Eventos Guide to Brazilian Events in London and the UK

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

Day	Time	MARCH 2007	Price	Details

Thu 01 Qui	19:30	Film: Playing in the Dark (2004) BCA Cine Club London W4	£ 3.50	more
Sat 03 Sab		East Midlands Trade Mission to São Paulo
Sat 03 Sab	12:00 - 17:00	Children's Carnaval Party St Margaret's Church, 130 St Margaret's Road, Twickenham, TW1 1RL	£ 4.00
Sat 03 Sab	18:20	Film: Antonio das Mortes (1969) National Film Theatre London SE1	£ 7.60	more
Sun 04 Dom	18:00 - 19:00	Documentary: Pioneers of Hope Travel Channel		more
Tue 06 Ter	17:00 - 18:30	The 2005 referendum on gun control in Brazil Seminar chaired by Dr Mauricio Lissovsky Centre for Brazilian Studies Oxford
Tue 06 Ter	17:15 - 18:30	A New Ireland in South America: Irish Migrants and 19th C. Brazil Lecture by Dr Oliver Marshall (University of Oxford) University of Aberdeen
Tue 06 Ter	19:30	LSS Beginners Course 8 week course London School of Capoeira London N4
Wed 07 Qua	17:00 - 18:30	The performance style of Itamar Assumpção Lecture by Dr. Sean Stroud Kings Coll. Dept of Portugese London WC2
Thu 08 Qui	19:30	Film: All the Women in the World (1967) BCA Cine Club London W4	£ 3.50	more
Fri 09 Sex	19:30	Recital: Yamandu Costa XI Bolívar Hall International Guitar Festival Bolívar Hall London W1T	Free	more
Sat 10 Sab	19:00	LSS enredo 2007 competition With the London School of Samba Guanabara London WC2		more
Tue 13 Ter	13:15 - 14:00	Prospects for Liberalising the Brazilian Reinsurance Market Speaker: Maria Elena Bidino (Reinsurance Director, Fenaseg) Lloyd's Old Library London EC3	£ 10.00
Wed 14 Qua	18:30 - 19:45	Film: Me Erra! (2002) plus Q+A with director Paola Barreto Leblanc Grande Otelo Cineclub London W1K		more
Wed 14 Qua	19:45 - 20:00	Film: Maré Capoeira () plus Q+A with director Paola Barreto Leblanc Grande Otelo Cineclub London W1K		more
Thu 15 Qui	19:30	Film: Land in Anguish (1967) BCA Cine Club London W4	£ 3.50	more
Thu 15 Qui	19:30	Gabriela Di Laccio sings Bach Soprano Cantatas The Dutch Church London EC2	£ 10.00	more
Fri 16 Sex	19:30 - 23:00	Bluesman Big Gilson & Blues Dynamite in concert Tring Blues Festival	£ 15.00	more
Fri 16 Sex	20:30	Film: House of Sand (2005) The Chapter Cinema Cardiff Cardiff		more
Sat 17 Sab	13:30	Football: Brazilian FC v Willesden Constantine Wadham Lodge Sports Ground, Kitchener Road, Walthamstow, E17 4JP	Free
Tue 20 Ter	09:00 - 17:00	Climate change and the fate of the Amazon Conference organised by Oxford U Centre for the Environment Oriel College
Tue 20 Ter	18:30 - 19:30	Lecture: The Fate of The Amazon Thomas Lovejoy, President, Heinz Centre for Science and the Environment Oxford Natural History Museum Oxford
Wed 21 Qua	13:00 - 17:00	Scoping new media technologies in Brazil Seminar on Mobile Technology mission to Brazil Liverpool John Moores Universi Liverpool		more
Wed 21 Qua	19:30 - 20:30	Public Forum: Futures for the Amazon? Climate Change and the Fate of the Amazon Conference Martin Wood Lecture Theatre, Clarendon Laboratory, Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PU		more
Wed 21 Qua	21:00 - 23:55	DIY Disco: Cansei de Ser Sexy MTV 2 TV		more
Thu 22 Qui	19:00 - 20:00	Brazil - Saving The Tamarin. Documentary with Jeff Corwin Discovery Channel		more
Thu 22 Qui	19:30	Film: The Marriage (1976) BCA Cine Club London W4	£ 3.50	more
Fri 23 Sex	09:30 - 11:00	Talk by Dr. Peter Collecott, HM Ambassador in Brazil Canning House	£ 47.00	more
Fri 23 Sex	14:00 - 17:00	Incomplete Transition: Human Rights in Brazil since 1985 Lecture by Dr Linda Rabben, Washington D.C. Americas Research Group Newcastle-upon-Type		more
Fri 23 Sex	19:00 - 20:15	Video Links Brazil: Early Work Key independent videos by groups such as TVDO and TV Viva Tate Modern	£ 5.00	more
Fri 23 Sex	23:05	Film: City of God (2003) Film4 TV Cidade de Deus		more
Sat 24 Sab	13:30	Football: Brazilian FC v Marsh Rangers Wadham Lodge Sports Ground, Kitchener Road, Walthamstow, E17 4JP	Free
Sat 24 Sab	19:00 - 20:15	Video Links Brazil: Pause and Reflect Key independent videos by established and emerging artists Tate Modern	£ 5.00	more
Sun 25 Dom	15:00 - 16:00	Planet Food: Brazil Travel Channel		more
Sun 25 Dom	19:00 - 20:15	Video Links Brazil: Documentary Key independent documentaries that break social barriers Tate Modern	£ 5.00	more
Tue 27 Ter	12:30 - 13:00	Ocean Oases: Fernando de Noronha Life TV		more
Tue 27 Ter	14:30 - 18:00	Brazil: Excellence in Securities Transactions Seminar organised by the Brazilian capital markets institutions Grange City Hotel London EC3
Tue 27 Ter	18:00 - 20:30	Winning Business in Brazil Tottenham Hotspur Football Club, London N17 0AP	Free	more
Wed 28 Qua	14:30 - 15:00	Cachaça Olé! Travel Channel		more
Wed 28 Qua	22:00 - 23:00	Documentary: The New Heroes A Brazilian cowboy brings electricity to the masses Community Channel		more
Fri 30 Sex	20:40 - 22:00	Film: The Conception (2005) London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival National Film Theatre London SE1		more
Sat 31 Sab	10:00 - 10:30	Documentary: When Foods Collide Discovery Travel & Living		more
Sat 31 Sab	13:30	Football: Brazilian FC v Bison Wadham Lodge Sports Ground, Kitchener Road, Walthamstow, E17 4JP	Free
Sat 31 Sab	17:00	Film: Happy Old Year (1987) BCA Cine Club London W4	£ 3.50	more
FOOTNOTES
	1 Film: Playing in the Dark is the story of a group of young Brazilian revolutionaries in an intense, and extreme situation. It's also a love story between Tiago (Leonardo Medeiros), a student union leader turned urban warrior, and Rosa (D&oeacute;bora Duboc), a nurse and daughter of a communist worker from São Paulo's countryside. The movie's subtext is a portrait of an age of darkness in Brazil, a time of censorship, impositions and hardship. For a cause they so truly believed in, Brazilians of fortitude met their crucible, forced to overcome their own physical and emotional limits. Playing in the Dark is a personal view of this largely unacknowledged period of Brazil's contemporary history (2004)
	2 Film: Brazilian director Glauber Rocha returns to the character of Antonio das Mortes, who first appeared in his film Black God, White Devil -- and, once again, a world rich in music, dance, mystical religion and folklore provides the canvas for exploring the possibilities of radical political change. Antonio, a paid assassin, rides out to a plantation whose workers are demanding that the landowner share his property with them. His job: to kill the group's leader. Antonio accomplishes this, but his sympathies gradually shift to the peasants -- and he joins with them in a climactic and dazzling fight to overturn an outmoded and feudal power structure. (1969)
	3 Join the De Cherisseys and their five children in a remarkable 14 month journey as they visit the far corners of the world.They meet local heroes, ordinary people working to improve the world around them, devoting their lives to confront poverty, violence, pollution and famine. In this episode we meet Suzana who has developed a new method for replanting the deforested areas through the involvement of the poor surrounding population in Latin America. We also meet Rodrigo who has developed a network of 800 computer schools for young Brazilians nd Fabio who has developed a revolutionary method for delivering electricity to the 1 billion of the poorest families in the world.
	4 Film: This tale of tangled morals directed by Domingos Oliveira follows the story of Paulo (Paulo Jos&oeacute;), a bon vivant enjoying the pleasures of the beautiful women of Rio’s southern district. But this master of seduction unexpectedly finds himself in love when he crosses the path of Maria Alice, the young teacher played by Leila Diniz. The narrative is made up of flash-backs, and the script addresses the sixties conflict between men and women’s old and new social roles. Set during a time when armed police occupied the streets and controlled the mass media, the film clearly shows the delight in transgressing values, in breaking taboos and above all in living without barriers. Or at least in one way in particular...which is perhaps the most important of all. (1967)
	5 Yamandu Costa was born in Passo Fundo, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, where he began his guitar studies with his father Algacir Costa, band leader of Os Fronteiri�os, when he was 7 years old. Later, he perfected his technique with L�cio Yanel, Argentine virtuoso who was then settled in Brazil. Until the age of 15, Yamandus only music school was the folk music from the south of Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay. Nevertheless, after he heard Radam�s Gnatall�s work, he decided to get in contact with the music of other renowned Brazilian musicians, such as Baden Powell, Tom Jobim, Raphael Rabello, among others. When he was 17, he played for the first time in S�o Paulo at Circuito Cultural Banco do Brasil (BB Cultural Tour). The event was produced by Est�dio Tom Brazil (Tom Brazil studio), and from then on he was recognized as one of the most gifted guitar players of Brazil.Yamandu is a guitar player, composer and arranger that does not fit into a single music style, yet he creates his own when he combines all of them playing his 7-string guitar. Yamandu in tupi-guarani, the native language of Brazilian Indians, means the precursor of the waters of the world.
	6 The annual competition to choose the song that the LSS will be parading to at Notting Hill Carnival 2007. The competition is likely to kick off from 7pm, followed later by a show from the LSS bateria and dancers to begin the school's 23rd carnival in style.
	7 Film: In a slum in Rio de Janeiro, in a very unlikely place, there"s a boxing academy called "Academia Nobre Arte", built in the 1990s, a pioneer enterprise of amateur boxing and communal effort. This documentary analyzes the interaction of the academy with the people of the place, especially the participation of women. (2002)
	8 Film: Sport, dance or martial art? This graceful Brasilian film tells the history of Capoeira through the eyes of 10-year-old Ja�, last in a long line of Capoeira masters. ()
	9 Film: The allegorical story of a right-wing coup, narrated from the perspective of a dying poet. Intentional breaks in the plot and a camera that seems to follow its own choreography induce a state of trance. LAND IN ANGUISH, an explosive study of art and politics in the third world, is Glauber Rocha’s most personal film as well as his most brilliant contribution to political cinema. (1967)
	10 Acclaimed Brazilian soprano Gabriela Di Laccio and the baroque ensemble Il Festino, perform soprano cantatas by J S Bach and instrumental works by J S Bach and Handel, including: Cantata BWV 51 - Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen! Cantata BWV 209 - Non sa che sia dolore Sonata BWV 1037 - Sonata for two violins Gabriela Di Laccio is noted for her expressiveness, effortless upper vocal range and exhilarating coloraturas. Il Festino comprises eight players using baroque period instruments. Authentic baroque musicianship and coloratura soprano singing at it"s best!
	11 Big Gilson has released eleven CDs, and honed his chops the last fourteen years gigging in Brazil, Argentina, Europe and USA. He opened for Steve Winwood on his Brazilian tour, Johnny Rivers (70.000 people audience), and twice to the master B.B. King. While touring America, and gigging at such clubs as Florida�s Bamboo Room and New York�s Blue Note, the band knocked out such blues gods as Corey Harries, Duke Robillard, Lonnie Brooks, Magic Slim, Saffire, Walter �Wolfman� Washington and Buddy Guy, who extended the Boy from Brazil an open invitation to play his Legends Club anytime. �..His slide playing is disturbingly virtuosic...�.
	12 Film: Magnificent desert epic, from the director of Me, You Them , that looks like nothing else you"ll see this year. It chronicles the lives of three generations of women between 1910 and 1969, who cling to life in a remote corner of Northern Brazil , sandwiched between the desert and the sea. A powerful tale of love and betrayal that has been compared to both The English Patient and The Piano , this stirring adventure is a tale of vast passions set amid an extraordinary, inhospitable landscape. Expressively shot, masterfully paced, this story of life at the ends of the earth builds steadily to a poignant conclusion. (2005)
	13 Brazil has an advanced software industry that has been successful in developing software in relation to telecommunications, banking and e-commerce over the last decade. This scoping mission looked at a number of mobile technologies and their applications through meeting with mobile technologists, content developers and universities that are driving the mobile media industry in Brazil.
	14 Participants include: Carlos Nobre, Director of International Geosphere Biosphere Programme, Former Director of Brazilian Weather and Climate Prediction Centre; Maria Ikeda, Head of Environment Section, Brazilian Embassy, London; Anthony Hall, Reader in Social Planning in Developing Countries, London School of Economics; and Daniel Nepstad, Senior Researcher, Woods Hole Research Centre, USA
	15 Its DIY Disco brazilian-style tonight with CSS, those hot, sassy electro-pop-rock-ravers from Sao Paolo picking their favourite tunes that they like to dance like loons to.
	16 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.
	17 Film: Based on the novel of the same name by Nelson Rodrigues, The Marriage is one of Arnaldo Jabor’s most polemic films, being a veiled attack on the repression of the military dictatorship and the censorship of the seventies. The film takes place in the 48 hours before Glorinha’s wedding, daughter of a rich manufacturer in the construction industry. By way of a series of flash-backs and intertwining events, we learn the truth hidden beneath the apparent bourgeois bliss: injustice, sexual perversion, adultery, crime and even incest. (1976)
	18 Dr. Peter Collecott has been Ambassador in Brazil since August 2004. He is responsible for the promotion of British interests and the delivery of public services in Brazil, and for leadership of the three FCO Posts in Brazil (Brasilia, São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro), plus the network of Honorary Consuls. As a member of the Senior Leadership Forum, Peter is also responsible for promoting corporate leadership across the FCO network. Peter joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 1977.
	19 Twenty years have passed since a civilian regime replaced Brazils 21-year military dictatorship. Paulo Sergio Pinheiro, the former federal human rights secretary, observed 10 years ago that Brazil had made an incomplete transition from dictatorship to democracy. He pointed to the persistence of what he called the same structure of domination based on hierarchy, discrimination, impunity and social exclusion. This structure continues to undermine the Brazilian peoples exercise of all human rightscultural, social and economic as well as civil and political10 years after he wrote those words and 20 years after the military returned to the barracks. Human rights violations have persisted in Brazil over long periods, and injustice, conflict and violence seem entrenched throughout Brazilian society. Despite this depressing reality, Brazilians continue to try to confront and overcome systematic human rights abuses, impunity and corruption through grassroots social movements, NGOs and individual actions that create possibilities for constructive, non-violent change.
	20 Focusing mainly on the work of the 1980s 'independents', this programme includes key videos by groups such as TVDO and TV Viva alongside more personal works and Vincent Carelli's project with native tribes. These pieces reflect the post-military democratic conjuncture in Brazil and the vibrant cultural scene it spawned.
	21 Film: An intoxicating shot of cinematic adrenaline, "City of God" starts with a desperate chicken escaping slaughter and being chased by a gang of pistol-packing prepubescents. It"s an apt allegory for the frantic fight for survival of the protagonists in this ferocious blast of gangster mayhem. Rocket (Alexandre Rodrigues) narrates our journey into the slums of Rio de Janeiro, the City of God. A child of the 60s, he witnesses two decades of barbarity, greed, rape and revenge which fuel a catastrophic gang war. Fear and an instinct for self-preservation keep him on the straight and narrow, but his childhood associate Li"l Z� (Leandro Firmino da Hora) grows into the ghetto"s godfather - a ruthless, demented killer who makes Joe Pesci"s "GoodFellas" psycho look like Mary Poppins. Comparison"s with Scorsese"s crime classic are inevitable, given the hyperkinetic action, tar black comedy, and eye-snatching visual panache. But while there"s no doubting the genius of "GoodFellas", for all its brutality it remained a caper, a gripping spectacle of hood vs hood, where the mobsters chose their glamour-filled lifestyle and ultimately got what they deserved. In "City of God", desperation drives children to acts of outrageous violence, crime appears to be the only option in the moral and economic wasteland of the Brazilian favelas. Even the grotesque Li"l Z� is not without humanity, while the fate of other so-called gangsters is poignant. For all its whiz-bang camerawork and outrageous entertainment value, the movie is grounded by its true life origins (Paulo Lins" fact-based novel), and the superb performances of a largely non-professional cast recruited from the streets. Gut-troubling horror follows cruel bellylaughs, and the relentless action is underscored by unforgiving poverty. Shocking, frightening, thrilling and funny, "City of God" has the substance to match its lashings of style. Cinema doesn"t get more exhilarating than this. (2003)
	22 This eclectic programme of works by established and emerging artists who explores body-centred video, authorial tapes, visual poetry, media, social and historical experiments, as well as works that disrupt the traditional cause-and-effect narrative binary. In their own way, these pieces aim at engaging the viewer in reflection.
	23 Brazil offers a host of different culinary experiences, as Merilees Parker discovers when she starts her journey in the Afro-influenced coastal city of Salvador. Capital of the state of Bahia, Salvador's mixture of European culture and its heavy use of meat means the area offers huge barbecues. Merilees gets to try a few before finishing her journey in the party capital of Rio De Janeiro.
	24 This programme comprises documentaries that break social barriers, establish new dialogues and try to reveal Brazil's elusive character. From the streets of S�o Paulo to the tribes in the outback, these tapes explore the electronic medium's potential to articulate truth, or something like it.
	26 An evening seminar and networking event for companies interested in winning business in Brazil. This event is aimed at companies interested in exporting to Brazil. It will be an opportunity to access practical advice and useful information for both first time exporters and those looking for new and emerging markets. Information and advice will be delivered through a combination of seminars, drop-in clinics, presentations and Q & A sessions.
	27 Join the Thirsty Traveller Kevin Brauch, as he sets out on a globetrotting tour to taste the world-famous local tipples in a variety of destinations, from Scandinavia to South America. Today our intrepid "bon vivant" pays a visit to Brazil, where he tries out the nation"s other favourite pastime, in addition to soccer and samba: drinking Cachaca! What is this sugar cane elixir? Find out as we follow the Thirsty Traveller into the hills of Brazil on a mission to find out more about this intoxicating country (and drink!).
	28 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.
	29 Film: Some middle-class college students living in Bras�lia, enjoy the freedom of not having their parents around. Their lives change irrevocably. when they meet 'X', a charismatic man with whom they form a revolutionary creed - 'the conception'. Death to the ego, be a new character every fucking day, lose your memories and have orgies all the time. Becoming increasingly bizarre, liberating and out of control, the denouement of the film mirrors the craziness, flicking between events and memory; a cinematic rollercoaster, part art, part stream of consciousness, always sexy and ambitious. (2005)
	30 Explore a popular phenomenon whereby foreign chefs settle in Brazil and blend their own cultural traditions with new-found indigenous recipes
	31 Film: A young man’s seemingly banal action becomes an accident which has repercussions for the rest of his life. By jumping badly into a lake, 20 year old student M&oaacute;rio (Marcos Breda) ends up being paralysed. The film then replays a series of flashbacks recounting significant moments in the young man’s life, such as the disappearance of his father, killed by military authority and the role of his mother, fundamental in maintaining the nuclear family. Happy Old Year, based on the work by Marcelo Rubens Paiva, is also an exploration of the rite of passage from adolescence into adulthood and all the implications that this brings. (1987)