{"id":77380,"date":"2024-02-12T12:35:42","date_gmt":"2024-02-12T15:35:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/?p=77380"},"modified":"2024-02-22T10:23:30","modified_gmt":"2024-02-22T13:23:30","slug":"art-resistance-and-ancestral-struggle-at-carnival-part-2-silver-and-bronze-series-samba-schools-and-favela-associations-resist-and-occupy-intendente-magalhaes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/?p=77380","title":{"rendered":"Art, Resistance and Ancestral Struggle at Carnival, Part 2: Silver and Bronze Series Samba Schools and Favela Associations Resist and Occupy Intendente Magalh\u00e3es"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Parade at Intendente Magalh\u00e3es during Carnival 2020. Photo: Gabriel Monteiro\/Riotur<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Clique aqui para Portugu\u00eas<\/strong><\/i><\/em><\/i><\/em><\/a><\/h4>\n

This is the second in a series of three articles about carnival<\/a> traditions in Rio’s favelas and peripheries, respectively: the Bate-Bola clowns<\/a>, an indelible tradition in the North<\/a> and West Zones<\/a>, and Greater Rio’s Baixada Fluminense<\/a> region; the Bronze and Silver Series<\/a> access groups, mostly samba schools from favelas; and Bloco Se Benze Que D\u00e1 (SBQD<\/a>), a street carnival parade from Complexo da Mar\u00e9<\/a>. The three represent the unequal and disparate Rios that persist in (re)existing within a single city in the form of art and glitter.<\/h4>\n

Away from the spotlights of the Marqu\u00eas de Sapuca\u00ed Sambadrome<\/a>, the carnival of the favelas and peripheries reveals the strength of community work as a builder of the festivity. In this scenario of contrasts, residents of the favelas and peripheries of the city’s Metropolitan Region<\/a> are responsible for safeguarding the traditions and popular culture of carnival. Whether out of love, passion, or activism, no one gives up on taking carnival to the streets, even with few resources.<\/span><\/h4>\n

Silver and Bronze Series 2024: Irreverence and Social Critique Return to Intendente Magalh\u00e3es<\/h3>\n

The Rio Carnival samba school parades are not restricted to the Marqu\u00eas de Sapuca\u00ed Sambadrome. The samba schools from the Silver and Bronze series, for example, traditionally parade on Estrada Intendente Magalh\u00e3es<\/a>, where they will once again parade in 2024<\/a>. In 2023, due to violence, the parades were relocated from this beloved stage of Rio’s samba to Avenida Ernani Cardoso, then nicknamed The New Intendente<\/em>.<\/p>\n

In 2024, the Intendente carnival will showcase the “Supercarnival of Sustainability<\/a>,” an innovative project that combines joy and revelry with environmental responsibility. Ecopoints will be set up along Avenida Intendente Magalh\u00e3es to ensure proper waste management and carbon emissions neutralization. The ambitious goal is to recycle over 260 tons of materials, demonstrating carnival’s commitment to environmental preservation. In total, 73 samba groups make up the Superliga Carnavalesca<\/a>, distributed among the Silver (32), Bronze (22), and Evaluation Group (16)\u2014in addition to affiliated schools that do not parade. The parades of all these schools take place between February 11 and 17.<\/p>\n

G.R.E.S. Acad\u00eamicos do Engenho da Rainha: Morro do Engenho Takes Over Intendente<\/h3>\n

In the Silver Series, at least 20 groups hail from favelas in the Rio de Janeiro Metropolitan Region, accounting for over 60% of the series’ schools. Among them is Gr\u00eamio Recreativo Escola de Samba Acad\u00eamicos do Engenho da Rainha<\/a>, whose headquarters are located at the foot of Morro do Engenho da Rainha<\/a>, with approximately 5,000 residents in the North Zone.<\/p>\n

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Parade of Engenho da Rainha’s Red and White Samba School. Photo: Social Media Release<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This year, Engenho da Rainha’s red-and-white-banner school will take Tupi mythology<\/a> to Intendente: Rud\u00e1, the creation of the world in a tale of love<\/em><\/a>. The samba school will recount the legend of Guaraci<\/a> and Jaci<\/a>\u2014the Sun and the Moon, who “to be together, had to create Rud\u00e1, love, since it did not know light or darkness, thus uniting the Sun and the Moon at dawn,” explains carnival producer Alexandre Gon\u00e7alves.<\/p>\n

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Carnival producers Alexandre Gon\u00e7alves and Pauline Abreu at the samba school’s compound. Photo: Tatiana Lima<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In 2024, just like in 2023, the Engenho da Rainha plot was developed in partnership. In 2023, carnival producer Alexandre Gon\u00e7alves developed the parade theme with Pauline Abreu<\/a>, the first Black carnival producer<\/a> in Rio’s carnival in decades. In 2024, he teamed up with Felipe Midass.<\/span><\/p>\n

Despite being a Black celebration, there are still few Black women carnival producers in Rio de Janeiro. In this context, Pauline Abreu and Winnie Nicolau<\/a>, carnival producer of the Pimpolhos da Grande Rio<\/a> children’s samba school, stand out as role models.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople always misunderstand us, don’t they? Especially in this area of carnival. I’m not a passista, not a samba dancer! And I don’t say this with any sense of belittlement. On the contrary, I make the costumes with all my love and appreciation. Everyone has an essential role in the world of carnival… However, I’m from the creation and research line. I want to be able to work and be recognized in this area. It’s exhausting, this view of Black women in carnival, always putting her as a participant and not in a place of creativity, production, and carnival construction.\u201d \u2014 Pauline Abreu<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Like other favela schools in the Silver and Bronze series, Engenho da Rainha’s red and white samba school has few resources but a dedicated community. There are only eleven people to produce all the floats and costumes, with four seamstresses at the school’s headquarters and five other workers in the workshop, located in the city center.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe’ve got a lot of love for this school. I joined to help the association become more secure, because everything was very insecure… And I’ve been here for over 50 years now. Me and a group of guys built this ‘terreiro’ here.\u201d \u2014 Lu\u00eds Fernando, known as Tio Fuzaka<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A resident of the Engenho da Rainha neighborhood, Lu\u00eds Fernando grew up in the vicinity of the school’s headquarters, which used to be located inside Morro do Engenho. In the 1970s, the group built, through collective action, the new headquarters, entirely adorned in red and white, including an altar dedicated to Saint George.<\/p>\n

In 2024, the group dreams of achieving first place to move up to the Gold Series and finally be able to parade down Sapuca\u00ed for the 2025 Carnival. In 2023, the winners of the Silver Series<\/a> were the Sereno de Campo Grande<\/a>, Uni\u00e3o de Maric\u00e1<\/a>, and Uni\u00e3o do Parque Acari<\/a> schools. The Silver Series schools will perform on February 13 and 16, while those in the Bronze Series will take to the Intendente arena on February 12 and 17.<\/p>\n

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Acad\u00eamicos do Engenho da Rainha’s Comiss\u00e3o de Frente. The Comiss\u00e3o de Frente introduces the school and sets the mood and style of the parade. Source: Promotional photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This is the second in a series of three articles about carnival<\/a> traditions in Rio’s favelas and peripheries<\/h4>\n

About the author:\u00a0Tatiana Lima<\/a> is a journalist, popular communicator and journalism coordinator of the Fala Ro\u00e7a<\/a> favela newspaper from Rocinha. She has a masters degree in Media and Everyday Life from the Fluminense Federal University (UFF<\/a>) where she is currently working on a PhD in Communication. A member of Complexo do Alem\u00e3o\u2019s Researchers in Movement Study Group<\/a>, she also teaches reporting techniques at the Grassroots Communication Course of N\u00facleo Piratininga de Comunica\u00e7\u00e3o (NPC). A Black feminist born and raised in Favela do Quitungo and Morro do Tuiuti, Lima currently lives in Rio\u2019s urban periphery.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

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