By The Rio Times | Created at 2026-09-28 12:31:42 | Updated at 2026-09-28 15:55:08
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São Paulo · Nightlife
If You Only Go to One Place
Nua e Crua, the Last Night of a September Season
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The artist Sandra-X closes her September residency at the Centro da Terra with guitar, electronics, poetry and dance. The show starts at 8 p.m. in a hundred-seat theatre twelve metres below the street.
Tonight at a Glance
- —Nua e Crua · Centro da Terra The final night of the Sandra-X season, at 8 p.m.
- —The line-up Jovem Palerosi on guitar and electronics, with five poets and two dance performers.
- —A small room The theatre seats 100 people, so buy before you travel.
- —Tickets Sold through Sympla. The venue’s programme lists no price.
- —Blue Note · closed The jazz club rests on Monday and returns tomorrow at 8 p.m.
- —Tim Maia’s birthday The Rio-born soul singer was born on this date in 1942.
Tonight, Monday 28 September 2026, Blue Note and Canto da Ema are closed, and one small theatre closes its season. All times below are São Paulo time, four hours behind London.
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What’s On Tonight
The Centro da Terra lists tonight as Nua e Crua, the last date in the season Sandra-X: Coexistência. The venue’s own programme gives 8 p.m.
Jovem Palerosi plays guitar and electronics for a sequence of spoken performances. The voices are Angela Quinto, Daniel Minchoni, Diogo Cardoso, Eveline Sin and Heloísa Abdalla.
Janette Santiago and Fredyson Cunha add a piece combining dance, embroidery and poetry. It is a mixed-media evening rather than a concert.
The venue describes Sandra-X as an artist who has always worked collectively. Across four dates this month she brought in a different set of collaborators each time.
The venue sells tickets through Sympla, and its own programme lists no price for tonight. Half-price rates go to students, older people, disabled people, young people with an ID Jovem card and public-school teachers.
A Theatre Below the Street
The Centro da Terra’s theatre sits twelve metres below street level, in the fourth and fifth basements of a building in Sumaré. It opened on 3 September 2001, after ten years of works and excavation.
Its name comes from that underground position and honours Viagem ao Centro da Terra, a 1992 production by the Kompanhia do Centro da Terra. A terrace at the top of the building hosts yoga classes.
The venue calls itself an independent, non-profit cultural space. Its curators programme contemporary music, theatre, dance and performance.
That shapes the evening. This is a listening room for new work, and the audience comes to hear it rather than to talk over it.
What Comes Next Here
With tonight, the September season ends. August belonged to Sara Não Tem Nome, and September to Sandra-X.
The room is busy again tomorrow, when Oruã marks ten years with a show at 8 p.m. A new music series, Juper: Em Caráter Experimental, begins on Monday 5 October.
So tonight closes one series rather than the room. Anyone who misses Sandra-X can still see the theatre in use tomorrow.
What Is Closed Tonight
Blue Note São Paulo has no show tonight. Its published hours leave out Monday, and its next show is on Tuesday, when André Prando plays “Iririu” at 8 p.m.
Canto da Ema, the forró house in Pinheiros, starts its week on Wednesday. Forró is a couples dance from Brazil’s northeast, and the floor reopens then.
Where to Go
Centro da Terra — Sumaré
An independent, non-profit cultural space with a 100-seat theatre below street level. It programmes contemporary music, theatre, dance and performance.
- TonightNua e Crua, the final Sandra-X Monday, at 8 p.m.
- Line-upJovem Palerosi, five poets, and a dance and embroidery piece.
- TicketsThrough Sympla. The programme lists no price.
- CapacityAbout 100 seats, so buy before you travel.
- AddressRua Piracuama 19, in Sumaré.
Money and How Paying Works
The venue’s programme lists no price; Sympla shows the rates at checkout. For reference, the Banco Central’s latest PTAX rate, for Friday 25 September, is R$5.1991 to the US dollar.
The venue also sells a supporter ticket to registered backers, who give monthly or through the state’s Nota Fiscal Paulista scheme. Registration comes first, so it will not help a first visit.
Cafés and restaurants usually add a service charge of about 10 per cent, called serviço. Brazilian law makes it optional, and staff remove it if you ask.
What This Means for Your Evening
If you want live performance in São Paulo on a Monday, this is a confirmed option. It is small, it starts early, and it is new work rather than a covers night.
Poetry and dance make it less of a gig and more of an event. Come expecting to listen rather than to dance.
If that is not your evening, the jazz club returns tomorrow. Monday here rewards the curious more than the cautious.
Getting Home Safe
A show starting at 8 p.m. should finish well before the metro closes at midnight. Check the last train for your own line on the Metrô or ViaQuatro sites.
Sumaré is residential, and its side streets are quiet after dark. Book a rideshare from the venue rather than walking to find one.
Keep your phone in a pocket while you wait. On weekdays the metro closes at midnight.
Canto da Ema reopens on Wednesday. Blue Note returns tomorrow at 8 p.m. with André Prando.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is on at the Centro da Terra tonight?
Nua e Crua, the final night of the Sandra-X season. It combines guitar, electronics, poetry and dance, and starts at 8 p.m.
How much are tickets?
Tickets are sold on Sympla, and the programme lists no price for tonight. Half-price rates go to students, older people, disabled people, young people with an ID Jovem card and public-school teachers.
Is Blue Note open tonight?
No, the club has no show on Monday. It returns tomorrow with André Prando at 8 p.m.
When is the next show at the Centro da Terra?
Tomorrow, Tuesday 29 September, when Oruã marks ten years with a show at 8 p.m. A new music series, Juper: Em Caráter Experimental, begins on Monday 5 October.
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