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TEDxRio+20 // Lembranças
TEDxRio+20 // Lembranças from TEDxRio on Vimeo.
The Rhythm, The City, 7pm
MSS at Sacred Trinity Church, on the corner of Chapel Street and Blackfriars Road by the traffic lights, in Salford (just down from Deansgate if you’re coming from Piccadilly) at 7p.m. tonight!
Come down and join to be part of our troupe in The Manchester Day Parade on June 10th.
More info and videos of what we did last year at http://www.sambaman.org.uk
Posted in Brazil, Carnival, Costume, Dance, Drumming, MSS, Music, urban
Tagged Brasil, Brazil, brazilian style, Carnaval, Choreography, Culture, dance, dr, drum, Manchester, samba, Tonight 7p.m., Tropicalia
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Sunrise in Paraguay River
Sunrise in Paraguay River, a photo by macps on Flickr.
Cabdrivers in session
Originally posted on The Heat Report:
During the last spun-around week in Sao Paulo and Rio (speaking with a range of people from entrepreneurs, media minds, urban planners, investors and my favorite . . . taxi drivers) A few of the…
Brazil: Goethe the ‘dirty old man’
A year of reading the world From one Portuguese-language country with very few novels available in translation we jump to another that has a whole heap of them (by British standards, at least). With so many exciting recommendations on the list, … Continue reading
Black Women of Brazil: Black Brazilian community being evicted by the Brazilian Navy!
Black Women of Brazil: Black Brazilian community being evicted by the Brazilian Navy!. Sign: Governor Jacques Wagner join with our President Dilma and the mayor of Simões Filho, we are asking for urgent help because we are being evicted by … Continue reading
Posted in Brazil, Politics, urban
Tagged Brasil, Brazil, brazilian style, comparison, Politics, Urban
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Originally posted on Victim of the Fury:
Here I was in Sao Paulo yesterday doing the work that most romanticize, some demonize, and the reality of which few would recognize. I was in a taxi returning from a failed quest…
Make Mine a Decaf – Genetically Engineered Coffee
Originally posted on Inimese:
Coffee is one of the most widely consumed drinks in the world. Because of it’s high caffeine content, it also counts as the most widely used stimulant drug. With increasing concern about the effects of caffeine…
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Brazil’s championship needs a licence to thrill
Originally posted on Scissors Kick:
“Before Ian Fleming made his name writing the James Bond books, he was eclipsed by older brother Peter, a derring-do adventurer of the type Michael Palin might have been born to satirise. Peter Fleming was…
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Brazil Vows Action to Hold Down Currency
Originally posted on WRC559:
From GoldSilver.com: Brazil’s finance minister, Guido Mantega, has not been shy in printing their currency, the real, in another Fed and Bank of Japan styled attempt at suppressing its value in relation to other currencies. Mantega…
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