DESTINATION WORLD: BRAZIL

INDOOR EVENTS Cultural Venues

FILM: Screenings at the National Park Visitor Center (All films Not Rated)

5:00 pm Sonho Meu, Realidade Nossa 
This short film is about the true reality of the Brazilian immigrants in the USA. The documentary discusses health and safety issues in the work environment and worker's rights.

5:30 pm A Frontiera/The Borde Introduction by Charles Carminati
Local filmmaker Roberto Carminati’s Brazilian-made A Frontiera/The Border follows the fate of a once successful Rio businessman reduced to illegally crossing into the United States to improve his fortunes. Although the character’s middle-class background dispels the usual stereotypes about illegals, the film’s reliance on melodrama falls back on cinema clichés.

7:00 pm Sonho Meu, Realidade Nossa 

FEATURE FILM:
7:30–9:00 Favela Rising Introduction by Eduardo Siqueira, MD of UMass Lowell
FAVELA RISING documents a man and a movement, a city divided and a favela (Brazilian squatter settlement) united. Anderson Sa is a former drug-trafficker who, haunted by the murders of his family and many of his friends, turns revolutionary in Rio de Janeiro’s most feared slum. Through hip-hop music, the rhythms of the street, and Afro-Brazilian dance he rallies his community to war against the violent oppression enforced by teenage drug armies and sustained by corrupt police.  At the dawn of liberation, just as collective mobility is overcoming all odds and Anderson’s grassroots AfroReggae movement is at the height of its success, a tragic accident threatens to silence the movement forever.

MUSIC AND DANCE :
“Lowell Five Main Stage” at the Brush Art Gallery 5-9 pm

5:30 pm Capoeira workshop- An introduction to the history of Capoeira Angola brought to you by Mestre Deraldo of the Brazilian Cultural Center of New England.
6:00 pm Joao Marcos and Mestre Deraldo bring the freshest sounds of Brazil. Joao Marcos will delight us with his vocals and guitar with the music of North East Brazil.
6:30 pm A dance performace of North East Brazil-style choreography.
7:00 pm Joao Marcos brings the sounds of North East Brazil with his vocals and guitar.
7:15 pm Rio de Janeiro-style samba dance performance.
7:30 pm Capoeira workshop- A performance by Mestre Calango of Capoiera Rosa Rubra Group of Lowell, MA

ART AND CULTURE AROUND TOWN:
Friends Fabric Art
Brazilian Dimensional Embroidery:
Use the gorgeous silk-like embroidery threads that became popular in Brazil to create raised embroidery. Easy embroidery stitches will be taught. Bring a pair of jeans or other fabric item to decorate or create a sampler with some of our fabrics.

COOL Corner Gallery: Brazilian Visual Arts

Sun City Convenience & Gift Shop:
Offering a display of Brazilian Heritage from food samples to local Brazilian artist, Luiza Lopes

Salon City:
Come to Salon City for your Brazilian Carnival decorations: Face painting and spray tattoos!

Mambo Grill:
6:00 pm & 8:00 pm Film Screening: “Inside Outside”
INSIDE OUTSIDE is a film about the energy artists get when working in the street. An energy they're missing when exhibiting in galleries and museums, an energy that brings life to their art and to their own lives. The artists featured in INSIDE OUTSIDE all face some kind of dilemma with the restrictions and norms of the society they live in, the forces of the commercial art world and the advertising industry who are looking for the next big thing and want to have their bite of the energy and coolness that the street art scene is brimming with.

Movie ratings will be indicated at each venue.  You must be 17 or older to be admitted to an R-rated film without a parent or guardian.

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