BRAZILIAN performance art collective AfroReggae is visiting Liverpool this summer to work with young people.
The group, which runs a continuous programme of outreach work in five of Rio’s largest and most violent slum towns, is spending a month in the city aiming to bridge different cultures and promote social justice through art and education.
The young people taking part in workshops are trained to become leaders within their own communities as much as they are encouraged to become artists.
At 3.30pm on Saturday, the newly-formed Liverpool AfroReggae Group will perform with their Brazilian mentors in front of the Playhouse, in Williamson Square, after two weeks of drumming, dance and circus workshops.
Roger Morris, from the Liverpool Samba School, who is working on the project, says: “We’re shadowing some of the workshops AfroReggae is doing because we’re going to carry on the work. We already have a relationship with samba schools in Rio and have performed in the Rio Carnival.”
AfroReggae is being brought to the city by Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse Theatres in partnership with Liverpool PCT and Liverpool City Council.
