Museu do Pontal offers Christmas program this weekend
Visitors to the Pontal Museum, in Barra da Tijuca, west of Rio de Janeiro, this and next weekend, will have fun with a Christmas program, with highlights for popular festivities and nativity scenes. The cultural space, an international reference in Brazilian popular art, has an agenda on Saturdays and Sundays aimed at children and families.
One of the activities this Saturday (11) will be the Baby Workshop Abayomi, at 3 pm, with the artisan, educator and writer Lena Martins, with the theme of Christmas nativity scene. Before that, from 11:00 am to 4:30 pm, there will be a Musical Visit for Brazilian Popular Art and Culture, with art educators Beatriz Bessa and Pedro Cavalcante. The approximate duration is 1 hour and 30 minutes. From 12:00 to 16:00, children will enjoy the Toy Chest.
On Sunday (12), at 4:00 pm, the program starts with the presentation of the Musical Visit for Brazilian Popular Art and Culture, from 11:00 am to 4:30 pm. There is also the Toy Chest from 12:00 to 16:00 and at 16:00 it will be the turn of the Folia de Reis Sertão Carioca, in the Museum Garden Square, with the Viola Caipirando Orchestra.
Next weekend, among other activities, there will be workshops on Cloth Puppets - Stories and Affections - Nativity Scenes (Saturday at 3:00 pm), Invented Gifts (Sunday at 10:00 am), and Pastoril (Sunday at 3:00 pm) ).
Registrations
Registration for the activities is free and can be made at the reception. In activities with limited capacity, the criterion will be the order of arrival.
Since the inauguration of the new headquarters, in October, the museum has presented a set of six exhibitions entitled New airs: Pontal reinvented. One is long-term and the other five are temporary. In the Devotions exhibition, dedicated to the diversity of expressions of faith, there is a special room with nativity scenes. There you can watch an excerpt from the live of singer and composer Caetano Veloso, in December 2020, in which he remembers his childhood Christmases.
Admission to the Pontal Museum is free, or with a voluntary contribution, and can be made at the reception of the cultural space or in advance through the museum's website .
Text translated using artificial intelligence.
