Estação Primeira de Mangueira defined and released its plot for the 2025 Carnival this Thursday. With the title “À Flor da Terra – No Rio da Negritude Entre Dores e Paixões”, Verde e Rosa will take it to Marquês de Sapucaí next year a narrative based on black historicity with a strong social nature, connecting past and present through everyday experiences. Along with the theme, the association also released the logo for its next carnival.
Created by carnival artist Sidnei França, the plot of Mangueira will explore research that seeks from the records of millions of enslaved people, a rescue and appreciation of Bantu knowledge and practices in Brazil to the construction of a daily life in Rio based on its violence and pleasures. which brings to light a look at the experiments of the popular and invisible layers in the city’s sociocultural practices.
”Understanding our land reveals the truth about bodies devastated by the erasure of their black identity. The Rio soul, daring in essence and steeped in Bantu ancestry, is forged by so many pains and passions, carrying in its memory cruel violence, but also revolutionary experiences of freedom, which teach us to defy death, celebrate life and make carnival !”, highlights França.
The announcement included several actions in the city, on the school’s social networks, and in the press. To date, most of the Special Group associations that have released their plots are focusing on Afro themes for Carnival 2025.
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