Project title: Favelakabaret Token to boost creative community
one liner purpose: Creation of an event that will showcase and support local economy of non-normative & transgender creators, designers & performers
Projeto DAO: Social Token DAO
Challenge area: propose your own challenge
Project members:
*Jo Kalagary (kalagary.near)
*JulianaM (jmm.near)
Summary:
We intend to create a seasonal series of events to host and support creatives of all kinds that will include art market, talks about contemporary social issues, talks about blockchain integration, concerts, poetry slams, bar and NFTs Fashion show. Favelakabaret will have a strong educational and social focus, and we would like to promote debate across different communities. This event will happen in different venues and neighbourhoods in Lisbon in order to grasp all kinds of backgrounds.
goals:
_ support creatives
_integrate different communities in the same economic model
_boost collaborations between different agents
_integrate non-normative & transgender individuals in the NEAR ecosystem
_try new ways of rewarding participation
_promote autonomous exchanges and artistic creation
Additional Section
Jo Kalagary (1987) is a Brazilian artist and cultural producer, now based in Lisbon. The artist’s been working in cultural production, events idealization and artistic presentations for a long time, including Favela LX that once was a bar and a performance venue that promoted diversity and representativity.
Favela Lx also promoted open talks and a stage for minorities to have a voice in a collaborative way, touching on issues such as racism, xenophobia, LGBTQphobia and misogyny. In 2018, Favela LX has closed the physical space due to financial struggle and gentrification but the project has survived and it is bearing fruits and collaborations.
As an artist Kalagary is interested in addressing the black body and the African diaspora in his works of performance, collage, painting and installation. For the context of the residency, Jo intends to create a series of NFTs and a physical installation about ancestry and African spiritual concepts.
