In Brazil in the ’80s, soccer superstars had it all: the adoration of millions of fans, the frenzied attention of the world's sports media, and all the glamor Rio de Janeiro's nightclubs had to offer. But among the ranks of the country's elite athletes, one of the biggest sports celebrities of his generation harbored a secret: He had never played a single game.
Weaving together tales of fake injuries, of gangster club owners, and of Rio's steamy nightlife scene, Louis Myles's rollicking documentary uncovers the stranger-than-fiction double life of Carlos "Kaiser" Henrique Raposo, a self-styled football V.I.P. whose 26-year club career spanned continents and some of Brazil's most famous teams—even though he never set foot on the pitch. A stylish, celebratory, and surprisingly sensitive look at the man behind the myth,Kaiserrevels in unraveling the half-truths and alternate realities behind of one of the biggest fraudulent stories in the history of sports.
—Ian Hollander
More information: https://www.tribecafilm.com/filmguide/kaiser-the-greatest-footballer-never-to-play-football-2018
Canton Fair International Pavilion - Phase 1
5-19 Apr 2018
China Import and Export Fair(Canton Fair Complex), Guangzhou, China
China
Import and Export Fair(Canton Fair Complex), Guangzhou, China
"International Import & Export sector fair." China Import and Export Fair, also known as the Canton Fair
is held biannually in Guangzhou every spring and autumn, with a history of 59
years since 1957. Canton Fair is a comprehensive one with the longest history,
the highest level, the largest scale, the complete exhibit variety, the
broadest distribution of overseas buyers and the greatest business turnover in
China. It attracts more than 24,000 China's best foreign trade companies with
good credibility & sound financial capabilities, and 500 overseas companies to participate in the
Fair. It is a platform for import and export mainly with various & flexible
patterns of trade. Business people from all over the world are gathering in
Guangzhou, exchanging business information. Product showcase at Phase 3 includes
Textiles & Garments, Shoes, Office Supplies, Cases & Bags and
Recreation Products , Medicines , Medical Devices and Health Products, Food and
International Pavilion.
"The Packaging Material,
Supplies & Accessories industry expo"
International Plastic, Packaging & Print Asia Exhibition is the most
promising packaging exhibition that showcases products and services like
Packaging & Printing Machinery & Equipment, Plastic, Packaging &
Printing Plant Systems, Paper & Cardboard Containers, Wrapping &
strapping in the Packaging Materials, Plastic & Plastic Products
industries. The event has recently earned a good name in the international
market for being a vibrant and progressive show respecting innovations in
accordance to market moods and trends prevailing.
Dacio Malta | Brazil | 2016 | Documentary | 2016 | 87min
MUSEUM OF THE MOVING IMAGE, April 8 @ 4:30PM
AMC LOEWS 34th St., April 15 @ 2:45PM
by Eventbrite
SYNOPSIS
The night-club Gato Tuerto is surely the most symbolic Cuban cabaret. For 55 years, it has been the refuge of the so-called intellectual bohemia in Havana. Cuba’s most important musicians have been on it’s little stage, such as Omara Portuondo, Pablo Milanés, César Portillo de La Luz, Meme Solis, Elena Burke, Juana Bacallao and Chucho Valdés, among others, and has been the stage for the world’s largest bolero, being registered in record book Guiness. The documentary tells the story of this cabaret, it’s founders, artists and clients, such as Gabriel Garcia Marques, Caetano Veloso and Julio Cortázar. The café-concert is actually a backdrop to recover the history of Havana’s cultural and night life in over five decades – with all its good and bad times. Español
More information: https://www.hffny.com/2018/the-cat-from-havana/
Being: New Photography 2018
Through August 19
The Museum of Modern Art
Every two years, MoMA’s celebrated New Photographyexhibition series presents urgent and compelling ideas in recent photography and photo-based art. This year’s edition, Being, asks how photography can capture what it means to be human.
At a time when questions about the rights, responsibilities, and dangers inherent in being represented—and in representing others—are being debated around the world, the works featured in Being call attention to assumptions about how individuals are depicted and perceived. Many challenge the conventions of photographic portraiture, or use tactics such as masking, cropping, or fragmenting to disorient the viewer. In others, snapshots or found images are taken from their original context and placed in a new one to reveal hidden stories. While some of the works might be considered straightforward representations of individuals, others do not include images of the human body at all. Together, they explore how personhood is expressed today, and offer timely perspectives on issues of privacy and exposure; the formation of communities; and gender, heritage, and psychology.
Exploring new ground and the many forms that the photographic image can take, New Photography is a key part of the Museum’s contemporary program. Since 1985, the series has introduced new work by over 100 artists from around the world. In 2018, Being brings together an international group of 17 artists at various stages in their careers, all presenting their work at the Museum for the first time.
The artists included are:
Sofia Borges (Brazilian, born 1984)
Matthew Connors (American, born 1976)
Sam Contis (American, born 1982)
Shilpa Gupta (Indian, born 1976)
Adelita Husni-Bey (Italian, born 1985)
Yazan Khalili (Palestinian, born Syria, 1981)
Harold Mendez (American, born 1977)
Aïda Muluneh (Ethiopian, born 1974)
Hương Ngô and Hồng-Ân Trương (American, born Hong Kong, 1979; American, born 1976)
B. Ingrid Olson (American, born 1987)
Joanna Piotrowska (Polish, born 1985)
Em Rooney (American, born 1983)
Paul Mpagi Sepuya (American, born 1982)
Andrzej Steinbach (German, born Poland, 1983)
Stephanie Syjuco (American, born Philippines, 1974)
Carmen Winant (American, born 1983)
Organized by Lucy Gallun, Assistant Curator,
More information: https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/3886
Tom Zé is a songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and composer who was influential in the Tropicália movement of 1960s Brazil. After the peak of the Tropicália period, Zé went into relative obscurity: it was only in the 1990s, when the musician and label head David Byrne discovered an album recorded by Zé many years earlier, that he returned to performing and releasing new material.
More information: https://pioneerworks.org/programs/tom-ze/
ABOUT THE DIRECTOR(S)
A graduate of the University of Kent’s prestigious Drama master’s program, Louis Myles has worked for 15 years as a creative director in television and advertising, where he developed a reputation for crafting beautiful visuals and well-told stories. Kaiser is his first feature-length film.
Saturday, April 7, 2018
Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960–1985
APRIL 13–JULY 22, 2018
Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art and Morris A. and Meyer Schapiro Wing, 4th Floor
This is the first exhibition to explore the groundbreaking contributions to contemporary art of Latin American and Latina women artists during a period of extraordinary conceptual and aesthetic experimentation. Featuring more than 120 artists from 15 countries, Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960–1985 focuses on their use of the female body for political and social critique and artistic expression. (Note: This exhibition contains mature content.)
The artists pioneer radical forms and explore a female sensibility with overt or, more often, covert links to feminist activism. Many works were realized under harsh political and social conditions, some due to U.S. interventions in Central and South America, that were oaticomplicated or compounded by the artists’ experiences as women.
NEW YORK PREMIERE · Q&AS WITH MARCO DUTRA AND JULIANA ROJAS
Marco Dutra, Juliana Rojas
2017
Brazil/France
Portuguese with English subtitles
135 minutes
Q&As with Marco Dutra and Juliana Rojas
An immaculately stylized twist on the monster movie, Dutra and Rojas’s second collaboration (following the acclaimed Hard Labor) inventively engages matters of race, class, and desire. Set in São Paulo, the narrative initially concerns the curious relationship between rich, white, pregnant socialite Ana (Marjorie Estiano) and her new housemaid Clara (Isabél Zuaa). As the two women grow closer, their rapport turns first sexual then shockingly macabre. Good Manners evolves into a werewolf movie unlike any other, a delirious and compulsively watchable cross between Disney and Jacques Tourneur. A Distrib Films US release.
Duo Violão Brasil w/s/g Lucas Ashby at Club Catupiry
Club Catupiry
Carnegie, PA
oin us for an intimate evening of Brazilian music featuring Rogério Souza, Edinho Gerber, & Pittsburgh-raised percussionist Lucas Ashby!
About Rogério:
Guitarist, composer and arranger.
Brazilian, born in Rio de Janeiro, Rogerio is one of the great representatives of the Carioca language of the Brazilian guitar.
Always participating in major events related to instrumental music and popular Brazilian music, especially Choro and Samba.
Over the years, he has worked with great Brazilian artists as musician, arranger and musical director, in shows, television programs, CDs, DVDs, films, among others ...
He performed works with Baden Powell, Paulinho da Viola, Sivuca, Ney Matogrosso, Altamiro Carrilho, João Bosco, Paulo Moura, Ivan Lins, Guinga, Turíbio Santos, Rafael Rabello, Elizeth Cardoso, Nara Leão, Cristovão Bastos, Ronaldo do Bandolim, Toninho Ferraguti, Proveta, Node groups in Pingo D'agua and Epoque de Ouro, and with many samba artists from Rio de Janeiro: Zeca Pagodinho, Martinho da Vila, João Nogueira, Dona Ivone Lara, Elton Medeiros, Monarco, Delcio carvalho, Nelson Sergeant, , among others.
At the moment, he is dedicated to his solo work, doing concerts and workshops throughout the USA, Latin America, Europe and Asia in spreading Choro, his books and his last CDs.
Latin Grammy winning songstress Vanessa da Mata is one of the biggest stars in Brazilian music today. Here irresistible mix of reggae, funk and Brazilian pop have delighted fans around the world for over 15 years. After a highly successful US debut tour in 2017, Da Mata returns with the "Caixinha de Musica (Music Box) Tour” with stops in Miami Beach, Doral, Orlando, Atlanta, New York and Baton Rouge.
Marcelo Gomes | Brazil | 2017 | Fiction | 97min | NY PREMIERE
AMC LOEWS 34th St., April 12 @ 3:00PM
SYNOPSIS
Brazil, 18th Century. Portugal’s colony endures a decline in gold production. A Portuguese minority rules over a corrupt and autocratic society formed mostly by African slaves, native Indians and mestizos. Joaquim is an efficient military famous for capturing gold smugglers. He longs to be compensated with a lieutenant promotion to buy the freedom of Preta, a slave he is in love with. But the promotion never comes through. Joaquim despairs. A risky mission to the feared Badlands in search of new gold mines appears to be the only way to achieve a promotion and buy his lover’s free: dom.
INNOVATION IN PRIVATE SOCIAL INVESTMENTS: MAKING PHILANTHROPY MORE EFFECTIVE
April 12, 2018Time: 8:00 AM to 10:00 AMLocation: Brazilian-American Chamber of Commerce, Inc.,
New York, New York
Companies that invest in social projects prefer solutions that are cost-effective, scalable, and have the potential to become public policy. They prefer projects which are easy to execute, quickly demonstrate measurable results, and impact the largest number of beneficiaries. These goals together can be difficult to achieve, without the right process. The solution is Social Technologies. ST’s are proven solutions with the potential for scalability, following their development in close partnership with the community.
Please join us for an interesting discussion by internationally recognized experts in this discipline. They will present examples of Social Technologies and discuss how this innovative mindset can meet the combined needs of donor corporations, the government, and the communities impacted.
Speakers: Saulo F.A. Barretto, Ph.D., Co-Founder, Institute of Research in Technology and Innovation (IPTI)
Jonathan Low, Founding Partner, Predictiv Consulting
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