Brazil Film Series - featuring Brazilian Music in Film
Moro no Brasil
Directed by Mika Kaurismäki, 2002
Date: Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Time: 6:00 - 8:00pm
Location: Tsai Auditorium (CGIS South), 1730 Cambridge Street
Follow Finnish director Mika Kaurismäki on a musical odyssey of his
second home, Brazil. Digging deeper than the well-known samba and bossa
nova styles, this documentary mines Brazil's diverse cultures and
unearths many musical gems. This wonderful documentary manages to take
us through some of Samba’s unsung origins, tracing it back to the Indian
and African roots so predominant in the country's Northeast. Moro no
Brasil then takes us through Forrò, Frevo, Samba, rap and funk through
the eyes of the real Brazilian people who play the music and live with
it their daily lives.
Presented by The Brazil Studies Program at DRCLAS and The Harvard
Brazilian Organization
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Brazil Studies Program Welcome Reception
Date: Tuesday, October 7, 2008
Time: 5:00 - 7:00pm
Location: CGIS Concourse S030 & Rock Garden, Cambridge, MA
The Harvard University Brazil Studies Program at the David Rockefeller
Center for Latin American (DRCLAS) invites students, faculty, staff and
community friends to join us in celebrating the start of the 2008 Fall
Semester and another active year of Brazil events at Harvard.
Music by Choro Democrático starting at 6pm
Free and open to the public
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Conversa
1968 Revisited: Brazilian Social Movement under the Military Dictatorship
Date: Thursday, October 9, 2008
Time: 12:15 - 1:45pm
Location: DRCLAS, CGIS - S-050, 1730 Cambridge Street
Conversa with
Victoria Langland, Assistant Professor in History at the University of
California at Davis
and
Christopher Dunn, Chair of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese,
Tulane University.
Moderated by
June Carolyn Erlick, DRCLAS Publications Director and Editor of ReVista.
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These events are made possible by the generous support of the Lemann
Family Endowment.
--
Marcio Siwi
Fellow / Program Officer
Brazil Studies Program
Harvard University
David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies
1730 Cambridge St.
Cambridge, MA 02138
tel (617) 495-5435
http://drclas.harvard.edu/brazil