BBC photo gallery of art-education with Brazil's landless Hi amigos and amigas! Here's the first part of an introductory two part BBC gallery on our cultural education work with Brazil's landless movement which you might like to click on and show to friends, students and activists.

http://www.mstbrazil.org/

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/hi/picture_gallery/05/americas_art_of_brazil0s_landless/html/1.stm

In the coming weeks, I will send a proposal for a possible November 2005 or February 2006 'event' (slideshows/discussions/workshops/roundtables/performances) that some of us have been tentatively discussing recently (the Centre for Latin American Studies, SOAS, Canning House Library, Latin American Bureau, Brazil Network, Warwick University, Amnesty International-Oxford), and should be discussing (Paul, Else, Mark, Michael and others!) with QML, London, Exter, Manchester, Glamorgan, Queens and Southampton universities!

All the best from Brasilia in Autumn,
Dan

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Tuesday 26 April 6.30pm

Talk & slideshow: Cultural Literacy: a pedagogical proposal for sustainable personal and community transformation by Dan Baron.

This slideshow documents and analyses a two-year arts-as-education project with an entire school of socially and economically marginalised young people and their teachers within MST (the Landless movement in Brazil). It demonstrates how storytelling, dance-drama and sculpture can be used to cultivate solidarity, personal and collective motivation, and participatory democracy, as a pedagogy of formation and transformation within all education.

Dan Baron is a performance-based arts-educator and cultural activist who has been living and collaborating with social movements in Brazil since early 1998.