Downtown Rio gains new cultural spaces this weekend

The weekend will start off with excitement in downtown Rio. This Friday (26/4) and Saturday (27/4), Ginga Tropical and Queerioca will inaugurate their cultural spaces with events open to the public, featuring discussion groups, book launches and music. On Sunday (28/4), Casa Carnaval will hold an off-season party on the streets of downtown to mark the pre-launch of the space. The three projects are part of the Reviver Centro Cultural program, promoted by the City of Rio, through the 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 area, through financial transfers for store renovations and monthly financial assistance. 132 projects were registered, of which 84 were approved, and 39 properties were accredited. Of these 84 projects, 26 are already receiving funds from the City Hall.

Casa TUCUM, Cará, Advanced Research Center for New Traditional Samba Onde o Coro Come – 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 pre-opening, 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 Bulhões, this weekend will be a little bit of a portrait of what the City Hall wants for the Center.

 – We will have inaugurations and pre-launches on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, with several cultural activities at different times, until late, of very different projects. This is our expectation with Reviver Cultural: to bring people who no longer frequent the region, attract other Cariocas who were not used to enjoying the Center and, at the same time, revive the commerce of that area, giving new life to properties and the historic neighborhood – said Chicão Bulhões.

The Cultural Revival

The Reviver Cultural project aims to revitalize the city center by attracting cultural projects, thereby increasing circulation in the area and giving new life and function to a historic, strategic and well-equipped area of ​​the city. The City of Rio provided a subsidy of R$1 per square meter for property renovations and R$75 per square meter to help pay monthly expenses, up to a limit of R$192 and R$14,4, respectively.

Check the schedule

This Friday (26/4), Ginga Tropical will open its doors at Rua da Alfândega, 19, starting at 17 pm, filling the city center with Brazilian spirit, dance and music. The venue is dedicated to promoting Brazilian folklore and popular culture, especially the performing and musical arts. Ginga intends to produce dance shows, in addition to offering theoretical and practical courses on folklore, seeking to value and perpetuate Brazilian culture. The venue will open with a show, dance and samba de roda.

On Saturday (27/4), Travessa do Comércio, 16 will host a point for art and exchanges about the queer universe. Queerioca will be a space for queer art residency and production, in order to give visibility and exchange to LGBTQIAPN+ artists from Rio. The house will open its doors at 12 pm, starting the program with the opening of the DiferEntre exhibition. At 16 pm, the book “Benditas Coisas Que Eu Não Sei” (Blessed Things That I Don’t Know), published by Agir, by Zélia Duncan, will be launched, with a book signing session. At 18 pm, the short film “Uma Paciência Selvagem me Trouxe Até Aqui” (A Wild Patience Brought Me Here) by Eri Sarnet will be shown, with Zélia Duncan and Bruna Linzmeyer, in addition to a dramatized reading of the play “Eu Vou!” (I Will!) by Zélia Duncan, with Cristina Flores, which will take place after the screening.

At 21pm, a samba circle with Zélia Duncan and Ana Costa, based on their original album “Seven Women for the Independence of Brazil”. And the first edition of the Arco dos Prazeres party with resident DJ Tatá Ogan and DJ Glau, starts at 23pm. The party pays homage to a legend known to the people of Rio, Bárbara dos Prazeres, popularly known as the “Witch of Arco do Teles”, in the first half of the XNUMXth century.

Closing the weekend, on Sunday (28/4), Casa Carnaval will bring the off-season party starting at Praça XV and arriving at the house at Rua do Mercado, 37. The pre-launch of the project will begin at 16 pm, with a procession with Viradouro drums, gathering at Praça XV. At 17 pm, the opening ceremony of the house and cleaning of the space will take place. At 17:30 pm, there will be a round of conversations, and at 18 pm, a samba circle and cultural groups. From 21 pm, there will be a DJ set until 23 pm.

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April 26th 2024

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