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
Brazil is Latin America’s largest country and the fifth most populous in the world with nearly 193 million people. Its economy is forecast to grow 6.5% this year. A social welfare scheme introduced by President Lula in 2003 has transformed the lives of millions of poor people, although the gap between rich and poor remains high.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/8702891.stm
The Brazilian government’s recent mediation efforts to persuade Iran to sign a deal on enriching uranium as a way of allaying suspicions about its nuclear programme highlighted Brazil’s ambition to project its influence beyond South America.
Rubens Barbosa, former Brazilian ambassador to the US and the UK, offers his views on his country’s growing international presence:
The world has undergone major political and economic changes in recent years. The era of US unilateralism has ended and new centres of power have emerged,
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3 July 2010 | 7.30pm
Barbican Centre, Silk Street, London EC2Y 8DS
Seductive, melodic vocals and bossa-nova style guitar from legendary Brazilian songwriter, whose music radiates warmth.
21 May – 20 June 2010
Gallery Tavid, 58 St Mary’s Road, Ealing, London W5 5EX
Organised by London-based Ana Cockerill, ‘Brazilians on the Move’ is a group exhibition of paintings by five Brazilian artists (Ana Cockerill, Inha Bastos, Denise Pitagoras, Graca
Ramos and Guache Marques).
In a week in which record figures for job creation were
announced, the head of Brazil’s Institute of Applied Economic Research predicted the country could become the world’s fifth biggest economy by 2020.
http://www.brazil.org.uk/press/pressreleases_files/20100521.html
The Purcell Room, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre, London
This conference, aimed at local-authority employees and primary/secondary-school staff, will share successful experiences of raising educational achievement levels among
Portuguese-speaking children in London schools. The themes of this year’s
Conference will include international links with Portuguese and Brazilian schools
and the Embassy’s “Brazil in the School” resources. The Brazilian writer Delcio
Teobaldo will talk on “How
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Brazilian tourism exhibitions will be taking place in Manchester (18 May, Bem Brasil, Deansgate),
Glasgow (19 May, Radisson BLU hotel) and Belfast (20 May, Holiday Inn) as part of the ‘roadshow’
organised by the Brazilian tourist office (Embratur) and the Embassy of Brazil in London. For further information contact Chris Fuzinatto from Embratur: ebt.uk@embratur.gov.br
Brazil’s foreign ministry provides the cover story of
the May edition of Monocle, the popular globalaffairs
and culture magazine. An illustrated ten-page
article analyses Brazil’s rising profile in international
affairs and declares that its diplomacy reflects ‘a nation on the up’.
Monocle has also produced an accompanying video podcast with photographs from inside Itamaraty Palace, the foreign ministry’s Brasília headquarters, accompanied by an audio narration.
Read more: http://www.monocle.com/
