The first time I entered Casa do Povo was in 2011. As an editor of a Jewish magazine at the time, I wanted to interview figures from the former Ashkenazi quarter in downtown São Paulo, Brazil. I had scheduled an interview with the eighty-three-year-old leader of a Yiddish choir called Coral Tradição. It gathered mostly elderly women to sing on Monday nights, in Yiddish, for no one.

On October 12 2023, OtherNetwork hosted an event at PIVÔ, an experimental art space in one of the city’s most iconic modernist buildings, designed by Oscar Niemeyer.