Projeto Queto, Sampaio In 2006, the founder and leader of Nação, Francisco da Silva, first expressed his long-time dream to start a graffiti project in the neighbourhood where he grew up Sampaio, in the north zone of Rio de Janeiro. He had been working as a graffiti teacher in other favelas for many years, but felt he never made a contribution to his own people.
Wesley Denilio from Rio de Janeiro In 2004, as part of one of our exchange programs, we invited Wesley Denílio, a young rapper and talented filmmaker from the favela Acarí in Rio de Janeiro, together with his rap companion Mano P Black and their DJ and 2 graffiti writers from Nação, to the Netherlands.
Favela Soccer Competition, Sampaio In the favelas of Sampaio, Matriz and São João, until 2006 only a neglected, run down soccer field existed. At the urgent request of the locals of Sampaio, Caramundo assisted in the lobbying for, and implementation of, an action plan to upgrade the soccer field and the abandoned swimming pool of the sports centre of the area.
MiCamichula MiCamichula is a Dutch non-profit organization and close partner of Caramundo that provides workshops that teach young people how to create their own t-shirts using photography, graphic design and silkscreen printing. MiCamichula is responsible for the silk screen workshops in Rio de Janeiro.
Wesley Denilio from Rio de Janeiro
In 2004, as part of one of our exchange programs, we invited Wesley Denílio, a young rapper and talented filmmaker from the favela Acarí in Rio de Janeiro, together with his rap companion Mano P Black and their DJ and 2 graffiti writers from Nação, to the Netherlands.
During a month, the group worked together with a group of rappers and graffiti writers from the city of Rotterdam. They recorded music and were invited to paint murals in several of the larger cities in the Netherlands.
During his stay in the Netherlands, Wesley established a network of contacts that would later serve him in establishing his educational projects.
In 2007 Wesley won a scholarship for the Film Academy of Estácio in Rio de Janeiro. We introduced Wesley to the Dutch broadcasting company VPRO, in connection with its new Dutch TV program Metropolis TV. The VPRO hired Wesley as a reporter. The Metropolis network is a worldwide collective of video journalists and filmmakers and works with over 50 filmmakers from different parts of the world.
Wesley was able, to establish a hip-hop-house in his favela. He was founder the educative project Quinto Elemento: Consciência. In both these projects he uses hip-hop as a “tool” to stimulate information
Together with his partner Deley de Acari, Wesley selects and supports talented kids in attending Pré-Vestibular courses that allow these kids to attend the federal university free of charge.
You can watch Wesley’s videos on www.metropolistv.nl
