Flamengo basketball games will have Cultural Invasion
The Champions League, men's continental basketball tournament, begins tonight (10) in Rio, with a match between Flamengo and Boca Juniors, from Argentina. The season opening will feature a Cultural Invasion, with the participation of artists from the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro and Belo Horizonte, some of which are already known to the public. Flamengo seeks to win the second title in the competition.
The opening concert of the game, scheduled for 6:30 pm at the Maracanãzinho gymnasium, will be performed by singer Flávio Renegado, raised in the Alto Vera Cruz community, in the capital of Minas Gerais. Artistic godson of singer Elza Soares, with whom he recorded Negão Negra. Renegado has recently released the album 1221 and is currently touring Brazil with the show Renegado Samba Groove.
During the break of the game, youngsters from the group Dois de Dança, which brings together eight dancers who came from the Rio de Janeiro slums of Caju, Borel and Tabajaras, will occupy the stadium. The Pop Dance show will bring a mixture of hip hop , funk and passinho to the Maracanãzinho audience.
The general director of the Cultural Invasion project, Rafaello Ramundo, stated, in an interview with Agência Brasil , that it will be an invasion of good. There will be, in all, 12 shows by new artists from the national music scene, who will also perform at the opening of Flamengo games for the 2021/2022 season of Novo Basquete Brasil (NBB), at Maracanãzinho gymnasium. "At breaks, we have our dance companies performing for people." In addition to bringing entertainment to the public, as happens in sports arenas in the United States, Ramundo highlighted that the most important thing is that Brazilian artists are returning after the strong impact of the covid-19 pandemic in the area of national culture.
culture in action
'It's the culture working, seeing people work for real. It's the presentation of new artists on this stage and also of dance, of an entire team that is behind. Our team of production, cleaning, security, sound technicians, lighting. There are a number of people involved in our culture system that is suffering so much, but which has so much strength. I'm so happy to see the amount of people working to bring high quality entertainment to the public who will be there and want to be entertained”, highlighted Ramundo. The director added that the Cultural Invasion is, in fact, a gift to people, whether for the culture or for what culture generates for the economy.
Rafaello Ramundo said that what is desired with Invasão Cultural is that it meet different audience and artist profiles. “We want to give these people a stage, amplify their voices, even if it's dancing. This narrative is an invasion of good”, he reiterated. Ramundo recalled that not only the dancers, but also the musicians, come from the periphery, from the suburbs.
Conceived and produced by Santo Antônio Comunicação, a company of the Novo Traço Entertainment group, the project is developed in partnership with Clube de Regatas do Flamengo and the telephone company TIM, through the Culture Incentive Law. The shows will be broadcast over the internet.
In the eighth round of the NBB, on the 19th, it will be Romero Ferro's turn to perform before the match against Unifacisa. The idea, said Ramundo, is to take advantage not only of the audience at the Maracanãzinho gymnasium, but also of the great potential of broadcasting the games on TV and the internet. Invasão Cultural is curated by Zé Ricardo, who is also artistic director of the Sunset Stage, Espaço Favela and NAVE at Rock in Rio, in addition to being the musical curator of Rio2C.
Calendar
The calendar for the first five presentations of the project at Maracanãzinho has already been defined. This Friday, at 6:30 pm, Renegado's show . During the interval between Flamengo and Boca Junior, dance presentation; on the 19th, at 5 pm, a show by Romero Ferro and at the interval between the game Flamengo x Unifacisa (18 pm), a dance presentation; on the 21st, in the Ninth Round of the NBB, at 7 pm, a show by Rodrigo Sha, with a dance presentation during the interval between the game Flamengo x Fortaleza (20 pm); on 1/9, in the 11th NBB Round, show by the Notórios, at 5:00 pm, and dance presentation during the interval between the game Flamengo x Pinheiros (18:00 pm). The 12th Round of the NBB will have a show by Taylan, with a dance presentation during the interval between the game Flamengo x Bauru (20h).
The Cultural Invasion project should end with a dance workshop for young people from Cidade de Deus, in Jacarepaguá, west of Rio.
Text translated using artificial intelligence.
