[Scpg] FEB 20, 7:30pm Miracle of Candeal Film/6th Annual SB Brazilian Carnaval Film Night

[Wesley Roe and Santa Barbara Permaculture Network]

Santa Barbara Permaculture Network & Soul Brasil Magazine
Present:
6th Annual Santa Barbara Brazilian Carnaval
Film Night
  featuring the Award winning film
"The Miracle of Candeal"

Friday, February 20, 7:30  2009, Donation $5
Santa Barbara Central Library, Faulkner Gallery

	 Does the current economy have you down? 
Do what the Brazilians do, abandon all worries, 
open your heart to music, dance and creativity, 
celebrate Carnaval, and make sure you bring your 
Samba shoes!

	Santa Barbara Permaculture Network & Soul 
Brasil magazine collaborate for the second year 
with a film event on Friday, February 20, 
featuring "The Miracle of Candeal" with 
Grammy-award winning percussionist Carlinhos 
Brown.  The film event kicks-off the 6th Annual 
Santa Barbara Brazilian Carnaval, with 3 days of 
dance, film, food, capoeira, and soccer ( 
www.soulbrasil.com).

	The “Miracle of Candeal” is an award 
winning film by Fernando Trueba about musician 
Carlinhos Brown and Candeal, a marginal area in 
the heart of Salvador, the capital of the 
Brazilian state of Bahia.  Brown returns home to 
the favela (slum) of Candeal, notorious for its 
crime, heavy drug trafficking, and street kids, 
to help transform his community through the power 
of music.  A celebration of music and social 
change unfolds.

	The film begins with formerly exiled 
Cuban music godfather Bebo Valdés, whose quest to 
find his African roots leads him to Candeal, and 
ultimately makes him witness to Brown’s 
outstanding achievements.  This exploration of 
Afro-Brazilian music includes appearances by 
musicians Gilberto Gil, Caetano Veloso, and 
Marisa Monte among others.  It is a journey 
through Brazilian music and festivals from the 
ancestral to the sophisticated present.

	The film is also a celebration of 
Carnaval in this extraordinarily beautiful and 
historic region of Brazil, with images of people 
dancing in open spaces, percussionists working 
drums on hot evenings, a parade of trio eletrico, 
large trucks carrying bands on their flatbeds, 
and the richly layered rhythms of samba playing 
in the background. Timbalada, the first 
percussionist group in Candeal formed by Brown, 
is seen running through the streets 200 strong, 
along with the children of Candeal.  It is a far 
different Carnaval than the more famous and 
staged one in Rio de Janiero, it is a street 
carnaval for everyone.

	The film will be preceded by a short film 
on the Brazilian organization, OPA (Organization 
of Permaculture & Art) located in the historic 
district of Pelourinho near the community of 
Candeal.  OPA has programs of street theater, art 
and permaculture for underprivileged children and 
at-risk youth. Santa Barbara Permaculture Network 
will talk briefly about Permaculture sites 
visited while in Brazil for the 8th International 
Permaculture Convergence (IPC8.org).

The event takes place on Friday, February 20, 
2009, 7:30pm at the Santa Barbara Public Library, 
Faulkner Gallery, 40 E. Anapamu St. Donation, $5, 
no reservations needed.  Sponsors for the event 
are Santa Barbara Permaculture Network NonProfit 
and Soul Brasil Magazine. For more information, 
(805) 962-2571, margie at sbpermaculture.org, 
www.sbpermaculture.org.

"The miracle is really the miracle of life, of 
how people can get together to do something 
constructive.  The miracle is about opening your 
eyes and enjoying what you see. For me, Candeal 
is a metaphor of what the human race can 
achieve.”   Carlinhos Brown 


Youtube Miracle of Candeal Film excerpts:
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1p-j6N2YYhE&feature=related
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kn3uq-ZqcT0&NR=1
or  www.elmilagrodecandeal.com




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Santa Barbara Permaculture Network
    an educational non-profit since 2000
(805) 962-2571
P.O. Box 92156, Santa Barbara, CA 93190
margie at sbpermaculture.org
  www.sbpermaculture.org

"We are like trees, we must create new leaves, in 
new directions, in order to grow." - Anonymous

First Annual Southern California Permaculture Convergence August 2008
  http://socalifornia.permacultureconvergence.org
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