Event Calendar
Event for Friday the 29 of May 2008:
::Capirinha Carnaval Party Every Thursday 5/8 - 5/15
@ East Village Wine & Liquors
183 Stanton ST , 10002, NY
FREE! (5PM)
Come to East Village Wine And have Free Capirinha with LEblon Cachaca. Brazil’s finest Cachaça for the most refined Caipirinhas.
Event for Friday the 22 of May 2008:
::Capirinha Carnaval Party Every Thursday 5/8 - 5/15
@ East Village Wine & Liquors
183 Stanton ST , 10002, NY
FREE! (5PM)
Come to East Village Wine And have Free Capirinha with LEblon Cachaca. Brazil’s finest Cachaça for the most refined Caipirinhas.
Event for Friday the 15 of May 2008:
::Capirinha Carnaval Party Every Thursday 5/8 - 5/15
@ East Village Wine & Liquors
183 Stanton ST , 10002, NY
FREE! (5PM)
Come to East Village Wine And have Free Capirinha with LEblon Cachaca. Brazil’s finest Cachaça for the most refined Caipirinhas.
Event for Friday the 14 of May 2008:
::LUPE FIASCO Wed, May 14th
@ SOB’s
On Wednesday May 14th, S.O.B.'s presents Grammy-winning hip-hop star, Lupe Fiasco, live in concert. Lupe last performed at S.O.B.'s in 2006, shortly after his debut Food & Liquor was released, and since then, he has followed up with the critically acclaimed Billboard-topping sophmore effort,The Cool, and sold-out various New York venues like The Fillmore NY and Hammerstein Ballroom. He is also on the bill for Kanye West's "Glow In The Dark Tour", which hits MSG for a sold-out show on May 13th.
Event for Friday the 14 of May 2008:
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::18+ BONDE DO ROLE AFTER PARTY!! FREE! LAUREN FLAXWed 5/14 (11PM)
@ Europa Night Club
98 Meserole Ave. , Brooklyn, NY (Map)
FAMOUS FRIENDS PRESENTS....
BONDE DO ROLE after party with....
LAUREN FLAX, BAD DECISION DJs, BRADLEY D, VDRK (GREENPOINT, BROOKLYN)
FREEEE!!!!!!!!! DOORS 11PM!
ITS ABOUT TIME FAMOUS FRIENDS RETURNS TO THE LAND OF ALL AGES (almost). We missed all our underage friends! So come out, roll deep, and PARTY HARD! FREE!
Event for Friday the 16 of May 2008:
:: Tijuana Wedding Friday 5/16 (9PM)
@ The Rocket Factory
100 South 4th , Brooklyn, NY
Open bar and "weddings," Mexican style. Get married (and divorced) and really, really drunk, all without leaving Williamsburg.
Mariachis. Margaritas. Mexico.
And possibly a donkey show.
You're not getting any younger...it's time to take that special someone, give them a ring, and go to Tijuana.
Open bar and a REAL LIVE minister for all your wedding (..and divorce) needs. That's right, you can make and break your vows all night long...wedding attire encouraged. This is a 21+ event Cost: $5 before 10pm
Event for Friday the 7 of May 2008:
::Andy Warhol & Basquiat: Collaboration Paintings
LAST WEEKS !!!! UNTIL May 17 th
@ Van de Weghe Fine Art
521 West 23rd Street , New York, NY
FREE!
Art-as-capitalism, drug addiction, The Factory...let's hope the art these two icons created together was as interesting as their overlapping biographies!
Two men who reinvented the face of modern art with a downtown NYC flair--both dead now--once worked on collaborative paintings. Come see what might have been if they'd lived longer and gotten along better. Opening March 27th, 6-8pm
Event for Friday the 13 of May 2008:
::Andy Warhol & Basquiat: Collaboration Paintings
LAST WEEKS !!!! UNTIL May 17 th
@ Van de Weghe Fine Art
521 West 23rd Street , New York, NY
FREE!
Art-as-capitalism, drug addiction, The Factory...let's hope the art these two icons created together was as interesting as their overlapping biographies!
Two men who reinvented the face of modern art with a downtown NYC flair--both dead now--once worked on collaborative paintings. Come see what might have been if they'd lived longer and gotten along better. Opening March 27th, 6-8pm
Event for Friday the 17 of May 2008:
::Andy Warhol & Basquiat: Collaboration Paintings
LAST WEEKS !!!! UNTIL May 17 th
@ Van de Weghe Fine Art
521 West 23rd Street , New York, NY
FREE!
Art-as-capitalism, drug addiction, The Factory...let's hope the art these two icons created together was as interesting as their overlapping biographies!
Two men who reinvented the face of modern art with a downtown NYC flair--both dead now--once worked on collaborative paintings. Come see what might have been if they'd lived longer and gotten along better. Opening March 27th, 6-8pm
Event for Friday the 9 of May 2008:
::Andy Warhol & Basquiat: Collaboration Paintings
LAST WEEKS !!!! UNTIL May 17 th
@ Van de Weghe Fine Art
521 West 23rd Street , New York, NY
FREE!
Art-as-capitalism, drug addiction, The Factory...let's hope the art these two icons created together was as interesting as their overlapping biographies!
Two men who reinvented the face of modern art with a downtown NYC flair--both dead now--once worked on collaborative paintings. Come see what might have been if they'd lived longer and gotten along better. Opening March 27th, 6-8pm
Event for Friday the 1 of May 2008:
::Andy Warhol & Basquiat: Collaboration Paintings
LAST WEEKS !!!! UNTIL May 17 th
@ Van de Weghe Fine Art
521 West 23rd Street , New York, NY
FREE!
Art-as-capitalism, drug addiction, The Factory...let's hope the art these two icons created together was as interesting as their overlapping biographies!
Two men who reinvented the face of modern art with a downtown NYC flair--both dead now--once worked on collaborative paintings. Come see what might have been if they'd lived longer and gotten along better. Opening March 27th, 6-8pm
Event for Friday the 4 of May 2008:
::WACK!: Art and the Feminist Revolution Feb 17th , 2008 through May 12, 2008
@ PS1
P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center presents WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution, the first comprehensive, historical exhibition to examine the international foundations and legacy of feminist art. Organized by MOCA Ahmanson Curatorial Fellow Connie Butler for The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, WACK! focuses on the crucial period of the 1970s, during which the majority of feminist activism and artmaking occurred internationally. Praising the exhibition, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center Director Alanna Heiss notes: "In addition to exploring international occurrences of feminist art, the show emphasizes New York's role in the movement, as well as its relationship with each artist involved.
The exhibition spans the period of 1965 to 1980 and includes 120 artists and artist groups from the United States, Central and Eastern Europe, Latin America, Asia, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. WACK! includes work by women who operated within the political structure of feminism as well as women who did not necessarily embrace feminism as part of their practice, but were impacted by the movement. Comprising work in a broad range of media—including painting, sculpture, photography, film, video, and performance art—the exhibition is organized around themes based on media, geography, formal concerns, collective aesthetic, and political impulses. The exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue.
A series of performances and panel discussions presented in the Third Floor Main Gallery will connect featured artists with younger generations inspired by feminism.
Event for Friday the 3 of May 2008:
::WACK!: Art and the Feminist Revolution Feb 17th , 2008 through May 12, 2008
@ PS1
P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center presents WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution, the first comprehensive, historical exhibition to examine the international foundations and legacy of feminist art. Organized by MOCA Ahmanson Curatorial Fellow Connie Butler for The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, WACK! focuses on the crucial period of the 1970s, during which the majority of feminist activism and artmaking occurred internationally. Praising the exhibition, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center Director Alanna Heiss notes: "In addition to exploring international occurrences of feminist art, the show emphasizes New York's role in the movement, as well as its relationship with each artist involved.
The exhibition spans the period of 1965 to 1980 and includes 120 artists and artist groups from the United States, Central and Eastern Europe, Latin America, Asia, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. WACK! includes work by women who operated within the political structure of feminism as well as women who did not necessarily embrace feminism as part of their practice, but were impacted by the movement. Comprising work in a broad range of media—including painting, sculpture, photography, film, video, and performance art—the exhibition is organized around themes based on media, geography, formal concerns, collective aesthetic, and political impulses. The exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue.
A series of performances and panel discussions presented in the Third Floor Main Gallery will connect featured artists with younger generations inspired by feminism.
Event for Friday the 9 of May 2008:
::WACK!: Art and the Feminist Revolution Feb 17th , 2008 through May 12, 2008
@ PS1
P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center presents WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution, the first comprehensive, historical exhibition to examine the international foundations and legacy of feminist art. Organized by MOCA Ahmanson Curatorial Fellow Connie Butler for The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, WACK! focuses on the crucial period of the 1970s, during which the majority of feminist activism and artmaking occurred internationally. Praising the exhibition, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center Director Alanna Heiss notes: "In addition to exploring international occurrences of feminist art, the show emphasizes New York's role in the movement, as well as its relationship with each artist involved.
The exhibition spans the period of 1965 to 1980 and includes 120 artists and artist groups from the United States, Central and Eastern Europe, Latin America, Asia, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. WACK! includes work by women who operated within the political structure of feminism as well as women who did not necessarily embrace feminism as part of their practice, but were impacted by the movement. Comprising work in a broad range of media—including painting, sculpture, photography, film, video, and performance art—the exhibition is organized around themes based on media, geography, formal concerns, collective aesthetic, and political impulses. The exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue.
A series of performances and panel discussions presented in the Third Floor Main Gallery will connect featured artists with younger generations inspired by feminism.
Event for Friday the 1 of May 2008:
::WACK!: Art and the Feminist Revolution Feb 17th , 2008 through May 12, 2008
@ PS1
P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center presents WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution, the first comprehensive, historical exhibition to examine the international foundations and legacy of feminist art. Organized by MOCA Ahmanson Curatorial Fellow Connie Butler for The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, WACK! focuses on the crucial period of the 1970s, during which the majority of feminist activism and artmaking occurred internationally. Praising the exhibition, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center Director Alanna Heiss notes: "In addition to exploring international occurrences of feminist art, the show emphasizes New York's role in the movement, as well as its relationship with each artist involved.
The exhibition spans the period of 1965 to 1980 and includes 120 artists and artist groups from the United States, Central and Eastern Europe, Latin America, Asia, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. WACK! includes work by women who operated within the political structure of feminism as well as women who did not necessarily embrace feminism as part of their practice, but were impacted by the movement. Comprising work in a broad range of media—including painting, sculpture, photography, film, video, and performance art—the exhibition is organized around themes based on media, geography, formal concerns, collective aesthetic, and political impulses. The exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue.
A series of performances and panel discussions presented in the Third Floor Main Gallery will connect featured artists with younger generations inspired by feminism.
Event for Friday the 6 of May 2008:
::WACK!: Art and the Feminist Revolution Feb 17th , 2008 through May 12, 2008
@ PS1
P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center presents WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution, the first comprehensive, historical exhibition to examine the international foundations and legacy of feminist art. Organized by MOCA Ahmanson Curatorial Fellow Connie Butler for The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, WACK! focuses on the crucial period of the 1970s, during which the majority of feminist activism and artmaking occurred internationally. Praising the exhibition, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center Director Alanna Heiss notes: "In addition to exploring international occurrences of feminist art, the show emphasizes New York's role in the movement, as well as its relationship with each artist involved.
The exhibition spans the period of 1965 to 1980 and includes 120 artists and artist groups from the United States, Central and Eastern Europe, Latin America, Asia, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. WACK! includes work by women who operated within the political structure of feminism as well as women who did not necessarily embrace feminism as part of their practice, but were impacted by the movement. Comprising work in a broad range of media—including painting, sculpture, photography, film, video, and performance art—the exhibition is organized around themes based on media, geography, formal concerns, collective aesthetic, and political impulses. The exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue.
A series of performances and panel discussions presented in the Third Floor Main Gallery will connect featured artists with younger generations inspired by feminism.
Event for Friday the 12 of May 2008:
::WACK!: Art and the Feminist Revolution Feb 17th , 2008 through May 12, 2008
@ PS1
P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center presents WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution, the first comprehensive, historical exhibition to examine the international foundations and legacy of feminist art. Organized by MOCA Ahmanson Curatorial Fellow Connie Butler for The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, WACK! focuses on the crucial period of the 1970s, during which the majority of feminist activism and artmaking occurred internationally. Praising the exhibition, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center Director Alanna Heiss notes: "In addition to exploring international occurrences of feminist art, the show emphasizes New York's role in the movement, as well as its relationship with each artist involved.
The exhibition spans the period of 1965 to 1980 and includes 120 artists and artist groups from the United States, Central and Eastern Europe, Latin America, Asia, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. WACK! includes work by women who operated within the political structure of feminism as well as women who did not necessarily embrace feminism as part of their practice, but were impacted by the movement. Comprising work in a broad range of media—including painting, sculpture, photography, film, video, and performance art—the exhibition is organized around themes based on media, geography, formal concerns, collective aesthetic, and political impulses. The exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue.
A series of performances and panel discussions presented in the Third Floor Main Gallery will connect featured artists with younger generations inspired by feminism.
Event for Friday the 27 of May 2008:
::AVAF - Absolutely Venomous Accurately Fallacious (Naturally Delicious)
May 10 — August 16, 2008
@ Deitch LIC
4-40 44th Drive, Long Island City
Absolutely Venomous Accurately Fallacious (Naturally Delicious), a sprawling exhibition by artistic force assume vivid astro focus, will open May 10th at Deitch Studios, Long Island City from 7-11 PM. Deitch Studios’ riverfront building will not only be teeming with sculpture and installation, but the gallery will be transformed into an avaf demolition disco will a full performance and event schedule.
Event for Friday the 23 of May 2008:
::AVAF - Absolutely Venomous Accurately Fallacious (Naturally Delicious)
May 10 — August 16, 2008
@ Deitch LIC
4-40 44th Drive, Long Island City
Absolutely Venomous Accurately Fallacious (Naturally Delicious), a sprawling exhibition by artistic force assume vivid astro focus, will open May 10th at Deitch Studios, Long Island City from 7-11 PM. Deitch Studios’ riverfront building will not only be teeming with sculpture and installation, but the gallery will be transformed into an avaf demolition disco will a full performance and event schedule.
Event for Friday the 21 of May 2008:
::AVAF - Absolutely Venomous Accurately Fallacious (Naturally Delicious)
May 10 — August 16, 2008
@ Deitch LIC
4-40 44th Drive, Long Island City
Absolutely Venomous Accurately Fallacious (Naturally Delicious), a sprawling exhibition by artistic force assume vivid astro focus, will open May 10th at Deitch Studios, Long Island City from 7-11 PM. Deitch Studios’ riverfront building will not only be teeming with sculpture and installation, but the gallery will be transformed into an avaf demolition disco will a full performance and event schedule.
Event for Friday the 13 of May 2008:
::AVAF - Absolutely Venomous Accurately Fallacious (Naturally Delicious)
May 10 — August 16, 2008
@ Deitch LIC
4-40 44th Drive, Long Island City
Absolutely Venomous Accurately Fallacious (Naturally Delicious), a sprawling exhibition by artistic force assume vivid astro focus, will open May 10th at Deitch Studios, Long Island City from 7-11 PM. Deitch Studios’ riverfront building will not only be teeming with sculpture and installation, but the gallery will be transformed into an avaf demolition disco will a full performance and event schedule.
Event for Friday the 10 of May 2008:
::AVAF - Absolutely Venomous Accurately Fallacious (Naturally Delicious)
May 10 — August 16, 2008
@ Deitch LIC
4-40 44th Drive, Long Island City
Absolutely Venomous Accurately Fallacious (Naturally Delicious), a sprawling exhibition by artistic force assume vivid astro focus, will open May 10th at Deitch Studios, Long Island City from 7-11 PM. Deitch Studios’ riverfront building will not only be teeming with sculpture and installation, but the gallery will be transformed into an avaf demolition disco will a full performance and event schedule.
Event for Friday the 28 of May 2008:
::Som do Brasil with Jazzvan Wednesdays
@ WKCR Radio http://www.wkcr.org
Som do Brasil - The best brazilian Music of all times - on WKCR - 89.9 FM - New York - Produced and Hosted by Jassvan DeLima - Wednesdays - 11PM to 1AM.
Event for Friday the 21 of May 2008:
::Som do Brasil with Jazzvan Wednesdays
@ WKCR Radio http://www.wkcr.org
Som do Brasil - The best brazilian Music of all times - on WKCR - 89.9 FM - New York - Produced and Hosted by Jassvan DeLima - Wednesdays - 11PM to 1AM.
Event for Friday the 14 of May 2008:
::Som do Brasil with Jazzvan Wednesdays
@ WKCR Radio http://www.wkcr.org
Som do Brasil - The best brazilian Music of all times - on WKCR - 89.9 FM - New York - Produced and Hosted by Jassvan DeLima - Wednesdays - 11PM to 1AM.
Event for Friday the 7 of May 2008:
::Som do Brasil with Jazzvan Wednesdays
@ WKCR Radio http://www.wkcr.org
Som do Brasil - The best brazilian Music of all times - on WKCR - 89.9 FM - New York - Produced and Hosted by Jassvan DeLima - Wednesdays - 11PM to 1AM.
Event for Friday the 31 of May 2008:
::Brazilian Night Saturdays & Sundays
@
Zinc Bar
90 West Houston Street (corner of La Guardia Place)
Greenwich Village, New York City.
(212) 477-8337.
Event for Friday the 24 of May 2008:
::Brazilian Night Saturdays & Sundays
@
Zinc Bar
90 West Houston Street (corner of La Guardia Place)
Greenwich Village, New York City.
(212) 477-8337.
Event for Friday the 17 of May 2008:
::Brazilian Night Saturdays & Sundays
@
Zinc Bar
90 West Houston Street (corner of La Guardia Place)
Greenwich Village, New York City.
(212) 477-8337.
Event for Friday the 10 of May 2008:
::Brazilian Night Saturdays & Sundays
@
Zinc Bar
90 West Houston Street (corner of La Guardia Place)
Greenwich Village, New York City.
(212) 477-8337.
Event for Friday the 3 of May 2008:
::Brazilian Night Saturdays & Sundays
@
Zinc Bar
90 West Houston Street (corner of La Guardia Place)
Greenwich Village, New York City.
(212) 477-8337.
Event for Friday the 25 of May 2008:
::Brazilian Night Saturdays & Sundays
@
Zinc Bar
90 West Houston Street (corner of La Guardia Place)
Greenwich Village, New York City.
(212) 477-8337.
Event for Friday the 18 of May 2008:
::Brazilian Night Saturdays & Sundays
@
Zinc Bar
90 West Houston Street (corner of La Guardia Place)
Greenwich Village, New York City.
(212) 477-8337.
Event for Friday the 11 of May 2008:
::Brazilian Night Saturdays & Sundays
@
Zinc Bar
90 West Houston Street (corner of La Guardia Place)
Greenwich Village, New York City.
(212) 477-8337.
Event for Friday the 4 of May 2008:
::Brazilian Night Saturdays & Sundays
@
Zinc Bar
90 West Houston Street (corner of La Guardia Place)
Greenwich Village, New York City.
(212) 477-8337.
Event for Friday the 18 of May 2008:
::Brazilian Music on Saturdays and SundaysStarts at 7 pm
@
SOB's
204 Varick Street & West Houston,
New York City.
(212) 243-4940
Event for Friday the 25 of May 2008:
::Brazilian Music on Saturdays and SundaysStarts at 7 pm
@
SOB's
204 Varick Street & West Houston,
New York City.
(212) 243-4940
Event for Friday the 11 of May 2008:
::Brazilian Music on Saturdays and SundaysStarts at 7 pm
@
SOB's
204 Varick Street & West Houston,
New York City.
(212) 243-4940
Event for Friday the 4 of May 2008:
::Brazilian Music on Saturdays and SundaysStarts at 7 pm
@
SOB's
204 Varick Street & West Houston,
New York City.
(212) 243-4940
Event for Friday the 31 of May 2008:
::Brazilian Music on Saturdays and SundaysStarts at 7 pm
@
SOB's
204 Varick Street & West Houston,
New York City.
(212) 243-4940
Event for Friday the 24 of May 2008:
::Brazilian Music on Saturdays and SundaysStarts at 7 pm
@
SOB's
204 Varick Street & West Houston,
New York City.
(212) 243-4940
Event for Friday the 17 of May 2008:
::Brazilian Music on Saturdays and SundaysStarts at 7 pm
@
SOB's
204 Varick Street & West Houston,
New York City.
(212) 243-4940
Event for Friday the 10 of May 2008:
::Brazilian Music on Saturdays and SundaysStarts at 7 pm
@
SOB's
204 Varick Street & West Houston,
New York City.
(212) 243-4940
Event for Friday the 3 of May 2008:
::Brazilian Music on Saturdays and SundaysStarts at 7 pm
@
SOB's
204 Varick Street & West Houston,
New York City.
(212) 243-4940
Event for Friday the 30 of May 2008:
::Campana Brothers Exhibition Through September 28
@
COOPER-HEWITT MUSEUM
2 East 91st Street, New York City.
(212) 849-8400
Campana Brothers Select: Works from the Permanent Collection - On view February 15–September 28, 2008. As the fifth guest curators in this exhibition series, the Brazilian design team of Fernando and Humberto Campana mined the Museum’s collection departments and chose a diverse group of more than thirty objects, dating from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries. The exploration of interwoven ideas and unconventional materials has been a hallmark of the Campana Brothers’ work, and the exhibition will feature a new piece of furniture designed by the brothers specifically for Cooper-Hewitt. The newly commissioned work completes their TransPlastic series, which documents the battle between nature and plastic. Campana Brothers Select: Works from the Permanent Collection is sponsored in part by H.Stern Jewelers.
Event for Friday the 24 of May 2008:
::Campana Brothers Exhibition Through September 28
@
COOPER-HEWITT MUSEUM
2 East 91st Street, New York City.
(212) 849-8400
Campana Brothers Select: Works from the Permanent Collection - On view February 15–September 28, 2008. As the fifth guest curators in this exhibition series, the Brazilian design team of Fernando and Humberto Campana mined the Museum’s collection departments and chose a diverse group of more than thirty objects, dating from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries. The exploration of interwoven ideas and unconventional materials has been a hallmark of the Campana Brothers’ work, and the exhibition will feature a new piece of furniture designed by the brothers specifically for Cooper-Hewitt. The newly commissioned work completes their TransPlastic series, which documents the battle between nature and plastic. Campana Brothers Select: Works from the Permanent Collection is sponsored in part by H.Stern Jewelers.
Event for Friday the 14 of May 2008:
::Campana Brothers Exhibition Through September 28
@
COOPER-HEWITT MUSEUM
2 East 91st Street, New York City.
(212) 849-8400
Campana Brothers Select: Works from the Permanent Collection - On view February 15–September 28, 2008. As the fifth guest curators in this exhibition series, the Brazilian design team of Fernando and Humberto Campana mined the Museum’s collection departments and chose a diverse group of more than thirty objects, dating from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries. The exploration of interwoven ideas and unconventional materials has been a hallmark of the Campana Brothers’ work, and the exhibition will feature a new piece of furniture designed by the brothers specifically for Cooper-Hewitt. The newly commissioned work completes their TransPlastic series, which documents the battle between nature and plastic. Campana Brothers Select: Works from the Permanent Collection is sponsored in part by H.Stern Jewelers.
Event for Friday the 9 of May 2008:
::Campana Brothers Exhibition Through September 28
@
COOPER-HEWITT MUSEUM
2 East 91st Street, New York City.
(212) 849-8400
Campana Brothers Select: Works from the Permanent Collection - On view February 15–September 28, 2008. As the fifth guest curators in this exhibition series, the Brazilian design team of Fernando and Humberto Campana mined the Museum’s collection departments and chose a diverse group of more than thirty objects, dating from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries. The exploration of interwoven ideas and unconventional materials has been a hallmark of the Campana Brothers’ work, and the exhibition will feature a new piece of furniture designed by the brothers specifically for Cooper-Hewitt. The newly commissioned work completes their TransPlastic series, which documents the battle between nature and plastic. Campana Brothers Select: Works from the Permanent Collection is sponsored in part by H.Stern Jewelers.
Event for Friday the 1 of May 2008:
::Campana Brothers Exhibition Through September 28
@
COOPER-HEWITT MUSEUM
2 East 91st Street, New York City.
(212) 849-8400
Campana Brothers Select: Works from the Permanent Collection - On view February 15–September 28, 2008. As the fifth guest curators in this exhibition series, the Brazilian design team of Fernando and Humberto Campana mined the Museum’s collection departments and chose a diverse group of more than thirty objects, dating from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries. The exploration of interwoven ideas and unconventional materials has been a hallmark of the Campana Brothers’ work, and the exhibition will feature a new piece of furniture designed by the brothers specifically for Cooper-Hewitt. The newly commissioned work completes their TransPlastic series, which documents the battle between nature and plastic. Campana Brothers Select: Works from the Permanent Collection is sponsored in part by H.Stern Jewelers.
Event for Friday the 29 of May 2008:
::Amazônia Brasil
in New York Until July 13
Amazonia Brasil's flagship event is a one-of-a-kind, 13,000-square-foot interactive exhibit at South Street Seaport. "Amazonia Brasil is a mystical transformation that allows visitors of all ages to see, smell and experience first-hand the beauties of the rainforest," "These exhibits help New Yorkers understand the environmental and social value of the Amazon and enable them to make positive changes to protect their own environment” said Dr. Eugenio Scannavino Neto, Amazonia Brasil's co-creator. Amazonia Brasil is the vision of The Health and Happiness Project, an organization co-founded by Dr. Neto, and the Amazon Working Group. Fare Arte handles creative execution of the traveling experience. The New York tour involves several of the city's major institutions including the New York City Department of Education, Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian, New York Botanical Gardens, World Financial Center and the Brazilian based non-profit organization, BrazilFoundation.
Event for Friday the 30 of May 2008:
::Amazônia Brasil
in New York Until July 13
Amazonia Brasil's flagship event is a one-of-a-kind, 13,000-square-foot interactive exhibit at South Street Seaport. "Amazonia Brasil is a mystical transformation that allows visitors of all ages to see, smell and experience first-hand the beauties of the rainforest," "These exhibits help New Yorkers understand the environmental and social value of the Amazon and enable them to make positive changes to protect their own environment” said Dr. Eugenio Scannavino Neto, Amazonia Brasil's co-creator. Amazonia Brasil is the vision of The Health and Happiness Project, an organization co-founded by Dr. Neto, and the Amazon Working Group. Fare Arte handles creative execution of the traveling experience. The New York tour involves several of the city's major institutions including the New York City Department of Education, Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian, New York Botanical Gardens, World Financial Center and the Brazilian based non-profit organization, BrazilFoundation.
Event for Friday the 22 of May 2008:
::Amazônia Brasil
in New York Until July 13
Amazonia Brasil's flagship event is a one-of-a-kind, 13,000-square-foot interactive exhibit at South Street Seaport. "Amazonia Brasil is a mystical transformation that allows visitors of all ages to see, smell and experience first-hand the beauties of the rainforest," "These exhibits help New Yorkers understand the environmental and social value of the Amazon and enable them to make positive changes to protect their own environment” said Dr. Eugenio Scannavino Neto, Amazonia Brasil's co-creator. Amazonia Brasil is the vision of The Health and Happiness Project, an organization co-founded by Dr. Neto, and the Amazon Working Group. Fare Arte handles creative execution of the traveling experience. The New York tour involves several of the city's major institutions including the New York City Department of Education, Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian, New York Botanical Gardens, World Financial Center and the Brazilian based non-profit organization, BrazilFoundation.
Event for Friday the 23 of May 2008:
::Amazônia Brasil
in New York Until July 13
Amazonia Brasil's flagship event is a one-of-a-kind, 13,000-square-foot interactive exhibit at South Street Seaport. "Amazonia Brasil is a mystical transformation that allows visitors of all ages to see, smell and experience first-hand the beauties of the rainforest," "These exhibits help New Yorkers understand the environmental and social value of the Amazon and enable them to make positive changes to protect their own environment” said Dr. Eugenio Scannavino Neto, Amazonia Brasil's co-creator. Amazonia Brasil is the vision of The Health and Happiness Project, an organization co-founded by Dr. Neto, and the Amazon Working Group. Fare Arte handles creative execution of the traveling experience. The New York tour involves several of the city's major institutions including the New York City Department of Education, Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian, New York Botanical Gardens, World Financial Center and the Brazilian based non-profit organization, BrazilFoundation.
Event for Friday the 21 of May 2008:
::Amazônia Brasil
in New York Until July 13
Amazonia Brasil's flagship event is a one-of-a-kind, 13,000-square-foot interactive exhibit at South Street Seaport. "Amazonia Brasil is a mystical transformation that allows visitors of all ages to see, smell and experience first-hand the beauties of the rainforest," "These exhibits help New Yorkers understand the environmental and social value of the Amazon and enable them to make positive changes to protect their own environment” said Dr. Eugenio Scannavino Neto, Amazonia Brasil's co-creator. Amazonia Brasil is the vision of The Health and Happiness Project, an organization co-founded by Dr. Neto, and the Amazon Working Group. Fare Arte handles creative execution of the traveling experience. The New York tour involves several of the city's major institutions including the New York City Department of Education, Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian, New York Botanical Gardens, World Financial Center and the Brazilian based non-profit organization, BrazilFoundation.
Event for Friday the 14 of May 2008:
::Amazônia Brasil
in New York Until July 13
Amazonia Brasil's flagship event is a one-of-a-kind, 13,000-square-foot interactive exhibit at South Street Seaport. "Amazonia Brasil is a mystical transformation that allows visitors of all ages to see, smell and experience first-hand the beauties of the rainforest," "These exhibits help New Yorkers understand the environmental and social value of the Amazon and enable them to make positive changes to protect their own environment” said Dr. Eugenio Scannavino Neto, Amazonia Brasil's co-creator. Amazonia Brasil is the vision of The Health and Happiness Project, an organization co-founded by Dr. Neto, and the Amazon Working Group. Fare Arte handles creative execution of the traveling experience. The New York tour involves several of the city's major institutions including the New York City Department of Education, Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian, New York Botanical Gardens, World Financial Center and the Brazilian based non-profit organization, BrazilFoundation.
Event for Friday the 13 of May 2008:
::Amazônia Brasil
in New York Until July 13
Amazonia Brasil's flagship event is a one-of-a-kind, 13,000-square-foot interactive exhibit at South Street Seaport. "Amazonia Brasil is a mystical transformation that allows visitors of all ages to see, smell and experience first-hand the beauties of the rainforest," "These exhibits help New Yorkers understand the environmental and social value of the Amazon and enable them to make positive changes to protect their own environment” said Dr. Eugenio Scannavino Neto, Amazonia Brasil's co-creator. Amazonia Brasil is the vision of The Health and Happiness Project, an organization co-founded by Dr. Neto, and the Amazon Working Group. Fare Arte handles creative execution of the traveling experience. The New York tour involves several of the city's major institutions including the New York City Department of Education, Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian, New York Botanical Gardens, World Financial Center and the Brazilian based non-profit organization, BrazilFoundation.
Event for Friday the 4 of May 2008:
::Amazônia Brasil
in New York Until July 13
Amazonia Brasil's flagship event is a one-of-a-kind, 13,000-square-foot interactive exhibit at South Street Seaport. "Amazonia Brasil is a mystical transformation that allows visitors of all ages to see, smell and experience first-hand the beauties of the rainforest," "These exhibits help New Yorkers understand the environmental and social value of the Amazon and enable them to make positive changes to protect their own environment” said Dr. Eugenio Scannavino Neto, Amazonia Brasil's co-creator. Amazonia Brasil is the vision of The Health and Happiness Project, an organization co-founded by Dr. Neto, and the Amazon Working Group. Fare Arte handles creative execution of the traveling experience. The New York tour involves several of the city's major institutions including the New York City Department of Education, Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian, New York Botanical Gardens, World Financial Center and the Brazilian based non-profit organization, BrazilFoundation.
Event for Friday the 12 of May 2008:
::Amazônia Brasil
in New York Until July 13
Amazonia Brasil's flagship event is a one-of-a-kind, 13,000-square-foot interactive exhibit at South Street Seaport. "Amazonia Brasil is a mystical transformation that allows visitors of all ages to see, smell and experience first-hand the beauties of the rainforest," "These exhibits help New Yorkers understand the environmental and social value of the Amazon and enable them to make positive changes to protect their own environment” said Dr. Eugenio Scannavino Neto, Amazonia Brasil's co-creator. Amazonia Brasil is the vision of The Health and Happiness Project, an organization co-founded by Dr. Neto, and the Amazon Working Group. Fare Arte handles creative execution of the traveling experience. The New York tour involves several of the city's major institutions including the New York City Department of Education, Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian, New York Botanical Gardens, World Financial Center and the Brazilian based non-profit organization, BrazilFoundation.
Event for Friday the 23 of May 2008:
::Roberto Carlos in Concert - Friday, May 23rd, at 8 pm
@WAMU THEATER
Madison Square Garden,
7th Avenue & 32nd Street, New York City.
For ticket information: (212) 307-4757
Roberto Carlos is a Grammy Award-winning Brazilian singer, who has achieved a great deal of success and recognition in his almost 50 year old career. Most of his songs are written in partnership with his friend, the singer and songwriter Erasmo Carlos. Roberto Carlos has sold over 100 million albums around the world, making him one of the best selling Latin American artists.
Influenced by his idol, Elvis Presley and the 1950s rock revolution, he rose to stardom as the main figure of the 60s musical movement known as Jovem Guarda (Young guard, in opposition to the 'old guard' of Brazilian music), which was the first manifestation of the Brazilian pop rock movement. Since then, he has been called 'O Rei' (the King). In 1989, Roberto Carlos became one of the only Brazilians ever to win a Grammy Award in the category of Best Latin Pop Album with Roberto Carlos / Tolo. In the 1990s, Roberto Carlos became the first Latin American artist to sell more albums than the Beatles (in 1994, having by then sold over 70 million copies of his albums). In the mid'90s, with the retro Jovem Guarda wave, Roberto Carlos, who was worn out among the younger generations who had only known his romantic and sentimental hits directed at a middleaged audience, had his importance recuperated by young rockers such as Cássia Eller, Chico Science e Nação Zumbi, Barão Vermelho, and Skank, who recorded Rei, a tribute to him with his old Jovem Guarda hits.
Event for Friday the 23 of May 2008:
::Amazon Rainforest Concert with João Carlos Martins - May 23rd, at 8 pm
@ Carnegie Hall
All seats reserved, $2.00
The “Two Dollar Concert at Carnegie Hall,” is scheduled for Friday, May 23rd, 2008, featuring Brazilian João Carlos Martins – pianist, turned conductor – and his Bachiana Chamber Orchestra.
The program will include Bach’s Orchestral Suite #3, Tom Jobim’s Luiza, the second movements of Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 23, K. 488 and Piano Concerto No. 27, K. 495, and the world premiere of a specially commissioned piece by Mateus Araujo, entitled Suíte Brasileira.
To ensure the preservation of one of the world’s largest ecosystems, programs such as the Amazon Region Protected Areas (ARPA) have joined forces with other environmental initiatives to prevent the socio-economic inequalities and health concerns caused by deforestation and industrial development of the Amazon region. Tickets available at box office; or call 212-247-7800
Event for Friday the 23 of May 2008:
::Rosa Passos Quintet at Jazz - May 23rd and May 24th
@ Jazz at Lincoln Center
The Allen Room, Frederick P. Rose Hall
Broadway at 60th St., New York City.
Known in Brazil as the "feminine João Gilberto,” singer/songwriter and guitarist Rosa Passos performs in The Allen Room for the first time. She celebrates the 50th anniversary of bossa nova, making the classic bossa nova tunes sound new again. Inspired by João Gilberto and Antonio Carlos Jobim - the godfathers of bossa nova – Rosa Passos switched from piano to guitar and began writing her own material as a teenager. The quintet consists of Rosa Passos guitar/vocals), Helio Alves (piano), Paulo Paulelli (bass), Celso de Almeida (drums) and Rodrigo Ursaia (saxophones, flute). Tickets are available at the Jazz at Lincoln Center Box Office on Broadway at 60th St., by calling CenterCharge at 212.721.6500.
Event for Friday the 24 of May 2008:
::Rosa Passos Quintet at Jazz - May 23rd and May 24th
@ Jazz at Lincoln Center
The Allen Room, Frederick P. Rose Hall
Broadway at 60th St., New York City.
Known in Brazil as the "feminine João Gilberto,” singer/songwriter and guitarist Rosa Passos performs in The Allen Room for the first time. She celebrates the 50th anniversary of bossa nova, making the classic bossa nova tunes sound new again. Inspired by João Gilberto and Antonio Carlos Jobim - the godfathers of bossa nova – Rosa Passos switched from piano to guitar and began writing her own material as a teenager. The quintet consists of Rosa Passos guitar/vocals), Helio Alves (piano), Paulo Paulelli (bass), Celso de Almeida (drums) and Rodrigo Ursaia (saxophones, flute). Tickets are available at the Jazz at Lincoln Center Box Office on Broadway at 60th St., by calling CenterCharge at 212.721.6500.
Event for Friday the 24 of May 2008:
::Ivan Lins & Trio da Paz with New York Voices at Jazz at Lincoln Center - May 23rd and May 24th
@ Jazz at Lincoln Center
Rose Theater, Frederick P. Rose Hall
Broadway at 60th St., New York City.
Ivan Lins’ 35-year career has garnered him a 2000 Latin GRAMMY® nominee and a 2001 GRAMMY® award for Latin Pop Vocal. He is a prolific composer and mesmerizing performer. Lins’ songs have been recorded by Quincy Jones, George Benson, Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, Carmen McRae and Barbara Streisand. Lins’ band includes Leonardo Amuedo (guitar), Marcelo Martins (saxophone), Nehemias Santos (bass) and Teofilo Lima (drums).
Trio da Paz is Duduka da Fonseca (drums), Nilson Matta (bass) and Romero Lubambo (guitar). The New York Voices consists of vocalists Peter Eldridge, Lauren Kinhan, Darmon Meader and Kim Nazarian. Trio da Paz is showcased in the first half of the program, followed by Ivan Lins and the New York Voices in the second half. Tickets are available at the Jazz at Lincoln Center Box Office on Broadway at 60th St., by calling CenterCharge at 212.721.6500.
Event for Friday the 23 of May 2008:
::Ivan Lins & Trio da Paz with New York Voices at Jazz at Lincoln Center - May 23rd and May 24th
@ Jazz at Lincoln Center
Rose Theater, Frederick P. Rose Hall
Broadway at 60th St., New York City.
Ivan Lins’ 35-year career has garnered him a 2000 Latin GRAMMY® nominee and a 2001 GRAMMY® award for Latin Pop Vocal. He is a prolific composer and mesmerizing performer. Lins’ songs have been recorded by Quincy Jones, George Benson, Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, Carmen McRae and Barbara Streisand. Lins’ band includes Leonardo Amuedo (guitar), Marcelo Martins (saxophone), Nehemias Santos (bass) and Teofilo Lima (drums).
Trio da Paz is Duduka da Fonseca (drums), Nilson Matta (bass) and Romero Lubambo (guitar). The New York Voices consists of vocalists Peter Eldridge, Lauren Kinhan, Darmon Meader and Kim Nazarian. Trio da Paz is showcased in the first half of the program, followed by Ivan Lins and the New York Voices in the second half. Tickets are available at the Jazz at Lincoln Center Box Office on Broadway at 60th St., by calling CenterCharge at 212.721.6500.
Event for Friday the 17 of May 2008:
::Ivy Goulart Films May 17,2008 6 pm
@ Brazilian Lirary in NYC
240 East 52nd Street, New York City
BLACK GOLD , ILLUMINATIONS ,EDILAMAR , TRACKING THE CULTURAL CONVOY. IVY GOULART is an actor, film maker and cultural producer. As an actor, he worked for the renowned Globo TV in 2005 and 2006, and in the theater from 1996 until 2001. He graduated in film-making at Gama Filho University, and studied with professor Ruy Guerra, who is an icon of the Cinema Novo Movement.
Event for Friday the 15 of May 2008:
::Ana Lammbert Art Show May 10, 2008 through May 30, 2008.
@Agora Gallery
530 West 25th Street, Chelsea, New York.
Gallery Hours: Tues - Sat, 11am - 6pm.
Brazilian painter Ana Lammbert creates joyful and playful scenes that remind one of childhood fancy. Abstract and utilizing simple lines. Lammbert uses repetition of shape to create a playful ambiance and a fluid rhythm that moves the eye around the canvas in a circular pattern.
The environment has influenced Lammbert in other ways as well; the circular progression of her work echoes the very town in which she has spent most of her life and continues to work. Volta Redonda, or round turn, is so named because of the twisting Paraiba do Sul River in the middle of the city.
Opening Reception: Thursday, May 15, 2008, 6-8 pm.
Event for Friday the 17 of May 2008:
:: Laura Calhoun Art Exhibition - From May 15th to May 21st
@ 304 Eight Avenue (25th & 26th St),
3rd Floor, New York City.
Born in Los Angels, at 10-she move to Belem do Para. A colonial city, sited where the Amazon River broadens out and meets the Atlantic Ocean. “The constant flow of the river meeting the sea and the timeless equatorial climatic give you a sense of present continuous time”. Wood wall sculptures made from waste wood product of the Amazon saw mills.
In the winter of 200I, she conceived the installation transit tempo a collaboration with the Central Park Conservancy to celebrate "Earth Day". Using ice as a medium to encase different elements from nature that symbolizes earth's transition from winter to spring. Creating an ephemeral installation, of 18 blocks of ice 4 feet tall and placed it below the Belvedere Castle at Turtle pond at Central Park. The process lasted for 36 hours and was recorded on a time laps digital. For more information (917) 601-5299.
Event for Friday the 18 of May 2008:
:: Laura Calhoun Art Exhibition - From May 15th to May 21st
@ 304 Eight Avenue (25th & 26th St),
3rd Floor, New York City.
Born in Los Angels, at 10-she move to Belem do Para. A colonial city, sited where the Amazon River broadens out and meets the Atlantic Ocean. “The constant flow of the river meeting the sea and the timeless equatorial climatic give you a sense of present continuous time”. Wood wall sculptures made from waste wood product of the Amazon saw mills.
In the winter of 200I, she conceived the installation transit tempo a collaboration with the Central Park Conservancy to celebrate "Earth Day". Using ice as a medium to encase different elements from nature that symbolizes earth's transition from winter to spring. Creating an ephemeral installation, of 18 blocks of ice 4 feet tall and placed it below the Belvedere Castle at Turtle pond at Central Park. The process lasted for 36 hours and was recorded on a time laps digital. For more information (917) 601-5299.
Event for Friday the 20 of May 2008:
:: Laura Calhoun Art Exhibition - From May 15th to May 21st
@ 304 Eight Avenue (25th & 26th St),
3rd Floor, New York City.
Born in Los Angels, at 10-she move to Belem do Para. A colonial city, sited where the Amazon River broadens out and meets the Atlantic Ocean. “The constant flow of the river meeting the sea and the timeless equatorial climatic give you a sense of present continuous time”. Wood wall sculptures made from waste wood product of the Amazon saw mills.
In the winter of 200I, she conceived the installation transit tempo a collaboration with the Central Park Conservancy to celebrate "Earth Day". Using ice as a medium to encase different elements from nature that symbolizes earth's transition from winter to spring. Creating an ephemeral installation, of 18 blocks of ice 4 feet tall and placed it below the Belvedere Castle at Turtle pond at Central Park. The process lasted for 36 hours and was recorded on a time laps digital. For more information (917) 601-5299.
Event for Friday the 21 of May 2008:
:: Laura Calhoun Art Exhibition - From May 15th to May 21st
@ 304 Eight Avenue (25th & 26th St),
3rd Floor, New York City.
Born in Los Angels, at 10-she move to Belem do Para. A colonial city, sited where the Amazon River broadens out and meets the Atlantic Ocean. “The constant flow of the river meeting the sea and the timeless equatorial climatic give you a sense of present continuous time”. Wood wall sculptures made from waste wood product of the Amazon saw mills.
In the winter of 200I, she conceived the installation transit tempo a collaboration with the Central Park Conservancy to celebrate "Earth Day". Using ice as a medium to encase different elements from nature that symbolizes earth's transition from winter to spring. Creating an ephemeral installation, of 18 blocks of ice 4 feet tall and placed it below the Belvedere Castle at Turtle pond at Central Park. The process lasted for 36 hours and was recorded on a time laps digital. For more information (917) 601-5299.
Event for Friday the 16 of May 2008:
:: Laura Calhoun Art Exhibition - From May 15th to May 21st
@ 304 Eight Avenue (25th & 26th St),
3rd Floor, New York City.
Born in Los Angels, at 10-she move to Belem do Para. A colonial city, sited where the Amazon River broadens out and meets the Atlantic Ocean. “The constant flow of the river meeting the sea and the timeless equatorial climatic give you a sense of present continuous time”. Wood wall sculptures made from waste wood product of the Amazon saw mills.
In the winter of 200I, she conceived the installation transit tempo a collaboration with the Central Park Conservancy to celebrate "Earth Day". Using ice as a medium to encase different elements from nature that symbolizes earth's transition from winter to spring. Creating an ephemeral installation, of 18 blocks of ice 4 feet tall and placed it below the Belvedere Castle at Turtle pond at Central Park. The process lasted for 36 hours and was recorded on a time laps digital. For more information (917) 601-5299.
Event for Friday the 15 of May 2008:
::REEL THURSDAYS presents POPSICLES, CHICKS and KITES & YAKWA - THE BANQUET OF THE SPIRITS
@ Brazilian Library
240 E 52nd St (bet 2nd and 3rd Ave), in Manhattan.
7 pm, FREE ($3 suggested donation).
More info 212.920.9540
ABOUT REEL THURSDAYS
Reel Thursdays (Quintas no Cinema) is a non-profit film exhibition venue produced by Migrating Media & Productions every first and third Thursday of the month to benefit the Brazilian Endowment for the Arts. Under the curatorship of Ana Lourdes Alvarenga, Reel Thursdays aim to provide quality movie programs meanwhile creating a video archive of Latin American movies.
POPSICLES, CHICKS and KITES ( 7pm)
Fiction, Director: Gustavo Melo
Producer: Nós do Morro e Cavideo, Brazil , 2006 (15 min), Color, Vídeo, Portuguese (English subtitles)
POPSICLES, CHICKS and KITES is about 1980's children getting by in the slams of Rio, when vans would drive thru the communities exchanging metal scraps and recyclable junk for popsicles, chicks and kites. The movie shows the adventures of four kids in one of that recycle days and portraits the creativity of the Brazilian blue collar to survive and have fun no matter how hard their situation may be. POPSICLES, CHICKS and KITES won the best movie
prize @ Festival Visões Periféricas 2007 in RJ and is currently part of the project Short Films on the Shelf, non-for profit collaboration between Migrating Media & Productions and Cavideo & Virtual Filmes to promote Brazilian shorts movies internationally.
YAKWA - THE BANQUET OF THE SPIRITS ( 7:15 pm )
Vídeo Amazônia Indígena: A View from the Villages
Documentary - Brazil, 1995 Directed by Virginia Valadão
Produced by Video nas Aldeias, (54 min. 1995) Color - English Subtitles
YAKWA - THE BANQUET OF THE SPIRITS is a documentary about the Yãkwa, the most important ritual of the Enauwene - Nawe Indians. For seven months every year, the Yakairiti spirits are venerated with offering of food, song and dances. Vídeo Amazônia Indígena: A View from the Villages Screenings focus on the life and struggle of Indian populations in the Amazon to keep their language and traditions alive. All movies were filmed and produced by the Indians themselves and the Project Video nas Aldeias. Funding for Vídeo
Amazônia Indígena: A View from the Villages is provided by the Smithsonian Latino Center and the Brazilian Embassy in Washington. For more information or to reserve a seat please call 212.920.9540 or email: event@migratingmedia.com
Event for Friday the 26 of May 2008:
:: Brazilian Night Mondays
@CAFE WHA
115 McDougal Street, 1 block north of Bleecker Street,
New York City.
Doors open at 9 pm. For more information, please call (212) 868-9102.
Event for Friday the 19 of May 2008:
:: Brazilian Night Mondays
@CAFE WHA
115 McDougal Street, 1 block north of Bleecker Street,
New York City.
Doors open at 9 pm. For more information, please call (212) 868-9102.
Event for Friday the 12 of May 2008:
:: Brazilian Night Mondays
@CAFE WHA
115 McDougal Street, 1 block north of Bleecker Street,
New York City.
Doors open at 9 pm. For more information, please call (212) 868-9102.
Event for Friday the 5 of May 2008:
:: Brazilian Night Mondays
@CAFE WHA
115 McDougal Street, 1 block north of Bleecker Street,
New York City.
Doors open at 9 pm. For more information, please call (212) 868-9102.
Event for Friday the 17 of May 2008:
::1960’s Benefit Party - FESTA BENEFICIENTE DOS ANOS 60 Saturday May 17th
@ Father Demo Hall
25 Carmine Street (entrada esq. com a Bleecker st)
New York , NY
$10 DJ Ferrugem From 8pm to 2 am
More info: 212.920.9540
PARTY for a good cause – all profits will be donated to a children orphanage in Picos, PI, one of the poorest states of Brazil. This is an initiative of the Brazilian Community in NY which ask the patrons to come dressed to impress in the 60’s style. If ever wanted to be MArlyn Moroe, John Lennon or Wanderleia – this is your chance to show off and wild. Drinks and finger food will be available for purchase. All ages are welcome.
Event for Friday the 16 of May 2008:
::Cine Consulado presentes “The Man Who Copied” (O Homem que Copiava)
@Consulate General of Brazil in New York
1185 Avenue of the Americas, 21st Floor
New York, NY 10036
Friday, May 16th, 2008 , 4:15 – 6:00 pm
Directed by Jorge Furtado (2005)
(In Portuguese with English subtitles)
Synopsis: André (Lázaro Ramos) works making photocopies at a stationary store, shooting the breeze with his sexy co-worker Marinês (Luana Piovani) and spending his nights drawing comics and spying on girl next door Sylvia (Leandra Leal). He's too shy and poor to ask Sylvia out, until he hits on the idea of making counterfeit money with the color copier after business hours. Cardoso (Pedro Cardoso), the equally poor, would-be lover of Marinês, helps with the scam. More windfalls and weirdness develop as romance slowly blossoms between Andre and Sylvia, Marinês and Cardoso.
Event for Friday the 15 of May 2008:
::BONDE DO ROLE after party with.... LAUREN FLAX, BAD DECISION DJs, BRADLEY D, VDRK - MAY 14TH
@ EUROPA (GREENPOINT, BROOKLYN) 18+!!!
FREEEE!!!!!!!!!! DOORS 11PM!
ITS ABOUT TIME FAMOUS FRIENDS RETURNS TO THE LAND OF ALL AGES (almost). We missed all our underage friends! So come out, roll deep, and PARTY HARD!
Cost: FREE!
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NYC, 05.11.2008 (By Bob Egelko - San Francisco Chronicle) -
Next President Might Be Gentler on Pot Clubs
Ever since California voters became the first in the nation to legalize medical marijuana in 1996, the state has faced unyielding opposition from the federal government, which insists it has the power to prohibit a drug it considers useless and dangerous.
That could all change with the next presidential election.
As the candidates prepare for a May 20 primary in Oregon, one of 12 states with a California-style law, Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois has become an increasingly firm advocate of ending federal intervention and letting states make their own rules when it comes to medical marijuana.
His Democratic rival, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York, is less explicit, recently softening a pledge she made early in the campaign to halt federal raids in states with medical marijuana laws. But she has expressed none of the hostility that marked the response of her husband's administration to California's initiative, Proposition 215.
Sen. John McCain of Arizona, the Republican nominee-in-waiting, has gone back and forth on the issue - promising a medical marijuana patient at one campaign stop that seriously ill patients would never face arrest under a McCain administration, but ultimately endorsing the Bush administration's policy of federal raids and prosecutions.
Political battles over exempting medical patients from marijuana laws have been fought mostly in statehouses and at ballot boxes since 1996, when California voters repealed state criminal penalties for those who used the drug with their doctor's approval. But the federal government has played an important role in limiting the scope of those state laws, and their effectiveness over the next four years may be determined by the next president.
Bill Clinton's position
President Bill Clinton's administration opposed the California law from the start and won a court case allowing it to shut nonprofit organizations that supplied medical marijuana to members. Clinton's Justice Department also tried to punish California doctors who recommended marijuana to their patients by revoking their authority to prescribe any drugs, but federal courts backed the doctors.
The Bush administration has gone further, raiding medical marijuana growers and clinics, prosecuting suppliers under federal drug laws after winning a U.S. Supreme Court case, and pressuring commercial property owners to evict marijuana dispensaries by threatening legal action. The administration has also blocked a University of Massachusetts researcher's attempt to grow marijuana for studies of its medical properties.
Since 2001, federal prosecutors have won convictions in at least 28 California drug cases where defendants claimed they were supplying or using medical marijuana, according to the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws. Prosecutors have filed charges in 22 more cases, and authorities have raided 10 growers or dispensaries without filing charges, the group says.
The presidential candidates haven't discussed the issue in speeches or debates, but medical marijuana advocates regularly questioned them in Iowa and New Hampshire. The most sweeping changes were proposed by second-tier candidates - Democrats Mike Gravel, Dennis Kucinich and Chris Dodd and Republican Ron Paul called for repealing federal criminal penalties for marijuana - but of the remaining contenders, Obama has been the friendliest to advocates of medical marijuana.
At a November appearance in Audubon, Iowa, Obama recalled that his mother had died of cancer and said he saw no difference between doctor-prescribed morphine and marijuana as pain relievers. He said he would be open to allowing medical use of marijuana, if scientists and doctors concluded it was effective, but only under ''strict guidelines,'' because he was ''concerned about folks just kind of growing their own and saying it's for medicinal purposes.''
Obama went a step further in an interview in March with the Mail Tribune newspaper in Medford, Ore. While still expressing qualms about patients growing their own supply or getting it from ''mom-and-pop stores,'' he said it is ''entirely appropriate'' for a state to legalize the medical use of marijuana, ''with the same controls as other drugs prescribed by doctors.''
In response to recent questions from The Chronicle about medical marijuana, Obama's campaign - the only one of the three contenders to reply - endorsed a hands-off federal policy.
''Voters and legislators in the states - from California to Nevada to Maine - have decided to provide their residents suffering from chronic diseases and serious illnesses like AIDS and cancer with medical marijuana to relieve their pain and suffering,'' said campaign spokesman Ben LaBolt.
''Obama supports the rights of states and local governments to make this choice - though he believes medical marijuana should be subject to (U.S. Food and Drug Administration) regulation like other drugs,'' LaBolt said. He said the FDA should consider how marijuana is regulated under federal law, while leaving states free to chart their own course.
Obama would end dea raids
LaBolt also said Obama would end U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration raids on medical marijuana suppliers in states with their own laws.
Those raids have been the focus of Hillary Clinton's comments on the issue. At a July campaign event in Manchester, N.H., she told a medical marijuana advocate that she would end the federal raids, according to Granite Staters for Medical Marijuana, which recorded the exchange.
But the candidate was less absolute in a more recent interview with the Willamette Week newspaper in Hillsboro, Ore.
''I don't think it's a good use of federal law enforcement resources to be going after people who are supplying marijuana for medicinal purposes,'' Clinton said in the April 5 interview. But when asked whether she would stop the raids, she replied, ''What we should do is prioritize what the DEA should be doing, and that would not be a high priority. There's a lot of other, more important work that needs to be done.''
Clinton has also said she opposes repealing criminal penalties for marijuana, but told advocates in October that the government should conduct more research ''into what, if any, medical benefits it has.''
McCain has taken a variety of positions, according to comments recorded by medical marijuana advocates.
At an April 2007 campaign kickoff event, when asked if he would end federal raids, he said, ''I would let states decide that issue.'' But less than two months later, he said he would not end the raids. Then, in November, he promised a man who described himself as a seriously ill marijuana patient that he would ''do everything in my power'' to make sure the man was never arrested for using the drug.
No policy paper
While maintaining that medical experts considered marijuana ineffectual and potentially dangerous, McCain promised at the same November event in New Hampshire to consult with experts and issue an ''in-depth policy paper'' on the topic within a few days. McCain's campaign has not responded to media inquiries, and marijuana advocates say the policy paper was never issued.
He was also asked during a November conference call whether the federal government should override the will of the people in states with medical marijuana laws. ''Medical marijuana is not something that the, quote, people want,'' McCain replied.
Bruce Mirken, a spokesman for the advocacy group Marijuana Policy Project, said he remains hopeful that the federal climate will improve, no matter who becomes president.
''All it takes,'' he said, ''is for the Justice Department to say, 'Leave these states alone.' ''
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NY,25.03.08 (Por Junia d'Affonseca) -
O prazo para atualização do título de eleitor este ano termina dia 7 de maio de 2008.
O TRE só deverá reabrir para recadastramento no próximo ano após as eleições. Avisem os amigos e parentes para se atualizarem a fim de evitar problemas no futuro.O voto é obrigatório a TODOS os brasileiros alfabetizados, maiores de 18 e menores de 70 anos. O voto é facultativo aos brasileiros analfabetos, jovens entre 16 e 18 anos e aos idosos com mais de 70 anos.
A lista de embaixadas e repartições consulares brasileiras poderá ser acessada pela página Web do
Ministério das Relações Exteriores.
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NY,22.03.08 (Fonte: TSE) -
Brasil tem quase 105 mil eleitores no exterior
A Justiça Eleitoral registrou, em um ano, um aumento superior a 21% no número de eleitores brasileiros que vivem no exterior. Dentre os dados analisados no período de janeiro a dezembro de 2007, constatou-se que esse grupo subiu de 86.202 para quase 105 mil eleitores alistados junto às representações diplomáticas espalhadas pelo mundo.
Foram, em média, quase 1.500 novos pedidos de cadastramento por mês. Importante destacar que os brasileiros residentes no exterior votam apenas para presidente da República.
Os eleitores no exterior correspondem a 0,082% do total do eleitorado brasileiro, que soma 127.464.143 cidadãos aptos a votar. Veja a lista do número de eleitores por país em anexo.
Existem 94 zonas eleitorais espalhadas pelos cinco continentes, sendo que o maior eleitorado está localizado nos Estados Unidos, com 35.875 alistados.
Na Europa, o país com maior número de registros é Portugal, com 11.116. Na Oceania, é a Austrália, com 1.134. Já na Ásia, o Japão concentra 5.373 eleitores. No Oriente Médio, o Líbano contra com 1.186 cadastrados.
Nos países limítrofes ao território brasileiro, o Paraguai soma o maior número de alistados, com 2.650, seguido pela Argentina, com 2.304, e curiosamente, por Guiana Francesa, com 1.841, que superou o número de eleitores registrado pelas representações diplomáticas do Uruguai (1.105).
A evolução do eleitorado em 2007 mostra um aumento considerável de novos títulos no segundo semestre, uma vez que 4.889 títulos foram cancelados de abril a maio. A maioria dos casos se refere a eleitores que deixaram de votar nos três últimos pleitos (referendo das armas, em 2005, e dois turnos das eleições gerais de 2006). Também há casos de transferência e comunicação de óbito. Ao todo, foram 18.458 novos títulos em 2007.
Campanha
Desde o ano passado o Tribunal Superior Eleitoral (TSE) tem intensificado as campanhas de conscientização dos eleitores residentes fora do Brasil para que regularizem seus títulos. Entre os dias 5 de novembro e 30 de dezembro, o TSE veiculou, no exterior, campanha através de emissoras internacionais, como Rede Globo, TV Brasil e Rede Record, alertando sobre a necessidade de regularização da situação eleitoral junto às representações diplomáticas dos países em que residem. O objetivo é sensibilizar o eleitor-migrante a participar do processo eleitoral através do voto, a fim de colaborar com o processo democrático brasileiro, mesmo à distância.
Para este ano, o TSE produzirá material informativo para os eleitores que vão para o exterior, esclarecendo como se regulariza a situação - transferindo o título de eleitor para o exterior ou mantendo seu título no País – conforme a permanência seja temporária ou a longo prazo do cidadão em território estrangeiro.
Como fazer
Para fazer o alistamento eleitoral fora do país, o brasileiro residente no exterior deve ter em mãos um documento brasileiro de identificação, como certidão de nascimento, carteira de identidade, carteira de trabalho ou passaporte. Além disso, deve apresentar comprovante de residência no exterior e, se for homem e maior de 18 anos, certificado de alistamento militar ou de reservista.
Para o alistamento eleitoral, o eleitor deve se dirigir pessoalmente ao consulado ou embaixada, onde um funcionário do Itamaraty preenche manualmente o Requerimento de Alistamento Eleitoral (RAE) e anexa as cópias dos documentos exigidos. O eleitor deve assinar o documento na frente do funcionário. O alistamento não pode ser feito por meio de procuração. O RAE é o único documento válido ao eleitor residente no exterior que precise se alistar, transferir, revisar dados ou solicitar segunda via de título eleitoral.
Em seguida, o requerimento é encaminhado ao Cartório Eleitoral do Exterior, em Brasília, por mala diplomática, para deferimento do juiz eleitoral. Processado esse documento, o título eleitoral é emitido e enviado às repartições diplomáticas onde foram solicitados.
O título eleitoral só pode ser retirado pelo eleitor que o requereu, por se tratar de documento intransferível. Todo o processo pode levar de três a seis meses até a entrega do título. Os títulos devem ser emitidos e assinados pelo juiz do Cartório Eleitoral do Exterior até três meses antes da eleição.
Seção Eleitoral
Para se organizar uma seção eleitoral no exterior, é preciso que na circunscrição sob a jurisdição da Missão Diplomática ou Consulado-Geral haja um mínimo de 30 eleitores. Se o número não atingir o mínimo, o eleitor pode votar na seção mais próxima, desde que localizada no mesmo país. Se o número de eleitores inscritos ultrapassar 400, instala-se nova seção.
O Código Eleitoral (Lei 4.737/65), nos artigos 225 a 233, determina como será feita a votação no exterior. A Resolução 22.155 do Tribunal Superior Eleitoral (TSE) também estabelece regras para a matéria, além de disciplinar o alistamento eleitoral no estrangeiro.
O Cartório Eleitoral do Exterior tem por competência a execução do processo eleitoral e a prestação dos serviços jurisdicionais aos brasileiros residentes no exterior. Para isso, trabalha juntamente com o Ministério da Relações Exteriores, representado pelas Missões Diplomáticas ou Repartições Consulares brasileiras instaladas em diversos países do mundo (embaixadas e consulados).
Os serviços prestados nas embaixadas ou repartições consulares brasileiras são: o alistamento eleitoral, transferência de domicílio eleitoral, revisão de título, emissão de segunda via do título e justificativa eleitoral.
Situação irregular
Com base na última estatística oficial do Itamaraty, de 2005, o número de brasileiros no exterior é de 3,5 milhões. Destes, apenas 1,4 milhão estão em situação regular e apenas 397 mil se matricularam em alguns dos consulados ou postos gerais no exterior.
O país com maior número de brasileiros é o Estados Unidos, onde residem cerca de 1,5 milhão. No entanto, apenas 415 mil estão legalizados. Os dados do consulado de Boston dão conta da complexidade dessa situação. Lá, estima-se que vivam cerca de 300 mil brasileiros, mas apenas 50 mil regulares. Desses, apenas 1.004 estão matriculados no consulado.
A segunda maior comunidade de brasileiros no exterior está no Paraguai, com 450 mil residentes. Depois vem o Japão, onde vivem 350 mil brasileiros, a maioria como dekasseguis, como são chamadas as pessoas que deixam sua terra natal para trabalhar, temporariamente, em outra região. Desse total, 220 mil estão em Nagóia, onde o consulado registra uma situação incomum, já que 210 mil vivem em situação regular. Mesmo assim, apenas 11% estão registrados no consulado.
O quadro de regulares também é ruim na Europa, onde cerca de 140 mil brasileiros vivem na Itália, 130 mil em Portugal, e outros 120 mil na Espanha, país que registra nos últimos cinco anos um aumento considerável de ingresso de brasileiros e uma situação atípica com mais da metade deles matriculados nos postos do Itamaraty. É o caso de Barcelona, que recebeu 50 mil brasileiros, dos quais 28 mil estão registrados.
O voto é obrigatório aos brasileiros alfabetizados, maiores de 18 e menores de 70 anos. O voto é facultativo aos brasileiros analfabetos, jovens entre 16 e 18 anos e aos idosos com mais de 70 anos.
A lista de embaixadas e repartições consulares brasileiras poderá ser acessada pela página Web do Ministério das Relações Exteriores
Ministério das Relações Exteriores.
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NY, 02.28.08 (by BAM) -
Dance Grupo Corpo, returns with the New York premieres of Benguelê
Following its acclaimed performances at BAM as part of the 2002 and 2005 Next Wave Festivals, one of Brazil’s leading contemporary dance companies, Grupo Corpo, returns with the New York premieres of Benguelê (1998) and Breu (2007). The works display the popular troupe’s Afro-Brazilian flavored fusion of ballet, jazz, and modern dance infused with the polyrhythms of Latin and African dance.
Rodrigo Pederneiras creates works that are as rich and multifaceted as Brazil itself. The 21-member company dances with razor-edge precision, and displays a sleek and supple versatility. The Guardian (UK) has said Pederneiras “has developed a style that perfectly showcases the company’s eclectic gifts. The larky energy of carnival and the pulse of the street thrums across the smooth classical surface of their dancing. As they coil, kick, and spin across the stage, every move feels like a celebration of the body energetic and the body beautiful.”
Four performances by Grupo Corpo will take place in the BAM Howard Gilman Opera House (30 Lafayette Ave.) on March 25, 27–29 at 7:30pm. Tickets—priced at $20, 35, 50, and 60—may be purchased by calling BAM Ticket Services at 718.636.4100 or online at BAM.org.
About the program
The evening opens with Benguelê, which draws heavily on Brazil’s African roots. Set to a commissioned score by João Bosco, Pederneiras blends Capoeira, Brazilian folklore, and the dances of the Congado—a religious ritual developed by African slaves in Brazil—in this work for 21 dancers. Jornal do Brasil notes that “with its kicking pirouettes and gyrations, Grupo Corpo presents an emotional portrait of Brazilian culture.” The company’s newest piece, Breu, follows in its New York premiere. The piece features a dark score by multiple Latin Grammy-winner Lenine, who according to the The New York Times is “one of the brightest of his generation of eclectic folk-rock and electronic musicians.” The work showcases some of Pederneiras’ most aggressive and confrontational choreography to date with sudden falls and low earth-bound crouches and repetitions. Set within a stark, colorless environment, Pederneiras evokes extreme isolation, deathly inertia, and devastation.
About the company
Founded by Paulo Pederneiras in Belo Horizonte, Brazil in 1975, Grupo Corpo has received widespread acclaim for its vibrant dances in which choreography, lighting, sets, and costumes interplay. Brothers Paulo and Rodrigo Pederneiras (artistic director and choreographer, respectively), Fernando Velloso (set designer), Freusa Zechmeister (costume designer), and the 21-member dance company strive to meld the past, present, and future of their native land into an art that is unmistakably Brazilian. Making its third appearance at BAM, Grupo Corpo was previously presented as part of the 2002 and 2005 Next Wave Festivals. The New York Times has said of the company, “…energy is a synonym for Grupo Corpo. Hip-swiveling samba-like exuberance with ballet pirouettes and jetés.”
BAMdialogue with Rodrigo Pederneiras
BAM presents a BAMdialogue with Rodrigo Pederneiras moderated by Barbara Browning, Associate Professor of Performance Studies, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University Thursday, on Thursday, March 27 at 6pm in the BAM Rose Cinemas (30 Lafayette Avenue). For tickets, priced at $8 ($4 for Friends of BAM), call BAM Ticket Services at 718.636.4100 or visit BAM.org.
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NYC, 02.20.08 ( By Frei Betto) -
Fidel Castro, 81, renunciou às suas funções de presidente do Conselho de Estado de Cuba e Comandante-em-Chefe da Revolução.
Fidel Castro, 81, renunciou às suas funções de presidente do Conselho de Estado de Cuba e Comandante-em-Chefe da Revolução. Entregue aos cuidados de sua saúde, prefere manter-se fora das atividades de governo e participar do debate político – que sempre o encantou – através de seus artigos na mídia. Permanece, porém, como membro do Birô Político do Partido Comunista de Cuba.
No próximo domingo, 24, Raúl Castro, 77, será eleito, pelos novos deputados da Assembléia Nacional, para ocupar as funções de primeiro mandatário de Cuba.
Esta é a segunda vez que Fidel renuncia ao poder. A primeira ocorreu em julho de 1959, sete meses após a vitória da Revolução. Eleito primeiro-ministro, entrou em choque com o presidente Manuel Urrutia, que considerou radical as leis revolucionárias, como a reforma agrária, promulgadas pelo conselho de ministros. Para evitar um golpe de Estado, o líder cubano preferiu renunciar. O povo saiu às ruas em seu apoio. Pressionado pelas manifestações, Urrutia não teve alternativa senão deixar o poder. A presidência foi ocupada por Osvaldo Dorticós e Fidel voltou à função de primeiro-ministro.
Estive em Cuba em janeiro deste ano, para participar do Encontro Internacional sobre o Equilíbrio do Mundo, à luz do 155º aniversário de nascimento de José Martí, figura paradigmática do país. Retornei em meados de fevereiro para outro evento internacional, o Congresso Universidade 2008, do qual participaram vários reitores de universidades brasileiras.
Nas duas ocasiões encontrei-me com Raúl Castro e outros ministros cubanos. Reuni-me também com a direção da FEU (Federação Estudantil Universitária); estudantes da Universidade de Ciências Informáticas; professores de nível básico e médio; e educadores populares.
Ilude-se quem imagina significar a renúncia de Fidel o começo do fim do socialismo em Cuba. Não há nenhum sintoma de que setores significativos da sociedade cubana aspirem à volta ao capitalismo. Nem os bispos da Igreja Católica. Exceção a uns poucos que, em nome dos direitos humanos, não se importariam que o futuro de Cuba fosse equivalente ao presente de Honduras, Guatemala ou Nicarágua. Aliás, nenhum dos que se evadiram do país prosseguiu na defesa dos direitos humanos ao inserir-se no mundo encantado do consumismo...
Cuba não é avessa a mudanças. O próprio Raúl Castro desencadeou um processo interno de críticas à Revolução, através das organizações de massa e dos setores profissionais. São mais de 1 milhão de sugestões ora analisadas pelo governo. Os cubanos sabem que as dificuldades são enormes, pois vivem numa quádrupla ilha: geográfica; única nação socialista do Ocidente; órfã de sua parceria com a União Soviética; bloqueada há mais de 40 anos pelo governo dos EUA.
Malgrado tudo isso, o país mereceu elogios do papa João Paulo II por ocasião de sua visita, em 1998. No IDH 2007 da ONU, o Brasil comemorou o fato de figurar em 70º lugar. Os primeiros setenta paises são considerados os melhores em qualidade de vida. Cuba, onde nada se paga pelo direito universal à saúde e educação de qualidades, figura em 51º lugar.
O país apresenta uma taxa de alfabetização de 99,8%; conta com 70.594 médicos para uma população de 11,2 milhões (1 médico para 160 habitantes); índice de mortalidade infantil de 5,3 por cada 1.000 nascidos vivos (nos EUA são 7 e, no Brasil, 27); 800 mil diplomados em 67 universidades, nas quais ingressam, por ano, 606 mil estudantes.
Hoje, Cuba mantém médicos e professores atuando em mais de 100 países, incluído o Brasil, e promove, em toda a América Latina, a Operação Milagros, para curar gratuitamente enfermidades dos olhos, e a campanha de alfabetização Yo si puedo (Sim, eu sou capaz), com resultados que convenceram o presidente Lula a adotar o método no Brasil.
Haverá, sim, mudanças em Cuba quando cessar o bloqueio dos EUA; forem libertados os cinco cubanos presos injustamente na Flórida por lutarem contra o terrorismo; e se a base naval de Guantánamo, ora utilizada como cárcere clandestino - símbolo mundial do desrespeito aos direitos humanos e civis - de supostos terroristas for devolvida.
Não se espere, contudo, que Cuba arranque das portas de Havana dois cartazes que envergonham a nós, latino-americanos, que vivemos em ilhas de opulência cercadas de miséria por todos os lados: “A cada ano, 80 mil crianças morrem vítimas de doenças evitáveis. Nenhuma delas é cubana.” “Esta noite 200 milhões de crianças dormirão nas ruas do mundo. Nenhuma é cubana.”
- Frei Betto é escritor, autor de “Calendário do Poder” (Rocco), entre outros livros.
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NYC, 01.28.08 (by Stephen Leahy) - Biofuels a Lose-Lose Strategy, Critics Say.
U.S. biofuels production is driving up food prices around the world, giving billions of poor people a very good reason to hate U.S. policy, say environmentalists.
''The U.S. has led the fight to stem global hunger, now we are creating hunger,'' said Lester Brown, president of the Earth Policy Institute, an environmental think tank in Washington.
The booming U.S. ethanol industry is diverting enormous amounts food into fuel: 81 million tonnes of grain in 2007 and 114 million tonnes this year, equaling 28 percent of the entire U.S. grain harvest, Brown told IPS.
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NYC, 27.11.07 ( By Mikael Colboc) -
Arte Brasileira causa polêmica e faz sucesso na New Century Arts Gallery in NYC - a exposição ficará em cartaz até o dia 1 de Dezembro.
EARTH - The Art of Global Warning a exposição de arte avant-garde assinada pelos curadores brasileiros Alcinda Saphira, René Nascimento e Ana Lourdes Alvarenga está causando frisson no Chelsea em Manhattan. Depois do fantástico cocktail de abertura no dia 16 de novembro quando 10 modelos desfilaram as roupas recicladas da fashion designer brasileira Liz Carvalho mais de 1000 pessoas visitaram a exposição e mesas redondas que expõem as preocupações, visões e esperanças de 30 artistas e ativistas sobre o tema do aquecimento global.
''A abertura foi realmente fantástica e acima da nossa humilde expectativa, conseguimos reunir 250 - 300 pessoas um público extremamente diversificado celebrando todas as etnias e nacionalidades amantes da arte, musica, Sagatiba drinks, meio ambiente e justiça social!'' diz René Nascimento.
Um dos pontos altos da noite ficou por conta da espontaneidade dos artistas plásticos Franco Jr, Romeu Frossad e Zeca Schetino que não resistiram ao som do berimbau da mestra de capoeira Edna Lima e entraram na roda desfilando muito jeitinho brasileiro e arrancando muitas risadas do público. ''Capoeira é ecologia'' disse Edna que compos uma canção de capoeira dedicada ao tema do aquecimento global especialmente para o evento.
A curadoria acredita que o apoio da mídia brasileira e das organizações ecológicas americanas tem sido fundamental na divulgação dessa exposição que também é palco para mesas redondas e se tornou uma contribuição efetiva da comunidade artistica brasileira na busca de soluções, alternatives verdes contra o aquecimento global . ''A realidade é que somos todos responsáveis porque também vivemos aqui e de uma forma ou de outra acabamos contribuindo para que os EUA encabece a lista dos países mais poluidores no mundo'' - comentou Alcinda Saphira.
EARTH - The Art of Global Warning (TERRA - Arte em Alerta) estará na New Century Artists Gallery, 530 W 25th St entre as 10 e 11 avenidas até o dia 1 de Dezembro. No dia 28 acontecerá uma palestra com representantes da Rain Forest Foundation, Liz Christy Jardim Comunitário e Samba Roots Productions. No dia 29 de Novembro um show de Nanny Assis e Banda encerrará o ciclo de eventos na galeria. A entrada é gratuita e cocktails serão servidos nos dois eventos.
'' Não temos para onde correr … temos que nos conscientizar e dar exemplo - brasileiros não são apenas ''super limpos'', com essa exposição também mostramos que somos extremamente ecológicos e politicos - nossa comunidade se importa com questões ambientais e não apenas com o nosso bem estar , mas com o bem estar de toda a humanidade '' disse Ana Lourdes Alvarenga reciclando um copo da deliciosa agua de coco que a Vitacoco doou para o evento.
Apesar de ter tido idealização, produção e curadoria brasileiras a exposição contou com o forte apoio de respeitadas organizações americanas não governamentais e sem fins lucrativos que trabalham a questão do ambientalismo como Greenpeace, Rainforest Foundation, Horticulture Society, Solar 1, Transportation Alternatives, Groundwork, The Climate Project,The Brazilian Endowment for the Arts, The Amazon Coalition. Algumas empresas que exercitam responsabilidade social como a cachaça Sagatiba e água de coco Vitacoco. A curadoria agradece o apoio das midias brasileiras Brazilian Voice, Comunidade News, The Brasilians. Migrating Media & Productions e Alcinda Saphira Studios assinam a produção do evento. Para maiores informações por favor visite: www.artinearth.com
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NYC, 01.11.07 ( By Mikael Colboc) - REEL THURSDAYS - THE HIDDEN TRESURE OF BRAZILIAN CINEFILES - PROGRAM FALL 2007 - TANIA CYPRIANO RETROSPECTIVE
Reel Thursdays (Quintas no Cinema) is a non-profit film exhibition venue produced by Migrating Media & Productions, curated by Ana Lourdes Alvarenga to benefit the Brazilian Endowment for the Arts and provide quality movie programs to the public interested in Brazilian cinematography meanwhile creating a video archive of Latin American movies within the Machado de Assis Library, the first Brazilian library in New York City.
This Fall '07, Reel Thursdays will feature a retrospective of one of the most respected Brazilian cinematographers living in the United States - Tânia Cypriano. The program is structured in three sections - November 1st, November 22nd and December 1st in which Migrating Media & Productions will layout some of the most significant videos and films that Cypriano directed and produced in the last 20 years between Brazil and United States.
On Thursday, November 1st ''Reel Thursdays'' will feature Tania's Cypriano last movie GRANDMA HAS A VIDEO CAMERA followed by a Q&A and DVD signing with the director. For over 20 years, a family of Brazilian immigrants in the United States used their home video camera to record first-hand how they saw their new world and struggled to establish themselves. Fast paced and funny, this documentary presents a touching portrait of migration, displacement and the search for identity. The GRANDMA HAS A VIDEO CAMERA screening will be preceded by the trailer of Cypriano's working in progress, the feature documentary ''Health and Faith'' - which explores healthcare practices in Afro-Brazilian religious communities. GRANDMA HAS A VIDEO CAMERA has recently been featured at Festival Premiere Latin beat 2007 Walter Reade Theater, Lincoln Center, New York, Broadcast Premiere Truly California series Channel 9, KQED, Northern California. On the next pages will find all the information the complete program for this fall and Tania Cypriano's Resume. For more info or interview with the director please call 646.373.3454.
SERVICE
Event: REEL THURSDAYS (Quintas no Cinema)
Dates: Every first and third Thursday of the month
Next Shows: Nov 1st, Nov 15th, and Dec 6th
Time: Starting at 7pm * Suggested Donation: $ 3
Place: BEA - The Brazilian Endowment for the Arts - Biblioteca Machado de Assis
240 52nd St (bet. 2nd & 3rd Aves), New York, NY 10022 - 212.371.1556
How to get there: By subway - (6) until 51st St, (E) or (V) until Lexington Ave/ 53rd St
For Reservations and further information: event@migratingmedia.com / 212.920.9540
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NYC, 23.10.07 (By Justice for Immigrants) - DREAM ACT TOO CLOSE TO CALL--PLEASE CONTACT YOUR SENATORS Call 202-224-3121 ASAP
The U.S. Senate will have its first procedural vote on the DREAM ACT on Wednesday. We need to redouble our efforts to get in phone calls and messages. Votes on the bill could continue until the end of the week. Call 202-224-3121 ASAP and ask your Senator to vote yes on the DREAM Act, S. 2205.
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NYC, 09.04.07 (By Ana Lourdes Alvarenga) - Her Grandma Has a Video Camera, what about yours?
Have you been trying to understand brazilians but you can't get it right for some reason.... This is the movie you need to watch in other to understand a bit more about the brazilian immigrant ''persona''.
Grandma Has a Video Camera Tania Cypriano, 56 min. Brazil/U.S. 2007
For over 20 years, a family of Brazilian immigrants in the United States used their home video camera to record first-hand how they saw their new world and struggled to establish themselves. Fast paced and funny, this documentary presents a touching portrait of migration, displacement and the search for identity.
* Schedule for the EAST COAST, New York
Sunday, September 9 - 1:30pm
Tuesday, September 11 - 6:30pm
Latinbeat 2007
Walter Reade Theater, Lincoln Center
Sunday screening will be preceded by a brunch offered by New York Women In Film & Television
For more information on Latinbeat and Screenings: click here
For information on NYWIFT and the Sunday brunch: click here
* Schedule for the WEST COAST, Northern California
Sunday, September 9 - 6pm
Thrusday, September 13 -11pm
Truly California
Channel 9, KQED
For the schedule of other exhibitions of Grandma Has a Video Camera, also on KQEDclick here.
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NYC,08.18.07 (By yara Maura) - A Turma da Mônica estréia na America Latina
A Turma da Mônica é conhecida pelo nome “Mónica y su Pandilla” nos desenhos animados em espanhol que estrearam este ano na Cartoon Network/Boomerang na America Latina.
As histórias divertidas com a turma toda, Mónica, Magáli, Cascarón e Cebollita estão programadas para exibição as 9:45h da manhã de segunda a domingo, para alegria das crianças que vivem em Anguilla e Antilhas, Antígua e Barbuda, Argentina, Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Bolívia, Bonaire, Cayman, Chile, Colômbia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Curaçao, Dominica, El Salvador, Equador, Granada Guadelupe, Guatemala, Guiana Francesa, Guiana, Haiti, Honduras, Ilhas Leeward, Jamaica, Martinica, México, Montserrate, Nicarágua, Panamá, Paraguai, Peru, Porto Rico, República Dominicana, Saba, São Cristóvão e Nevis, São Vicente e Granadinas, St. Martin, Sta. Lúcia, Suriname, Tórtola, Trinidad e Tobago, Turcas e Caicos, Uruguai e Venezuela.
No Brasil, os desenhos animados da Turma da Mônica já são exibidos pela Cartoon Network desde 2004.
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NYC,07.28.07 (By Ana Lourdes Alvarenga) - Life beyond Summer Stage - In July 31st 6 black students from Jena,Louisiana, may be sentenced to life in prison for crossing the lines of a racial divided playground.
On September 1st, 2006 - the morning after 3 black students attempted to integrate Jena High School's playground by sitting in the traditionally all white area - three nooses were found hanging from branches. After that ''inside joke/warning'' among high school students, racial tension rose beyond school grounds and fights broke out around town.
A white man pulled a sawed-off shotgun on black students at a convenience store (they wrestled it away from him), and someone burned down most of the school. When the boys who hung the nooses were caught and the superintendent brushed it off as a ''harmless prank,'' every black student in school crowded under the tree in protest.
The District Attorney was called into the school to end the protest. Flanked by police officers he held a pen in the air and told them all ''I can end your life with the stroke of a pen.'' A week later he tried to make good on his promise. On December 4th, another fight broke out at school and the DA charged six black students with attempted second-degree murder. He wrote an open letter to the students in the town's only paper that ''when you are convicted, I will seek the maximum penalty allowed by law.''
The six teenagers are facing 80-100 years in prison without parole. They range in age from 15-17 years old.
Their names are: Bryant Purvis, Jesse Beard, Carwin Jones, Mychal Bell, Theodoore Shaw and Rovert Bailey. All of the boys were college-bound, most with offers of scholarships for various achievements. Mychal Bell was recently convicted of aggravated battery and conspiracy to commit aggravated battery. An all-white jury took less than 2 days to convict him. He faces up to 22 years in prison. His sentencing is set for July 31.
YOU CAN HELP - GET INVOLVED
The address to the Defense Fund is: Jena 6 Defense Committee, PO BOX 2798, Jena, LA 71342.
To hear more information about this case, go to www.democracynow.org and type in a search for Jena.
You can also visit Friends of Justice blog for information about current organizing efforts in Jena.
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NYC, 07.24.07 (By Diana Vargas) - 5th CineFest Petrobras Brasil August 5-12,2007
The Festival Announces Petrobras as its Major Sponsor for 2007
Opening Night: Afro Reggae and The Film Zuzu Angel at Central Park Summer Stage
From August 5th to 12th, New York will once again play host to the most current trends in Brazilian cinema as the 5th annual Cine Fest Petrobras Brasil, produced by Inffinito Group, brings actors and producers from Brazil. The festival takes over two venues known for being part of the city’s arts and culture scene: Summer Stage in Central Park (Rumsey Playfield, 72nd and Fifth Avenue) and Tribeca Cinemas (54 Varick Street, at Laight Street).
As the largest Brazilian Film Festival on the East Coast, the 5th CineFest Petrobras Brasil, will showcase films that reflect the Brazilian community and honor the many directors and actors who have made an impact on the industry. “We are proud to confirm that the festival will be again part of Central Park’s Summer Stage activities. On August 5th, the group Afro Reggae will perform followed by a screening of Sergio Resende’s movie, Zuzu Angel,” says Adriana Dutra, Executive Director of the festival.
Afro Reggae was created in 1993 after the massacre of Vigário Geral and is known for developing social projects for cultural and artistic formation, aimed at the young inhabitants of the “favelas”, trough the use of dance, theatre, music and circus. Zuzu Angel tells the true story of a famous Brazilian fashion designer of the ‘70s, and her political awakening after the military regime kills her son.
For seven days filmgoers will have the opportunity to see award-winning films as well as new independent films from and about Brazil. “The festival's primordial role is to serve as a showcase for each year's most enterprising and innovative films made in Brazil,” added Ms. Adriana Dutra.
After a successful U.S debut at the Brazilian Film Festival in Miami where it won the Audience Award for Best Film and Best Actress awards, Miguel Falabella’s Urban Snapshots gets its US theatrical premiere in New York City at Tribeca Cinemas, August 6-12, in conjunction with the 5th edition of the annual CineFest Petrobras Brasil.
The festival will pay tribute to director and producer Roberto Farias , one of the most renowned names in the Brazilian cinema. For almost 50 years of career, Roberto has directed unforgettable movies such as Cidade Ameaçada, Assault on the Pay Train and Selva Trágica.
The screening of the documentary Nenhum Motivo Explica a Guerra by Cacá Diegues and Rafael Dragaud at United Nations building will be part of the special events prepared to honor Mr. Farias, followed by a show by AfroReggae and a cocktail reception.
Among the films confirmed for this year are: The Greatest Love of All (Carlos Diegues), Money on the (Bruno Barreto), Unforgettable (Paulo Sérgio Almeida), Urban Snap-Shots (Miguel Falabella), Cartola (Lírio Ferreira and Hilton Lacerda), Noel - The Samba Poet (Ricardo Van Steen), The Big Family (Maurício Farias), For a Better Day (João Jardim), Life is a Breath of Air (Fabiano Maciel), Bog of Beasts (Cláudio Assis), I Remember (Edgard Navarro), Maksuara, Crepúsculo dos deuses (Neville D’Almeida), Three Blood Brothers (Ângela Reiniger) and Atabaques Nzinga (Octávio Bezerra).
Once again, Petrobras is the Presenting Sponsor of The 5th Cine Fest Petrobras Brasil . Petrobras is the largest investor in the Brazilian cinematographic industry. It invests annually, approximately 30 millions in production, exhibition and distribution of the Brazilian cinema. The company believes in the notion that culture influences business growth abroad. Having released stocks it the New York Stock Exchange, Petrobras has decided to invest on the Festival's naming rights: Cine Fest Petrobras. Since the Festival has become the most important platform for visibility of Brazilian productions in the USA.
In the last decade, the Brazilian film industry has grown ever stronger, supporting the appearance of new talents as well as making it possible for many of its pioneering filmmakers to continue working. That is the reason why Inffinito Gruop – the production company run by partners Adriana Dutra, Cláudia Dutra and Viviane B. Spinelli – has organized for second consecutive year, The MarketPlace . A series of panels and seminars that work as a platform for commercialization, distribution and exhibition of Brazilian films in the United States and Latin America. The events will also have representatives from the international movie industry and Brazilian cinematographic institutions.
From August 6–11 , screenings will be held at Tribeca Cinemas (54 Varick Street at Laight Street) where the films will be competing for the Best Public Choice Award. After the screenings, the public and guests of the festival will gather at the Petrobras Lounge, designed especially for the event. DJ MAM will be spinning Brazilian beats every day until midnight.
On August 12 , the Closing ceremony will take place at The New School’s Tishman Auditorium. As in previous years, the Cine Fest Petrobras Brasil will present the winner with a Crystal Lens Award, trophy created by the plastic artist Helena Bressane. The ceremony will end with a concert by popular singer Vanessa da Mata. The Brazilian singer, listed as one the most prominent artists of new generation of Brazilian popular musicians, counts with numerous hits and more than 250 compositions.
The festival is organized by Inffinito Arts Foundation and recognized by the city of New York as well as the Brazilian Government as one of the most important events to promote the Brazilian Movie industry in the United States. Inffinito Arts Foundation was created with the objective of integrating Brazil to the cultural segments in the American territory, promoting events that ennoble its rich and diversified culture. Their main goal is to expand their actions in order to attract new partners and markets for the Brazilian culture and its movies, achieving greater opportunities for its professionals.
Ticket prices are $10 for adults, $8 for seniors and students. VIP Pass: $120 (Admission to all screenings, panels, and Galas).
For more information and online tickets, log on to the Brazilian Film Festival website or call (877) 273- 4563
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NYC, 05.07.07 (By Ernest Barteldes) - Festival Premiere Brasil e Brasil Cine Fest
O MOMA em Nova York realiza o festival de cinema Premiere Brasil, que conta com novos lançamentos do cinema brasileiro. Entre eles está “Antonia”, de Tata Amaral, e tambem Cao Sem Dono, de Beto Brant, que trata da mortalidade entre as classes sociais mais baixas do Brasil e tambem “Fabricando Tom Ze”, de Decio Matos Jr; que conta, de maneira divertida, a historia da vida do menos famoso entre os participantes do movimento tropicalis.
Dentro da programação tambem está o classico “Pixote: A Lei do Mais Fraco” (1980), de Hector Babenco. O filme sera seguido pelo documentario “Pixote in Memoriam”, que conta com a participacao de varios atores e diretores do filme original, que lembram da curta e tragica vida do ator Fernando Ramos da Silva, cuja morte teve muita semelhanca com o destino do personagem que ele protagonizou.
O Festival Premiere Brasil acontece entre 12 e 23 de julho. Alem dos filmes, haverao paineis, palestras e discussoes com cineastas e pessoas ligadas ao cinema brasileiro. O MOMA fica na 11 West 53 St. entre Quinta e Sexta Avenida em Nova York. Para maiores informaçoes visite o site do MOMA
Para maiores informações.
Outro festival que acontece mais tarde e o Brazil Cine Fest, que acontece em Nova York na semana de 5 de agosto. Na abertura teremos o grupo carioca Afro Reggae, que nasceu nas favelas do Rio e realiza um grande trabalho na área social seguido pela apresentação do filme “Zuzu Angel” , de Sérgio Rezende; Summerstage, no Central Park East com rua 72 a partir das 7 da noite. O show é gratuito. Visite o site do Summer Stage para mais informações.
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NYC, 06/22/2007(By GVSHP) - The Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation celebrates ''Lesbian and Gay History Month'' with a Guide to lesbian and gay historic landmarks cover page.
In 1994, the Organization of Lesbian + Gay Architects and Designers (OLGAD) researched and designed a first-of-its-kind walking guide map featuring historic landmarks of gay and lesbian Greenwich Village. GVSHP is pleased to present for the first time the information from this ground-breaking map in an on-line format.
They are also opening a new webpage of resources regarding the lesbian and gay history of the Village, www.gvshp.org/lesbianandgayhistory.htm. On it you will find:
* Stonewall District National Register of Historic Places Report -- the first site listed on the National Register of Historic Places for its association with lesbian and gay history. This designation was sponsored by the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation and the Organization of Lesbian and Gay Architects.
* Gansevoort Market Historic District Designation Report -- designated September, 2003, by the New York city Landmarks Preservation Commisison, and nominated by GVSHP's Save Gansevoort Market project. Includes history of gay establishments in the area and the area's historic role in New York's gay community
* 127 MacDougal Street Landmark Designation Report -- designated June, 2004, nominated by GVSHP and the NY Landmarks Conservancy. Includes history of early lesbian and gay establishments on MacDougal Street
* 129 MacDougal Street Landmark Designation Report -- designated June, 2004, nominated by GVSHP and the NY Landmarks Conservancy. Includes history of early lesbian and gay establishments on MacDougal Street
* 131 MacDougal Street Landmark Designation Report -- designated June, 2004, nominated by GVSHP and the NY Landmarks Conservancy. Includes history of early lesbian and gay establishments on MacDougal Street
* Weehawken Street Historic District Designation Report -- designated May, 2005 following 'Campaign to Save the Far West Village.' Includes history of gay establishments in the area and the area's historic role in New York's gay community
* Report: Proposal for a South Village Historic District -- written by Andrew Dolkart, commissioned by GVSHP to support proposal for a South Village Historic District. Includes role of MacDougal, Bleecker, and West 3rd Streets in the late 19th/early 20th centuries as the center of lesbian and gay life in New York (see pp.66-67)
To join GVSHP or support our preservation efforts, go to www.gvshp.org/membership.htm.
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NYC, 06/15/07 ( by Logan Hill) - 2007 Human Rights Watch International Film Festival
From June 15 – 28
This year’s films are highly ambitious—and highly successful. The epic tracking shots capturing factories, sprawl, and man-made disasters in Manufactured Landscapes would make Scorsese blush, and The Unforeseen tells the tale of a Texas developer’s hubris with the most extraordinary photography this side of Terrence Malick. Then there’s Israeli filmmaker Shimon Dotan’s Hot House, a Sundance prize winner that burrows into the lives of Palestinians imprisoned by Israel. See how these prisons have become the de facto universities for future Fatah and Hamas leaders. Check Program