Launch: Free School of Arts - Escola Livre de Artes - Elã

The construction of Escola Livre de Artes (Elã) – the Free School of Arts – based at Galpão Bela Maré located in the set of favelas of Maré in Rio de Janeiro, in the works since 2018, has been a materialization of a shared desire to forge long-term infrastructures to build up possibilities of artistic, educative, and political creations, in spite of the precarization of civil society work that is so often pushed into jumping from grant to grant in the face of state neglect, notably in peripheralized territories. Read more here.