“5x Favela” Hits Cinemas After Cannes
By Sibel Tinar, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO – So much has been written, said, photographed and filmed about favelas, especially in Rio de Janeiro where some twenty percent of of the city population calls them home, that it has become almost impossible to distinguish the lines between fiction and reality in any work of [...]
Orquestra Voadora Flying High
By Felicity Clarke, Senior Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO – “There’s something really powerful about the energy put out by big a band full of horns and drums” says Tim Malik, a Rio-based musician from New York, as he waits for all his band mates from the brass bloco group Orquestra Voadora to arrive at [...]
Santa’s Artists Open Their Doors
By Vânia Maciel, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO – Over the next two weekends Santa Teresa’s pioneering Arte de Portas Abertas (Open Door Art) will take place, transforming much of the relatively calm neighborhood into a lively, pulsating art venue. Now in its twentieth edition, once more the art studios are opening their doors, along [...]
Rock in Rio Returns in 2011
By Felicity Clarke, Senior Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO – After a ten year absence from it’s city of origin, it was announced last week that Rock in Rio will return to Brazil in the Autumn of 2011. Next year, from September 23rd to October 2nd, the iconic festival that saw its first edition back [...]
The XIV Jardim Botânico Art Circuit
By Vânia Maciel, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO - Next weekend in and around charming, leafy Jardim Botânico, more than ninety artists spread throughout over fifty studios will open their doors to the public, offering a vast choice of things to see and do including exhibitions, art workshops, talks, gigs, theater plays and shopping. It all [...]
London’s Summer Brazil Festival
By Felicity Clarke, Senior Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO – Summer in London has had a Brazilian flavor this year with the Southbank Centre’s “Festival Brazil”. Sponsored by HSBC, the festival has brought leading Brazilian artists, musicians and writers to Britain in a three month feast of exhibitions and events celebrating the country’s culture which [...]
Back2Black Festival 2010
By Felicity Clarke, Senior Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO – Bringing together a diverse mix of musicians, writers, artists and thinkers from around the world, from August 27th the Back2Black Festival 2010 presents a three day fusion of African influences and contemporary pop expression in Brazil and beyond. With debates, music and art, the festival [...]
Music Festival Fever Hits Brazil
By Maíra Amorim, Senior Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO – October and November are set to be big months for music lovers as two festivals hit Brazil with a host of national and international artists performing; SWU Music and Arts Festival (Starts With You – the name is in English) and Planeta Terra. SWU will [...]
Simple Minds Back After Fifteen Years
By Sibel Tinar, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO – The iconic pop-rock and new wave band of the 80′s Simple Minds returns to Brazil this week after a fifteen-year absence. The Scottish band will take to the stage at Vivo Rio, located in Parque do Flamengo, on Thursday August 19th, and are set to play [...]
Paraty’s Festival da Pinga
By Felicity Clarke, Senior Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO – As anyone who has experienced it can attest, cachaça is a beautiful but dangerous mistress. Seductive, fiery and utterly Brazilian, the sugar-cane firewater can be the sweet making-and-breaking of nights out all over the country and this weekend it will be the toast (in more [...]