Royal Holloway, University of London, Montague House, Montague Place, 11 Bedford Square, London WC1E 6DP
This talk will be given by Ana Paula Gutierrez-Garza, from the London School of Economics.

http://www.gold.ac.uk/clcl/geb/

Room G19, Arts Building, Queen Mary, 327 Mile End Road, London E1 4NS

Organised by the Portuguese Section of Queen Mary, University of London, this event comprises a talk and the screening of the film Cinderelas, Lobos e um Príncipe Encantado (Cinderellas, Wolves and Prince Charming) (Brazil, Joel Zito Araújo, 2009). The film travels
from the Brazilian northeast to Rome and Berlin trying to understand the world of sex tourism and sexual exploitation and trafficking. For further information about this event please contact Else Vieira at e@vieira.org.uk

A council of representatives is to be formed as part of the ‘Brasileiros no Mundo’ project set up by the Ministry of External Relations to encourage dialogue with and between Brazilian communities around the world. For further information see the Brasileiros no Mundo internet portal.

http://www.brasileirosnomundo.mre.gov.br/es-es/Main.xml

16 September 2010 | 7pm
Royal Holloway, University of London, Montague House, Montague Place, 11 Bedford
Square, London WC1E 6DP

A report on illegal logging in various countries around the world has been published by Chatham House, the London-based international affairs institute.

It estimates that unauthorised logging in the Brazilian Amazon has decreased by between 54% and 75% in the last decade.
http://www.brazil.org.uk/press/pressreleases_files/20100716.html

The Independent just said what everyone already knows.

Brazil is booming

It is a 100th birthday party in a well-to-do postcode of Sao Paulo, where the house of our journalist host – he and another writer pal are actually each turning 50 – slips graciously down a slope to a terrace and the chatter is nearly all politics. Then the DJ cuts the music in the middle of a samba everyone knows. They reflexively fill in: “Ò coisinha tão bonitinha do papai” – “Oh daddy’s beautiful little thing”.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/on-top-of-the-world-why-brazil-is-booming-2022103.html

30 June 2010 | 8.30am
K&L Gates, 110 Cannon Street, London EC4N 6AR
The Brazilian Chamber of Commerce in Great Britain will hold a breakfast at 8.30am, at which the keynote speaker will be Mr Welber Barral, Foreign Trade Secretary from the Brazilian Ministry of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade. This event is kindly sponsored by K&L Gates. More information from brazilianchamber@brazilianchamber.org.uk

Those wanting to join a yellow-shirted crowd in cheering on the seleção in their pursuit of the hexa (sixth World Cup win) have various options, including Guanabara in Covent Garden, Emporio São Paulo, Jungle Drums’ parties in King’s Cross and Camden, and the Shepherd’s Bush Pavilion.

For the fourth consecutive year the Barbican, with the support of the Embassy of Brazil, will be hosting a Brazilian film festival. The features and documentaries that make up Cinema of Brazil – Music and Rhythm (25 June – 3 July)
all have music at their heart. Alongside documentaries about legends such as Vinicius de Morães, Tom Jobim and Caetano Veloso are films revolving around lesser-known strands of Brazilian music such as rap and country.

http://www.barbican.org.uk/film/series.asp?id=869

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