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PerifaCon
PerifaCon, also informally called Comic Con da Favela (Favela Comic Con), is a comic book event held since 2019 in São Paulo with a focus on reaching mainly the public from the outskirts of São Paulo, who are hardly able to participate in large events such as CCXP due to cost and distance. The name PerifaCon merges the terms "Perifa", slang for ''periferia'', and "Con", which refers to comic cons. ''Periferia'' can be literally translated as "suburb", but in Brazilian Portuguese the term is used mainly for the areas of the metropolitan regions with the highest index of poverty and also for the favelas. History The idea for PerifaCon emerged in September 2018 in a group of seven young black people from the ''periferia'': Andreza Delgado, Igor Nogueira, Mateus Ramos, Matheus Polito, Luíze Tavares, Gabrielly Oliveira and Pedro Okuyama. The initial objective was to bring the experience of participating in a comic con to people who don't have access to these kind of event. After ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Favela
Favela () is an umbrella name for several types of working-class neighborhoods in Brazil. The term was first used in the Providência neighborhood in the center of Rio de Janeiro in the late 19th century, which was built by soldiers who had lived under the favela trees in Bahia and had nowhere to live following the Canudos War. Some of the first settlements were called ''bairros africanos'' (African neighborhoods). Over the years, many former enslaved Africans moved in. Even before the first favela came into being, poor citizens were pushed away from the city and forced to live in the far suburbs. Most modern favelas appeared in the 1970s due to rural exodus, when many people left rural areas of Brazil and moved to cities. Unable to find places to live, many people found themselves in favelas. Census data released in December 2011 by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) showed that in 2010, about 6 percent of the Brazilian population lived in favelas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
