Instituto Wark: Graffiti in Rocinha
Channel: RioOnWatchTV
Date: 28/06/2012

This video was shot in Favela da Rocinha, Brazil's largest favela. Wark Rocinha, whose graffiti works sell for large sums of money, is the founder of Instituto Wark, which teaches youth in favelas to embrace graffiti as a form of culture.

I've had the privilege of following Wark and his students around in Rocinha, so I got to see first-hand how social and important graffiti actually is to the favelas.  This is an interview with Wark himself and some of his students.

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