To find your way to Blooming in Rio, connect with Muda Outras Economias! A booster network that encourages cultural, educational, and socio-environmental projects, by experimenting with other economies based on joy and abundance. We are a virtual community initiated by a group of artists, teachers, cultural makers, social entrepreneurs, surfers, hackers, producers, and dreamers in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. We’ve created our own non-convertible currency (MUDAs), on a blockchain platform hosted by Cambiatus, where we exchange goods, products, and services. Creating a chain of mutual collaboration and strengthening, and each transaction becomes a political act for monetary reform. Our community works through trust, care, justice, and freedom.
Muda is a social currency project that launched in December 2019 a digital platform where we allow our members to claim our currency for their socioenvironmental actions and trade it for products and services in our marketplace. It's a non-convertible currency designed to stimulate the local economy and support cultural, educational, and environmental initiatives.
For the 4th year, we celebrated our work and existence with a festival called 'Celebra Muda' in which we invite our partners and network members to celebrate life, connect with peers, expand our understanding of alternative economies, share our riches, cultivate new forms of cooperation, and renew our energy to keep moving forward. In this spirit, we are pleased to share the outcomes of the fourth edition of the Celebra MUDA Festival – Rio de Janeiro 2025.
Celebra MUDA is a collective endeavor, built through the confluence of artists, agroforesters, educators, naturopaths, social economists, surfers, and so many other people who make art and life a celebration. An encounter of arts linked to playful and festive ways of living. A political and affective act.
“To celebrate is to exist. And to exist is to resist.”
On our fifth day of celebrations, it was time to gather artists from our network in our Celebra Muda Cabaret, which is not just a spectacle, but a territory of political imagination. It's where bodies assert themselves, where art sustains life, where the collective invents other ways of being in the world.
We celebrated artists who make the stage an act of insurgency, beauty, and cultivation—because creating is also regenerating. In 2025, those who lit up the stage:
Bruno Carneiro • Cia Urbana de Dança • Fábio Freitas • Grupo Pedras de Teatro • João Carlos Artigos • Jovi Maia • Lemon-Tilt • Nat Monisum
It's a party, a celebration! It's a moment to vibrate, to be moved, and to create other realities filled with incredible numbers, coming from talents who gather to renew our hope in the mobilizing force of the art of encounter. At the Celebra Muda Cabaret, the stage became a forest, creation became a seed, and laughter became strength to continue.
At the Celebra Muda Cabaret, the scene pulsated with life: dance, theater, music, poetry, improvisation, laughter, and enchantment.
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