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Festival Brazil
Bringing the vibrant, dynamic culture of contemporary Brazil to the heart of London, Festival Brazil celebrates the country's rich cultural heritage – including music, visual arts, dance, literature, debates and food.
Festival Brazil features UK performances at Royal Festival Hall by cultural icon Maria Bethânia, superstar singer song-writer Gilberto Gil, the legendary psychedelic rock band Os Mutantes and tropicália star Tom Zé. From the favelas of Salvador, the world masters of capoeira leap, flip, kick and spin at breathtaking speed in Brazil! Brazil! a new show for all ages.
Brazil’s most evocative writers and poets form the heart of 2010's London Literature Festival. Plus two ground-breaking Hayward Gallery exhibitions, featuring some of today’s most exciting international artists, challenge our expectations of art, sculpture and design.
And look out for the many free performances that take over the Southbank Centre site during the Festival.
Festival Brazil is sponsored by HSBC.
Events in this series
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Hayward Gallery
Ernesto Neto and The New Décor
Saturday 19 June 2010 - Sunday 5 September 2010
Ernesto NetoBrazilian artist Ernesto Neto (born 1964) transforms the upper galleries and outdoor sculpture terraces with a new site-speci
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E4 Udderbelly
Monday 5 July 2010
Twins Fábio Moon and Gabriel Bá are the hottest comic book artists in Brazil.
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Level 5 Function Room
Friday 9 July 2010
Ana Maria Goncalves, Patricia Melo and Lya Luft are three different generations of women bringing Brazil to life in their fiction.
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Weston Pavilion
Tatiana Salem Levy and João Paulo Cuenca
Saturday 10 July 2010
João Paulo Cuenca and Tatiana Salem Levy are two of the most dynamic new literary voices in Brazil.
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Level 5 Function Room
Benjamin Moser: Why This World - The Life of Clarice Lispector
Monday 12 July 2010
Benjamin Moser discusses Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector, which brings to life one of the key figures of the country's history and one of its major writers.
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Purcell Room
Thursday 15 July 2010
Arnaldo Antunes is a genre-defying writer and performer who transcends boundaries - a poet and musician who experiments in video and fine arts.
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Level 5 Function Room
Saturday 17 July 2010
Milton Hatoum is one of Brazil's greatest writers, with several landmark novels translated into English, including Tale of a Certain Orient and Ashes of the Amazon.
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Royal Festival Hall
Saturday 17 July 2010
Known as the 'Soul of Brazil', Maria Bethania is one of Brazil's greatest living performers.Part of Festival Brazil sponsored by HSBC.
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Purcell Room
A Safe Harbour for Elizabeth Bishop
Sunday 18 July 2010
Southbank Centre presents a new English translation of this monologue performance written by Marta Góes, about the life of American poet Elizabeth Bishop, who lived in Brazil between 1951 to 1966.
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Queen Elizabeth Hall
Sunday 18 July 2010
Socrates is a Brazilian legend, best known as the captain of the great Brazilian football team of the eighties - the team of Zico, Falcao and Eder - and subsequently one of the nation's leading cul
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Royal Festival Hall
Sunday 18 July 2010
Tom Ze and Os Mutantes, pioneers of Tropicalia, perform at Royal Festival Hall.
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Royal Festival Hall
Wednesday 21 July 2010
Gilberto Gil carries out a fundamental role in the constant modernisation of Brazilian popular music. On the scene for 46 years, he has developed one of the most relevant and renown international careers as a singer, composer and guitar-player. Part of Festival Brazil sponsored by HSBC
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