January 21st-26th Program at Federal Justice Cultural Center in Rio

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Check out the events currently scheduled at the CCJF — Centro Cultural Justiça Federal (Federal Justice Cultural Center) in downtown Rio de Janeiro for the week of January 21st until January 26th.

CINEMA

• Classics and Successes of the Cinema / Film Club
  The CCJF film club chooses to screen films that have marked the history of cinema and for their success with audiences and/or critics. The aim is to encourage and facilitate the habit of going to the cinema, as well as public access to the titles available in its library.
  Films: Salete Maccaloz Collection
  Programming and indicative classification: www.ccjf.trf2.jus.br
  Fridays, January 24th and 31st at 6 PM
  At the CCJF Cinema
  Free Tickets available one hour before showtime.

• Truths that are said joking / cine-workshop
  This course aims to bring an updated and differentiated look at the work of Charles Chaplin from the assessment of his career in Music Halls, his first influences, and how they are depicted later in his films.
  Lecturer: Julhia Quadros (Filmmaker and Researcher)
  Free enrollment via e-mail: [email protected]
  Thursdays, January 23rd and 30th; February 6th and 13th – at 6 PM
  Minimum number of participants: 8
  Maximum number of participants: 56
  At the CCJF Cinema

EXHIBITIONS

• Campo dos Afonsos – 100 years of military education in Brazilian aviation / History
  The exhibition features a study of primary sources, reports, ministerial notices, newsletters, photographs, plans and printed publications of the regulations and major periodicals of the era. It also describes the context of the important issues that defined ‘Campo dos Afonsos’ as a site for installing the airfield.
  Until February 2nd, Tuesday to Sunday, 12 noon to 7 PM
  In the galleries on the first floor

• Rio Branco, 241 – Justiça e Cultura (Justice and Culture) / History
  The bilingual exhibition shows a retrospective of the occupation of the Federal Supreme Court’s original building, focusing on the trajectory to becoming the Federal District Court in Rio de Janeiro. Its panels tell the story, from the creation of the Federal Courts of First and Second Instance to the restoration works and establishment of the Federal Courthouse Cultural Center, including remarkable facts about the history of Federal Courts in this building.
  Tuesday to Sunday – 12 noon to 7 PM
  In the galleries on the first floor

MUSIC

• Musical Challenges Series / video concert
  We begin the new year with Christoph Willibald Gluck’s opera ‘Orfeo ed Euridice’, premiered in Vienna in 1762. Based on Ranieri d’Calzabigi’s libretto, it is the first and most important reformist opera by the German composer, proposing a new integration between music and drama. Celebrating the three-century anniversary of the author’s birth, Ondrej Havelka’s staging at the Cesky Kromlov’s Baroque Theatre features as principal performers Bejun Mehta, Eva Liebau, and Regina Mühlemann, conducted by Václav Lucks.
  Saturday, January 25th at 3 PM
  Tickets: R$40 (US$10) and R$20
  180 minutes
  At the CCJF Cinema

SPECIAL

• III Seminar on Religious Freedom, Democracy, and Human Rights
  The III Seminar on Religious Freedom, Democracy, and Human Rights brings into debate topics such as Religions in the Media; Religions in the field of Rights, Politics, Religion, and Interreligious Dialogue; and Laic State and Freedom, in order to strengthen the dialogue with civil society. As parallel activities, there will be presentations of the events ‘Culturas em Movimento’ (“Cultures in Movement”) and the ‘LUPA Carnaval’.
  Organization: Marginalized Population Articulation Center (CEAP); Commission to Fight Religious Intolerance (CCIR); Religious Experiences History Laboratory of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (LHER/UFRJ); Coordinating Body of African and Afro-Brazilian Religious Experiences, Racism, and Religious Intolerance (ERARIR/LHER/UFRJ); Federal Prosecutor’s Office (MPF); Federal Justice Cultural Center (CCJF); Quiprocó Filmes; Coletivo Maitê Ferreira; LUPA Carnaval.
  Tuesday, January 21st at 09:30 AM
  At the CCJF Theater

EDUCATIONAL

• Da Justiça à Arte (“From Justice to Art”) / guided tour
  The visit tells the story of the building to the present day. With an eclectic style, it is one of the few remnants of the renovation of the city of Rio de Janeiro, which took place in the early 20th century.
  Booking by phone: +55 (21) 3261-2552 / +55 (21) 3261-2567
  Booking by e-mail: [email protected]
  Tuesday to Friday, 1 PM to 5 PM
  Free admission