Our correspondent Natalie Brunner wrote us this news bulletin from Rio yesterday:

Thanks to the kindness of DJ Sany Pitbull I was able to take a pre-look at the exhibition “Funk-Se” (”Funk You”). “Funk-Se” includes a series of events focusing on fourty years of Funk Culture in Rio de Janeiro. The exihibition is taking place in “OI Future Nave”, a school and cultural space in Tijuca, in the zona norte of Rio. The hallways of the places are decorated with flyers of Bailes from the 1970ies.
On display amongst other are excerpts from the movie Favela on Blast, a how -to –play- the MPC video featuring DJ Cabide and photographs by Dani Dacorso who did the covers of Daniel Haaksman´s compilation “Rio Baile Funk More Favela Booty Beats” amongst others. While I was checking out DaCorso´s work, a group of 12 year old school girls stormed the not yet open exhibition and started a lively discussion about the tits of Mulher Melancia, a well known funk artist displayed in the exhibition.

Funk-Se opens on the 7th of July and closes on the Saturday the 11th with a Funk Battle in Lapa. For all those who won´t make it to Rio in the next few days, the exihibition is very well documented online and most of the works can be seen online as well.

More infos on the exhibition here: Funk-Se

Tags: Funk Se, Rio De Janeiro, Sany Pitbill

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