Minority Help
Minority Help uses a participative approach of planning and designing for sustainable development of the local Brazilian-American community’s cultural engagement programs, in which different forms of communication, information, engagement methods, and techniques are applied.
Minority Help
Founded in 2005, Minority Help is a community-based nonprofit organization that fosters ethnically sustainable community development and cultural survival strategies by providing assistance, valuable resources, and a wide range of art-based programs and competent services to the Brazilian-American Community of South Florida.
Brazilian roots blended into a folk festival
Minority Help has been hosting folk festivals since 2006. Minority Help has held the Annual Youth Festival and Expo from 2006 until 2009. Minority Help has also coordinated another important community festival in collaboration with the City of Deerfield Beach and the U.S. Census, in 2010. Since 2017, Minority Help has been hosting the Annual Brazilian Folks Festival as part of the B.R.A.C.E. project. The Brazilian Folks Festival is of huge importance to the local Brazilian community for its mutual contributions to the local Brazilian talents, enhancement of community engagement as well as the celebration of Brazil’s heritage.
Minority Help’s programs help the community to build knowledge and competence, protect rights, bring hope, and restore dignity. Minority Help survives from the fundamental help of volunteers. Minority Help has a long history of collaborative efforts to assist community members with free or low cost community services such as tax preparation, vocational workshops, art-based programs, community events and festivals, and more.
“We hope to integrate the Brazilian-American community by fostering the art and culture, strengthening the identity and promoting development.”
The B.R.A.C.E. Project ©
Minority Help has been engaged in the implementation of the Brazilian Arts and Cultural Engagement Project (The B.R.A.C.E.) that nourishes the underserved Brazilian-American community to get together as a unit in an attempt to increase cultural awareness and diversity; strengthen the Brazilian cultural vitality locally; sustain and promote cultural development of ethnically specific activities to establish a community identity and maintain arts, folklore, and other expressions of the popular culture of the Brazil; and increase the local youth’s exposure and involvement to the Brazilian Culture throughout a series of cultural events.
The B.R.A.C.E.’s comprehensive programs create opportunities, promote community engagement, improve cultural development of ethnic activities that further the identity and maintain artistic and cultural traditions of local Brazilian-American community. .
The B.R.A.C.E. also promotes cultural awareness and diversity through the process of community placemaking while Brazilians celebrate their heritage within welcoming city boundaries, with the participation of local citizens and business. Learn more about some other programs we have to offer!
Brazilian Folks Festival ©
The Brazilian Folks Festival ©
In 2019, Minority Help will be sponsoring the Brazilian Folks Festival Tour. The festival will be visiting major Brazilian communities across the U.S., including Marietta/GA, Boston/MA, Newark/NJ, San Diego/CA, and Pompano Beach/FL. The festival will have live music and dance performances, ethnic food, capoeira show, hands-on workshops, local business exposition, and celebration of the Brazilian arts and cultural heritage. Join us and learn about the exciting Brazilian heritage!
Local Talents
Are you an artist? Do you want to promote your work during our community event? If you are interested in participating in our ongoing or upcoming community events please contact us as soon as possible. We want to hear from you! Join us! We are here to help you!
A lot of fun for all
Live music and dance, cultural performances, Brazilian square dance, capoeira show, artisan marketplace, vendor and food booths, and more
Confirmed Attractions
Raphael Leandro, Fernando Boca Melodia, Israel Tenorio, Peu Pereira, Leo Clark, Juliana Jordao, Abner Anthony & Silvio Lacerda, Elcinho Oliveira, Fatima Giovanini, and more!
Show the world your talents
Você, que tem algum dom artístico, seja na área da música, dança, artes plásticas, poesia, teatro, etc., venha mostrar seu talento no palco aberto do Brazilian Folks Festival! Para participar, inscreva-se abaixo e a equipe da Minority Help entrará em contato:
Que tal tornar seus produtos e(ou) serviços ainda mais conhecidos e vendê-los durante o Brazilian Folks Festival? Inscreva-se pelo formulário abaixo e a equipe da Minority Help entrará em contato:
Quer se tornar ainda mais próximo da Comunidade Brasileira? Sendo doador da Minority Help você ajuda a manter os projetos em educação, cultura, saúde e assistência legal que a ONG desenvolve. Inscreva-se pelo formulário abaixo e a equipe da Minority Help entrará em contato com você
Tem um tempinho sobrando no seu dia para ajudar o próximo? Que tal então participar de um dos projetos da ONG Minority Help? Você pode participar de quantos projetos desejar! Inscreva-se pelo formulário abaixo e a equipe da Minority Help entrará em contato com você
