At the Autumn Festival in Paris, the Casa do Povo electrifies the Maison des métallos

"If we manage to lose control, it's because it will have worked!" exclaims the enthusiastic volunteer Benjamin Seroussi, director of the Casa do Povo in Sao Paulo, an activist space open to otherness, the urgency of struggles, minorities, and marginal aesthetics. This "people's house" was founded in 1946 in the Bom Retiro neighborhood by Jewish anti-fascist associations. A memorial dedicated to the memory of those killed in the Holocaust, the rear base of a radical and politicized counterculture, it has continued to reinvent itself over the years without ever denying its true identity. Anti-fascism and avant-gardism forge its DNA. It is a house with a strong personality whose mission is to dynamite – “activate” , as Benjamin Seroussi explains – the multiple spaces of the Maison des métallos in Paris in September, as part of a carte blanche given by the Festival d’automne.

This prospect enchants the site's director, Alice Vivier, who is ready to push back the walls to make room for the thirty Brazilians expected starting September 13th for a wild opening day with workshops, a screening, and a DJ set. "This temporary occupation project resonates with the history of the Steelworkers. We share a certain idea of ​​struggle and a shared commitment to alternative cultures."

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