Mariwô: Black Culture from Morro da Providência that Filters Negative Energy

Mariwô Collective, a Rio movement of cultural occupations that brings together music, art, and dance, creating spaces of reframing and experimentation through Afro-diasporic culture. Image reproduced from social media

Discover the work developed by the Mariwô collective, a group of Black artists from Brazil’s original ‘favela,’ Morro da Providência who are shaking up the cultural scene in Rio de Janeiro, exalting Afro-Brazilian heritage.

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This article is part of a series created in partnership with the Behner Stiefel

Center for Brazilian Studies at San Diego State University, to produce articles for the Digital Brazil Project on water issues and the LGBTQIAP+ population in Rio’s favelas and in the Baixada Fluminense for RioOnWatch.