Museu do Samba, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 🇧🇷
I recently visited the Samba Museum in Rio de Janeiro with the museum's Projects Director Nilcemar Nogueira Nilcemar (former Municipal Secretary of Culture of Rio de Janeiro) and her fantastic team.
One of the highlights of the museum is the exhibition "A Força Feminina do Samba (The Feminine Power of Samba)" which celebrates the great matriarchy of samba.
"Sponsored by Banco Votorantim S.A., through the Culture Incentive Law of the Ministry of Culture, the Samba Museum presents the exhibition: “THE FEMININE STRENGTH OF SAMBA” curated by Nilcemar Nogueira.
In samba, as in many African communities since ancient times, women are a central figure. This is the strong presence of the Yabás and Candaces – deities and warrior queens.
Samba in Rio was born, grew and lives strongly influenced by wise, militant and provider female characters, represented by the “aunts” who cook, laundress, composers, party workers, singers and women who work to preserve and celebrate our ancestral historical memory.
The exhibition THE FEMININE STRENGTH OF SAMBA celebrates the great matriarchy of samba. The collection brings together the historiography of samba under the leadership of black women such as Tia Ciata, Clementina de Jesus, Dona Ivone Lara, Leci Brandão and many others." - Google Translation https://lnkd.in/dEGjBMzN
"With a unique collection, the Museum currently has over 45 thousand items. Our heritage education center is considered a reference. We carry out several actions that disseminate and promote the appreciation of samba, the main identity reference of the Brazilian people.
The Samba Museum began as the Cartola Cultural Center, founded in 2001 by the grandchildren of Cartola and Dona Zica, leaders of the community where the institution is based, in the city of Rio de Janeiro, RJ.
Since 2007, it has been responsible for safeguarding the Rio de Janeiro Samba Matrices registered as intangible heritage by Iphan.
Recognized as a Reference Center for Documentation and Research on samba, the site seeks to promote the appreciation and dissemination of samba, and the human and social development of individuals in socially vulnerable situations through cultural activities, research, exhibitions, workshops, courses, heritage education and collection generation.
It works to recognize the contribution of the black population to the construction of Brazilian heritage, seeking to strengthen the subjects.
It is located at the foot of the Mangueira Favela, a place that, despite being a world reference for being one of the birthplaces of samba, lacks public state policies, especially for children and young people. The institution's art and education program is recognized and awarded.
The Samba Museum is a quilombo of resistance in the maintenance of our main cultural identity." - Google Translation - https://lnkd.in/dwpQZdEG
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