BRAZIL WEEK, OXFORD, MARCH 2012

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1 BRAZIL WEEK, OXFORD, MARCH am 2pm 4pm 5pm MONDAY 5 TUESDAY 6 WEDNESDAY 7 THURSDAY 8 FRIDAY 9 SATURDAY 10 Latin American Third Cinema Conference Round Table: Brazil in the Spotlight Robin Lustig (BBC), Tim Power (Latin American Centre) Literature: The Brazilian Belle Époque Room 2 Lecture: The People s Palace Project (art for social justice in Brazil and the UK) Paul Heritage PREMIÈRE Pero Vaz de Caminha s Brazil (short) Captains of the Sands (feature) Shulman Auditorium, Choir Concert Classical Brazilian Choral Music Main Hall 5 x Favela: Agora por nós mesmos Introduced by director: Luciano Vidigal Latin American Third Cinema Conference Keynote speaker: María Delgado. Room 3 Keynote speaker: Michael Chanan Shulman Auditorium, 6pm Main Hall Room 2 Main Hall 7pm 7.30pm Only When I Dance Shulman Auditorium, Kiss of the Spider Woman, Shulman Auditorium, The Knife Dorfman Centre, St. Peter s College IRSOC EXPERT PANEL Mansfield College 8pm CAPOEIRA WORKSHOP St. Peter s College NB: ALL S HAVE ENGLISH SUBTITLES. All events are free, but please register for the Film Conference at: and to sing in the choir, please register at:

2 PROGRAMME MONDAY 5 MARCH 5PM 7PM TAYLOR INSTITUTION (MAIN HALL) ROUND TABLE: BRAZIL IN THE SPOTLIGHT Suddenly it seems as though everybody is talking about Brazil. There s an economic boom, a new female President, the country s going to host the World Cup and the Olympic Games what s going on? Guest speakers Robin Lustig, who was in Brazil a year ago and presented a series of reports on Radio 4, will describe his impressions of the country and its economic situation. Tim Power, from Oxford University s Latin American Centre, will talk about the challenges facing President Dilma Rousseff and a country under the spotlight. SHULMAN AUDITORIUM, QUEEN S COLLEGE SHOWING: ONLY WHEN I DANCE Directed by Beadie Finzi (2009), 78 min. Also known as the Brazilian Billy Elliot, this documentary tells the extraordinary story of two teenagers, Irlan and Isabella, chasing a seemingly impossible dream: to dance their way out of the violent and dangerous outskirts of Rio to join a professional ballet company.

3 TUESDAY 6 MARCH 2PM 5PM 7PM Room 2,, St. Giles Literature of the Brazilian Belle Époque Vinícius Mariano de Carvalho (Åarhus): João do Rio - modern Flaneur in a pre-modern city Bob Oakley (Birmingham): Triste fim de Policarpo Quaresma and an Anatomy of Dictatorship Felipe Correa (Wolfson): Lima Barreto the Journalist-Writer Room 2,, St. Giles Lecture Professor Paul Heritage (QMUL) Paul Heritage will talk about the People s Palace Project which is an arts organisation established to advance the practice and understanding of art for social justice. He has collaborated with groups such as AfroReggae and developed projects within disadvantaged communities in Brazil and the UK. In 2004 he directed Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra and Measure for Measure on location in two favelas, with the opening performance taking place on a border contested by rival drug factions. Shulman Auditorium, SHOWING: KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN [O BEIJO DA MULHER ARANHA] Directed by Hector Babenco (1985), 120 min. Starring: William Hurt, Raul Julia and Sonia Braga. Luis Molina and Valentin Arregui are cellmates. Molina has been imprisoned for immoral behaviour and Valentin is a political prisoner. To escape reality and help pass the time, Molina narrates the plots of romantic movies with glamorous female stars, like the Spider Woman. Their relationship, at first antagonistic, grows as they find they have more in common than they thought. Adapted from the novel by Manuel Puig, the story has also been made into a play and a Broadway musical.

4 WEDNESDAY 7 MARCH 4PM Shulman Auditorium, SHOWING: PERO VAZ DE CAMINHA S BRAZIL [O BRASIL DE PERO VAZ DE CAMINHA] (short) Directed by Bruno Laet (2011), 18 min Starring: Isnard Manso, Ruy Guerra; Music by Chico Buarque arranged by Arnaldo Antunes. This is a documentary that traces parallels between Brazil at the time of the discovery (1500) and the present. It does not include interviews or a reenactment of historical facts, only a contextualization of the universe of Pero Vaz, the scribe who sent his first impressions of the new continent to his monarch in a letter. PREMIÈRE: CAPITÃES DE AREIA [CAPTAINS OF THE SANDS] (feature) Directed by Cecília Amado and Guy Gonçalves (2011), 96 min Starring: Jean Luis Amorim, Ana Graciela and Roberio Lima. Music by Carlinhos Brown. Based on the well-loved novel by Jorge Amado and directed by his granddaughter, this film tells the story of the lives of a group of street kids living by their wits to stay alive, in 1950s Salvador de Bahia. 7PM Dorfman Centre, St Peter s College SHOWING: THE KNIFE [A GRANDE ARTE] Directed by Walter Salles (1991), 96 min Starring: Peter Coyote, Tchéky Karyo and Amanda Pays. Walter Salles first feature film is an adaptation of Rubem Fonseca s thriller A Grande Arte. An American photographer in Rio de Janeiro becomes involved in the world of "knife culture" when he sets out to find the killer of one of his models Council Room, Mansfield College: IRSOC Expert Panel on The Rise of Brazil The International Relations Society present an expert panel featuring Prof. Andrew Hurrell (Oxford) and Dr Francisco Panizza (LSE). The event will be preceded by a wine reception. (for more information, see: 8PM JCR, St. Peter s College, Capoeira Demonstration and Workshop

5 THURSDAY 8 MARCH 4PM 5PM MAIN HALL, TAYLOR INSTITUTION, ST. GILES A CHORAL CONCERT OF BRAZILIAN MUSIC CONDUCTED BY VINÍCIUS MARIANO DE CARVALHO Students from Åarhus and Oxford will sing some Brazilian classical choral music (Villa-Lobos) as well as some bossa nova tunes. Anyone interested in joining the choir, register your interest at bit.ly/brazil-week-choir Rehearsals will be arranged during Brazil Week. : 5 X FAVELA: AGORA POR NÓS MESMOS [5 X FAVELA: NOW BY OURSELVES] Directed by Manaíra Carneiro & Wagner Novais, Rodrigo Felha & Cacau Amaral, Luciano Vidigal, Cadu Barcelos and Luciana Bezerra (2010), 96 min The project 5 x Favela gathered over 200 young people from Rio's favelas to attend workshops in filmmaking techniques. The goal was to create, as a collective, a feature film consisting of five stories that reflect different facets of the daily lives of residents of these communities, with the promise to avoid stereotypical representations and instead focus on friendship, family relationships, achievements and the unexpected events that bind people together. The film will be introduced by Luciano Vidigal, who directed one of the segments and acts in another, is a member of the theatre group Nós do Morro and has appeared in films like City of Men, My Name isn t Johnny and Elite Squad 2. Luciano will be taking part in the film conference Latin American Third Cinema and its Legacies on 9 and 10 March.

6 FRIDAY 9 MARCH 2PM 7PM ROOM 3, TAYLOR INSTITUTION, ST. GILES CONFERENCE: LATIN AMERICAN THIRD CINEMA AND ITS LEGACIES A two-day colloquium at the University of Oxford organised by María Donapetry, Claire Williams and Roberta Gregoli Keynote speakers include María Delgado (QMUL) and Michael Chanan (Roehampton). For a full programme, visit: All welcome, but please register at bit.ly/third-cinema The organisers are grateful to the Sub-Faculties of Portuguese and Spanish, University of Oxford, the Ministério de Relações Estrangeiras, Brazilian Government, The Embassy of Brazil in the UK, Tabocca Produções Artísticas