Take a walk to Flipside: 3rd to 5th October
15 May, 2014
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The programme 2014: Snape Maltings, 3 rd - 5 th October
The II FlipSide Festival will take place at Snape Maltings, the glorious home of Aldeburgh Music, Suffolk, over the first weekend of October 2014. This year the focus is again on Brazilian culture. Literature, art, music, food and drink, children’s events, dance, cooking demonstrations, capoeira and football will all be celebrated in a weekend of total immersion for all the family. Authors from Brazil, including Ana Maria Machado, Daniel Galera, Michel Laub, Tatiana Salem Levy and Paulo Scott will join Margaret Atwood and Michael Ondaatje from Canada, Kamila Shamsie, Lionel Shriver, Colm Tóibín and many others in an exchange of Anglo-Brazilian amity that will illuminate their work and delight their readers. Translation Duels will again be a central feature of this year’s programme, conducted by Daniel Hahn of the British Centre for Literary Translation. This year’s adult programme is being curated by Ángel Gurría-Quintana , historian, journalist and translator from Spanish and Portuguese, and International Strategy Officer at the University of Cambridge. Children’s events are being curated for the first time by a dedicated Programme Director, Sarah Odedina, managing director of Hot Key Books, whose star-studded programme will include Sally Gardner, Benjamin Zephaniah, Socorro Acioli and Ellie Taylor , illustrator of the new Emma Thompson Beatrix Potter stories.
October 5 t h is the day of the Brazilian Presidential Election, and a panel of eminent Brazilian experts will debate the state of play in the ever-changing political scene in South America’s no longer sleeping giant. Street Child World Cup , the global movement for the protection of children, will take part in the first Snape Maltings World Cup football match, while Urban Ritual will conduct capoeira workshops and demonstrations. Caipirinhas and fabulous Brazilian street food, including giant barbecue skewers cooked over a custom-made grill with street food classics and zingy sides, will be served by the popular Cabana restaurant chain, and a wide range of children’s events will offer art and music and meet-the-author sessions for all ages. An exhibition of wonderful Brazilian art will be on display from Escala, the Essex Collection of Art from Latin America. And music will once again play a leading part in the festival, with choro and forró bands performing throughout the two days, and two special musical nights. On the evening of Friday 3 rd October, top artists will provide the music for a grand opening party, and on the evening of Saturday 4 th October the world-renowned Snape Maltings Concert Hall will be the venue for a concert by a top-billing Brazilian artiste whose identity will be revealed closer to the event. Throughout the weekend a Brazilian street market will offer delicious street food, drink, crafts, art work and many other attractions on tempting stalls for young and old.
Take a look the Launch of Flipside Festival’s Programming @Brazilian Embassy, on 15th May 2014.
Photo by Fernando BA
FLIP and FlipSide co-founder Liz Calder says:
“There will be many eyes on Brazil this year, and not just for the football. It’s a Presidential Election year, the outcome of which will provide pointers to the political and economic future of the once-styled ‘Country of the Future’, and with the election falling during FlipSide 2014, we’re assembling a team of highly informed commentators to help visitors to this year’s festival get a better grip on what to expect. “Politics is one pointer, but there are other ways of assessing which way the wind is blowing. A country’s literature is another, and the presence at FlipSide of four of Brazil’s brightest young literary stars offers an unmissable opportunity to get a feel of where the country is at. Daniel Galera, Tatiana Salem Levy, Michel Laub and Paulo Scott are creating fictions that are unmistakeably Brazilian but also universal in their concerns and their subject matter, and their encounters with other authors coming to Snape Maltings this year – from Ireland, Canada and the UK – promise to be as unforgettably penetrating as last year’s “Encounters” were for the many visitors who came to the first FlipSide. “But, yes, football: you can’t escape it. At FlipSide 2014, however, it will come with a difference. Every four years, Street Child World Cup puts on its own tournament in the World Cup host country, involving disadvantaged young people, drawing attention to them, and benefiting them. FlipSide is proud to partner this innovative and energetic charity, and the football match it is planning at Snape Maltings promises to be a highlight in a programme packed with many delights.”
“ A milestone in the promotion of Brazilian culture in the United Kingdom ”
– Roberto Jaguaribe, Brazilian Ambassador to the UK
“A total pleasure, the whole thing ”
Ali Smith
Learn more: www.flipsidefestival.co.uk
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