The Performing Laboratory Practice of University of São Paulo, created the collective deviation group, led by Marcos Bulhões, Marcelo Denny and Priscilla Toscano, with the objective of creating experiments in performance in public spaces , through the project " blind " which aims to intervene poetically in town and cause a moment of reflection giving rise to different readings , the imprisonment and the petrification of life through overwork, the automation of everyday life, ethics degeneration which arose in the political , financial, legal and religious axis of society in general .

This artistic project so I figured begins at the University of São Paulo ( USP ) ?
Marcos Bulhões : Exactly . Me and Professor António Araújo created a research group called the Performing practice of USP lab, is a scenic graduation, through the performing arts, but also we have acted in graduate school , we have masters and doctorates in this area. Still organized this group that acts outside the university walls , this field of university performance , which developed two modules of courses we called " experiments in performance" in partnership with the study of art university Unoeste also with Professor Carminda André Mendes and Professor José Manuel Lazaro and these courses led to a work where the bypass collective group emerged and in partnership with the laboratory generated the " blind " .

What is the purpose of this group ? Why out of the walls of the university and became something more tangible ?
Marcelo Denny : The idea, as the characteristic of performance art, is to talk with other people outside of academia, with artists from other places, other schools , other groups and collectives of urban intervention. So I guess the rich human intervention in this regard is the hybrid crossing place between people, schools and institutions, leaving that experience will become increasingly different.

So who are the people who are part of the collective ? And looking on it ?
Priscilla Toscano : The collective deviation is currently governed by me, by Marco Bulhões and by Marcello Denny and has 30 participants, including actors , actresses , performers , lighting and stage technicians. In the case of the performance " blind " it involves about 30 or 40 people, from the city or not, wishing to be part of the experience with us. Then there will be a workshop to prepare for people who can help the performance , it is training that involves the theory of urban performance on the world stage, especially in Brazil and then moved on to a full body , because in "blind" we walked slowly and everyone is connected, the collective, this group of people connected with one another.

MB : Is the idea of forming a choir, develop a notion of a performative chorality, ie, that a different state, poetic , for the idea of a slow motion, they dresses like executives with apparel, shoes and tie, tidy with suitcases, but covered with clays and blindfolded . The fact that they walk in slow motion creates a shock on the public , is an extremely poetic moment in the city .

A fun and uncompromising film by Marcelo Galvão .

Do you remember a campaign thar circulated through the social networks, moreover, was more a fun appeal of a young actor with Down syndrome, asking Sean Penn to come to Brazil ? Well, all is well that ends well and the fact that Ariel Goldenberg meet the man who made him dream and aspire to be an actor. And although the U.S. actor woukd not come to the premiere of " colleagues ", the movie itself transformed the young man and his companions in genuine movie stars in their home country. This film is above all allow me is a tribute to the cinema, the movies that made generations dream and is not just about people with disabilities. It is a time of fun and an unconvencional film, popcorn movie is that it is and in the end leaves us with a smile in the face. I enjoyed the wonderful scenery of a Brazil I was unaware with the advantage of having a super fun and relaxed cast throughout almost the entire movie . Interestingly, there is here a Portuguese in the middle of it all , Rui Unas , which portrairs a grumpy policeman, not bad either , but my praise goes to the three protagonists , the famous leader of a band of insurgents, the criminal, Ariel Goldenberg, the femme fatale that any movie of cops and crooks needs, Rita Pokk and the hero and partner in almost every type of crime, Viola Breno. I leave my appreciation to the other actors, in particular, Lima Duarte who does an amazing voice off with a hint of fairy tale. I pray you, see and enjoy this " collegues" because it is the proof that friendship and love move mountains. Have a nice movie.

Djanira Costa is the face of the Office of the arts and personal development, in São Pedro de Moel, in Marinha Grande. In addition, it is also the mentor Interartes project, a cultural bridge que aims to promote the work of portuguese artists in Brazil and Brazilian artists in Portugal. An artistic project que has gained visibility on both sides of the Atlantic, thanks to the love that this Rio de Janeiro architect has for our country .

Why create an office of arts and personal development in São Pedro de Moel ?
Djanira Costa : In 2009 I was one of the managers of a construction, had a lot of responsibility over 50 people to coordinate, only when I got there the work was already rather late and had to work hard to put it in order . One day while doing an inspection, I lower my head and it dripped a drop of blood on the sidewalk and it was like an awakening, I was glad it happened because if it haven't dip I had not decided what I did. I thought, this is my life here, thay are literally taking my blood and I cannot stay that way and so I asked my boss a holiday. He just released me in 2010 halfway through the year, I asked someone else to be relocated in the work and returned to the firm with quieter projects, the project area, Which is mine. I then decided to take a trip and a place to empty me. I looked at the map, my english is just not very strong, felt to be in a country where they speak the language and had to be there for twenty days waas difficult, then decided to go to Portugal. I meet Lisbon with fado in the ear, I looked like I was on another planet . Then it was time to meet the central region and told me when I got here I through a little place hidden and different, São Pedro de Moel. It was a day full of sun, as the rays were passing by eucalyptus and pine there was waking in me something I do not know what it was , I felt free and well , because in Brazil we do not have that Kind of forest and it was like I returned to the place I had ever known. I cannot explain why. I came back with paper and watercolor under my arm, went to the seashore and painted. Well past twenty days, it was time to go back , but when i arrived in Brazil missed the smell of coffee , the forest that is very special because it is the intersection between the sea breeze and the smell of pine and had saudades. I decided to go back in December and stayed about twenty days, while up and down, I met a girl who worked in a shop , but she was going to close. So I decided que at moment to rent the space, I thought , if I give my own blood to other's people projects, why can I believe in my dreams ? When working for others you always benefit them, something you work for you can even benefit others and it was very striking.

But the store has a component of craftsmanship .
DC : In Maranhão , in a craft fair , I met an Indian who was working with açai seeds , Which were great because in Portugal I had to take something que nobody else had. I also met a lady, who welcomed me in her home, Janira, she is an artisan of golden grass and I wanted to know the people who did it, then what happened? She said I could go to her house to show me who are the people who do this, I said all right. And I went . She took me to her village where everyone is together, each with their materials and make the pieces, then rent a car to take people to the fair . They are very humble people, so when I arrived at night and had bed ready in the living room, and I did not saw the house lay at that time was a period of much work and stress was really tired so I fell asleep fast. When I woke up , looked around and saw a cement floor, they call it vermilion , was a house with kitchen , she slept there on the network, the daughters slept in a single bed in the corner, had a fridge and stove and a hose outside. I cried because this woman did not know me and I ' m getting the better of her. It moved me and When I asked where i could bath, she said she had no bathroom , but could bind the rubber from the well. Janira started the engine and was the best shower I've ever had in my life, I felt like I was washing my soul, when I left was another woman. I was only going to staying at her house one day and stayed for three. I thought, I have so much, but I received more from nothing. I was in love for by me her work , I bought the pieces, did my bills and went back to wor . Then I had to tell my parents, my brothers and friends that I would be three months out, my heart was pounding , we all met and I spoke what I was doing and they said how can you leave, you have your work, your family. The shop was rented and I returned to Portugal with all the stuff and sold everything .

So you saw that you could have a life here ?
DC : Here is complicated beyond the summer, I have a studio where I live too. Then in 2011 I started doing soirees for people who know the space and continued in 2012. Then decided to do something to raise capital funds to pay the store and organize tea parties and dinners of poetry in 2013 and I joined occupational therapy that is another area and I believe in, I think que being an architect is much more, but it is a vision I have.

When you decide to create the project Interartes ?
DC : In the beginning of the year of last year, one of the people who helped me appropriated the design of the soirees and started doing them for free, the partnership meant there was a financial resource for me out of the summer, I cannot spend any money I get the projects as a freelancer here, art is difficult for everyone, so I decided to create Interartes. I met Afonso Lopes Vieira and the project emerges from this dialogue in which he told me to do something big, also met Rui Mendes, in Coimbra, Which triggered people linked to the arts and how he goes on holiday to St Peter , gave me his contacts, told me to go ahead and do that in Brazil. I had to assemble everything from scratch, everywhere, contact these people, but when the doors start to open and you already have a loophole you pass through. At a certain moment I found on the internet a person named Zan Quaresma , who is an architect of São Paulo, he was a friend of my architects friends and I told him about the project , I sent all the stuff on the Interartes, because he was part of the the union of architects of São Paulo then they invited me to the exhibition at the headquarters. The house has history, was for the english workers who came to built the train station of the Light at the Paulista capital, I was amazed when i saw it , the audience and the architects were wonderful then and there I introduced the Portuguese artists .

A contest for Environmental Education by the Baobá Ong, aims to save the Atlantic Forest, through a competition with local schools.

" The Dunes Park and its Peace trees " aims to encourage students to reflect on the importance of trees in the safety of life on the planet , the relationship of the need to change behavior, and promote the construction of simple actions for sustainability. It's a free initiative in which may compete any student enrolled in public or private school, that lives in Natal or Nova Parnamirim, aged 8 to 12 years and will have to submit a drawing and a text on the subject with maximum of 600 characters ( see Regulation ) . There will be 10 winning students of the contest , and each will receive 5 native trees of the Atlantic Forest and 5 pots of 25 liters, to be groomed for a year at the end of these 12 months, the trees are plants preferably in the region or district where every student lives. A permanent planting will take place the week of celebration of World Environment Day , between days 1st to 5th of June 2015.
Registrations will take place from 19th to 30th of May 2014. Best papers presented on the topic " The Dunes Park and its peace trees " will be chosen by a committee of teachers constituted by Mary Sorage Praxedes ( Dunes Park ), Alidia Ribeiro (UFRN ) , Maria do Socorro Melo ( UNP ), Nivaldo Calixto Torres ( IFRN ), Roger Câmara ( EE Nestor Lima ) and social activist Maria das Neves Valentine and Gabriela Baesse . The result of this contest is published, on 2nd June at the blog trees Peace Baobá Ong. On the same day and on the day 3rd, the distribution and deliveries will begin in the homes of 10 winning students.
Another aim of the initiative is also intended to make an important reflection on the dates of celebration of International Biodiversity Day on 22nd of May and the National Day d of the Atlantic Forest on the 27th of the same month
The Baobá Ong , led by Harold Mota and organizer of this event, was established in October 9th, 2003 and acts predominantly on Natal, with the goal of environmentally conscious of the north of Rio Grande population. It presents projects that advocate sustainable development , focusing mainly on the issue of climate change . The central proposal of the Organization is to establish a dialogue with society about their attitude towards the environment . It also intends to plant one tree per inhabitant in the State of RN ( Rio Grande do Norte ), ie 3.2 million . It is a bold project that consists sensitize as many people on the front carbon neutrality climate change . It supports the idea of more frequent use of bicycles as transportation, reducing the emission of pollutants from motor vehicles gas consumers of fossil fuels. For that promotes bike rides, mainly in the capital .

http://arvoresdapaz.blogspot.com.br/2014/05/concurso-de-educacao-ambiental-eu-cuido.html

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It was an initiative created by Andreia Nobrega and a group of friends to draw attention to the destruction of natural areas on the island of Madeira, in particular, the beach of Portinho, Canico .

In a not too distant past, in the early twentieth century, from the cliff top of the beach Portinho, we could be seen the white sails of ships near the coast and the frantic movement of people in their daily toil on the verge of pebble beach. The deafening noise of the coal boiler, hammers pounding and chains draging thru the black rolling stones helped stamp the rhythmic beat of the many arms hoisting ashore boats that passed through here in search of passengers, the people who carried in their back the fruit of their labor, their little nothings, to be transported to the city. The small bay protected by walls of volcanic rock formed the ideal cover the property of the Blandy family and the shipyard warranty is a safe gateaway to fix the frigates plagued by rough seas and time. Was a constant bustle of people, workers and goods that only ended in 1970 when the English company decided to transfer all its activities to Funchal. From that year on, everything changed ... the machine noise and echo of voices marked by salt and sun were replaced by the rolling stones cast away by the waves, the wind caressing the wild reeds and the chirping of passing seabirds . The arsenal built by man, gradually collapse by the invasive nature and has been hiding these remains of a longer nameless past.

Mario laginha is an unavoidable name of Portuguese music, he is not limited to jazz. proof of this is his last record, as the author, " dry land ", which explores other musical terrain, but not only. It is a must to experience that always accompanies him on everything he does and who he does it .

In this latest work you adds an instrument, the Portuguese guitar, which is something unusual on your records.
Mario laginha : The challenge was that. It is an instrument that I like, but it's a little quirky, gives some things that other instruments do not give and vice versa. I wanted me to experience the Portuguese guitar for a universe away from their place of comfort , it was fado, and met a great guitarist who is also a person who is attracted by experimentation, by challenges. After a while I invited him for a trio, he accepted and that's how it all began .

Having a long career as a musician , why now having this experience?
ML: Because the person appeared, the problem is that there are fantastic guitarist, but are not available to get out of your comfort zone, this has nothing of critical, but Miguel Amaral felt very tempted to try other things and I found the right person, someone who had to lend itself to that.

How was the process of playing together. Was difficult or not really?
ML : We've known each other. We had played together in a number of Ricardo Pais , the " shadows " and had realized he had huge potential. Knowing a bit the guitarist and had worked with him I knew it was easy to establish that relationship. One of the very important things in a musical project is to feel good about who you're playing with, and Michael is that kind of person. He was a huge help, because when I was composing the music had to ask him if wht I was writing was possible or not in Portuguese guitar and he was instrumental in this process, leading me to go. It was like: this chord only if so, do you want it ? I do wanted it ! ( laughs ) .

This spring-summer view by the Portuguese schools of design.

In general young Portuguese designers bet on safe, as regards their collections, seek clearly in a fashion show fashion to beat on the form and the design using basic fabrics that convey an idea of neutrality, innovation and androgynous. I like this almost futuristic side of the coordinated and interestingly for this spring-summer were in evidence two strong shade, black and white. I must say that one of my favorite one, sophisticated and at the same time clairvoyant, hot and cold combinations, but above all elegant. Both Esad, the Tree and Modatex schools chose dynamic and changeable clothes, and it is the proof that the Portuguese fashion has a bright future as expected and full of creativity.

It is undoubtedly the best known and recognized book by the public of the writer João de Melo. This is a family saga that crosses several countries and that evokes the inner islands .

It is autobiographical in some way?
João de Melo : Somehow, not entirely, maybe not even half . Why? Maybe we have to revise the concept of fiction. Some people say that fiction is a pure lie that masquerades as being true, we give you the guarantee of writing, we published, we do book , etc. There are still others who say it is not so. Let's say there is a personal starting point of the author, of what is, what he lived and the sites and the people who knew that help to understand better the reality that he wants to talk about, although he can carry from place to place as a testimony of reporting . But in the case of " happy people with tears " the idea was essentially the following to suit the narrative to the Portuguese time that height , in the Azores, which was characterized by extreme poverty and families with many many children, as a kind of family clan where the father figure was a kind voice of authority. A huge need of the island getaway and it is from this that the book clearly takes off from the Azorean childhood called to populate other destinations either Azorean , Madeiran, or continental , because it opens the paths of emigration. And from the moment we saw the book identifying these routes, we 're already not properly speaking of a family, but a country that goes to Africa, which has the experience of war, going to Canada and the mainland. After the narrative evolved in spiral for the Portuguese time and makes a sort of sunken Portuguese daily life of its own over these 40 years.

But those who have read the book say it addresses the essence of being islander , how was a suffer life in the islands and not so much a portrait of the country .
JM : Of course it 's there, but I accept all types of readings sportingly and a cheerful face of any book of mine, but note that insularity does not exist only on the islands , on a village in a region such as the Serra da Estrela, or Tras-os -Montes will find islands , islander people that has no sea around, but has mountains, large rocks that spoke Torga and the same instinct of leaving the "curse land" to go out in search of economic liberation and that is part of the contemporaneity Portuguese chronicles. Deep down I wanted this book to be deeply and authentically Azorean, not to stay there, but also to propose the island as an analogy to other places, other sites in other countries. And there was much beautiful things said about this book , I remember lots of them, this is a book that has 25 years of existence, but one of these beautiful ideas that are said about " happy people with tears " was that it was a book about inland islands, when it was translated into Spanish and was told that could be a Spanish book and I like that. These things, of course, fall nicely in the heart of the author , which is a sign that the write has a cause, or to identify the human condition attached to the place and time, which is as you know, same here, in China, or Japan and we have all the same anxieties .

Addressing the 25 years of "happy oeople with tears " think looking back could have done another book or not ? At least different?
JM : "Happy people with tears " was a book that slipped off my hands, because it was to be like the first part, three brothers fighting for their life, and their adventure in the second part would be narrated by them. Only that there is a time when the book has 800 pages and I said this cannot be. Or is it a trilogy, or is a pile that no one will read, so I returned back to rewrite it in a spiral and customize the figure of Nuno and his marriage to organize the story. But note that I could have made a trilogy because it would , but things are as they are , it happens by chance that I found myself with that just happened and that's how the audience liked it. I have no guarantee that if it had been a trilogy would have been a success, because if it were to first, second and third volume, or something, there is always an abrupt end to the prospect that the book is not complete and could not have had the fortune of criticism that had so far. Call it a very remarkable case.

Speaking the language of this book, there is a very direct very cruel tone that is unusual in Portuguese literature that fond of big words, metaphors and analogies.
JM : The book is very oral because it lives of someone who hears the stories , is a gentleman, often wonders who it is, but we know it 's there and had to have a more or less oral style. No one talks the way it writes, orality is the thread of the narrative , but then there are other books and then have the author emerges as a prose writer, more or less poetic. Then there is the characteristic way of speaking migrants when they are already contaminated with a foreign language and adopt terms and create words that did not exist before, for example , in the Azores of my childhood there were no frizers and it is evident to all that left Achadinha, County of Northeast and go to Canada and when a refrigerator appears on the island, they call it frizer and call television not televisão, I wanted it also to appear in the book the English expression "do you know ?" as part of everyday language and I heard many times on trips I made with migrants from North America . In the book this discourse are trademarks of orality and that somehow I can also drag the reader .

Ricardo Dinis is an adventurer, but above all is an entrepreneur. He does not seat waiting his dreams come true, runs after them and puts into practice the projects that make sense for his life. A trip to Brazil in sailing boat to celebrate Portugality, national football team and the world cup is his current reverie, in the company of his baby cat, Victoria .

I know that the objective is to navigate to Brazil, but what it takes on average to organize a trip with this scale ?
Ricardo Dinis : There are many areas, one has to prepare the boat and you need to select and prepare the team. To this project I got different people than other challenges, though I always have my "core team". You also need to find the right partners for the trip, we never approached a company for being big, we realize what we want to do, establish the purpose of the trip and questioned : this type of project makes sense to whom ? And only then let's fight . We started immediately to gather the partners half month before, prepared the boat in record time, we had to change it in some detail because I will be in very hot weather and the vessel had several areas of black that had to be changed to white. From the beginning I had this strong desire to support the portuguese team, not only to see the games, but also as Portuguese to show them my will and strength and hopefully we have a very worthy performance. On board I have a beautiful bottle with thousands of messages printed in a cork paper wrapped, from Portuguese around the world, this in a beautiful box with hand painted tiles where each has as its theme the Portuguese culture. This gift is to give strength to the team and good luck for the world cup, which is the biggest event of the Portuguese spoken in the world this year and where we sailed 514 years ago. For me it is very important to develop this kind of projects, November 19th, 2013 when we were playing with Sweden I was a little worried because we had to win, if not I was not going to the world cup and it lost all connection with this Brazil. I think it's important to create these ties not only to political, business and diplomatic ones, but also at a human and cultural level.

Do you have any psychological preparation, since you'll be alone for so long at sea ?
RD : Yeah, not so much the psychologist part, but I have worked with a sport psychologist for a few years, Ana Ramirez, who works with elite athletes. She has been a very important piece in the puzzle of all my projects. Even before the trip we were alone for 20 minutes, was over a year and a half or two we had not seen each other and were talking during this bit. The problem is not so much by being alone at sea , but by knowing how to manage all fronts that these projects involves . It is very challenging for me because I am in the center of it all even if I try not to be and so I'm everyday people on my team ask me things, confirming other and the last word is mine and it is very difficult, because apart from this project I have other activities and having to manage the schedule and cannot fail the " script " that's very demanding. As the part of being alone in the ocean, and I'm always in this situation, I feel very happy in the sea and it is very special, I do not feel loneliness, or any other concern , of course I know I'm alone and I'm away from everything and everyone, but I feel good about it . The physical part this year I took more seriously , trained in " fisiogaspar " where many elements of portuguese football team are preparing .

But there is a very specific training ?
RD : Yes, it was 100 % done for me, beyond the nutritional part which was also accompanied by professionals and done in the same center, it included golden nutrition products, which is a Portuguese company that manufactures supplements workout with protein and carbohydrates. I have all this on board, because drinking water is not enough. Just to put the sail on top of the mast, which weighs 700 pounds , it takes me about 45 minutes and it requires a very intense workout .

It is a short film by Pierre-Marie Jezequel of 2010 .

It is a narrative somewhat frightening , it seems like one of those stories you read in the newspapers when someone is abandoned to their fate and somehow there is a cut with society and its time. I enjoyed this short film. Speaks of loneliness and how the human mind always needs to create worlds, even if they are imaginary, not to give in to madness , isolation and silence. I liked the young actors in their more or less adult versions, both demonstrate a certain innocence of a nearly wild existence, without limitation that extends to the endless landscape of Alentejo. It is also a portrait of a certain form of impoverished life, such " cursed land " mentioned by writer John de Melo who tends to be abandoned in various forms and visible in many ways this film. But, do not take in my opinion for it, see it and appreciate it.

http://filmesportugueses.com/de-castigo/