The weekend will start off lively Center of Rio. This Friday (26/4) and Saturday (27/4) Tropical Ginga It is Queerioca will inaugurate their cultural spaces with events open to the public, featuring conversation circles, book launches and music. Already the Carnival House will promote an off-season party on Sunday (28/4) on the streets of the Center to mark the pre-launch of the space. The three projects are part of the program Revive Cultural Centerpromoted by Rio City Hallthrough Municipal Secretariat for Urban and Economic Development (SMDUE) in partnership with the Companhia Carioca de Parcerias e Investimentos (CCPar).
The program aims to occupy street properties in the neighborhood – which had been abandoned in recent years – with art and culture projects, reviving and bringing movement to the place, through financial transfers for renovating stores and monthly stipends. 132 projects were registered, of which 84 were approved, and 39 properties were accredited. Of these 84 projects, 26 are already receiving resources from the City Hall.
Casa Tucum, Cará, Advanced Research Center for the New Traditional Samba Where the Choir Comes – IBORU and Casa de Cultura Volta do Mundo are already in operation. Now, Ginga Tropical and Queerioca join these names, which are already shaking up the historic streets of downtown Rio. Casa Carnaval, in its preview, will show the Rio public a preview of what the space will be like.
For the municipal secretary of Urban and Economic Development of Rio, Chicão Bulhõesthis weekend will be a bit of a portrait of what City hall either for the center.
“We will have openings and pre-launches on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, with various cultural actions at different times, until late, of very different projects. This is our expectation with Reviver Cultural: to bring people who no longer frequented the region, attract other cariocas who were not used to enjoying the Center and, in parallel, revive commerce in that area, giving new life to properties and the neighborhood historic”he said Chicao Bulhões.
The Cultural Revive
The Reviver Cultural project aims to revitalize the Center by attracting cultural projects, thus increasing circulation in the area and giving new function and life to a historic, strategic and infrastructured region of the city. Rio City Hall granted a subsidy of R$1,000 per square meter to renovate properties and R$75 per square meter to help pay monthly expenses, up to a limit of R$192,000 and R$14,400, respectively. .
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This Friday (26/4), Ginga Tropical opens its doors at Rua da Alfândega, 19, from 5pm, filling the Center with Brazilianism, dance and music. The house is dedicated to promoting Brazilian folklore and popular culture, especially the performing and musical arts. Ginga intends to produce dance shows, in addition to teaching theoretical and practical courses on folklore, seeking to value and perpetuate Brazilian culture. The house will open with a show, dance and samba de roda.
On Saturday (27/4), Travessa do Comércio, 16 will host the art point and exchanges about the queer universe. Queerioca will be a space for residence and production of queer art, in order to provide visibility and exchange for LGBTQIAPN+ artists from Rio. The house will open its doors at 12pm, starting the program with the opening of the DiferEntre expo. At 4pm, the book “Benditas Things Que Eu Não Sei”, published by Agir, by Zélia Duncan, will be launched, with an autograph session. At 6pm, the short film “Uma Paciência Selvagem Trouxe A Aqui”, by Eri Sarnet, with Zélia Duncan and Bruna Linzmeyer, will be shown, as well as a dramatized reading of the play “Eu Vou!”, by Zélia Duncan, with Cristina Flores, that will happen after the exhibition.
At 9pm, a samba circle with Zélia Duncan and Ana Costa, based on their original album “Sete Mulheres pela Independência do Brasil”. And the first edition of the Arco dos Prazeres party with resident DJ Tatá Ogan and DJ Glau, starts at 11pm. The party pays homage to a legend known by Rio residents, Bárbara dos Prazeres, popularly called “Bruxa do Arco do Teles”, in the first half of the 19th century.
Closing the weekend, on Sunday (28/4), Casa Carnaval will bring the off-season party starting from Praça XV until reaching the house at Rua do Mercado, 37. The pre-launch of the project will start at 4pm , with a procession with drums from Viradouro, with a concentration in Praça XV. At 5pm, the house opening ceremony and cleaning of the space will take place. At 5:30 pm, conversation circle, and at 6 pm, samba circle and cultural groups. From 9pm, there will be a DJ set until 11pm.
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