[Lapg] TONIGHT/Fri, Feb 1/ Isabela Coelho from Brazil is here, please join us...

[Santa Barbara Permaculture Network]

Isabela Coelho joins us tonight for this 
event.  It is a very special opportunity for the 
Permaculture community to learn first hand about 
organizing in another country, and in this case, 
the innovative way they have combined art & 
permaculture.  OPA was one of the host sites for 
the International Permaculture Conference in May 
2007.  She will be available for questions after 
the film, and also the announcement of a 
Permaculture Coordinator position opening at their center.

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The 5th Annual Santa Barbara Brazilian Carnaval
February 1,2,3 2008

On Friday, February 1, Santa Barbara Permaculture 
Network will be a part of a very special 
collaboration.  We are co-hosting with Soul 
Brasil magazine a Film Screening Event that is 
the kick-off to the 5th Annual Santa Barbara 
Brazilian Carnaval, 3 days of dynamic music, 
dance, film, soccer, Brazilian food and culture.

Please join us as we start the evening with a 
short film about the Organization for 
Permaculture & Arts (OPA) www.opabrasil.org a 
Permaculture Center we recently visited while in 
Brazil attending the 8th International 
Permaculture Conference (IPC8).  We will be 
joined by Isabela Coelho, the dynamic young 
director and co-founder of OPA, as she shares 
experiences of the incredible work they do, 
combining art & permaculture for under-served 
children and youth in an urban setting, and their 
ecological surf camp on the Bahian coast.

The main event will be a film screening of "The 
Sound of Rio: Brasileirinho", which chronicles 
the evolution of a very special Brazilian musical 
genre called "Choro" developing in Rio de Janeiro 
in the 1920's.   A flute musician playing Choro 
will be part of the festivities, along with a 
showing of Brazilian photographic artwork. (more info below)

The event takes place at the downtown Santa 
Barbara Public Library, Faulkner Gallery, 40 E. 
Anapamu St, for a donation of $5.  No 
reservations are required.  For more information, 
please visit our website at 
www.sbpermaculture.org, go to upcoming events, or 
the complete SB Carnaval schedule can be found on 
the SoulBrasil magazine website at www.soulbrasil.com.

Hope you can join us!

Margie Bushman & Wes Roe
Santa Barbara Permaculture Network

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Film Description:


The Sounds of Rio: Brasileirinho
A Film by Mika Kaurismaki - 90 min

Kick Off of the Annual Santa Barbara Brazilian Carnaval 2008
With Special Guest Appearances – Donation $5

Brasileirinho is a 90-min musical documentary 
film about Choro, the first genuinely Brazilian 
urban music. It was back in the late 19th century 
in Rio de Janeiro when Brazilian musicians 
started to blend European melodies, 
Afro-Brazilian rhythms and the melancholic 
interpretation of the Brazilian Indians' music to 
create Choro. Choro is credited as being the 
first musical expression of Brazil’s melting pot 
and had a prominent place in the development of 
Brazil’s cultural identity. Choro remained a 
major popular music style until the 1920s, 
leading directly into Samba and later to Bossa 
Nova. After a slight decline in popularity, Choro 
music has made a remarkable comeback over the past few decades.

The film remembers the history but shows, above 
all, a colorful picture of Choro's vitality 
today. The guiding line of the film is the combo 
“Trio Madeira Brasil” composed of three of 
Brazil’s outstanding Choro musicians. During a 
“Roda de Choro”, a traditional Brazilian kind of 
private jam session, the Trio brings up a concert 
project. During these sessions or at their homes, 
some of the most interesting Choro musicians play 
and remember key events in the history of this 
Brazilian urban music. A look into a Choro 
workshop with over 450 participants of all ages 
illustrates the off-hand genuine Brazilian way to 
play. “Playing” interviews with well-known Samba 
and Bossa Nova artists like Zezé Gonzaga, Elza 
Soares and Guinga illustrate the reciprocal 
inspiration with Samba and Bossa Nova music. A 
final show of the "Trio Madeira Brasil" with 
their guests in one of Rio’s traditional music 
halls shows once more the opulence of rhythms and 
melodies in Choro that has evolved over the past 
130 years into a fascinating form of modern tropical sound.
However, the film is not only about music, but 
also about the people who make and play this 
music. Even if Choro is often regarded as the 
music of the middle class, it unites people from 
different races, classes, sexes and ages. Brazil 
is a country of many contradictions, it has huge 
social contrasts, a big part of the population 
lives in a constant survival struggle, but in the 
end joy – alegria - always wins. And in this 
battle of joy and sorrow music plays an extremely 
important role. The film director Mika Kaurismaki 
tried to capture the ‘soul’ of Choro, the magic 
feeling and the unique emotional bond, the 
musical brotherhood, between all the involved – 
musicians and audience - of any successful Choro performance.

The Annual Santa Barbara Brazilian Carnaval 
brings to Santa Barbara once a year a little bit 
more information, activities and quality live 
entertainment of one of the richest culture 
around the world – the Brazilian Culture.
Brazilian Carnaval Santa Barbara - www.soulbrasil.com


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