Free Hip Hop Immersion Day Closes TRAM4U's 2026 Public Program in Ceilândia

Casa do Hip Hop DJ Jamaika in Ceilândia will hold a free hip hop immersion this Thursday, December 12, from 9 a.m. to noon, closing the public program of the TRAM4U project for 2026.

The event marks World Hip Hop Day with workshops in five disciplines: graffiti, rhyming, DJing, breaking and urban fashion. Registration takes place in advance through the venue's social media channels.

Around 80 students from a local public school have already confirmed attendance. Their teachers organized the visit to bring the young people closer to cultural expressions rooted in their own community, encouraging a sense of belonging and showing career paths through art.

What does the day include?

Beyond the workshops, the program features the exhibition "Álibi: Uma Homenagem" ("Álibi: A Tribute") by visual artist and graffiti writer Elom. The show displays canvases and panels dedicated to the group Álibi.

Two figures sit at the center of the tribute: Rivas, co-founder of the Casa do Hip Hop de Ceilândia, who died in July, and his brother DJ Jamaika, after whom the venue is named.

Where did TRAM4U come from?

The project launched in September during a festival at JK Shopping. It gathers training initiatives and actions promoting the creative economy, and it grew directly out of the Casa do Hip Hop de Ceilândia's own experience working in the periphery.

Jane Alves, co-creator of TRAM4U, framed hip hop as more than performance. She said hip hop is a powerful tool to transform realities, educate and generate income for youth in the periphery. In her reading, the students' confirmed attendance proves the point: urban culture, she argued, is itself a space of learning and representation.

What does this change for Ceilândia's youth?

The concrete answer lies in the numbers and the format. Eighty students spending a school morning inside a cultural institution they can walk to is a different proposition than a one-off show. The workshops promise practical skills — DJing, graffiti, fashion — that map onto the creative economy TRAM4U says it wants to build.

The caveat: Thursday's event closes the project's open-to-the-public calendar for 2026. The source does not say what TRAM4U has scheduled for 2027, how the immersion will be followed up, or how many of the 80 students will have access to continued training. One morning can introduce possibilities; it cannot sustain them.

The exhibition "Álibi: Uma Homenagem," meanwhile, gives the community a public moment of mourning and recognition for Rivas, whose death in July left the movement he co-founded without one of its founders.

For now, the Casa do Hip Hop DJ Jamaika has set a date and opened its doors free of charge — a small, testable claim of what culture can do when it stays in the neighborhood that produced it.