Thursday, December 6th, 7pm
Lincoln Center's Walter Reade Theater + the Frieda and Roy Furman Gallery
| New York City (November 28, 2012) - With what is projected to be the world's 5th largest economy by the end of the year, the 2014 World Cup, and the 2016 Summer Olympics, this just might be Brazil's decade. If so, why does the culture of this Portugese-speaking, energy-charged country of 200 million people have such a low profile on the cultural radar of the Western world? CELEBRATE Brazil aims to help change that. On Thursday, December 6th, ImageNation, Acrobeat and the Film Society of Lincoln Center are partnering to present CELEBRATE BRAZIL, a music, film and fine art experience exploring to diverse cultural contributions of Brazil. CELEBRATE BRAZIL will be helda Lincoln Center's Walter Reade Theater and the Frieda and Roy Furman Gallery and is sponsored by AcroBeat and the Brazilian Consulate. The unique format of this event will showcase some of Brazil's leading artists across numerous fields: Music - 7pm The Walter Reade Theater stage will come alive with innovative music created by Brazilian scholar and popular musician Beatriz Azevedo who will be supported by special guests Vinícius Cantuária, Dende Macedo and Graham Haynes. The music program delves deep into Oswald de Andrade's Anthropofagia (1928), a Brazilian modernist concept that address Brazilian culture as a cannibalism of other various global culture to create the DNA of multicultural Brazil. Film - 7:45pm CELEBRATE BRAZIL will screen "5x Favela, Now by Ourselves", one of Brazil's most engaging, independent films shown at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival. The film explores life in Rio's favelas from the inside out and is a result of screenplay workshops organized in several favelas and taught by high-profile filmmakers including Fernando Meirelles, Walter Salles, Nelson Pereira dos Santos and Ruy Guerra. The project "5 x Favela, Now by Ourselves" gathered over 80 young people to create a feature film consisting of five stories that reflect different facets of the daily lives of residents of these communities with the promise of escaping stereotypical representations Fine Art - 9:30 The event concludes with a two-man exhibition of artworks created by Brazilian artist Andre Cyprianoand US artist Cannon Hersey. This exhibition will mark the 10-year anniversary of Mr. Hersey's first exhibition in the Frieda and Roy Furman Gallery entitled "Mirror Visions," a two-man collaborative show with South African painter Samson Mnisi presented as part of the African Film Festival in 2002. Afterwards, the exhibition will travel from Lincoln Center to Imagenation's Raw Space on 123rd street and Adam Clayton Powell, jr. blvd. ImageNation Cinema Foundation is a Harlem-based media arts organization, founded with the goal of establishing a chain of art-house cinemas, dedicated to progressive media by and about people of color. Through a variety of public exhibitions and programs, ImageNation fosters media equity, media literacy, solidarity, cross-cultural exchange and highlights the humanity of Pan-African people worldwide. This program has been made possible through the generous support of the Brazilian Consulate in NYC, the Rock Media Group and 623 Broadway and supported through the efforts of CrossPathCulture, Buzz Builder, Catch a Dream Entertainment, Passionate Agency and Wirelos. |
| For More Info Contact: Amelia Moore at Buzz Builder: thebuzzbuilder@gmail.com Dell Chess at the Rock Media Group: dell@therockmedia.com Cannon Hersey: cannon@cannonhersey.com |
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