Well as with the way most things are going on this blog, I was supposed to post about this ages ago. A friend and I visited South Bank to see what the haps was before I ventured to North Africa, therefore what has stopped me from uploading these pics over the past month is any body's guess.
I missed most of the events included in the Brazil Festival due to being away for that month but fortunately I was still able to witness the progress of this little work of art. If coloured bricks mounted on sand seems a little confusing to you then allow me to explain. Well actually lets allow the good people at Project Morrinho, who run the making of these vibrant installations, to explain:
"Project Morrinho is a social and cultural project based out of the Pereira da Silva favela in the wealthy Southern Zone of Rio de Janeiro. Our aim is to bring positive change to our local community, as well as challenge the popular perception of Brazil’s favelas. The belief that favelas are merely dominated by drug trafficking and violence is not all encompassing. Through our work within Brazil and abroad, it is our hope to improved popular perception of all favelas."
The project it's self is usually encourages the involvement of local Favela residents. Therefore for this special London edition not only were kids from the Favelas of Rio De Janeiro involved but also children from an estate in Lambeth South London. It may seem strange at first, the fact that third world bricks (haha sorry I call orange bricks with 4 or 6 square wholes in 'third world bricks,' they're stacked up everywhere in developing Tunisia and not to my surprise i saw them all over south America too) are crakced and coloured in order to create something that vaguely resembles a Favela. Though for anyone who's actually seen a Favela, these huge models do bear an uncanny resemblance to the real thing. Here's a couple of shots of past projects:
Me and Sag headed down to check out the action way before a certain magazine reported on this. Nah I'm playing, Jungle Drums is one of my favourite magazines, check it out for all-round dope info on all that's Brasilian in London. Here's a few flicks of our day checking out the progress...
Sag can read.
At the climax of all this brick-laying there was to be a brick-giving-away bonanza on September 5th. Peep what happened there in the next post.
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