Eventos Guide to Brazilian Events in London and the UK

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

Day	Time	MAY 2007	Price	Details

Tue 01 Ter	17:00	Does Participatory Democracy Actually Deepen Democracy in Brazil? Seminar by Dr Brian Wampler, Boise State University Centre for Brazilian Studies Oxford
Tue 01 Ter	18:30 - 21:00	Film: Greatest Love of All (2006) followed by Q&A with actor José Wilker Grande Otelo Cineclub London W1K	SOLD OUT	more
Thu 03 Qui	14:00 - 18:00	Rio Carnival! Photographic Exhibition by Terry George Canning House	Free	more
Thu 03 Qui	19:15	Film: Intermissions (2004) BCA Cine Club London W4	£ 3.00	more
Thu 03 Qui	20:00	Elaine Elias in Concert with the BBC Big Band Cheltenham Jazz Festival, Town Hall, Cheltenham, GL50	£ 22.00
Fri 04 Sex	09:00 - 17:00	The role of the Supreme Court in Brazil, India and South Africa Research workshop convened by Dr Oscar Vilhena Vieira Centre for Brazilian Studies Oxford
Fri 04 Sex	20:00 - 23:00	Moleque de Rua in Concert Norwich Playhouse, 42-58 St. Georges St, Norwich, NR3 1AB	£ 11.00	more
Sat 05 Sab	13:30	Football: Brazilian FC v Parkfield YOBs Please check Brazilian FC Website for venue	Free
Sat 05 Sab	19:30 - 21:30	Singing Brazil - Nossa Voz Oxford House Theatre, Derbyshire Street, Bethnal Green, London E2	£ 7.00
Sun 06 Dom	19:00 - 21:00	Singing Brazil - Nossa Voz Oxford House Theatre, Derbyshire Street, Bethnal Green, London E2	£ 7.00
Mon 07 Seg	20:00 - 22:00	Play: Agreste (Dry Lands) Brazilian play by the Dende Collective Lyric Theatre Hammersmith London W6	£ 7.00	more
Tue 08 Ter	02:00	BBC Course: Talk Portuguese Five nightly programmes teaching Portuguese BBC2 TV		more
Tue 08 Ter	03:30	Documentary: Brazil Inside Out Five nightly programmes about different parts of Brazil BBC2 TV		more
Wed 09 Qua	10:00 - 18:00	Exhibition: Carlos Muniz Gallery 32	Free	more
Wed 09 Qua	13:30	Football: Brazilian FC v Kings Meadow Please check Brazilian FC Website for venue	Free
Wed 09 Qua	18:30	Brazil: Economic Perspectives in the 21st Century Tuke Hall, Regents College European Business School, London NW1 4NS
Wed 09 Qua	19:00	The History of Blacks in Brazil 5-week course with Benedita Gouveia Damasceno Simonetti Brazilian Contemporary Arts London W4	£ 55.00
Thu 10 Qui	19:00 - 21:00	Discussion: London Carnival Heartbeat Canning House	£ 5.00	more
Thu 10 Qui	19:15	Film: The Call to Power (2005) BCA Cine Club London W4	£ 3.00	more
Fri 11 Sex	05:10 - 05:15	I Am Amazon: The Attendant Channel 4 TV		more
Sat 12 Sab	10:00 - 18:00	Brazilian Graffiti Project at Kelburn Castle Kelburn Castle,Ayrshire, Scotland Kelburn Castle Fairlie, Ayrshire	£ 7.00
Sat 12 Sab	13:00 - 20:00	Rio Cultural Festival 2 Capoeira and Samba in London and Cornwall
Sat 12 Sab	13:30	Football: Brazilian FC v Bedfont Sports Please check Brazilian FC Website for venue	Free
Sat 12 Sab	14:00	Free Studio: Digital Culture in Brazil with talks by Claudio Prado and Cristiano Scabello		more
Sat 12 Sab	21:30	Edson Cordeiro in Concert Pavilion Theatre at the Brighton Dome	SOLD OUT	more
Tue 15 Ter	21:00 - 21:30	Documentary: Nossa Terra Community Channel		more
Wed 16 Qua	10:00 - 18:30	Exhibition: The Brasília Project Photographic works by Hannah J Taylor Brazilian Contemporary Arts London W4	Free	more
Wed 16 Qua	13:30	Football: Brazilian FC v Deportivo Galícia Please check Brazilian FC Website for venue	Free
Wed 16 Qua	19:30	Brazilian Chamber of Commerce Gala Dinner Dorchester Hotel, Hyde Park Lane, London W1
Thu 17 Qui	10:00 - 12:30	Brazilian Jewellers' Association Seminar: Exporting to Brazil BJA, 10 Vyse Street, Hockley, Birmingham B18 6LT	£ 15.00
Thu 17 Qui	19:15	Film: Redeemer (2004) BCA Cine Club London W4	£ 3.00	more
Thu 17 Qui	21:00	Auro Quartet at the Brighton Festival The Cosmopolitan Hotel Bar, Brighton	£ 3.00
Fri 18 Sex	19:00 - 22:00	Africa to Brazil: Rio Rhythms, London vibes Canning House	£ 7.00	more
Sat 19 Sab	13:30	Football: Brazilian FC v Neasden Foundation Please check Brazilian FC Website for venue	Free
Sat 19 Sab	20:00	Samba Special with DJ Roc Hunter with Jonas de Oliveira, chefe de bateria do GRES Mocidade Guanabara London WC2	£ 8.00	more
Sat 19 Sab	22:00	Batmacumba at the ICA Institute of Contemporary Arts	£ 7.00	more
Mon 21 Seg	22:00 - 22:30	Eliane Elias and the BBC Big Band Recorded during the Cheltenham Jazz Festival BBC Radio 2		more
Tue 22 Ter	18:00 - 19:00	Planet Food: Brazil Travel Channel		more
Wed 23 Qua	13:30	Football: Brazilian FC v Willesden Constantine Please check Brazilian FC Website for venue	Free
Thu 24 Qui	19:15	Film: The JK Years (1980) BCA Cine Club London W4	£ 3.00	more
Thu 24 Qui	19:45	Recital: Carlos Barbosa-Lima, Guitar with guest Marcilio Lopez, mandolin	£ 14.00	more
Fri 25 Sex	00:01 - 01:00	Football: Giants of Brazil ESPN Classic TV		more
Fri 25 Sex	19:30 - 20:30	Beach Soccer: Brazil v Europe Brazil take on a combined european team in Tarragona, Spain British Eurosport II
Sat 26 Sab	13:30	Football: Brazilian FC v Wraysbury Please check Brazilian FC Website for venue	Free
Sat 26 Sab	19:00	London School of Samba + Batmacumba Guanabara London WC2	£ 8.00
Sun 27 Dom	10:00 - 18:00	Marepe in the Turbine Hall Tate Modern	Free	more
Sun 27 Dom	17:00	Film: Redeemer (2004) BCA Cine Club London W4	£ 3.00	more
Sun 27 Dom	22:00 - 23:00	Pelé, World Cup Hero BBC Prime TV		more
Mon 28 Seg	21:00 - 22:00	Ross Kemp on gangs: Brazil Sky Three		more
Thu 31 Qui	19:00 - 21:30	Encounter between Trinidad & Brazil Canning House	£ 7.00	more
Thu 31 Qui	19:15	Film: The Dream is Not Over (1982) BCA Cine Club London W4	£ 3.00	more
FOOTNOTES
	1 Film: Ant�nio (Jos� Wilker) � um famoso astrof�sico brasileiro, que trabalha tamb�m como professor em uma universidade americana. Pouco antes de retornar ao Brasil, onde receber� uma homenagem do governo, Ant�nio recebe a not�cia de sofre de um tumor fatal no c�rebro. J� no Rio de Janeiro, ele descobre a verdadeira identidade de seus pais biol�gicos e a surpreendente hist�ria de amor entre eles, o que faz com que entre em uma jornada pessoal pela cidade. (2006)
	2 Amazing photos capturing the world�s biggest party are bringing a ray of sunshine to London following the success of his exhibition in Manchester last year. Terry has captured everything from the exhilaration on revellers� faces to the sequins of their costumes and the sweat on their backs. The sheer essence of carnival, its hedonism and emotion, is expertly distilled here. Terry, 41, a businessman who originally started taking photos purely as a hobby, was delighted when the Rio tourist board asked to use his work for promotional material. German publisher edel classics GmbH then saw them and offered Terry a book deal.
	3 Film: From 25th Setember to 27th October 2002, a film crew followed Lu�s In�cio Lula da Silva"s step by step presidential election campaign. The film goes behind the scenes of this historic moment using exclusive material such as private conversations, strategy meetings, telephone calls, transcripts and recordings of party policies and electoral programmes. (2004)
	4 From the favelas of S�o Paulo, Moleque de Rua bring to the world stage an extraordinary original sound � a unique mix of batucada, samba and other traditional Brazilian rhythms blended with rock, rap and funk. The word moleque (�child� in Angola�s Quimbundo language) denoted the first generation of free, street-dwelling children born to ex-slaves in Brazil and today means urchin or rascal. Led by Duda, their mentor, these former street kids paint a vivid picture of the social injustice and corruption that plague Brazil. Their art is also about creative transformation: they survive, they create, they turn dreams into reality. This will be an uplifting, funky, fantastic evening!
	5 Deep in the drylands of the Brazilian outback, a woman comes to understand the powerful and dangerous forces that can be unleashed in others for the simple love she has for her husband
	6 A short language course for absolute beginners, covering the most useful travel basics. The series looks at places, people and culture in Lisbon, the Alentejo and the Douro valley, as well as Salvador in Brazil and includes greetings and introductions, ordering drinks, talking about the family, finding your way around, buying food and ordering a meal, travelling by public transport and booking into a hotel.
	7 Brazil is bigger than Europe, with a huge, varied and exotic cultural life. This series explores the vitality of Brazilian culture in five different regions through the eyes of its artists, guided by journalist and author Alex Bellos. 1. Salvador, 2. Rio de Janeiro, 3. Manaus and Amazonia, 4. Sao Paulo, 5. The South.
	8 The works of the Brazilian artist Carlos Muniz were described by Thomas Lawrence as a creation of "forms that are pure and resonant, stripped of decoration and detail". He adds that Carlos Muniz "presents his Minimalist works of art as objects of elemental form with the least amount of visual components, and divorced from either symbolic or personal expressions". Muniz was inspired by urban geography such as the traffic signs and roads set in infinite views. Gradually, he has replaced the brighter colours of his earlier works by softer hues. Muniz insists upon using essential and basic shapes, and by the same token, probes the more enduring character and content of the imagery, which inspired his works in the first place. Purity of the geometrical shapes meticulously distributed on the canvas is combined with hard-edge toughness. His works are modernist combined with elegance or sensuousness. The viewer is led to stand back and observe the reduced vocabulary and muted colours as a whole within the world at large. In addition, through subliminal suggestion, Muniz" works invite the viewer to ponder upon his or her own place in the universe created by the interaction of spectator and art. Carlos Muniz paints with accuracy and precision � the skills he transfers from a successful career as a plastic surgeon.
	9 Exclusive roundtable discussion on the dynamics and transformations of the Notting Hill carnival: from a Caribbean to a multi-cultural celebration. Participants include Nostalgia Steel Band, Paraiso School of Samba, Kinetika and others.
	10 Film: The campaign carried out by 6 candidates during the 2004 local elections of Rio de Janeiro. This is a look at the actions of each candidate throughout the whole election process, from the party pledges right up to the ballot. We also see the reactions the day after, of the elected and the defeated candidates. In this way, the documentary aims to portray the profile of those young people hungry for power, from the very first step of their political career. (2005)
	11 Short film about everyday life in the Amazon region of Brazil. Floating in the Amazon river is Jorge"s petrol station. His job is to sit here and wait, filling up the little river boats and dreaming of life on a farm.
	12 There is today a grass roots open source movement that is sweeping across Brazil like wild fire and captivating the world"s imagination. Vicky Sinclair, who has been a friend of Futuresonic since 2001, visiting Brazil and along with VJ Pedro Zaz has initiated a local Estudio Livre (Free Studio) in Manchester, based on the Brazilian model. Futuresonic 2007 invites the leading figures from Brazil and around the world to participate in a high profile conference session on this movement.
	13 With a four octave countertenor that makes Jeff Buckley seem positively prosaic and a gloriously camp pop aesthetic to put Rufus Wainwright in the shade, Edson Cordeiro is a music phenomenon! Born in S�o Paulo, Brazil, the young Cordeiro learned to sing in the choir of an evangelical church. His debut album (1992) revealed an eclectic repertory of Brazilian samba, R&B staples, gospel, flamenco and angelic opera arias. The mid 90s saw Cordeira embrace the hip-hop/drum "n bass scene, lending his vocal acrobatics to a triptych of clubland classics. From Montreux to Munich, his breathtaking live sets have seduced European audiences with his bravura technique and mixed diet of Mozart, Prince, Gilberto Gill and Aretha Franklin. Imagine Freddie Mercury cross-pollinated with Maria Callas and filtered through the rebel spirit of Janis Joplin and you get somewhere close to the Edson Cordeiro enigma.
	14 For many, the struggle to preserve the Amazon rain forest is about abstract notions related to global warming and climate change. But for the Kaapor people of the Brazilian Amazon it"s about food.
	15 Brazil�s capital city and architectural phenomenon was created in the 1950�s in the space of just three years. As chief architect, Oscar Niemeyer designed almost all of Brasilia�s important buildings. The epoch of his career, these buildings mark a significant period in modern creativity. Possibly the most intensely personal talent in architecture, Oscar Niemeyer turns 100 this year. This coincides with the half centenary of the city�s inception. As a result, these images will form the centrepiece of a wider calendar of events to celebrate one of the greatest modern creators of our time.
	16 Film: The journalist C�lio Rocha (Pedro Cardoso) has been living through a serious problem at the heart of his family for years: his father used all his savings to buy an apartment from the father of his childhood friend Ot�vio Sab�ia (Miguel Falabella), a corrupt constructor who never delivered the building to the owners. When Ot�vio�s father commits suicide, C�lio arranges a meeting with Ot�vio, and is invited by him to participate in a scheme in the Cayman Islands, where he would receive five million dollars. However, C�lio has a breakdown when his father dies, and believed God assigned him to make Ot�vio give away all his money on behalf of the homeless (2004)
	17 Kabula + Marazul celebrate Afro-Brazilian culture with live music and spoken word - special guests Mestre Carlao + Pedro Lima + Teresa Pineschi direct from Rio. Music and poetry accompanied by food + drink.
	18 SAMBA SPECIAL with DJ Roc Hunter + LIVE: Ritmos da Cidade featuring Mestre JONAS DE OLIVEIRA (Mocidade Independente de Padre Miguel) Roc Hunter is well known for his productions and remixes for Brazilian recording giants including Marcos Valle, The Ipanemas, Azymuth and Grupo Batuque, and equally at home at Guanabara. Hunter spins the finest classic and contemporary ingredients blended into a heady mix-and-match musical menu serving bossa bombs, sultry sambas, batucada bangaz and a wide range of latin licks. Plus, Ritmos da Cidade deliver LIVE Rio-style samba with their formidable bateria of amazing musicians + singers and dancers. Tonight they will be in the honourable company of samba royalty with very special guest JONAS de Oliveira, hottest bateria director of all of Rio de Janeiro, from MOCIDADE INDEPENDENTE DE PADRE MIGUEL, one of the city"s Top Samba Schools. Partying all night is guaranteed!!
	19 DJ Cliffy returns from the Amazon at long last to bring sunshine back to the ICA bar. Charge your mohitos and welcome back our resident Brazilian beats specialist, no doubt with renewed vigour and tails of Latin American adventures.
	20 The BBC Big Band joins legendary New York composer and trombonist, Bob Brookmeyer, and acclaimed Brazilian singer and pianist, Eliane Elias, for the best in contemporary jazz. Part of Radio 2"s coverage from this year"s Cheltenham Jazz Festival, recorded live at Cheltenham Town Hall.
	21 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.
	22 Film: Documentary about Brazilian history, from 1945 until the 70s, focusing on President Juscelino Kubitschek. The film charts his political rise, his philosophy of economic development, his gigantic project of constructing a new capital city for the country, Bras�lia, in the middle of the jungle, and his last years, after the military takeover, when he was deprived of his political rights and went into a temporary exile. (1980)
	23 Brazilian classical guitarist Carlos Barbosa-Lima pays tribute to some of Brazil"s most popular composers, performing a range of colourful classical works. The programme reflects different aspects of Brazilian music styles, including the samba, bossa nova, choro and chorinho.
	24 Brazil is a great football nation that has provided generations of superb footballers. Featuring some of the best players in the world.
	25 The Brazilian artist known as Marepe (b 1970) installs a beautiful carousel complete with horses, adapted using found objects from his native Brazil, such as tin cans and recycled machines, and surrounded by tables laden with toffee apples for the public to eat. Marepe�s work has evolved from a deep connection with the local traditions, customs and materials of Bahia, the north eastern region of Brazil and he frequently uses everyday objects imbuing these with new, poetic qualities in his artworks. The work for Tate, which has been commissioned for UBS Openings: The Long Weekend, was inspired by what the artist describes as �a beautiful, yet precarious, Brazil�.
	26 Film: The journalist C�lio Rocha (Pedro Cardoso) has been living through a serious problem at the heart of his family for years: his father used all his savings to buy an apartment from the father of his childhood friend Ot�vio Sab�ia (Miguel Falabella), a corrupt constructor who never delivered the building to the owners. When Ot�vio�s father commits suicide, C�lio arranges a meeting with Ot�vio, and is invited by him to participate in a scheme in the Cayman Islands, where he would receive five million dollars. However, C�lio has a breakdown when his father dies, and believed God assigned him to make Ot�vio give away all his money on behalf of the homeless (2004)
	27 A profile of the man widely regarded as the greatest footballer of all time, complete with classic sporting archive clips, interviews with Brazilian heroes Torres, Tostao and Rivelino, Britain"s Bobby Charlton, Alan Mullery and Bobby Moore, plus insights from sports journalists, authors, childhood friends and Pelé,"s son Nascimento.
	28 Ross Kemp investigates ganglands across the world, gaining rare access to notoriously impenetrable mobs. His first stop is Brazil. Strong language, violence.
	29 Calypso meets Samba in this special fusion of two rich musical cultures. Performance + discussion brings together musicians, historians and ethnomusicologists from Brazil and Trinidad. An evening to share and explore cultures, history, identity and music.
	30 Film: During the seventies in Brasilia, a group of young people desperately try to escape the political acquiescence which has taken hold after the turbulent rebellion of the sixties. Coming from contrasting economic backrounds, mechanic Biela (Chico Diaz) and wealthy Silverinha (Miguel Falabella) seek the same escape route, experimenting with drugs and eventually becoming dealers. We also meet Joao Carlos (Daniel Dantas) who is trying to live independently from his family, although he still needs their financial support to continue his studies, an aspiring actess (Louise Cardosa) and Lucinha (Luc�lia Santos), who is annoyed at everyone and everything. (1982)