Category: Arts & Culture

Researchers and fans of Brazilian cordéis now have another option to obtain information about this popular genre of Brazilian culture online. The Library of Congress of the USA, through its office in Rio de Janeiro, has made a digital collection available on the subject – the Brazil Cordel Literature Web Archive. Visit the collection at…

Social activist José Geraldo de Souza Castro (Zé do Pedal), 59, was invited by the organizing committee of the Centennial Convention of Lions Clubs International to give a lecture on his experience in Africa during the two years he spent on that continent, to be held from June 28 to July 4 in Chicago, United…

Synopsis: This collection titled “The Lost Reflection and Other Foolish Tales” is organized, translated, prefaced, and annotated by Maria Aparecida Barbosa – from “Reflections of the Cat Murr”, also published by Estação Liberdade – and offers a comprehensive and revealing selection of the works of E.T.A. Hoffmann (1776-1822). The texts attest to the stylistic and…

Two months after releasing a new single and music video from their new authorial project, the duo launches a parallel project with a pop version of “Essa Moça Tá Diferente,” a work originally recorded by Chico Buarque in 1966. The re-recording of Buarque’s classic was accompanied by a show in Brazil titled “Baile do Chico,”…

Dancers who are also acrobats or vice versa. Bodies that merge with others or unusual materials, creating surprising shapes. It is done in such an original or innovative way that the American company, Pilobolus Dance Theatre, founded 46 years ago, was a pioneer in the style, largely responsible for a revolution in the modern dance…

Daya Luz emerges as the new name in the Brazilian pop scene. It hasn’t been long since the music video for “Olha pra mim,” her first single, was released on YouTube. Currently, the video has over 1.3 million views. The next chapter is a real-life fairy tale. Daya was at the Comic Con Experience, the…

Francois Wiss, the acclaimed French guitarist, will be performing in New York at various venues in a spectacular tribute to David Bowie and Pink Floyd. Nascido em Paris em 1973, seus estudos de música começaram aos 10 anos com aulas de piano no Conservatório, mas somente aos 15 anos, ele descobriu sua paixão pela guitarra…

Brazil is a country rich in precious stones. The most common are diamond, opal, aquamarine, emerald, alexandrite, amethyst, agate, citrine, topaz, and tourmaline. The mines are well-known and numerous, making Brazil one of the largest producers of precious stones in the world in terms of quantity, variety, and quality. What makes our regions rich in…

The first major retrospective exhibition in the United States dedicated to Brazilian artist Lygia Pape (1927–2004) is currently on display at The Met Breuer. A critical figure in the development of modern Brazilian art, Pape uniquely combined geometric abstraction with notions of body, time, and space, aiming to integrate the artwork with life experience. Covering…