Cindy Campbell is the woman who inspired the Cindy’s Sisters project. Unknown to the general public or overshadowed by her brother’s name, she is nicknamed the first lady of hip-hop. But she’s actually the mother of this culture.
It was she who thought up and organised the party that today celebrates the birth of hip-hop – a back-to-school jam on 11 August 1973. Cindy’s Sisters aims to be a space for the programming, discussion and empowerment of women in hip-hop, showing that it is possible to build a diverse proposal, generationally and geographically, covering the four strands of this culture, entirely as women.
Curator: Sara Sofia Gonçalves
Production: Ana Duarte/ Communication design: Bruta/ Production support: Capivara Azul – Associação Cultural/ Support: Braga City Council; Braga City Council Civil Protection Division/ Partners: She Raps; Associação Parretas Team; Associação de Moradores das Andorinhas; Portugal Slam; First Steps Festival / Media partner: Hip Hop Radio
Cindy’s Sisters is part of Braga 25 Portuguese Capital of Culture as part of the Todo-o-Terreno programme
Seeking to support and contribute to the flourishing of a greater number of independent cultural initiatives in the city of Braga, the Todo-o-Terreno programme aims to support projects that envisage a proposal for regular artistic programming in venues in the municipality of Braga throughout the year 2025.
From June 19 to September 12, 2024, this programme’s call for projects took place in the following artistic areas: Music, Visual Arts, Literature, Speech and Thought, Performing Arts and Cinema and Moving Image. The call received a total of 46 applications, which were assessed by a jury made up of Elisabete Paiva, artistic director of Materiais Diversos; Marta Bernardes, coordinator of the education and cultural mediation service of the museums and libraries of the City of Porto and Luís Sousa Ferreira, deputy artistic director of TNDMII. Eight projects proposed by the city’s cultural agents were selected to form part of the official programme of the Portuguese Capital of Culture.