To create and disseminate art and culture from Maré to the world. To expand the artistic and cultural experience of spectators, students, creators, artists, and residents. To increase the capacity for comprehension, imagination, and action in the world through arts, culture, and local identity. To foster critical debates around structural racism and act to reduce stereotyped and prejudiced views about the favela.

These are some of the lines of action that permeate the work and actions of the Art, Culture, Memories, and Identities axis, which has several projects and four permanent facilities: Maré Arts Center (CAM), Lima Barreto Popular Library, Black House of Maré and Herbert Vianna Cultural Canvas -of which Redes da Maré has been a co-manager since 2009. In addition to these spaces, the axis acts through projects such as the Nucleus of Memories and Identities of Maré (NUMIM), the Free Dance School of Maré and Mão na Lata.

The Maré Arts Center is also the headquarters of Lia Rodrigues Companhia de Danças (LRCD). Founded in 1990 in Rio de Janeiro by choreographer Lia Rodrigues, as part of her dance artist trajectory started in the 1970s, which gained national and international recognition, contributing to the construction of a contemporary language for dance. Since 2004, invited by playwright and teacher Silvia Soter, she has developed artistic and educational actions in Maré, in partnership with Redes da Maré. From this encounter, the Free Dance School of Maré and the Maré Arts Center were born.

In the facilities under the Art, Culture, Memories, and Identities axis, there are daily dance, theater, literature, photography, painting and music classes and workshops, as well as artistic presentations such as shows, exhibitions, workshops, presentations, congresses, and campaigns for all audiences. The projects and actions happen in partnership with artists and collectives from Maré, favoring exchanges and interactions with groups and individuals from other parts of the city and encouraging free access to expression and cultural production in diverse forms.


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