Arts and culture
Suburban Madness Carnival Bloc
Bloco Carnavalesco Loucura Suburbana
Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Rio de Janeiro carnival bloc and cultural centre created in 2001 at the Instituto Municipal Nise da Silveira, bringing mental-health service users, family members, staff and neighbours together for street carnival and, since 2010, year-round workshops in samba, music and costume-making.
- Focus
- Mad Pride and psychiatric survivors
- Leadership
- Mixed leadership
- Where
- In person
- Languages
- Portuguese
- Since
- 2001
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Verified 2026-09-09 from loucurasuburbana.org. Added 2026-09-09 by the editorial team.
Note: Rio's first mental-health Ponto de Cultura (Culture Point), 2010. Located on the same grounds as the Museum of Images of the Unconscious, catalogued separately.
Suggest a correction-22.900, -43.270