[Nettime-bold] Maracatu Leão Coroado

["h.d.mabuse" <mabuse@cesar.org.br>]

We are proud to announce the launching of the Maracatu Leão Coroado’s 
Project! Please read the release below. For further information, don’t 
hesitate in contacting us.
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Maracatu Leão Coroado
leaocoroado@ig.com.br

h.d. mabuse (mabuse@manguebit.org.br )
Sérgio Angelim (saos@cesar.org.br)


Recife. Estuary city, built over land reclaimed from the sea, originally 
mangrove swamps. Since the last decade, some of the richer aesthetic, 
cultural, and technological experiences in Brazil have been sprouting from 
this fertile soil.

November 7th, 2001 marked the start of an experience without precedents in 
the country, involving technology, culture and history.

The agent of this experience is the Maracatu Leão Coroado. Founded in 1863, 
it is one of the oldest maracatu nations in Brazil, being nowadays the most 
traditional in Pernambuco. The stage is Águas Compridas, a poor community 
in Olinda  another main city in Recife’s metropolitan region.
The project, which combines tradition with new communication technologies, 
took off on November 7th, when Maracatu Leão Coroado unveiled its official 
website (www.leaocoroado.org.br). The site’s main goals are acting as a 
communication link between Águas Compridas and the world; being a reference 
for maracatu studies on the internet, having the most complete and accurate 
content on the topic on the web today; being an open space not only for 
other maracatus but also for any other cultural entity in the region.

The experience is an initiative of Maracatu Leão Coroado and friends, and 
is supported by strategic technological organizations in Recife: NEWStorm, 
which developed Notitia, a web publishing tool that allows users without 
technical knowledge to produce and maintain content on the internet; 
C.E.S.A.R  the Recife Center for Advanced Studies and Systems  which, since 
its foundation, in 1996, has been a technological partner in many social 
and cultural projects in Pernambuco; CDI  the Committee for Informatics 
Democratization  which is helping the community create an EIC (Escola de 
Informática e Cidadania  Informatics and Citizenship School) in Águas 
Compridas.

In a second moment, foreseen for the end of December, there will be the 
inauguration of the EIC, which will give the tools for the community to 
maintain and evolve the website by themselves, and the launching of Águas 
Compridas’ online periodical. Another milestone in this phase will be the 
start of the construction of Maracatu Leão Coroado’s headquarters (Casa 
Luís de França).

In a third moment, expected for the second semester of 2002, Leão Coroado’s 
headquarters will be inaugurated and the process of creating new cultural 
and technological multipliers and leaders within Águas Compridas and 
surroundings will be in full speed.

Thinking globally and acting locally, Maracatu Leão Coroado intends to 
create an environment where most of the community needs are taken care of 
by themselves. This will be achieved through the social organization, based 
on its headquarters in Águas Compridas, and with the technological tools at 
hand. Within this scenario there are countless possibilities: 
professionalizing courses; communitarian radios; workshops on art, music, 
and science; electronic art, digital recording studios. For the community, 
the website is just the beginning.


www.leaocoroado.org.br/imprensa
Press-release, photos, music and wallpapers

www.leaocoroado.org.br
Maracatu Leão Coroado’s website

Support:

www.newstorm.com.br
Newstorm, developer of Notitia.

www.notitia.com.br
Web content publishing software.

www.cesar.org.br
Centro de Estudos e Sistemas Avançados do Recife
(Recife Center for Advanced Studies and Systems)

www.cdi.org.br
www.cdi-pe.org.br
Comitê para a Democratização da Informática
(Committee for Informatics Democratization)

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