O Quilombo de Candeia: um teto para todos os sambistas

The aim of this study is to reflect on how the cultural initiatives can assert identities and bring new proposals and innovations to social and cultural projects. To achieve this goal I took as study object the Grêmio Recreativo Arte Negra Escola de Samba Quilombo (GRANES Quilombo). Analysing its creation, from 1975 to 1978, I observed how Quilombo represented itself, witch symbolic aspects were used in its words, what were the social relations between its participants, who built a large sociability network in Rio de Janeiro. Quilombo was connected to samba schools universe and to samba and its speeches talked about 'black art', 'Brazilian culture', samba, national identity and tradition.