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Eventos Archives - September 2008
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Sat
06
Sab
| 17:30
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19:30 | London School of Capoeira Open Roda
London N4 3RF
London School of Capoeira London N4 | £ 5.00
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£ 10.00 | more |
Sun
07
Dom
| 10:00
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18:00 | Festival Brazil 08 in Willesden Green
Willesden Green Library, 95 High Road, NW10 2SF
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Tue
09
Ter
| 09:30
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17:00 | Conference on HIV & Aids in Brazil and the Caribbean
Canning House | Free | more |
Wed
10
Qua
| 09:00
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17:00 | Latin American Societies Golf Tournament
West Surrey Golf Club, near Milford, Surrey
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Mon
15
Seg
| 18:30
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18:00 | Elementary Portuguese Language Course
Canning House | | more |
Mon
15
Seg
| 21:00
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22:00 | Amazon
A six-part series on the river Amazon
BBC2 TV | | more |
Tue
16
Ter
| 18:15
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19:45 | Capoeira courses for beginners with Capoeira Agora
The Drill Hall, 16 Chenies Street, London WC1E 7EX
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Wed
17
Qua
| 18:30
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18:00 | Advanced Portuguese Language Course
Canning House | | more |
Wed
17
Qua
| 20:30
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23:00 | Film: Linha de Passe
with Walter Salles in converation
National Film Theatre London SE1 | £ 12.50 | more |
Thu
18
Qui
| 18:30
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18:00 | Beginners Portuguese Language Course
Canning House | | more |
Thu
18
Qui
| 18:30
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18:00 | Intermediate Portuguese Language Course
Canning House | | more |
Thu
25
Qui
| 19:45
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22:00 | Favelization
London EC2Y 8DS
The Barbican Arts Centre London EC2 | | more |
Fri
26
Sex
| 18:20
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00:00 | Film: City of God (2003)
Riverside Studios
London W6 | | more |
Fri
26
Sex
| 20:50
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00:00 | Film: City of Men (2007)
Riverside Studios
London W6 | | more | | FOOTNOTES |
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Willesden town centre will once again play host to the rapturous rhythms and flavours of Brazil this Sunday 7th September to celebrate *s flourishing Brazilian community and businesses and Brazilian Independence day.
Brent
Visitors to Festival Brazil will be greeted by authentic tastes and sounds, including a full programme of music and dance with Samba and Bossa Nova to Forro and Capoeira, and an authentic Brazilian market selling a mix of unique goods and produce including traditional foods such as feijoada, jewellery and other arts and craft
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The event will examine the issue of HIV/Aids in Brazil and the Caribbean and DfID"s work with partnering institutions in the region. Dr. Carlos Pasarelli, Director of the International Centre for Technical Cooperation at the Ministry of Health of Brazil will present on the successes of his country"s flagship National Programme. Representatives of the International HIV/Aids Alliance will detail their integral role and will provide regional overviews.
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This year"s golf day will be held again at West Surrey Golf Club, near Milford, Surrey. This year this event is sponsored by the Anglo-Argentina Society and Steamond Travel/Iberia.
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Beginners: for those new to the language with no experience, this course will give you the basics - how to introduce yourself, numbers, the alphabet, pronunciation, directions, ordering, shopping, verbs in the present and past tenses.
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Advanced: Equivalent of higher GCSE level, this course will cover introduction to subjunctive tenses, texts for reading comprehension on cultural and current affairs and more advanced and sophisticated structures/vocabulary and use of language.
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Film: Linha de Passe, the second film director Walter Salles (The Motorcycle Diaries, Central Station) with Daniela Thomas, follows four young fatherless brothers being raised in Brazil by their mother, who"s pregnant with a fifth child she will raise on her own. The film is a follow-up to Foreign Land, which Salles and Thomas made 12 years ago, and like that film, Linha de Passe focuses on youth, movement and change.
Salles and Thomas use the lives of these brothers -- Denis (Joãao Baldasserini), the oldest, who is one of some 300,000 bike couriers transversing the crowded streets of Brazil; Dario (Vínicius de Oliveria), a talented soccer player hoping to use his skill at the game as a path to a better life; Dinho (José Geraldo Rodrigues), who seeks escape by joining an evangelical church; and youngest brother Reginaldo (Kaique de Jesus Santos), who spends his days riding buses around the city, searching for his father. ()
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Beginners: for those new to the language with no experience, this course will give you the basics - how to introduce yourself, numbers, the alphabet, pronunciation, directions, ordering, shopping, verbs in the present and past tenses.
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Intermediate: Equivalent of GCSE level, this course will cover descriptions, facts and situations, comparatives and superlatives, opinions, perfect, imperfect, preterit, future of present and future of preterit tenses. Students will explore Brazilian people, culture and lifestyle.
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In 2006 and 2007, the Brazilian cultural group from the favela of Vigário Geral , AfroReggae , erupted onto the Barbican *s stage with their sell-out performances of From the Favela to the World . Now bite 08 has commissioned a new show from this phenomenal group . Favelization is another fantastically exuberant display of drumming, rap and dance featuring hip-hop and reggae rhythms from the heart of the favela fused with deep funk and new and traditional rhythms from the South American continent. The band are accompanied onstage by the high energy percussion group AfroLata , a subsidiary of AfroReggae, made up of young men in their late teens whose drums are constructed from recycled materials.
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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 Zé (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 Zé 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)
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Film: Originally a spin-off series from Fernando Meirelles" Oscar nominated City of God, the City of Men TV series has inspired this thrilling, visceral film. (2007)
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