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Friday, July 6, 2018

LITERATURE  - BOOK RELEASE  
"I Didn't Talk", by Beatriz Bracher - New Directions Publishing 
Available July 31  

I Didn't Talk

Fiction by Beatriz Bracher

Translated from the Portuguese by Adam Morris


A professor prepares to retire—Gustavo is set to move from São Paulo to the countryside, but it isn’t the urban violence he’s fleeing: what he fears most is the violence of his memory. But as he sorts out his papers, the ghosts arrive in full force. He was arrested in 1970 with his brother-in-law Armando: both were viciously tortured. He was eventually released; Armando was killed. No one is certain that he didn’t turn traitor: I didn’t talk, he tells himself, yet guilt is his lifelong harvest. I Didn’t Talk pits everyone against the protagonist—especially his own brother. The torture never ends, despite his bones having healed and his teeth having been replaced. And to make matters worse, certain details from his shattered memory don’t quite add up… Beatriz Bracher depicts a life where the temperature is lower, there is no music, and much is out of view. I Didn’t Talk’s pariah’s-eye-view of the forgotten “small” victims powerfully bears witness to their “internal exile.” I didn’t talk, Gustavo tells himself; and as Bracher honors his endless pain, what burns this tour de force so indelibly in the reader’s mind is her intensely controlled voice.

VISUAL ARTS  
Reading Session Inspired by Maria Thereza Aves' work,  "Ballast Flora Garden"
July 25 @ 12:30 - 2:00 PM
High Line  (at Gansevoort St) 


LOCATION
On the High Line at Gansevoort St.
A series of brown-bag lunchtime reading sessions, featuring texts inspired by Maria Thereza Alves's project for the group exhibition Agora. These events are an opportunity to meet staff from different High Line departments, and hear their varied insights into Alves's ballast flora research.

More information:http://www.thehighline.org/activities/high-line-art-maria-thereza-alves-a-ballast-flora-garden-high-line-lunchtime-reading-sessions

GOOD MANNERS

Opens Friday, July 27


Filmmakers Juliana Rojas and Marco Dutra’s second collaboration (after the acclaimed Hard Labor) deftly integrates art-house and genre cinema to create a thrilling and dark gothic fable with sharp social commentary.
Set in São Paulo, the film follows Clara, a lonely nurse from the outskirts of the city who is hired by mysterious and wealthy Ana to be the nanny of her soon to be born child. Against all odds, the two women develop a strong bond. But a fateful night marked by a full moon changes their plans.
With powerful visuals and an impeccable cinematography (by Zama’s Rui Poças), Good Manners is Disney meets Jacques Tourneur. The film becomes an unexpected and wild werewolf movie unlike any other, and a poignant social and racial allegory on modern-day Brazilian society.
·         Country Brazil/France
·         Language Portuguese with English subtitles
·         Year 2017
·         Running Time 135 minutes
·         Director Marco Dutra, Juliana Rojas
·         Writer Marco Dutra, Juliana Rojas
·         Editor Caetano Gotardo
·         Cinematographer Rui Poças
·         Cast Isabél Zuaa, Marjorie Estiano, Miguel Lobo

More information: http://www.ifccenter.com/films/good-manners/


MUSIC + FILM + FAIR

Brasil SummerFest: 15 Bands from Brazil + Film + Street Fair 


 July 29 - August 12
15 Venues in NYC
More  information: http://brasilsummerfest.com/

MUSIC 
Adriano Santos Quartet
July 29  @  4:00 PM
Jazz Forum (Tarrytown) NYC



Adriano Santos is at the epicenter of New York’s contemporary Brazilian drummers. Growing up in São Paulo and studying at the acclaimed Zimbo Trio Music School since age twelve, he moved to Boston in 1988 and earned a degree in Film Scoring at Berklee College of Music. In 1995 he relocated to New York City to pursue a master’s degree at City College and has never turned back. Adriano’s playing style is typified by a natural clarity, swing and deep-seated groove in the tradition of Airto Moreira and Milton Banana. In addition to his extensive experience as a sideman, he has also shared his knowledge about Brazilian music teaching at Columbia University, New York University and for the past fifteen years at the renowned Drummers Collective Music School in NYC. As a professional musician, he has performed with top international artists such as Filó Machado, Romero Lubambo, Claudio Roditi, Gato Barbieri, David Binney, Bill Charlap, John Pizzarelli, Slide Hampton, Harry Allen, Vic Juries, Vana Gierig and Eileen Ivers to name a few.
More information: https://www.instantseats.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=home.event&eventID=9A3ECBEF-9321-1D8E-0D7569304F6BAA2A



SERIES
LGBTQ Brazil

July 28–29



Co-presented by Cinema Tropical 
GBTQ Brazil celebrates the Brazilian LGBTQ community’s contribution to contemporary cinema with a unique lineup of recent films, all screening in New York for the first time. As framed by Brazilian and American scholars, including Denilson Lopes and Ruby Rich, the early LGBTQ films of the 1980s and ‘90s were a protest against heteronormativity, a turn away from universal humanism to political pastiche, camp, and burlesque. And while Brazil may have largely missed this first wave—a key director, Karim Aïnouz, did not emerge until Seams (1993) and Madame Satã (2002)—it is exhilarating to see its LGBTQ cinema flourish today.  

More information: http://www.movingimage.us/programs/2018/07/28/detail/lgbtq-brazil/
LITERATURE  - BOOK RELEASE
"I Didn't Talk", by Beatriz Bracher - New Directions Publishing
Available July 31  
I Didn't Talk
Fiction by Beatriz Bracher
Translated from the Portuguese by Adam Morris
A professor prepares to retire—Gustavo is set to move from São Paulo to the countryside, but it isn’t the urban violence he’s fleeing: what he fears most is the violence of his memory. But as he sorts out his papers, the ghosts arrive in full force. He was arrested in 1970 with his brother-in-law Armando: both were viciously tortured. He was eventually released; Armando was killed. No one is certain that he didn’t turn traitor: I didn’t talk, he tells himself, yet guilt is his lifelong harvest. I Didn’t Talk pits everyone against the protagonist—especially his own brother. The torture never ends, despite his bones having healed and his teeth having been replaced. And to make matters worse, certain details from his shattered memory don’t quite add up… Beatriz Bracher depicts a life where the temperature is lower, there is no music, and much is out of view. I Didn’t Talk’s pariah’s-eye-view of the forgotten “small” victims powerfully bears witness to their “internal exile.” I didn’t talk, Gustavo tells himself; and as Bracher honors his endless pain, what burns this tour de force so indelibly in the reader’s mind is her intensely controlled voice.

More information:https://www.ndbooks.com/book/i-didn-t-talk/

VISUAl ARTS    
"Os Gêmeos" - Artists in Residence 
September 2 - April 8, 2019
Mattress Factory (Pittsburgh)




Dance on Camera Festival 2018

DFA Global—Three Short Films

3:00 PM  Walter Reade Theater


As we celebrate our 46th Dance on Camera Festival, Dance Films Association launches DFA Global, an international program that provides a platform of support and dialogue with screen dance partners and producers, and which extends the festival’s commitment to screening films from all over the world. The inaugural selections hail from Canada, China, and Brazil.
The Collected Stories of Machado de Assis
book coverA landmark event, the complete stories of Machado de Assis finally appear in English for the first time in this extraordinary new translation.Widely acclaimed as the progenitor of twentieth-century Latin American fiction, Machado de Assis (1839–1908)—the son of a mulatto father and a washerwoman, and the grandson of freed slaves—was hailed in his lifetime as Brazil’s greatest writer. His prodigious output of novels, plays, and stories rivaled contemporaries like Chekhov, Flaubert, and Maupassant, but, shockingly, he was barely translated into English until 1963 and still lacks proper recognition today. Drawn to the master’s psychologically probing tales of fin-de-siecle Rio de Janeiro, a world populated with dissolute plutocrats, grasping parvenus, and struggling spinsters, acclaimed translators Margaret Jull Costa and Robin Patterson have now combined Machado’s seven short-story collections into one volume, featuring seventy-six stories, a dozen appearing in English for the first time.

C-star

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  •  26-28 Apr 2019 
  •  Shanghai New International Expo Centre, Shanghai, China
    • C-star is an international platform for trade and retail industries worldwide. The event includes a wide array of trade industries and retail industries. As Shanghai's international Trade Fair for Solutions and Trends all about retail, C-star features an exceptionally high degree of professionalism, showcasing the latest solutions geared to the needs of the Chinese retail market. C-star is organized into four sectors which are tailored to the preferences of the Chinese market, these are : Shopfitting, Store Design, Lighting and Refrigeration Retail Technology.

    More information: 
    https://10times.com/c-star?utm_source=setreminder&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=pastVisitor


    CINEMA   
    Musical Documentary "Chico: Artista Brasileiro",  by MIguel Faria Jr. 
    August 1 @ 7:00 PM
    Symphony Space 

    An essential figure of Brazilian culture throughout the last 50 years, the author, playwright, and composer of an extraordinary compilation of songs, Chico Buarque engages in a dialogue with his own recollections in this film by Miguel Faria Jr. Chico’s search for his German brother, whom he never got to meet (his father had a son in Berlin before getting married to Chico's mother), serves as one of the axis for the narrative and helps put the artist’s trajectory into perspective. “It is an artist revisiting his own past from a mature point of view,” summarizes Faria Jr.
    This is a co-presentation with Cinema Tropical and Brasil Summerfest
    Film Chico

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Thursday, July 5, 2018

GUITAR MASTERS:
“History of Electric Guitar” and "Badi"


Friday, July 6
TOMORROW
4PM







History of Electric GuitarG.E. Smith performs the history of the electric guitar, from steel to squeal, in just one song!  (5 minutes 16 seconds)
From the Smithsonian Channel program ELECTRIFIED:THE GUITAR REVOLUTION
Badi
Directed by Edu Felistoque, 85 min, 2017, Portuguese with English Subtitles
The documentary Badi observes the personal trajectory and the international career of singer, guitarist, and composer Badi Assad. From classical to pop, the film follows Badi and her guitar as they move through the global music scene, facing challenges and her own creative boundaries, with lightness – including the pressures of belonging to a family of virtuoso musicians. Guest appearances by the Assad brothers, Larry Coryell, Toquinho, Naná Vasconcelos, Seu Jorge, and other great names of Brazilian and International music.

Celebrating the artistry of the guitar with some of the music world’s finest talents, Guild Hall introduces the first annual Guitar Masters festival. This three-day gathering is a celebration of music, summer, and exceptional musicianship, and features concerts, documentary films, and book signings.
The festival will take place from Thursday, July 5 through Saturday, July 7 and features performances by Andy Summers, Ralph Gibson, G.E. Smith, Richard Thompson, Teddy Thompson, David Broza, Badi Assad, and Brandon Ross; documentary films curated by director Mary Jane Marcasiano; a talk by Ken Parker, and book signing with Galadrielle Allman.

ALL ACCESS PASSES

All access passes for the full festival are $1,000 and include VIP seating and access to the catered VIP Lounge to all programs July 5-7, a launch party at a private home with a renowned guitarist, and entry to win a limited-edition Fender G.E. Smith Telecaster Guitar.

GUITAR MASTERS
David Broza, Badi Assad, and Brandon Ross




Saturday, July 7
8PM
A concert evening featuring performances by Israeli superstar David Broza, considered one of the world’s most dynamic and vibrant performers, world music virtuoso, Badi Assad, and the acoustic duo from For Living Lovers, with composer and jazz guitarist Brandon Ross and acoustic bass guitarist Stomu Takeishi.
Celebrating the artistry of the guitar with some of the music world’s finest talents, Guild Hall introduces the first annual Guitar Masters festival. This three-day gathering is a celebration of music, summer, and exceptional musicianship, and features concerts, documentary films, and book signings.
The festival will take place from Thursday, July 5 through Saturday, July 7 and features performances by Andy Summers, Ralph Gibson, G.E. Smith, Richard Thompson, Teddy Thompson, David Broza, Badi Assad, and Brandon Ross; documentary films curated by director Mary Jane Marcasiano; a talk by Ken Parker, and book signing with Galadrielle Allman.



Luiz Simas, Brazilian Piano Jazz


July 7 @ 8:00 pm




Rio native Luiz Simas (www.luizsimas.com) is a multifaceted artist: singer, pianist, group leader, composer of songs and of instrumental pieces, producer and arranger. He has recorded several cds of various genres, such as choro (Brazilian ragtime), free piano improvisations, and Brazilian pop/jazz. A genuine Carioca, he has lived in New York City since 1989. He has led original groups in jazz festivals and clubs in the US, in Europe and in Brazil. Luiz’ voice and music have warmed major venues including Birdland, the Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall and Bargemusic. His CDs include Cafune, Impromptu, Luiz Simas Live in NYC, New Chorinhos from Brazil, Recipe for Rhythm and Mata Atlântica (Atlantic Forest) Piano Suite. New CDs are in the works!


Bebel Gilberto 
July 07  at City Winery New York City 


The multi-Grammy-nominated Bebel Gilberto's latest album, Tudo, which means “everything” in English, showcases Bebel’s ethereal vocals and wistful, dreamy song writing in each of the CD’s 12 tracks. Bebel splits her time between Rio de Janeiro and New York City; she’s exquisitely synthesized musical influences from both cities in every track. Bebel’s sultry tonality is constant throughout Tudo as are the warm and playful Brazilian rhythms that include wood bongos and shakers. The gorgeous melodies are shaped by touches of electronica, and Bebel’s intimate vocals hint at a fantastical Rio de Janeiro. Bebel had been tucking away musical gems over the past five years, from joyful melodies, to reflective, romantic lyrics, which appear on Tudo. In 2013 while working in Brazil on the Bebel Gilberto in Rio DVD, the rhythms began stirring inside her. Although she’d been ordered to rest in order to combat exhaustion, Bebel believed it was the right time to record; she knew the music would be strong. Despite the challenges 2013 brought, “I’m a good bon vivant,” assured Bebel who always finds time for friends, attending to her rooftop garden overlooking Manhattan’s skyline, or walking on the beach, “I know how to live.” Tudo is perhaps Bebel’s most intimate recording, captures the human vulnerabilities that bring both sorrows and joy. Tudo was recorded in Brazil, New York City, and Los Angeles; produced and mixed by Mario Caldato Jr in early 2014. Bebel was able to gather her favorite musicians from all over the globe, liberally using the words “amazing,” “beautiful,” “heaven,” “a luxury!” to describe their talents and contributions to Tudo. Bebel chose to work with the producer Mario Caldato Jr. because, as she put it, “I’m so eclectic, I needed one producer to translate it all.” Gilberto was born in New York to Brazilian music icons João Gilberto and Miúcha. Her musical education was her childhood in Brazil. She was surrounded by extended family including her uncle Chico Buarque and family friends like Milton Nacimento, Tom Jobim, Caetano Veloso, and João Donato; she made her first recording at age 7. “I just turned 48, so it’s been 41 years!” exclaims Bebel with a laugh, “I’m really proud, but tired too!” Bebel’s life-long eclectic musical tastes are made palpable when listening to Tudo. In addition to living and breathing all types of Brazilian musical styles as a child, she was exposed to the greats, from Debussy to Prince; Michel Legrand to Billie Holliday; Bjork to Gershwin. Also evident on Tudo some tracks for than others, is her love for North American soul; she discovered Donna Summer, Earth Wind and Fire, and Michael Jackson on the dance floor as a budding teenager. “The whole disco thing plays a big role in my heart,” says Bebel, who still loves to dance. Several years after Bebel moved to New York City in 1991 her present day sound of electronic meets Brazilian began to crystallize. “Little by little, I learned what I wanted musically,” says Bebel, who gigged all around the city and collaborated with many artists. She established a weekly gig at The Greatest Bar on Earth, on top of the World Trade Center in the early 1990’s that drew a fervent international crowd. “At that gig, everything started to come together,” says Bebel. “I think there I became a New Yorker—with a Brazilian heart of course!” Tudo is sung in Portuguese, English—sometimes in the same song—and a touch of French. Bebel was delighted to finally record a duet with Seu Jorge, a friend for more than 20 years; their “Nova Idea” is a sexy mix of harmony and charm. More information: https://citywinery.com/newyork/bebel-gilberto-7-7.html

Área de anexos
Solo Exhibition "Diurna" with works by Laura Vinci 
July 12 - August 10
Opening: July 11 @ 6:00 -8:00 PM



Galeria Nara Roesler 
Galeria Nara Roesler | New York is pleased to present Laura Vinci: Diurna, the artist’s New York solo debut. Featuring delicate sculptural installations, the exhibition reflects on our evolving relationship with nature and on the urban environment that mediates it.
In Diurna, the artist’s installation Folhas Avulsas [Loose Leaves] (2018), 72 golden leaf sculptures will surround the gallery’s newly opened windows, inviting the city’s natural summer light into the exhibition space. Vinci’s leaves curl, as if frozen mid-motion, eternalizing the movement of a light wind on foliage, and reminding the viewer that summer is followed by fall. According to Vinci, “Diurna creates a movement of migration by hinting at a transfer of leaves from a virtual autumn in the Southern Hemisphere to celebrate the new season in the North. These scattered, brass-cast, and gold-plated leaves punctuate the architecture of the space, as if blown in through the newly opened windows.”



Pacha, Llaqta, Wasichay: Indigenous Space, Modern Architecture, New Art
Jul 13–Sep 30, 2018



Pacha, Llaqta, Wasichay: Indigenous Space, Modern Architecture, New Art investigates contemporary art practices that preserve and foreground Indigenous American notions of the built environment and natural world. The three words in the exhibition’s title are Quechua, the Indigenous language most spoken in the Americas. Each holds more than one meaning: pacha denotes universe, time, space, nature, or world; llaqtasignifies place, country, community, or town; and wasichaymeans to build or to construct a house. Influenced by the richness of these concepts, the artworks explore the conceptual frameworks inherited from, and also still alive in, Indigenous groups in Mexico and South America that include the Quechua, Aymara, Maya, Aztec, and Taíno, among others.  



ALINE MUNIZ

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uly 14 | Set Times: 9:00pm

212 East 52nd Street
New York, NY 10022


Aline Muniz with her Brazilian pop rhythm has performed in spots such as Sofar Sounds and Rockwood Music Hall, Joe’s Pub, as one of the voices of Brasil SummerFest Festival, which brought her the invitation to Fox’s Good Day NY program. In addition, she sang for a vibrant audience at the Penthouse of the Standard Hotel East Village, had the honor to open the show of Demi Lovato in the ARD Foundation gala event at Cipriani and was the main attraction of the Talisa Hotel in the ski season opening in Vail. Recently, Aline has released the videoclip “Message of Love”, which in a few days became a big hit, reaching 500k views. 


MUSIC 
New Brazilian Perspectives: Flavio Silva & Break Free 
July 15 @ 8:00 and 9:30 PM
Cornelia Street Café 



Sunday,  Jul 15 - 8:00 & 9:30pm  
NEW BRAZILIAN PERSPECTIVES: FLAVIO SILVA & BREAK FREE - CD RELEASE PARTY 
Billy Newman, host
Flavio Silva, guitar;  Vitor Gonçalves, piano;  Alex Apolo Ayala, bass;  Curtis Nowosad, drums
Flavio Silva has recorded his second Album and he is celebrating the Release of "Break Free" here at Cornelia Street Cafe with this fantastic band. The Guitarist presents a rich sonic tapestry of African and Afro Brazilian sounds, Flavio is grew up in Sao Paulo, Brazil and is now living here in NYC






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