those who are Rio to the core
\nAt the feet of Christ, who seems to not look down from way up there
\nYou see the lagoon, you see the forest, and the sea too<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"Some<\/a>
Some visitors on the last day of events at the 21st Museum Week in the Cantagalo favela. Photo: Marcos Vin\u00edcios<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Favela Museum guarantees the archaeology of the future, not only in the Canvas-Homes, or telling about Canudos.
\nYou can be sure, I assure you that whoever goes there will like it
\nThere’s no way you can go around with M\u00e1rcia and not understand remotely the whys of the place
\nThere’s so much!
\nAnd there’s no one she doesn’t know.
\nShe reminds those who’ve forgotten!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"M\u00e1rcia<\/a>
M\u00e1rcia Souza talks to visitors and neighbors at the Canudos Exhibition at the Favela Museum. Photo: Marcos Vin\u00edcios<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Even with problems, we keep the faith
\nWith Christ not seeing
\nWe pray to Oxal\u00e1 that, even coming from all the way over there, He may look to us who are here.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"M\u00e1rcia<\/a>
M\u00e1rcia Souza talks to visitors and neighbors about handcrafted products made in the favela. Photo: Marcos Vin\u00edcios<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Open-air museum, of stone, concrete, and paint.
\nThat colors the life others try to leave empty and plain.
\nFertile land for the artist, that doesn’t rely on the hustle for anything.
\nGoing down the hill just to swim, because the sea is public, inheritance from Mother Iemanj\u00e1<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"The<\/a>
The 21st Museum Week at the Favela Museum in Cantagalo. Photo: Marcos Vin\u00edcios<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Even with hunger, you’re fed,
\nBy labor, art, and culture.
\nThose coming from outside explore, eat, drink, and think it’s great.
\nThey soon go, don’t come back, and think they know everything.
\nKa\u00f4 just to salute my father Xang\u00f4.
\nAnd may He hear our prayers when night falls,
\nWith the certainty that a new day will come.
\nThe most beautiful dawn in Rio is when the Galo rises.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"Affection<\/a>
Affection also had a central role in the 21st Museum Week in Cantagalo. Photo: Marcos Vin\u00edcios<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

About the poet: Marcos Vinicios de Souza<\/a> is a dancer, photographer, filmmaker, producer and actor born and raised in Morro do Fogueteiro. He began his artistic journey at age 15 through dance. In the audiovisual arts, he attended the\u00a0CriaAtivo Film School<\/a>, permeating various forms of expression to record and tell his story and the stories of those around him.<\/em><\/p>\n

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