General Record

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Arruaça is a collective that has been organizing street parties in Porto Alegre since 2014. Its diverse membership totals 15 members, including DJs, visual artists, and cultural producers. It is part of a national network of street party collectives and has played a fundamental role in reshaping the electronic music scene and occupying public spaces in Porto Alegre, contributing to the revival of the values of dancefloor culture and the political role of the dance floor.

In addition to producing street parties, the collective participates in the debate on the right to leisure and the city, and affirms the festival as a political action, a living, collective work of art that condenses diverse languages, such as music, dance, performance, and visual and visual arts, transcending these segmentations into an immersive experience. With this perspective, Arruaça has already organized 53 activities, including parties, debates, film screenings, participation in festivals, and actions in defense of culture and housing, in Porto Alegre, Florianópolis, São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, and Belo Horizonte, with several editions attracting over 1,000 people.

The collective is autonomous, horizontal, and nonprofit. Some of its activities were clandestine, mainly due to the lack of dialogue on the part of government officials. In 2019, the city government had to regulate events, which partially altered the events: parties, which once occupied the cities' early morning hours, now take place during the day, radically transforming the urban landscape.

From planning, execution, financing, and coordination with partners, other actors, and the public itself, the collective divides tasks among its members and invites attendees to actively participate, particularly in areas such as safety, cleanliness, and financing. It also forges alliances with street vendors, waste pickers, homeless people, and sound, infrastructure, and security service providers. Beyond material labor, street parties produce social capital and immaterial labor, creating images, audio, videos, and texts that populate the internet and social media with infinite gigabytes of data.

Arruaça has partnered with brands and arts and culture institutions. In 2016, it was commissioned by Galeria Ecarta as part of the exhibition The Dance Party, as well as featured in the documentary "Ruas em Transe" (Streets in Trance), broadcast on Canal Brasil. The theme of the festival and the city has been addressed in academic works in the fields of psychology, anthropology, sociology, arts, and humanities in general, and the work of Coletivo Arruaça is featured in numerous articles and dissertations, with publications by members and other researchers addressing the political power of street parties.