Medina Surf Festival Celebrates Unprecedented Presentation at Beyond The Club

 

The Medina Surf Festival arrives in São Paulo as an unprecedented event, bringing the world of surfing to the wave pools of Beyond The Club, one of the most modern and exclusive spaces in the country. For the first time, big names in Brazilian surfing will gather in the São Paulo capital for a spectacle that combines sport, innovation, and entertainment.

 

The festival, headlined by Gabriel Medina, features stars like Felipe Toledo and Ítalo Ferreira, bringing together some of Brazil's best surfers in action on a high-level artificial wave structure that allows for elite performances even away from the ocean.

 

The event marks a new moment for surfing in Brazil by showing how wave pool technology can transform the practice of the sport, bringing the urban public closer to the experience of professional surfing. In addition to the presentations and challenges between athletes, the festival also promotes interaction between the public and Beyond The Club, an innovative and unprecedented club in Brazil that combines sport, leisure, and lifestyle in one place.

 

With extensive visibility, the Medina Surf Festival features coverage and promotion from SporTV and Rede Globo, bringing the event to the entire country and reinforcing São Paulo as a stage for major international sporting events.

 

The festival puts the city on the map of high-level surfing and presents a new way to experience the sport, combining technology, renowned athletes, and a unique experience in the wave pools of Beyond The Club.

 

São Paulo’s city is hosting the 2026 World Skateboarding Championships

 

The 2026 World Skateboarding Championships will be held in São Paulo, at Parque Cândido Portinari, between March 1st and 8th, bringing together some of the biggest names in world skateboarding. The event is organized by World Skate and awards important points for the qualifying ranking for the Los Angeles 2028 Olympic Games, with the support of the City of São Paulo.

 

Among the highlights is Brazilian skateboarder Rayssa Leal, part of a delegation of 34 Brazilian athletes, as well as medalists and high-level competitors from countries such as Japan and Australia. In total, the competition is expected to bring together around 400 skateboarders in the Street and Park disciplines, in both men's and women's categories.

 

The schedule includes:

 

March 1st to 3rd: Official training and initial qualifying rounds

 

March 4th: Official start of competitions

 

March 6th: Quarterfinals

 

March 7th: Semifinals

 

March 8th: Finals and awards ceremony

 

One of the new features will be the first edition of the Paraskate World Cup, expanding inclusion and diversity in the sport.

 

Originally scheduled to take place in Washington (USA) in 2025, the championship was moved to São Paulo, consolidating the city as one of the main hubs of world skateboarding. The event's structure will be coordinated by the Skate Total Urbe (STU) platform, integrating all categories into a single schedule of heats.

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Finnish Fine Art Celebrates Her Art Among Brazilian Artists

 

The exhibition “From Me to the Stars,” on display since February 24th, had its opening marked by an emotional vernissage that brought together artists, guests, and contemporary art enthusiasts. The exhibition features a remarkable solo show with the special presence of Finnish artist Eva Rossi Kivimaki, whose international trajectory enriches the poetic and sensitive proposal of the exhibition.

 

The exhibition remains open to the public until March 24th at Espaço Art Cultura e Design, curated by Célia Rachel, providing visitors with a unique artistic experience where sensitivity, matter, and expression meet in a profound dialogue with the symbolic universe of stars and human interiority.

 

Born in Finland in 1954, Eva Rossi Kivimäki holds a Master's degree in Philology and began her artistic career in the early 1990s in Miami, working with stained glass, a technique that began as a hobby and quickly became her main activity. Her first major work was completed in 1999, with the creation of the stained-glass windows for the chapel in the official residence of the Emeritus Catholic Archbishop of Miami.

 

In 2005, she held her first solo exhibition in Finland, where she also presented wall panels produced using the Tiffany method, utilizing opaque glass and semi-precious stones, materials that have become an essential part of her artistic language.

 

Over time, the artist began working with mosaics, seeking to use increasingly smaller pieces and explore new expressive possibilities. In her current technique, she has replaced traditional mortar with a special glue, which allows her to fill the spaces with the material itself—such as crushed pyrite, transformed into a texture similar to sand—in addition to making the works lighter and more delicate.

 

 

Eva's creative process often begins with the title of the work, from which she develops the composition. The artist dedicates herself to the challenge of transforming abstract ideas into visual forms, using what she calls "treasures of the depths"—elements of earth and water—to give concrete form to symbolic concepts. The exhibition “From Me to the Stars” thus reveals an artistic universe where matter and poetry unite, inviting the public on a contemplative journey that connects art, nature, and imagination.

 

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 Brazilian fine art stands out for enhancing the beauty of the  Goiás's Cerrado region 

Mariah Campolina is a fine art with a strong presence in Brasília's cultural scene, recognized for her intense and almost visceral dedication to representing the Cerrado biome. In her work, nature appears not only as landscape, but as a living, pulsating, and deeply respected element. Her painting stems from a radical connection with the natural environment, revealing a sensitive and committed gaze towards the organic essence of the earth, the leaves, the flowers, and the colors that define the biome.

In portraying the Cerrado, Campolina works with subtlety and delicacy in each stroke, constructing compositions that impress with their harmony between impressionism and realism. Her canvases seem to breathe, leading the viewer to an almost sensory experience, in which it is possible to feel the texture of the vegetation, the light that passes through the branches, and the silent force of nature. Those who observe her art often find themselves in a moment of profound contemplation, as if time slowed down before the beauty presented. Her organic work translates respect for life and the Brazilian landscape, transforming simple elements of the Cerrado into grand and moving scenes. With a striking and sensitive style, Mariah Campolina doesn't just paint nature—she reveals it in its most poetic form, leaving the audience breathless before the intensity and beauty that emerge from each canvas. Instagram: @mariahcampolina.arte Photo: Press Office Source: Press Office

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