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Friday, February 17, 2017



The Cultural Space of Superior Justice Tribunal receives cocktail of opening of exhibition Quatressência organized by curator Celina Kaufman.

The Cultural Space STJ (SUPERIOR TRIBUNAL DE JUSTIÇA) received in the last night , 15, the cocktail of opening of Collective Exhibition Quatressência, of fine arts Luiz Costa, Sonnia Guerra, Pompeii Crust and Tony Lima. The event disposed of presence of four plastic artists and his guests. The display intends to emphasize this diversity and individuality, providing to a visitor a reflection on the paper of the art in the evolution of individual.

O curador carioca radicado na Finlândia, Edson Cardoso, lançou nesta semana, no 14 a 26 de fevereiro de 2017, a Exposição "BELA Bienal, Lançamento da terceira edição - Sustentabilidade" – em cartaz no espaço da ONU / Nova Iorque. Representando seu empreendimento, A AVA Galleria, o Instituto Cultural Brasil Finlândia, através da PLS receberam a partir do dia 14 de fevereiro o Pré-lançamento da BELA Bienal, são 54 artistas entre brasileiros e finlandeses que compõe a mostra com o tema "Sustentabilidade". NO evento realizado nas Nações Unidas, será também comemorado os de 100 anos de amizade entre o Brasil e a Finlândia. A mostra tem o objetivo de mostrar obras, que tenham relação com esse tema tão importante para a sobrevivência da humanidade. Na ocasião, fora lançado também a revista AVA Magazine, edição especial da mostra de Pré-lançamento da BELA Bienal, a primeira edição da BELA Bienal, aconteceu em Porto, Portugal no Palácio de Cristal, num espaço pertencente a prefeitura local em 2012/13. A segunda edição aconteceu no Rio de Janeiro no Museu Historio Nacional e na Galeria Scenarium de dezembro de 2014 a marco de 2015. Os artistas brasileiros e Finlandeses que estão representados nessa mostra são: Ana Martins, Alexandre Iodice, Arão Pinto, Avilmar Maia, Bia Monteiro, Carlos Gomes, Davi Faustino, Erisson Thompson Jr, Gustavo Kuklinski, J. Baião, Juliana Pavanelli, Matheus Almeida, Neumi Crepel, Paulo Roberto Gobo, Siomara Almeida, Tereza Vianna, AnneMilana, Aulikki Nukala, Hannu Tenhunen, Jan Ekström, Janne Teräväinen, Jari Järnström, Jouko Väärälä, Jukka Tuominen, Laura Pohjonen, Lauri Pietarinen, Leila Sarola, Markku Walldén, Paula Suominen, Päivyt Niemeläinen, Sanna-Mari Rautavirta, Seija Grönqvist, Seppo Kari, Serge Gauya, Sihvonen Marita, Sirkka Laakkonen, Susanna Teräväinen, Tapio Hirvonen, Tapio Hyvönen. Depois da ONU a exposição da BELA Bienal, seguirá suas apresentações no espaço cultural do Shopping Pátio Brasil, em Brasília, onde terá o lançamento oficial da terceira edição. Depois a Bienal, encerrerá suas apresentações com uma exposição na Finlândia, tendo também artistas da Europa e da América Latina. Serviço Exposição BELA Bienal - Sustentabilidade .



AVA Galleria from Finland and the Cultural Institute ICNBF (Instituto Cultural Nórdico Brasil Finlândia)in partnership with the Portuguese Language Society have organized the exhibition
100-year-old FINLAND and SUSTAINABILITY
Date: February 14 – 24, 2017
Place: United Nations Headquarters
During 2017 Pre-BELA (Biennial of European and Latin American contemporary Art) will celebrate the Centennial
of Finland ́s Declaration of Independence and Friendship with Brazil through very important mainstream theme
of Sustainability .
Artists:
Alexandre Iodice
Ana Martins
AnneMilana
Arão Pinto
Aulikki Nukala
Avilmar Maia
Bia Monteiro
Davi Faustino
Erisson Thompson Jr
Gustavo Kuklinski
Hannu Tenhunen
J. Baião
Jan Ekström
Janne Teräväinen
Jari Järnström
Jouko Väärälä
Jukka Tuominen
Laura Pohjonen
Lauri Pietarinen
Leila Sarola
Licia
Markku Walldén
Matheus Almeida
Neumi Crepel
Paula Suominen
Paulo Roberto Gobo
Päivyt Niemeläinen
Sanna-Mari Rautavirta
Seija Grönqvist
Seppo Kari
Serge Gauya
Sihvonen Marita
Siomara Almeida
Sirkka Laakkonen
Susanna Teräväinen
Tapio Hirvonen
Tapio Hyvönen
Curator: Edson Cardoso

Priorities of the Brazilian Foreign Policy in 2017

March 1 @ 6:10 pm - 8:00 pm



Monday, February 20

NEW ERA FOR GUYANA: OIL, BORDERS AND RELATIONS WITH THE USA
Time:
12:00 pm
Presenter:
AMBASSADOR RIYAD INSANALLY
Location:
531 Alumni Hall and Reception in 1309 Cathedral of Learning
Sponsored by:
Center for Latin American Studies along with Department of Hispanic Languages and Literatures
Contact:
Lucy DiStazio
Contact Phone:
8-7391
Contact Email:
lud3@pitt.edu
It is not often that Guyana (population: 800,000; area: 83,000 square miles), the small English-speaking country perched on the South American continent, makes the pages of the Washington Post, but with the recent appointment of Rex Tillerson as the new US Secretary of State, there has been some specula-tion in the Post regarding his links to his former company, ExxonMobil, the company’s oil exploration in Guyanese waters, and his attitude to Venezuela.
In his presentation, Dr. Riyad Insanally, Ambassador of Guyana to the USA, will seek to address a few misconceptions arising in the media and put in per-spective the quest for oil and the prospects for economic transformation in Guyana, against the backdrop of the existential threats posed by Venezuela’s spurious claim to two-thirds of Guyana’s land territory and most of Guyana’s maritime space.

Wednesday, February 22

Dinámicas de la narración factual y ficcional en las letras coloniales: Naufragios [1542] de Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca e Infortunios de Alonso Ramírez [1690] de Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora
Time:
3:30 pm
Presenter:
Dr. Luis Hachim Lara
Location:
4130 Posvar Hall
Sponsored by:
Center for Latin American Studies
Contact:
Luz Amanda Hank
Contact Phone:
8-7391
Contact Email:
lavst12@pitt.edu
http://www.ucis.pitt.edu/clas
Este trabajo se constituye a partir de una proposición literariamente admisible: la presencia de narrativas en el periodo Colonial frente a la común e intemperante pregunta: ¿Por qué no se produjo novela durante los trescientos años de la colonia? Con la afirmación de estas narrativas, trataremos un conjunto de obras que se producen en la etapa de formación colonial. Este contexto marcado por el proceso de constitución de la conciencia criolla, es coherente con toda narración inscrita en Libros de viajes, Relaciones, Crónicas, conformando —en el periodo Colonial— la hegemonía del discurso factual sobre el discurso ficcional, en textos que representan no solo las transformaciones del sujeto español indiano, sino también la emergente subjetividad criolla que caracteriza la nueva cultura y su relación con el mundo indígena. Para efectos del corpus narrativo, este trabajo propone esta primera etapa Colonial, incorporando dos obras desafectadas de la preocupación de los estudios literarios e historiográficos: 1) Naufragios [1542] de Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca. 2) Infortunios de Alonso Ramírez [1690] de Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora. Estas narrativas factuales enmascararon las estrategias ficcionales, que después se incorporarán con toda propiedad, a las prácticas y técnicas que caracterizarán las Literaturas de América.
LUIS HACHIM LARA
Doctor en Literatura chilena e hispanoamericana. Investigador y Profesor en Universidades de América Latina y Europa.
Director del Post grado en Literatura Latinoamericana y chilena de la Universidad de Santiago de Chile.
Entre sus publicaciones, se encuentran los siguientes títulos: Summa de libros y autores del periodo colonial: La Biblioteca Hispano Americana de José Mariano Beristaín de Souza. Puntángeles. Ensayo: Carlos Pezoa Véliz: Alma chilena de la poesía. Valparaíso: Ediciones Universitarias y Tres estudios sobre el pensamiento crítico de la Ilustración americana. Universidad de Alicante (España). Igualmente ha publicado cuentos: Sobre homúnculos y humanoides. Santiago: librosdementira (2012) y narrativa breve en proceso de publicación.

Tuesday, February 28

El Negro Raúl: Lives and Afterlives of an Afro-Argentine Celebrity (1886-Present)
Time:
12:00 pm
Presenter:
Paulina Alberto
Location:
History Department Lounge--3703 Posvar Hall
Sponsored by:
Center for Latin American Studies along with Department of History
Contact:
kag36@pitt.edu
Contact Email:
kag36@pitt.edu
Abstract
Ideas about race are always a set of narratives about who people are and are not. Sometimes these narratives take the form of classic stories with fixed characters, plots, and morals, and are passed on across generations and in multiple genres. The stories surrounding “el Negro Raúl,” an Afro-Argentine man who rose to fame in early twentieth-century Buenos Aires, illuminate the special power of narrative to shape racial attitudes. Raúl’s life and semi-fictional afterlives, which commentators construed as oddities in a homogeneously white nation, also shed light on the construction and meanings of dominant racial ideologies in Argentina since the early 1900s.
Paula Alberto is the author of Terms of Inclusion: Black Intellectuals in Twentieth-Century Brazil (University of North Carolina Press, 2011) and co-editor, with Eduardo Elena, of Rethinking Race in Modern Argentina (Cambridge University Press, 2016).
For more information contact: kag36@pitt.edu

Latin American in Motion:
Pitt Latin American Films
Time:
7:00 pm
Location:
Public Health G23
Sponsored by:
Center for Latin American Studies along with Deaprtment of Hispanic Languages & Literatures, the Year of DIVERSITY at the University of Pittsburgh and Spanish Film Club
Cost:
Free
Contact:
Luz Amanda Hank
Contact Phone:
412-648-7391
Contact Email:
lavst12@pitt.edu
http://www.ucis.pitt.edu/clas/node/432
The Center for Latin American Studies and the Department of Hispanic Languages & Literatures at the University of Pittsburgh
present
Latin America in Motion: Pitt Latin American Films
All Films will be screened at 7:00 p.m.
Public Health G23
130 De Soto St, Pittsburgh, PA 15261
(corner of 5th ave, and De Soto St.)
Come and join us for a film and pizza!
Free and open to the public!
Films:
OPEN CAGE
(Mexico)
TUESDAY, JANUARY 24
THE SECOND MOTHER
(Brazil)
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 28
THE CLUB
(Chile)
TUESDAY, MARCH 14
THE TRAVEL AGENT
(Cuba)
TUESDAY, MARCH 21
IXCANUL
(Guatemala)
TUESDAY, APRIL 4
All films are subtitled.

Tuesday, March 14

Latin American in Motion:
Pitt Latin American Films
Time:
7:00 pm
Location:
Public Health G23
Sponsored by:
Center for Latin American Studies along with Deaprtment of Hispanic Languages & Literatures, and the Year of Diversity at the University of Pittsburgh and Spanish Film Club by Pragda
Cost:
Free
Contact:
Luz Amanda Hank
Contact Phone:
412-648-7391
Contact Email:
lavst12@pitt.edu
http://www.ucis.pitt.edu/clas/node/432
The Center for Latin American Studies and the Department of Hispanic Languages & Literatures at the University of Pittsburgh
present
Latin America in Motion: Pitt Latin American Films
All Films will be screened at 7:00 p.m.
Public Health G23
130 De Soto St, Pittsburgh, PA 15261
(corner of 5th ave, and De Soto St.)
Come and join us for a film and pizza!
Free and open to the public!
Films:
OPEN CAGE
(Mexico)
TUESDAY, JANUARY 24
THE SECOND MOTHER
(Brazil)
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 28
THE CLUB
(Chile)
TUESDAY, MARCH 14
THE TRAVEL AGENT
(Cuba)
TUESDAY, MARCH 21
IXCANUL
(Guatemala)
TUESDAY, APRIL 4
All films are subtitled.

Wednesday, March 15

Encounters with the Amazon's Sacred Vine
Time:
6:30 pm
Presenter:
Luis Eduardo Luna
Location:
304 Cathedral of Learning
Sponsored by:
Center for Latin American Studies along with Department of Hispanic Language and Literature and John Beverley and the Year of Diversity at the university of Pittsburgh
Contact:
Lucy DiStazio
Contact Email:
lud3@pitt.edu
Professor Luna will offer a talk and book presentation of the second edition of Ayahuasca Reader: Encounters with the Amazon’s Sacred Vine, co-edited with Steven F. White. This anthology is an English language publication that compiles texts from global authorities in ayahuasca studies. Dr. Luna’s talk will be in English.
Luis Eduardo Luna (PhD in Anthropology, 1989, Stockholm University, Sweden), is a foremost authority on mestizo shamanism and visionary art. Dr. Luna is a former Senior Lecturer at the Swedish School of Economics, Helsinki, Finland, from where he retired, and a former Professor of Anthropology at the Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil (1994-1998). He is a Guggenheim Fellow and a Fellow of the Linnaean Society of London. At present, Dr. Luna is the director of the Wasiwaska Research Centre for the Study of Psychointegrator Plants, Visionary and Art Consciousness in Florianópolis, Brazil. Ayahuasca commands the attention of a wide range of disciplines, from anthropology, ethnobotany, pharmacology, therapeutics, sociology, philosophy and the study of religion, to literature and the arts.
Sponsors:
John Beverley
Department of Hispanic Languages and Literatures
Center for Latin American Studies (CLAS)

Tuesday, March 21

Latin American in Motion:
Pitt Latin American Films
Time:
7:00 pm
Location:
Public Health G23
Sponsored by:
Center for Latin American Studies along with Department of Hispanic Languages and Literature, and the Year of Diversity at the University of Pittsburgh and Spanish Film Club by Pragda
Cost:
Free
Contact:
Luz Amanda Hank
Contact Phone:
412-648-7391
Contact Email:
lavst12@pitt.edu
http://www.ucis.pitt.edu/clas/node/432
The Center for Latin American Studies and the Department of Hispanic Languages & Literatures at the University of Pittsburgh
present
Latin America in Motion: Pitt Latin American Films
All Films will be screened at 7:00 p.m.
Public Health G23
130 De Soto St, Pittsburgh, PA 15261
(corner of 5th ave, and De Soto St.)
Come and join us for a film and pizza!
Free and open to the public!
Films:
OPEN CAGE
(Mexico)
TUESDAY, JANUARY 24
THE SECOND MOTHER
(Brazil)
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 28
THE CLUB
(Chile)
TUESDAY, MARCH 14
THE TRAVEL AGENT
(Cuba)
TUESDAY, MARCH 21
IXCANUL
(Guatemala)
TUESDAY, APRIL 4
All films are subtitled.

Tuesday, April 4

Latin American in Motion:
Pitt Latin American Films
Time:
7:00 pm
Location:
Public Health G23
Sponsored by:
Center for Latin American Studies along with the Department of Hispanic Languages and Literatures, and the Year of Diversity at the University of Pittsburgh and Spanish Film Club by Pragda
Cost:
Free
Contact:
Luz Amanda Hank
Contact Phone:
412-648-7391
Contact Email:
lavst12@pitt.edu
http://www.ucis.pitt.edu/clas/node/432
The Center for Latin American Studies and the Department of Hispanic Languages & Literatures at the University of Pittsburgh
present
Latin America in Motion: Pitt Latin American Films
All Films will be screened at 7:00 p.m.
Public Health G23
130 De Soto St, Pittsburgh, PA 15261
(corner of 5th ave, and De Soto St.)
Come and join us for a film and pizza!
Free and open to the public!
Films:
OPEN CAGE
(Mexico)
TUESDAY, JANUARY 24
THE SECOND MOTHER
(Brazil)
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 28
THE CLUB
(Chile)
TUESDAY, MARCH 14
THE TRAVEL AGENT
(Cuba)
TUESDAY, MARCH 21
IXCANUL
(Guatemala)
TUESDAY, APRIL 4
All films are subtitled.

Friday, April 28

UCIS Graduation Ceremony
Time:
3:00 pm
Location:
Ballroom A, University Club
Sponsored by:
African Studies Program, Asian Studies Center, Center for Latin American Studies, Center for Russian and East European Studies, European Studies Center and Global Studies Center

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Thursday, February 16, 2017



Franklin Torres had been paying off his bank loans regularly. But on July 19, while he was in Ecuador visiting his family, he received notification that Flushing Savings Bank was foreclosing his property and placing it on auction the following day.
Torres, who had made around $430,000 in mortgage payments for his property as of June, was among a group of approximately 20 Queens residents who staged a demonstration Monday outside the Forest Hills branch of Flushing Savings Bank, accusing it of "corrupt and predatory practices," including improper foreclosures. The group staged a similar protest outside a branch in Flushing a week earlier.
The newly formed group, Queens Residents Against Flushing Savings Bank, chanted slogans like "Give us our homes back," held large placards, blew party blowers, and handed out leaflets to passersby to warn and identify residents who have been negatively impacted by the bank's alleged bad faith practices.
Flushing Savings said in an emailed statement that it "does not respond publicly to comments regarding its customers or their relationships."
"As a federally chartered savings bank, we comply with all applicable laws and regulations including the Equal Credit Opportunity Act and Fair Lending practices," the statement read. "Flushing Savings Bank makes every reasonable effort available to establish workout plans to help borrowers avoid the foreclosure process and maintain ownership of their property."

In June, state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman proposed new legislation, the Foreclosure Fraud Prevention Act, which would impose tough new criminal penalties that include jail time for those who knowingly authorize, prepare, execute or offer for filing false documents in a pending or prospective residential foreclosure action.



ONLY CHILD AERIAL THEATRE: ASYLUM | USA
ASYLUM, a theatre piece performed largely in the air, examines the forgotten lives of 6 patients and employees in a state mental institution that was shuttered in the 1970s. The story is told using aerial acrobatics, live music, projection, and shadow work and features a song composed for this production by Grammy nominee Sophie B. Hawkins.
  
BOOM CIRCUS | ITALY/US
BOOM! breathes new life into the ancient tradition of masked theater, full of spontaneous improvisations with the public, heart-touching drama, impossible skills and hilarious moments of sheer humanity. Peter Sweet and David Poznanter portray a cast of 6 characters who put on an entire circus, complete with slackrope, Cyr Wheel, juggling and live music. Family friendly, indoor/outdoor.

SATURDAY | MARCH 4

RACEHORSE COMPANY: DISCO 3000 | FINLAND
Their physical and raw contemporary circus performances are based on aesthetics of chaos, humour and surprise. A Jeunes Talentes Cirque Europe laureate 2010 and Best Performance winner 2013 at the International Theatre and Street Arts Festival in Valladolid Spain, Race Horse Company approaches circus without questioning, leaving philosophy to the spectators. Their upcoming work 'Disco 3000' looks at the superstar culture of modern performance art and laughs at the phenomenon through acrobatic clownery. The irreverent and dark-hued performance is infused with black humor and thrills the audience with razor sharp circus skills.

ALMANAC: LEAPS OF FAITH | USA
Philadelphia’s genre-defying Almanac Dance Circus Theatre presents Leaps of Faith and Other Mistakes an absurd and intimate tapestry of sublime human idiocy, isolationist seafarer cults, and the kinds of people that devote their lives to becoming acrobats. Four hobbyists find each other alone in a world of weirdos, and push themselves to be “exceptional in every moment.” As they purify themselves and adopt an all-white uniform, their trusty sofa becomes a portal for exploration and they set out on the high-seas to leave the world of fast-food and normal people behind. But all is not as they imagined it would be, and the audience is left contemplating what we do when we find ourselves lost at sea.


SUNDAY | MARCH 5 
NACHO FLORES: TESSERACT | FRANCE
After 10 years of work on the tight wire, Nacho Flores turns fully towards balancing on wooden cubes, a new technique devised by Nacho after three years of intensive research. A circus technique hitherto unknown, that makes us enjoy its visual quality, while maintaining the audience in maximum tension with the impossible balancing. The show takes us into a world where both the objects and the actor have to constantly fight with gravity. A real attack on Newton. If Newton had seen the show it would have taken him 10 more years to arrive at his theory (unless a cube would have fallen on his head). Tesseract gives a sense to the purest meaning of circus arts: to transform the ordinary into the extraordinary.
Presented in association with the Tilt Kids Festival, a production of the French Institute Alliance Française (FIAF) and the Cultural Services of the French Embassy.

RACEHORSE COMPANY: DISCO 3000 | FINLAND
Their physical and raw contemporary circus performances are based on aesthetics of chaos, humour and surprise. A Jeunes Talentes Cirque Europe laureate 2010 and Best Performance winner 2013 at the International Theatre and Street Arts Festival in Valladolid Spain, Race Horse Company approaches circus without questioning, leaving philosophy to the spectators. Their upcoming work 'Disco 3000' looks at the superstar culture of modern performance art and laughs at the phenomenon through acrobatic clownery. The irreverent and dark-hued performance is infused with black humor and thrills the audience with razor sharp circus skills.

Evening performances may contain adult themes. The performance on March 5th at 2 p.m. is a family-friendly performance. 

BEYOND THE STAGE
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MARCH 3, 2017 AT 6:00 PM
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PRE-SHOW PANEL DISCUSSION
Join us for a Pre-Show Panel Discussion on Global Models of Circus Training and Funding A discussion of the various circus training methods and funding models from three countries as examples: Canada (Quebec), Finland, and France. Each country has a long history of artistic innovation and support of circus. The panel will share aspects of the infrastructure and government/cultural assistance that has helped circus thrive. These models may offer learning opportunities for the audience as circus continues to evolve and gain momentum among youth in the United States.
Panelists: Nadia Drouin - la TOHU, Hélène Métailié - La Grainerie, Lotta Nevalainen - CircusInfo Finland; Moderator: Adam Woolley, Circus Now Managing Director.
This event will take place in the lower lobby.
MARCH 5, 2017 AT 1:00 PM
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PRE-SHOW LOBBY ACTIVITY
Join us in the hour before the show for family friendly activities! Children will learn basic circus techniques, such as juggling scarves and balancing objects, taught by professional teaching artists from Brooklyn Beanstalk.
CIRCUS NOW IS MADE POSSIBLE IN PART WITH SUPPORT FROM CON EDISON FOR FAMILY EDUCATIONAL AND ENRICHMENT PROGRAMMING, FROM THE ITALIAN CULTURAL INSTITUTE AND THE CONSULATE GENERAL OF FINLAND IN NEW YORK.
   
THANK YOU TO NYU SKIRBALL'S 2017 CIRCUS PARTNERS
           
and AERIAL ARTS NYC


Exhibition Overview
Lygia Pape: A Multitude of Forms is the first monographic exhibition in the United States devoted to Brazilian artist Lygia Pape (1927–2004). A critical figure in the development of Brazilian modern art, Pape combined geometric abstraction with notions of body, time, and space in unique ways that radically transformed the nature of the art object in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Covering a prolific, unclassifiable career that spanned five decades, this exhibition will examine Pape's extraordinarily rich oeuvre as manifest across varied media—from sculpture, prints, and painting to installation, photography, performance, and film.
#LygiaPape
#MetBreuer
Accompanied by a catalogue

The exhibition is made possible by The Daniel and Estrellita Brodsky Foundation and The Garcia Family Foundation.
It is organized by The Metropolitan Museum of Art in collaboration with Projeto Lygia Pape.



MORE INFORMATION: http://www.as-coa.org/events/book-presentation-ciudades-de-am%C3%A9rica-collection-americas-society-680-park-avenue
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Americas Society
680 Park Avenue
New York, NY
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March 28, 2017
7 p.m.
AS & YPA MembersNon-Member Registration
Free admission. Prior registration is required.
Join coeditors Erica Roberts and Facundo de Zuviría, along with curator Gabriela Rangel, for a conversation on the book series Ciudades de América (R&Z Editores), moderated by independent editor Donna Wingate. The series consists of four volumes dedicated to Buenos Aires, Montevideo, Cartagena de Indias, and Rio de Janeiro. Each book features photographs by de Zuviría that focus on the city landscapes, interior spaces, and textures and colors. Interspersed with the images are texts by such recognized writers as Gabriel García Márquez, Eduardo Galeano, Jorge Luis Borges, Julio Cortázar, and Vinicius de Moraes, among others. Presenting a local perspective rather a tourist’s viewpoint, Ciudades de América provides an intimate view of these emblematic Latin American cities. 
Learn about the exhibition Facundo de Zuviría: Siesta Argentina and other modest observations.
Event Information: Veronica Flom | vflom@as-coa.org | 1-212-277-8367          
Press Inquiries: Adriana La Rotta | alarotta@as-coa.org | 1-212-277-8384
Membership Information: as-coa.org/CulturalCircle | membership@as-coa.org

Image: Cover of “Rio de Janeiro” in the Ciudades de América series (2017). 


Event Funders
The exhibition Facundo de Zuviría: Siesta Argentina and other modest observations is made possible, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, and by the generous support of Genomma Lab Internacional, the Neuss Fund, Erica Roberts, Isabella Hutchinson, the Sistema Federal de Medios y Contenidos Públicos de la Nación Argentina, the Consulado General y Centro de Promoción de la República Argentina en Nueva York, and anonymous donors.



MUSIC
What: Os Mutantes
Where: Trocadero Theater (Philadelphia) / Webster Hall New York (The Marlin Room)
When: February 26 (Philadelphia) and 27 (New York)
OS MUTANTES
Os Mutantes
OS MUTANTES:
When the members of the legendary “Tropicália” band Os Mutantes took the stage before an audience of thousands at the Hollywood bowl a few years back, it seemed one of the greatest secrets in modern music was finally out. The seminal band whose ethereal absurdist pop music had inspired so many prominent musicians since their breakup decades before, were back. This time the world seemed ready. Now this influential band has reemerged with a brand new much anticipated album entitled Haih or Amortecedor on Anti-records.

Those who have not heard the music of Os Mutantes have undoubtedly experienced their influence. During the band’s absence, their records have been passed from musician to musician like cherished gifts, ever inspiring and altering the contemporary musical landscape. Kurt Cobain of Nirvana was tipped to the band by members of the band Red Kross. When Nirvana toured Brazil in 1993, Cobain tried desperately to arrange a meeting with Mutante bassist and singer Arnaldo Baptista. Unable to locate the musician he sent him the following note. “Arnaldo, best wishes to you, and be careful with the system. They swallow you up and spit you out like a maraschino cherry pit.”

The Mutantes’ cut-and-paste, sonic collage approach and their tendency for cultural irony, is an aesthetic now prevalent in modern music. The band has received praise from a growing list of luminaries including the Flaming Lips, David Byrne, Devendra Banhart and Of Montreal. But of any contemporary musician, it is Beck who appears their direct heir. For his part, Beck readily admits a longstanding admiration for the Mutantes, even dedicating his song “Tropicália” from the album Mutations to the band. As he explains, ''Hearing Os Mutantes for the first time was one of those revelatory moments you live for as a musician. When you find something that you have been wanting to hear for years but never thought existed. I made records like 'Odelay' because there was a certain sound and sensibility that I wanted to achieve, and it was eerie to find that they had already done it 30 years ago, in a totally shocking but beautiful and satisfying way. For years it was pretty much the only thing I listened to.”

This admiration by fellow artists is something Mutante founder and singer/guitarist, Sérgio Dias, appreciates. “I think it is really beautiful how our sound caught on with newer generations through the songs of Beck and others,” he explains. These kids were influenced by our music and started to talk to other kids and tell them. And then Beck made Mutations and he was so eloquent about that. I think it is a wonderful portrait of how things happen today.”

Mutantes’ unique otherworldly sound was forged in a time and place of turmoil. San Paulo Brazil of the early sixties was a city and nation under siege. The military had seized power and the authorities were coming down hard on anything resembling descent. It was amidst this precarious backdrop that, in 1964, two teenagers, Arnaldo Baptista and Rita Lee Jones met at a high school band contest. Inspired by a Revolver era Beatles, the two soon drafted Arnaldo’s brother Sergio and formed what would become Os Mutantes.

Soon the band, along with other forward-looking musicians, writers and artists, were taking part in lively discussions that would eventually evolve into a culturally defining movement. With elements of political criticism, prankster humor and an eclectic range of musical styles, Tropicália was born. “In Brazil we were influenced by things like the Beatles and Picasso,” Dias explains. “But we didn’t know what the Beatles were singing about and we didn’t know the history of Picasso. We were in the middle of a very bad situation and we were responding to all of this. We only had bits and pieces of everything and so we formed this image of what rock and roll was supposed to be. Our music is like a patchwork quilt made up of all these different pieces from different places. We put all these elements together and just let them cook in this witches brew and that became our sound.”
It was during Tropicália’s start that the Mutantes recorded their self-titled debut album. As students battled the police and military, the Mutantes recorded an ambitious album merging seductive Brazilian music with the new psychedelic pop of the Beatles and Beach Boys. The end result didn’t so much take a direct political stand as offer a complete aesthetic rejection of the harsh reality surrounding them.

The ruling generals soon regarded the Mutantes as musical emissaries of an emerging counter culture steeped in sex, drugs and rock ’n’ roll, and the group’s performances began to get raided. The Mutantes, for their part, seemed to delight in their role as cultural provocateurs: with Dias performing in a Napoleonic military uniform, his brother Baptista in a priest’s cassock and singer Rita Lee appearing in a bridal gown. “Many people were being arrested by the government at that time,” Dias explains. “So we fought back the only way that we knew. They would try to censor our lyrics. But instead of changing the words we would put all sorts of strange noises on top of them. I don’t think they knew how much we were making fun of them.”

By 1969, when the band’s third album “A Divina Comédia ou Ando Meio Desiglado” was recorded, Brazil’s political situation had only further deteriorated. A governmental edict called as AI 5 (Institutional Act 5) resulted in the persecution of intellectuals, artists and activists, the closing of the congress and countless arrests. The crack down was the beginning of the end for the Tropicália movement. Giberto Gil and Caetano Veloso, close friends of the Mutantes and two of the leading forces of Tropicalia, were arrested and exiled. Despite this the Mutantes had their biggest hit with the song “Ando Meio Desiglado”. Propelled by a rocking Motown inspired bass line, the lyrics offered a forthright description of the effects of marijuana. On another song “Desculpe, Babe,” Sérgio’s voice was distorted through a rubber hose connected to a hot chocolate can with a tiny speaker inside, as he sung over melodic Beatlesque guitars.

While performing in Paris, the band recorded an album for Polydor UK. The record was intended to introduce the band to a broader western audience and featured many of their previously recorded songs sung in English. The masters from the session were subsequently lost and the album, “Technicolor,” wouldn’t resurface for nearly three decades. Singer Rita Lee soon left the band to pursue a solo career and eventually it was only leader Sérgio Dias, leading the band until they finally disbanded in 1978.

But in the band’s absence, Mutantes’ standing amongst the rock cognoscente only intensified. In 2000, the lost 1971 album “Technicolor” was located and released to a near euphoric critical response. In 2006 the band finally reunited and performed at London’s Barbican Arts Center. This was followed by triumphant shows throughout North America and the Mutantes being awarded the Brazilian equivalent of a Grammy for best band. “Playing live with this band is so amazing,” Dias says. “I can not describe anything better than maybe going into space. When we were playing at the Pitchfork Festival it was like looking at yourself when you were a kid trying to mumble the words to “I Wanna Hold Your Hand” in English and not understanding the words. There were hardly any Brazilians there but the kids were all singing our songs in Portuguese. It was really beautiful.”

So this acclaimed band who inspired so much now prepares to release Haih or Amortecedor, their first new album in over three decades. On it Sergio Dias has collaborated with two of the founders of Tropicalia, renowned songwriter and multi instrumentalist Tom Ze and Jorge Ben who wrote the band’s first hit Minha Menina. But don’t expect anything like nostalgia from Haih or Amortecedor. The end result is a record that brilliantly updates the band’s legendary “Tropicalia” sound, propelling it out of the sixties and into an uncharted but undeniably exotic future. As expected, the songs utilize a startling assortment of instrumentation, from austere violins to distorted metallic guitars and something called a crazy flute, lending an underlying theatrical power to their genre defying music. The song Bagdad Blues, with its tinkering old piano and seductive horns, conjures an otherworldly cabaret while Querida Querida is modern rock music unlike anything you’ve heard before.“It would be awful to mimic something we had done when we were teenagers,” Dias explains. “When we were making this album we were absolutely vigilant that the ideas were entirely fresh and I think we did a very good job. Everyone who has heard this album say it doesn’t sound like Mutantes - but then it is also pure Mutantes. I really think it is a perfect vision of what Os Mutantes should sound like in the 21st century.”
S.T.O.P.
When you're thinking blues, you're thinking evil
MITCH ESPARZA
Mitch Esparza (a.k.a: ME) is a Mexican-American singer/guitarist based out of Philadelphia. His performances generally vary greatly in genre from song to song given his eclectic tastes and musical styles. He's Leader of local psych-rockers, The Love Club, and member of experimental noise-punk group, Humanshapes. All that said his approach is pretty consistently raw and full of deep seeded energy regardless of the outfit he’s in. This performance will be one of his more meditative non-stop explorations of collective consciousness.
DJ PSILOSYBIN
Carlos Bonilla, AKA “LOS-A-MATIC,” “PsiLOSybin,”or simply “LOS” has been a consistent dj in Philadelphia for well over a decade, with an ever-growing vinyl collection based in the love of psychedelic rock.

He currently co-hosts the longest running dj night at Johnny Brenda’s, “Cities on Flame” (focusing on 70’s to modern proto-metal and heavy rock) and the bi-annual “Tropical Voodoo” night (AfroRock, Brazilian Beats, Latin Roots, Psych Grooves, Cosmic Soul), to name a few, as well as crafting dj sets around acts like Nick Turner’s Hawkwind, Kikagaku Moyo at Kung Fu Necktie, Fuzz at Underground Arts and many other heavy and heady bands around town.

Atlantis the Lost Bar, in Kensington, has been his testing grounds for well over ten years. You can find him there every second Tuesday of the month spinning his variety of 60’s psychedelia, 90’s shoegaze, krautrock, and blues-rock and also collaborating with the Riff Mountain DJ collective. His music knowledge, with the vinyl to back it up, is far, wide and deep.

Not only is LOS an avid record collector, but also a graphic designer and artist. You will find his love of music history embedded in the fliers, album covers and other work he creates.

LOS is globetrotting through his records. He is the messenger, sending out uplifting vibes to initiate escapism for these hard times.

S MUTANTES
Os Mutantes
OS MUTANTES:
When the members of the legendary “Tropicália” band Os Mutantes took the stage before an audience of thousands at the Hollywood bowl a few years back, it seemed one of the greatest secrets in modern music was finally out. The seminal band whose ethereal absurdist pop music had inspired so many prominent musicians since their breakup decades before, were back. This time the world seemed ready. Now this influential band has reemerged with a brand new much anticipated album entitled Haih or Amortecedor on Anti-records.

Those who have not heard the music of Os Mutantes have undoubtedly experienced their influence. During the band’s absence, their records have been passed from musician to musician like cherished gifts, ever inspiring and altering the contemporary musical landscape. Kurt Cobain of Nirvana was tipped to the band by members of the band Red Kross. When Nirvana toured Brazil in 1993, Cobain tried desperately to arrange a meeting with Mutante bassist and singer Arnaldo Baptista. Unable to locate the musician he sent him the following note. “Arnaldo, best wishes to you, and be careful with the system. They swallow you up and spit you out like a maraschino cherry pit.”

The Mutantes’ cut-and-paste, sonic collage approach and their tendency for cultural irony, is an aesthetic now prevalent in modern music. The band has received praise from a growing list of luminaries including the Flaming Lips, David Byrne, Devendra Banhart and Of Montreal. But of any contemporary musician, it is Beck who appears their direct heir. For his part, Beck readily admits a longstanding admiration for the Mutantes, even dedicating his song “Tropicália” from the album Mutations to the band. As he explains, ''Hearing Os Mutantes for the first time was one of those revelatory moments you live for as a musician. When you find something that you have been wanting to hear for years but never thought existed. I made records like 'Odelay' because there was a certain sound and sensibility that I wanted to achieve, and it was eerie to find that they had already done it 30 years ago, in a totally shocking but beautiful and satisfying way. For years it was pretty much the only thing I listened to.”

This admiration by fellow artists is something Mutante founder and singer/guitarist, Sérgio Dias, appreciates. “I think it is really beautiful how our sound caught on with newer generations through the songs of Beck and others,” he explains. These kids were influenced by our music and started to talk to other kids and tell them. And then Beck made Mutations and he was so eloquent about that. I think it is a wonderful portrait of how things happen today.”

Mutantes’ unique otherworldly sound was forged in a time and place of turmoil. San Paulo Brazil of the early sixties was a city and nation under siege. The military had seized power and the authorities were coming down hard on anything resembling descent. It was amidst this precarious backdrop that, in 1964, two teenagers, Arnaldo Baptista and Rita Lee Jones met at a high school band contest. Inspired by a Revolver era Beatles, the two soon drafted Arnaldo’s brother Sergio and formed what would become Os Mutantes.

Soon the band, along with other forward-looking musicians, writers and artists, were taking part in lively discussions that would eventually evolve into a culturally defining movement. With elements of political criticism, prankster humor and an eclectic range of musical styles, Tropicália was born. “In Brazil we were influenced by things like the Beatles and Picasso,” Dias explains. “But we didn’t know what the Beatles were singing about and we didn’t know the history of Picasso. We were in the middle of a very bad situation and we were responding to all of this. We only had bits and pieces of everything and so we formed this image of what rock and roll was supposed to be. Our music is like a patchwork quilt made up of all these different pieces from different places. We put all these elements together and just let them cook in this witches brew and that became our sound.”
It was during Tropicália’s start that the Mutantes recorded their self-titled debut album. As students battled the police and military, the Mutantes recorded an ambitious album merging seductive Brazilian music with the new psychedelic pop of the Beatles and Beach Boys. The end result didn’t so much take a direct political stand as offer a complete aesthetic rejection of the harsh reality surrounding them.

The ruling generals soon regarded the Mutantes as musical emissaries of an emerging counter culture steeped in sex, drugs and rock ’n’ roll, and the group’s performances began to get raided. The Mutantes, for their part, seemed to delight in their role as cultural provocateurs: with Dias performing in a Napoleonic military uniform, his brother Baptista in a priest’s cassock and singer Rita Lee appearing in a bridal gown. “Many people were being arrested by the government at that time,” Dias explains. “So we fought back the only way that we knew. They would try to censor our lyrics. But instead of changing the words we would put all sorts of strange noises on top of them. I don’t think they knew how much we were making fun of them.”

By 1969, when the band’s third album “A Divina Comédia ou Ando Meio Desiglado” was recorded, Brazil’s political situation had only further deteriorated. A governmental edict called as AI 5 (Institutional Act 5) resulted in the persecution of intellectuals, artists and activists, the closing of the congress and countless arrests. The crack down was the beginning of the end for the Tropicália movement. Giberto Gil and Caetano Veloso, close friends of the Mutantes and two of the leading forces of Tropicalia, were arrested and exiled. Despite this the Mutantes had their biggest hit with the song “Ando Meio Desiglado”. Propelled by a rocking Motown inspired bass line, the lyrics offered a forthright description of the effects of marijuana. On another song “Desculpe, Babe,” Sérgio’s voice was distorted through a rubber hose connected to a hot chocolate can with a tiny speaker inside, as he sung over melodic Beatlesque guitars.

While performing in Paris, the band recorded an album for Polydor UK. The record was intended to introduce the band to a broader western audience and featured many of their previously recorded songs sung in English. The masters from the session were subsequently lost and the album, “Technicolor,” wouldn’t resurface for nearly three decades. Singer Rita Lee soon left the band to pursue a solo career and eventually it was only leader Sérgio Dias, leading the band until they finally disbanded in 1978.

But in the band’s absence, Mutantes’ standing amongst the rock cognoscente only intensified. In 2000, the lost 1971 album “Technicolor” was located and released to a near euphoric critical response. In 2006 the band finally reunited and performed at London’s Barbican Arts Center. This was followed by triumphant shows throughout North America and the Mutantes being awarded the Brazilian equivalent of a Grammy for best band. “Playing live with this band is so amazing,” Dias says. “I can not describe anything better than maybe going into space. When we were playing at the Pitchfork Festival it was like looking at yourself when you were a kid trying to mumble the words to “I Wanna Hold Your Hand” in English and not understanding the words. There were hardly any Brazilians there but the kids were all singing our songs in Portuguese. It was really beautiful.”

So this acclaimed band who inspired so much now prepares to release Haih or Amortecedor, their first new album in over three decades. On it Sergio Dias has collaborated with two of the founders of Tropicalia, renowned songwriter and multi instrumentalist Tom Ze and Jorge Ben who wrote the band’s first hit Minha Menina. But don’t expect anything like nostalgia from Haih or Amortecedor. The end result is a record that brilliantly updates the band’s legendary “Tropicalia” sound, propelling it out of the sixties and into an uncharted but undeniably exotic future. As expected, the songs utilize a startling assortment of instrumentation, from austere violins to distorted metallic guitars and something called a crazy flute, lending an underlying theatrical power to their genre defying music. The song Bagdad Blues, with its tinkering old piano and seductive horns, conjures an otherworldly cabaret while Querida Querida is modern rock music unlike anything you’ve heard before.“It would be awful to mimic something we had done when we were teenagers,” Dias explains. “When we were making this album we were absolutely vigilant that the ideas were entirely fresh and I think we did a very good job. Everyone who has heard this album say it doesn’t sound like Mutantes - but then it is also pure Mutantes. I really think it is a perfect vision of what Os Mutantes should sound like in the 21st century.”
S.T.O.P.
When you're thinking blues, you're thinking evil
MITCH ESPARZA
Mitch Esparza (a.k.a: ME) is a Mexican-American singer/guitarist based out of Philadelphia. His performances generally vary greatly in genre from song to song given his eclectic tastes and musical styles. He's Leader of local psych-rockers, The Love Club, and member of experimental noise-punk group, Humanshapes. All that said his approach is pretty consistently raw and full of deep seeded energy regardless of the outfit he’s in. This performance will be one of his more meditative non-stop explorations of collective consciousness.
DJ PSILOSYBIN
Carlos Bonilla, AKA “LOS-A-MATIC,” “PsiLOSybin,”or simply “LOS” has been a consistent dj in Philadelphia for well over a decade, with an ever-growing vinyl collection based in the love of psychedelic rock.

He currently co-hosts the longest running dj night at Johnny Brenda’s, “Cities on Flame” (focusing on 70’s to modern proto-metal and heavy rock) and the bi-annual “Tropical Voodoo” night (AfroRock, Brazilian Beats, Latin Roots, Psych Grooves, Cosmic Soul), to name a few, as well as crafting dj sets around acts like Nick Turner’s Hawkwind, Kikagaku Moyo at Kung Fu Necktie, Fuzz at Underground Arts and many other heavy and heady bands around town.

Atlantis the Lost Bar, in Kensington, has been his testing grounds for well over ten years. You can find him there every second Tuesday of the month spinning his variety of 60’s psychedelia, 90’s shoegaze, krautrock, and blues-rock and also collaborating with the Riff Mountain DJ collective. His music knowledge, with the vinyl to back it up, is far, wide and deep.

Not only is LOS an avid record collector, but also a graphic designer and artist. You will find his love of music history embedded in the fliers, album covers and other work he creates.

LOS is globetrotting through his records. He is the messenger, sending out uplifting vibes to initiate escapism for these hard times.




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