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CITY
OF GOD: YOU’VE SEEN THE FILM,
YOU’VE BOUGHT THE CD, NOW MEET THE REAL PEOPLE
AND TALK ABOUT THE REAL ISSUES.
MV
Bill programme in the UK
23
June - Rio de Janeiro: City of God/City at War
- CLICK HERE
28 June - Tackling violence with art in Brazil
- CLICK HERE
29 June - MV Bill special appearance
at Guanabara - CLICK
HERE
2
July - MV Bill special appearance at
Notting Hill Arts Club featuring Future World Funk -
CLICK HERE
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TACKLING
VIOLENCE WITH ART IN BRAZIL:
BOOK
LAUNCH AT CANNING HOUSE
28 June, 6:30pm |
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Articles
in English:
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MV
Bill is Brazil’s most controversial rapper, and
polemical hero of the Rio Hip-Hop movement. He is also
a resident of the favela, City of God. MV Bill is a
powerful cultural warrior in the fight for social justice.
His music mixes the rage of a war cry into anthems for
the lost and doomed youth of Rio’s violent conflicts.
Appointed
a Citizen of the World by the UN In 2004, MV Bill’s
social-artistic work has been officially recognized
by the Brazilian government and by UNICEF.
MV
Bill has recently co-authored a book with one of Brazil’s
leading social anthropologists, Luis Eduardo Soares
and Celso Athayde. Cabeça de Porco, asks the
question:
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What
is the solution to this absurd violence, this inhuman
injustice, this extreme inequality in Brazil?
The book brings together both the 15 years extensive
research carried out by MV Bill and his producer, Celso
Athayde, with Luis Eduardo Soares’s ethnographic
work on youth, violence and the police. |
Celso Athayde, MV Bill, Luis Eduardo
Soares |
28
June 2005 Talk, book launch & screening
Talk with MV Bill and Prof David Treece of Kings College,
London. Book Launch of Cabeca de Porco. Screening of documentary
and video-clips showing violence in slums of Rio.
28
June 6.30pm
Canning House, 2 Belgrave Square, London SW1X 8PJ. Tube: Hyde
Park Corner.
Entrance: £5 / £3 concessions. Limited seats available
please book early
Info & bookings: 0207 235 2303 ext 226 or email: culture@canninghouse.com
, www.canninghouse.com
Rio
de Janeiro - City of God/City at War
Thursday
23 June 19.00 -21.00
Rio
de Janeiro is in every sense a dramatic city. Celebrated as
much for its passion for life as its reputation for violence
and death, the city performs itself with beauty and tragedy
on a grand scale.
This
talk will look at the ways in which the city's social, geographic,
political, cultural divisions contribute to the performance
of a city which is in itself one of the greatest shows on
earth.
With
diverse illustrations from Rio Carnival, Brazilian Shakespeare,
theatre and human rights projects, Carioca Rap/Hip-Hop and
the Brazilian national playwright, Nelson Rodrigues.
Paul
Heritage is Professor of Drama and Performance
at Queen Mary, University of London and Director of
People’s Palace Projects, a research centre in
applied performance with offices in London and Rio de
Janeiro. Since 1991, he has been working in Brazil where
he established the Staging Human Rights programme. In
the past four years the project has been implemented
with over 10,000 prisoners and prison staff in Rondônia,
Pernambuco, Brasília, São Paulo, and Minas
Gerais. |
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He
has published a number of books and articles on arts and social
development issues. As a director, his productions include
British premiers of works by Kurt Weill, Noel Greig, and Edward
Bond. In Brazil he has directed Shakespeare productions with
university students, prisoners, and stars of Brazilian television.
His latest productions of Measure for Measure and Antony and
Cleopatra featured a cast of well-known names from Brazilian
television and film, and were seen in three shantytowns as
well as in a downtown Rio theatre.
He
has a studio theatre named after him inside the prison complex
of the Federal District of Brasília.
With
special participation from:
Franko
Figueiredo, Artistic Director Stone Crabs Theatre
Company. StoneCrabs is proud to be the first theatre
company in the UK to bring Nelson Rodrigues to the British
Stage. As Brazil celebrates the 25th anniversary of
his death, Franko will be discussing the importance
of Rodrigues to contemporary theatre and will present
a short extract from Waltz N.6 which will open the Brazilian
Theatre Season in London on 28 June at the Greenwhich
Playhouse. |
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MV
Bill, Brazil’s most controversial rapper,
and polemical hero of the Rio Hip-Hop movement. Resident
of the favela of City of God, the messangeiro da verdade
[messanger of truth]. MV Bill is a powerful cultural
warrior in the fight for social justice. His music mixes
the rage of a war cry into elegiac anthems for the lost
and doomed youth of Rio’s mortal conflicts. In
addition to his albums Traficando Informação
[1999] and Declaração da Guerra [2002],
MV Bill has recently co-authored a book with one of
Brazil’s leading social anthropologists Luis Eduardo
Soares. MV
Bill is supported by www.BrazilianArtists.net |
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Talk 19.00 – 20.00, cash bar to follow.
Rio de Janeiro - City of God/City at War
Thursday 23 June 19.00 -21.00
For
further information you can also visit: www.theatremuseum.org
Russell
Street, Covent Garden, London, WC2E 7PR
Nearest
Tube station: Covent Garden
Ticket
prices: £10.00 (£6.00 concessions) FOR BOOKINGS
PLEASE CALL 020 7943 4750.
http://theatremuseum.org/whatson
2
July - MV Bill special appearance at
Notting Hill Arts Club
featuring Future World Funk with Russ Jones & DJ Cliffy
8am-2am
free before 8pm to Rota, £6 before 11pm, £8
after |
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Where:
Notting Hill Arts Club
21 Notting Hill Gate, London W11 3JQ
Tube: Notting Hill
Buses: 12, 28, 31, 52, 70, 94. 328
Further
info:
Phone: 020 7460 4459
E-mail: info@nottinghillartsclub.com
Web: www.nottinghillartsclub.com
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