News Brazil Culture: Bolsonaro Threatens Brazil’s Central Film Fund with Censorship or Closure
The Brazilian president also confirmed that Ancine ... which groups sports and culture, to the Casa Civil, a kind of chief of staff’s office which has ministerial status. ...
News Brazil Culture: Brazil leader seeks greater control over cinema industry
The agency oversees regulation and financing for Brazil's film and audiovisual industry. The president commented a day after signing a decree moving another agency that determines governments policy ...
News Brazil Culture: Brazil's new performing arts chief in anti-left 'crusade'
Creating a "cultural war machine" in Brazil's performing arts is renowned theater director Roberto Alvim's mission as he seeks to eradicate progressive ideas from the stage. Recently handpicked by ...
News Brazil Culture: Bossa Nova Became a Turning Point in Brazilian Culture. João Gilberto Helped Launch It
Brazil’s best-known form of music is the samba, the drum-heavy, rhythmically intricate and danceable genre that powers Carnival. But in 1955, when João Gilberto locked himself in the bathroom of his ...
News Brazil Culture: The Style Lover’s Guide to Brazil
Whether you’re exploring the chic city of São Paulo, the vibrant streets of Rio de Janeiro, the wild beaches of Bahia or the Afro-Caribbean culture of Salvador, Brazil delivers in the best way. The ...
News Brazil Culture: This Brazilian artist and landscape architect was bound only by the limits of his imagination
NEW YORK — The Brazilian modernist Roberto Burle Marx liked to tell the story of his arrival in Berlin in the late 1920s as a young man, in the German capital to steep himself in European culture. ...
News Brazil Culture: Cannes-Winning Filmmaker Faces Surreal Showdown With Brazilian Government
The funding came from Brazil’s Ministry of Culture — a department that was abolished following the January election of far-right President Jair Bolsonaro. Mendonça Filho was first notified of the ...
News Brazil Culture: Afro Brazil Arts Presents 'Dancing' Martial Arts and Music June 8 & 9
Afro Brazil Arts and the New York Mindful Capoeira Center present two spectacular shows featuring the gravity-defying Afro-Brazilian martial art Capoeira, the warrior stick-dance Maculelê, and soul-moving live music featuring master artists from Brazil, Africa, France, and the USA. The events will take place Satuday, June 8 at 2pm and Sunday, June 9 at 12pm at the Flamboyán Theater, closing a week of workshops and artist showcases at the Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural Center.
News Brazil Culture: Brazil’s new leaders are challenging the tradition of participatory democracy. Here’s why.
Brazil has a long tradition of participatory decision-making ... Solidary Economy, Racial Equality, Cultural Policy and Eradication of Slave Labor. The memberships of most councils are balanced ...
News Brazil Culture: ‘Resisting to exist’: Indigenous women unite against Brazil’s far-right president
Brazil today is home to 900,000 indigenous people, speaking 274 languages and with widely differing cultural traditions. Indigenous rights were enshrined in Brazil’s 1988 constitution ...
News Brazil Culture: In Cannes, a gory Western stands against Bolsonaro's Brazil
"It's just amazing that this film is seeing the light of day at a time when in fact they are trying to hide Brazilian cultural output," said Filho. During production on "Bacurau," the Brazilian ...
News Brazil Culture: Landing Students Showcase Knowledge Of Brazil
Students discovered Brazilian culture, as well as the political, social and economic components that define the South American country. The kids read a couple of articles from the National ...
News Brazil Culture: Brazil's president wins, justice minister loses in Congress
BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro surmounted a crucial ... who has declared war on the country's entrenched culture of political graft and impunity. The move had alarmed some ...
