{"id":77547,"date":"2024-03-18T10:12:14","date_gmt":"2024-03-18T13:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/?p=77547"},"modified":"2025-09-13T14:07:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T17:07:13","slug":"favela-climate-memory-exhibition-arrives-in-santa-cruz-taking-the-climate-history-of-five-rio-favelas-to-young-audiences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/?p=77547","title":{"rendered":"‘Favela Climate Memory’ Exhibition Arrives in Santa Cruz Taking the Climate History of Five Rio Favelas to Young Audiences"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Students from Aldebar\u00e3 Municipal School participate in the opening of the Favela Climate Memory Exhibition in Santa Cruz. Photo: B\u00e1rbara Dias<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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The Favela Climate Memory Exhibition, organized by museums and memory projects associated with the Sustainable Favela Network (SFN<\/a>)*, is on display from March 1-31 at the Palacete Princesa Isabel<\/a>, Santa Cruz<\/a> Cultural Center, in the West Zone<\/a> of Rio de Janeiro. Organized by the Historic Orientation and Research Nucleus of Santa Cruz (NOPH<\/a>), the exhibition’s opening event took place on Friday, March 1, in the presence of NOPH members, and elementary school students and teachers from the Aldebar\u00e3 Municipal School. Besides visiting the exhibition, students attended a presentation on the process of building climate memory circles and an artistic slam performance by the Favela Has a Voice Collective<\/a>.<\/h4>\n

The Favela Climate Memory Exhibition emerged as the final product of five favela climate memory circles<\/a> held by community museum members of the Sustainable Favela Network in 2023, including Complexo da Mar\u00e9<\/a>‘s Mar\u00e9 Museum<\/a>, the Sankofa Museum<\/a> in Rocinha<\/a>, the <\/span>Historic Orientation and Research Nucleus of Santa Cruz (NOPH<\/a>) in Antares<\/a>, the Favela Museum (MUF<\/a>) in Pav\u00e3o-Pav\u00e3ozinho<\/a>\/Cantagalo<\/a>, and the Vidigal Memories Nucleus<\/a> in Vidigal<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Students from Aldebar\u00e3 Municipal School participated in an activity before the opening of the Favela Climate Memory Exhibition in Santa Cruz. Photo: B\u00e1rbara Dias<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The exhibition consists of an array of narratives depicting memories recounted by residents of five favelas in Rio de Janeiro. It is presented in the form of banners and a timeline, allowing for the visualization of significant events in the histories of the participating favelas. In addition to these structures, the exhibition also features the artistic installation “Well of Memories,” created by visual artist Ev\u00e2nia de Paula<\/a> from Vidigal. Inside the well are approximately 100 historical photographs of the five favelas, which can be handled and studied by visitors.<\/p>\n

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Teen girl is intrigued by a quote by a resident from Antares, shared on the banner of the Climate Memory Circle held in her community. Photo: B\u00e1rbara Dias<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Before the exhibition opening, around 30 students from the Aldebar\u00e3 Municipal School, located within Antares, participated in a presentation where a video of the original exhibition<\/a> was shown, blending exchanges from the five participating favelas. Leonardo Ribeiro, a historian born and raised in Antares, and former president of the community’s residents’ association, along with Bruno Almeida, coordinator of the Historic Orientation and Research Nucleus of Santa Cruz, talked about the impact of the work carried out in the discussion circles, capturing the students’ attention.<\/p>\n