Brazilian Movie Night is an opportunity to practice Portuguese while watching great Brazilian movies. After the movie we will have a group discussion and DVD raffle. We hope you can make it!
For this upcoming event we will be showing the drama Era Uma Vez (Once Upon a Time in Rio).
Dé and Nina come from opposite worlds. He is a working-class guy who lives in the "favela"; she is a high-class student who lives in a bubble of wealth and so-called safety. Crossing all boundaries of Rio's social apartheid they end up falling in love at the common grounds of Ipanema Beach. Growing from the soul of a magical city, their true love will test every limit of a fractured society. A Brazilian version of Romeo and Juliet.
Gilberto Gil with Jacques Morelenbaum & Bem Gil - Thursday March 11 at
8pm
Gilberto Gil has developed one of the most relevant and renowned careers as a singer, composer and guitarist in both world and pop music. In a career that has spanned four decades, with over 30 albums released, Gil has produced six gold records, four platinum singles and sold a total of five million records. The Tropicalist genre he introduced, alongside Caetano Veloso, has secured his fame at home in Brazil and internationally. His extensive and prolific catalogue of work has been covered and recorded by Joao Gilberto, Elis Regina, Gal Costa, Sergio Mendes, Ernie Watts, and Toots Thielmans. Over the years, his political and environmental activism gained prominence alongside his musical career and reached a new height in 2002 when he was appointed minister of culture for Brazil. As a musician and as a diplomat, Gil possesses a key role in the constant modernization of Brazilian popular music and culture throughout the world.
For more information, visit: http://nokiatheatrenyc.com/eventdetail.php?id=25849.
NOKIA Theatre Times Square
1515 Broadway at W. 44th Street
New York, NY 10036
Children Feijoada- Sunday, March 14 from 2-6pm
The Children Feijoada is an event in which children can drum and samba dance with NYSS (NY Samba School) professional drummers and students while their parents can appreciate a great feijoada (Brazilian traditional stew). This event has been organized to raise money to purchase 100 costumes for kids enrolled in the NYSS programs. The classes and costumes will be free for the kids.
NYSS also opened registration for the Samba Enredo contest. Samba can be composed in English or Portuguese. The theme is Change.
For more information email newyorksambaschool@gmail.com or contact Caco at 347 458-4681.
Chateau Brazil
3802 29th Street between 38th and 39th Ave
Long Island City, NY 11101-2715
718-729-3300
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Karaoke Night in New Jersey - Wednesday March 17 at 8pm - 11pm
Let's sing like a pro on Wednesday 3/17!
Brasilia Grill, located at 99 Monroe Street, Newark, NJ, has karaoke in Portuguese every Wednesday and Thursday night starting at 8:00 pm. An easy commute from Manhattan, the grill is about 7 blocks from the Newark Penn Station, and very convenient for riders of NJ Transit and PATH trains.
For more info visit: http://www.meetup.com/NJBrazilians/calendar/12722741/.
Brasilia Grill
99 Monroe St
Newark, NJ 07105
973-589-8682
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Samba and Pagode - Friday March 19 at 8:30pm and 11pm
The Brazilian Portuguese Meetup group is organizing a Brazilian music and dance night. It will start with dinner in a Brazilian restaurant at 8:30pm and end with a samba and pagode band at 11pm in Astoria, Queens. The restaurant is Favela Grill, which has good Brazilian food and live Bossa Nova music on Friday nights. Following dinner, the group will go to Barril Grill, which has a live band playing samba and pagode. The music is good, and the crowd is predominantly Brazilian.
For more information, check: http://www.meetup.com/BrazilianPortuguese/calendar/12637722/
Favela Grill (at 8:30pm)
3318 28th Avenue
Astoria, NY 11103
718-545-8250
Barril Grill (at 11pm)
3018 Broadway (right underneath the Broadway N train stop in Queens)
Astoria, NY 10027
718-545-8498
Beginners Samba Class - Sunday, March 21 from 4 - 5:30pm
The Samba for Beginners class starts with a 30 minutes warm up that exercises basic isolation of the body, following by stretching and strengthening exercises. After the warm up the instructor Danielle Lima introduces the students to samba no pé(basic samba step) and passo marcado (simple choreographies), both typical of the Rio Carnaval. The entire class is conducted to the upbeat and irresistible sounds of Brazilian music. The cost is $15 per person.
Danielle Lima was born in Rio de Janeiro and grew up performing with Beija-Flor de Nilópolis, one of Brazil's most famous samba schools. Danielle Lima is also a Certified Teachers Artist of the program Dancing Classrooms from American Ballroom Theater, Certified YOGA Instructor at YOGAEffects in NYC and Karma Kids Yoga certified teacher. She has been teaching dance professionally for over 7 years.
For more information visit http://www.meetup.com/BrazilianPortuguese/calendar/12755772/.
Learn more about Sambahere http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samba_(Brazilian_dance)#Samba_no_p.C3.A9
New York City Center
130 W 56th St 6th floor - between 6th & 7th Ave
New York, NY 10019
DanceBrazil Show - Mar 23 to Apr 4
DanceBrazil is one of the leading Brazilian dance companies. It is a truly spectacular and memorable experience to see this dance troupe perform using African-Brazilian, samba, modern and capoeira movements. The high-energy program includes the New York premiere of Memória and Banguela.
To learn more, visit: www.dancebrazil.org
Joyce Theater
175 8th Avenue
New York, NY 10011-1694
212-242-0800
Capoeira Fund Raising - Saturday, February 27 at 8pm
Join the group Capoeira Center for their second annual fundraiser March 27th at the Maritime Hotel to raise funds for Capoeira programs for teens and youth! Your donation to attend the fundraiser will include admission to the nightclub BELEZA! A number of prizes will also be raffled off.
For more information, contact Joana at 917-373-1090 or via e-mail at jsallen@bww.com.
