João Turin Prize launches new designers into the Fashion World

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By Kamila Fernandes
Translated by Jessica Whitfield

The João Turin Prize for New Designers, which launches fashion designers into the national and international fashion industry, celebrated its tenth anniversary last December in Curitiba. The prize, created and coordinated by the journalist Nereide…

Mamo, Brazilian @ BAFTA (British Academy of Films and Television Arts)

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By Maysa Monção
Translated by Jessica Whitfield
Serie ‘Short films’

On 25 January, there was a special viewing of short films for the BAFTA (British Academy of Films and Television Arts), in Piccadilly. The glamorous hosts were the graduating cinema studies Masters…

Interview with Jorg Wagner, brazilian director

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By Adantes Vieira

JORG WAGNER – a multitalented man, with German heritage who was born in Porto Alegre, Brazil. He began studying Electronic Engineering at PUC RS (a university in the state of Rio Grande do Sul) but he quit after four…

Mira Schendel @ Tate Modern

VISUAL ARTS  10.30am – 5.30pm The estate of Mira Schendel until 19th January 2014 @ Tate Modern (Bankside, London SE1 9TG) i:    From £8.60pm to £11

Mira Schendel (1919–1988) was one of Latin America’s most important and prolific post-war artists. With her contemporaries…

Beyond the Skin Through the lens of Ric Pereira

By Ric Pereira, Photographer     
Translated by Fabio Pacheco

‘It was with good surprise that I received the invitation from the Choreographer Everaldo Pereira to be part of the creative process for the upcoming dance spectacle named: “Beyond the Skin” as he sometimes use the  photographic  made during rehearsals to…

Paulo Tercio: gratitude that moves universes

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By Manoela dos Anjos Afonso
Translation by Harriet Batey
Series “Circulating Voices”

Paulo Tercio was born in Minas Gerais, was reborn in Lisbon and currently lives in London. When looking back to the distant Brazil of his childhood, and despite the…