Eventos Guide to Brazilian Events in London and the UK

The Eventos Guide to Brazilian Events in London and the UK
Eventos Archives - January 2007

Day	Time	JANUARY 2007	Price	Details

Wed 03 Qua	22:00 - 22:30	Tom Jobim: The Man from Ipanema A tribute to the music of Antonio Carlos Jobim BBC Radio Two
Fri 05 Sex	01:05	Film: City of God (2004) SC4 TV Cidade de Deus		more
Fri 05 Sex	18:00 - 19:00	Carmen Miranda: Beneath the Tutti Frutti Hat Celebrating the life of Carmen Miranda BBC Four Television
Sat 06 Sab		Carmen Miranda: Beneath the Tutti Frutti Hat Celebrating the life of Carmen Miranda BBC Four Television
Sat 06 Sab	19:30 - 20:00	Walks with An Architect: Rio Architects examine the ever-changing architectural skyline of Rio Artsworld TV
Tue 09 Ter	02:35 - 03:00	Planet Food: Brazil The philosophies and techniques of Brazilian cuisine BBC1 TV		more
Tue 09 Ter	19:55 - 20:00	I Am Amazon: The Bus Driver Second of four films about everyday life in the Amazon Channel 4 TV		more
Wed 10 Qua	22:00 - 22:30	The Man from Ipanema BBC2 TV The life and music of Antonio Carlos Jobim		more
Thu 11 Qui	19:55 - 20:00	I am Amazon: The Champion Last of four films about everyday life in the Amazon Channel 4 TV		more
Fri 12 Sex	14:00 - 15:50	Bahia of All The Saints Artsworld Documentary about Bahia Todos los Santos		more
Sat 13 Sab	10:30 - 12:30	Brazilian Portuguese classes for children Brazilian Ed. And Cult. Centre Twickenham
Sun 14 Dom	02:00 - 03:00	Drama: A Land to Die For The story of Josimo, a campaigning Priest BBC World Service Radio		more
Mon 15 Seg	18:30 - 20:30	Course: Brazilian Portuguese Beginners Level 2 Canning House
Mon 15 Seg	21:00 - 23:30	Chorinho at Guanabara Live chorinho music with Agua de Choro Guanabara London WC2
Tue 16 Ter	12:00 - 14:00	Brazilian Chamber of Commerce Luncheon Speaker: Margaret Beckett MP, Secretary of State Jolly Hotel London SW1
Tue 16 Ter	17:00 - 18:30	Challenges facing the Second Lula Government Seminar chaired by Dr Leslie Bethell Centre for Brazilian Studies Oxford
Tue 16 Ter	19:00 - 20:00	Brazil - Saving The Tamarin. Documentary with Jeff Corwin Discovery Channel		more
Wed 17 Qua	13:00 - 13:30	Property hunting in Buzios, Brazil BBC2 TV		more
Wed 17 Qua	22:00 - 22:30	The Man from Ipanema (Part 3 of 3) BBC2 TV The life and music of Antonio Carlos Jobim		more
Thu 18 Qui	18:30 - 20:30	Course: Brazilian Portuguese Lower Intermediate Canning House
Thu 18 Qui	18:30 - 20:30	Course: Brazilian Portuguese Beginners Canning House
Thu 18 Qui	19:15	Film: Lower City BCA Cine Club London W4	£ 3.50	more
Fri 19 Sex	12:00 - 18:00	Agudás, the Brazilians of Benin Exhibition of photographs by Milton Guran Gallery 32 London W1K
Tue 23 Ter	17:00 - 18:30	Inequality and the limits of the rule of law in Brazil Seminar chaired by Dr Oscar Vilhena Vieira Centre for Brazilian Studies Oxford
Tue 23 Ter	20:00 - 21:00	The World's Most Powerful Dam Documentary about Brazil's Itaipu Dam National Geographical Channel
Wed 24 Qua	12:00 - 23:30	Mocoto Restaurante e Bar opens Mocoto Restaurant London SW1
Wed 24 Qua	19:00 - 21:00	Favelas: is there a solution? Case study of a Salvador slum Alexandre Frediani, Dept of Planning, Oxford Brookes University BCA Cine Club London W4	£ 3.50	more
Thu 25 Qui	02:00 - 04:00	Cibelle in session DJ Gilles Peterson's morning programme BBC Radio 1
Thu 25 Qui	19:00 - 21:00	The Rise of Pentecostalism in Latin America Lecture by David Lehmann, CLAS Cambridge Canning House		more
Thu 25 Qui	19:15	Film: Favela Rising BCA Cine Club London W4	£ 3.50	more
Sat 27 Sab	17:00	Film: The Trespasser BCA Cine Club London W4	£ 3.50	more
Sat 27 Sab	20:40	Film: Behind The Sun (2001) BBC Four TV Abril Despedaçado		more
Tue 30 Ter	17:00 - 18:30	Technological catch-up and Brazil's place in the global economy Seminar chaired by Dr Edmund Amman Centre for Brazilian Studies Oxford
Wed 31 Qua	03:50 - 04:15	Brazil: When Foods Collide Discovery Travel & Living		more
Wed 31 Qua	17:00 - 18:30	Lecture: Suspended Animation: The Mystery of Bossa Nova Kings Coll. Dept of Portugese London WC2
Wed 31 Qua	18:00 - 19:30	Kissinger's Experiment: Devolution and Brazil (1969-1971) Lecture by Mathias Spektor, LSE Cold War Studies Centre London School Of Economics London WC2
Wed 31 Qua	22:00 - 23:00	Documentary: The New Heroes A Brazilian cowboy brings electricity to the masses Community Channel		more
FOOTNOTES
	1 Film: Fernando Meirelles' award-winning film centres on the poor of Rio de Janeiro and the armed gangs who run riot, seen through the eyes and camera of Rocket. Rocket escapes the influence of Li'l Z�, who goes on to become the area's godfather. Over two decades, Rocket witnesses the rise of his peers from children to men and the escalation of the violence as he, distanced but emotionally involved, charts their lives. Director: Fernando Meirelles, K�tia Lund. Starring: Alexandre Rodrigues, Leandro Firmino, Phellipe Haagensen, Douglas Silva, Jonathan Haagensen, Matheus Nachtergaele (2004)
	2 Series in which a top chef goes on a global culinary adventure, meeting knowledgeable and entertaining characters who initiate them into the philosophies and techniques behind the local diet and customs. In Brazil, Merrilees Parker helps offer food to the Candomble Gods before filling up on sweet street food and being swept along by the infectious energy of street drummers. She ends her Brazilian experience with beach food and the national Saturday dish, Feijoada.
	3 Second of four films about everyday life in the Amazon region of Brazil, about four ordinary people living in an extraordinary place. In the most deforested area of the Amazon region, a school bus winds its way along dirt tracks in the morning light. Vanderlei leaves his home at 4am, taking a 60km round trip through the deforested land of Rondonia to collect local children on their way to school.
	4 Guy Barker presents a journey into the life, music and worldwide legacy of Antonio Carlos Jobim, regarded as the George Gershwin of Brazil and one of the most influential composers of the 20th century. He plays music from every era of Jobim's career, from his film scores to the many beautiful albums on which he played guitar and piano and sang. Including tributes from collaborator Claus Ogerman and followers such as Bebel Gilberto, Leny Andrade, Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Diane Morino, Sergio Mendes, Sting and George Michael
	5 Last of four films about everyday life in the Amazon region of Brazil, about four ordinary people living in an extraordinary place. Jos� Alberto is junior Tae Kwon Do champion of the Amazon. To compete, he has to leave his home town of Barcelos and travel three days down river by boat to Manaus, the sprawling Amazonian metropolis. Director: Tom Harper, Nick Davies, David Hunt (Watch Online, Subtitles)
	6 Jana Bokova explores the multi-cultural mix of Brazil's Bahia Todos los Santos, once its major slave port and now a vibrant musical centre.
	7 In April 1986 Josimo, a campaigning Brazilian Priest, survived a murder attempt, but he died in May 2006, shot by a hired gunman. This is the story of the time between the failed attempt and his death. How does it feel to be the subect of a 'death foretold'?
	8 Manaus is growing so quickly, the animals can't get out quickly enough. Jeff teams up with a one-man rescue team to relocate some tamarins.
	10 Guy Barker concludes his journey into the life, music and worldwide legacy of Antonio Carlos Jobim, regarded as the George Gershwin of Brazil and one of the most influential composers of the 20th century. He plays music from every era of Jobim's career, from his film scores to the many beautiful albums on which he played guitar and piano and sang. Including tributes from collaborator Claus Ogerman and followers such as Bebel Gilberto, Leny Andrade, Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Diane Morino, Sergio Mendes, Sting and George Michael.
	11 Film: A violent, visceral and sexually frank Brazilian drama about the mutually destructive relationship between two low level hustlers and a stripper, from the filmmaker of The Motorcycle Diaries, Walter Salles. Lower City is a raw and relentlessly physical film about low life and high passion in the African-influenced city of Salvador da Bahia in northeast Brazil. Like City Of God, prison drama Carandiru and Amores Perros, it's a kinetic experience steeped in casual violence, violent sex and the brutal demands of Latino street life. Unlike those films, which seethed with anger at social injustice and state sanctioned violence, Lower City is intimately engaged with the emotional lives of its characters as the ties that bind two childhood friends are unravelled by sex and violence. (2005)
	12 The talk, based on Frediani's on going PhD research, is an evaluation of the squatter upgrading programme, Ribeira Azul, funded by the World Bank in Salvador da Bahia. The research applies Amartya Sens concept of development as freedom in the urban context, and assesses its usefulness on the thinking and practice of squatter settlement intervention. Frediani holds a BSc on Development Studies in Journalism from the University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK. He is a member of the Human Development and Capability Association and coordinator of the thematic group on Participatory Methods. (In English)
	13 In the last half-century two great Latin American traditions - the tolerant, festive and syncretistic approach to religion, and the committed Christianity inspired by Liberation Theology - have been challenged by a noisy evangelical movement promoting austerity, self-discipline, and confrontation with popular Catholicism, with indigenous religion and, in Brazil, with the possession cults which are a cherished part of the country's national heritage. Catholicism has also responded in kind - with the Charismatic Renewal. The lecture will explore these trends and their implications for culture and politics. David Lehmann is at the Department of Sociology and the Centre of Latin American Studies in Cambridge. He is the author of 'Struggle for the Spirit: popular culture and religious transformation in Brazil and Latin America' and numerous other books and articles on religion in the modern world, especially in Latin America.
	14 Film: Favela Rising documents a man and a movement, a city divided and a favela(slum) united. Haunted by the murders of his family and many of his friends, Anderson S� is a former drug-trafficker who turns social revolutionary in Rio de Janeiros most feared slum. Through hip-hop music, the rhythms of the street, and Afro-Brazilian dance he rallies his community to counteract the violent oppression enforced by teenage drug armies and sustained by corrupt police. At the dawn of liberation, just as collective mobility is overcoming all odds and Andersons grassroots Afro Reggae movement is at the height of its success, a tragic accident threatens to silence the movement forever. (2005)
	15 Film: Coming on like a Brazilian version of The Sopranos, this cracking thriller is set on the mean streets of S�o Paulo, where two business men hire assassin Anisio to kill one of their partners. But having unleashed the scraggly slum-dwelling hitman, they find they cant control him not only does he seduce the daughter of his proposed target, hes soon turning up at their offices and demanding a security contract. With its unsettling handheld cinematography, pumping Brazilian rap soundtrack and masterful grasp of the class war that fuels Anisios literal invasion of the white-collar engineering firm, this is a startlingly edgy portrait of the suicide capitalism thats produced Brazils innercity slums. Its angry, political and armed with all the devastating impact of a pump-action shotgun. (2002)
	16 Film: Drama set in turn-of-the-century Brazil, in which a feud between two sugar-cane growing families escalates into a blood-and-honour series of tit-for-tat killings. As one family member waits out the traditional months before exacting revenge for his brother's murder, a travelling circus arrives in town, bringing with it a beautiful woman who will not only offer him escape from his 'duty', but the prospect of love. Director: Walter Salles Starring: Jos� Dumont, Rodrigo Santoro, Rita Assemany, Ravi Ramos Lacerda, Luiz Carlos Vasconcelos, Flavia Marco Antonio (2001)
	17 Brazil: When Foods Collide. Explore a popular phenomenon whereby foreign chefs settle in Brazil and blend their own cultural traditions with new-found indigenous recipes.
	19 Technology of Freedom. Robert Redford presents the second in the series focusing on compassionate capitalists. A Brazilian cowboy brings electricity to the masses and in India sight-saving surgery is developed for the poor.