Sao Paulo is putting nearly 62 million reais into 12 culture grants, treating theatre, samba and forro as a creative economy that creates jobs.
Key Facts
—The money. São Paulo opened 12 cultural grants worth R$61.7m (about $12m), per the city culture department.
—The framing. The funder is the Department of Culture and Creative Economy, treating art as a job-creating sector.
—The forms. Calls cover theatre, dance, music, circus, samba, forró, reggae and rastafari, community radio and Black culture.
—The veterans. The package includes the 47th theatre fund, the 40th dance fund and the 23rd round of the VAI youth-arts program.
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