Babado Forte cycle continues at the CCVM with lectures about the queer scene

03 to 04 October 2023 to 19:30

The Vale Maranhão Cultural Center will begin the month of October with the second round of lectures from the Babado Forte Cycle. The theme this time will be the Queer Scene.

The first lecture will take place on Tuesday, 3, at 19:30 and has as its theme 25 years of queer nightlife in São Paulo and will be presented by Lufe Steffen. The researcher will comment on the process of reviewing the most important things that happened in São Paulo’s LGBTQIA+ nightlife in the last 25 years, and how this dive continued the research carried out previously for his documentaries, São Paulo in Hi-Fi (2016), which portrays the queer night of São Paulo in the 1960s, 70s and 80s, and A Volta da Pauliceia Desvairada (2012), centered on the beginning of the 2010s. The program will include the screening of São Paulo on Hi-Fi.

Lufe Steffen is a filmmaker, journalist and writer, author of the book-reportage Bring the Dancing Horses (2008) and The Cinema That Dares to Say Your Name (2016). His best-known works are short and feature films that address the LGBTQIA+ theme.

The lecture on the 4th, also at 19:30pm, will include research on the Ludovicense night. The open conversation “Night Scene, a Breach” will be led by Rafael Ricarte and provides an overview of LGBTQIAP+ spaces from the 2000s to today and how they paved the way for nighttime parties that take place in the capital of Maranhão, bringing to light guidelines on visibility and conservatism and allowing the transit of bodies and voices absent in daylight.

Designer and researcher, Rafael Ricarte has a master’s degree from the Federal University of Maranhão (UFMA) and a PhD student from PUC Rio, with the research “WHY TALK ABOUT TRANS BODIES? Experiences in participatory design for the construction of educational material”.

About the Babado Forte Cycle

On the eve of the 25th anniversary of the release of the book Babado Forte (1999), the author Erika Palomino brought together, in partnership with the CCVM, a research team composed of professionals from different backgrounds and territories to think about music, behavior and fashion based on the book, expanding the spectrum of publication to the present day and beyond the Southeastern axis, including capitals such as São Luís, Belém, Recife, Fortaleza, Salvador and the south of the country. The BABADO FORTE cycle aims to bring to the CCVM audience news and transformations in Brazilian youth and in their productions, from the 2000s to now, sharing research on how the revivalism of the 90s still reverberates.

All CCVM programming is free of charge. The Vale Maranhão Cultural Center is located at Rua Direita, 149, in the Historic Center of São Luís.