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What's New This Week With Viver Brasil?
- 2020 End of Year Fundraiser
- Community Class on Monday with Vera Passos!
- Performance Spotlight: Para Onde O Samba Me Leva/ Where Samba May Take Me
- #VoiceMoneyTimeOrTalent!: Dignity & Power Now
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2020 End of Year Fundraiser
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Understanding How Your Donation Can Help:
After a successful tour to Alabama with our Samba in the Streets Program in February and March of 2020, we returned home and dove right back into our full schedule of programming and performances. On March 19, we were forced to close our office, and our in-person community classes, school programming and after school residencies were put on hold. The American consulates in Brazil closed their doors preventing our Associate Artistic Director, Vera Passos, from returning to the States.
Viver Brasil took a very deep breath and began reimagining how we could quickly pivot to an online presence with our programs. With the generosity of our funders who encouraged us to rethink our projects, we created a diverse number of programs online, which allowed our artists in Los Angeles and Salvador, Bahia an opportunity to continue to work and learn how to manage the world of Zoom, Instagram and more!
With your support and enthusiastic attendance we managed to create vibrant programming, train our dancers and musicians, and strengthen our social media presence. We created a worldwide online presence and welcomed you all to our Viver Brasil familia.
Even with all of our efforts, COVID 19 brought a 65% loss of income. And now, we are asking you to continue your support so that we may thrive in 2021!
From November 18 through December 12, 2020, we will have a series of twice weekly IG lives on Wednesdays and Sundays where you can enjoy interviews and performances that give an inside look into our company. We will celebrate this most transformative year on December 12, 2020 with an amazing showing of works created by the company dancers and incredible special guests. JOIN this celebration of RESILIENCE!
Please consider a generous donation which will assist us in keeping our doors open. We thank you in advance so that we can meet our fundraising goal of $15,000 before December 31st!
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COMMUNITY CLASS NOW BEGINS AT 5:30PM PST
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Symbols, Sambas, Movements of Joy and Resistance
This week we are thrilled to have Maestra Vera Passos teaching the Dances of the Orixás: Symbols and Movement!
11/23: Vera Passos: Dances of the Orixás: Symbols and Movement
11/30: Vera Passos: Dances of the Orixás: Symbols and Movement
Since VB transitioned to online classes we have reached dancers all over the US and communities in 23 countries, 35 states, and 219 zip codes in California!
Join our global community every Monday night at 5:30pm!
From wherever you are in the world, you are invited to join us for another Virtual Dance Class.
Click here to register and receive a confirmation email with the link to our virtual Community dance class!
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Performance Spotlight- Para Onde O Samba Me Leva/ Where Samba May Take Me
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Performance Spotlight
This weeks Performance Spotlight is "Para Onde O Samba Me Leva/Where Samba May Take Me".In these COVID 19 Times we share our VB joyous Samba, the "ALL SMILES PHOTO!” Created in memory of the greatest sambadeira, Joselita Moreira da Cruz Silva!
"Para Onde O Samba Me Leva/Where Samba May Take Me" premiered at our 20th anniversary concert, Agô Agó at the Ford Theatre (2017)
Choreography: Vera Passos
Music from the CD, Samba das Raparigas rearranged by Simon Carroll and Kahlil Cummings with VB Musicians.
Dancers (from R to L): Marina Magalhães, Bianca Medina, Rachel Hernandez, Nagode Simpson, Vera Passos. In the back, Samad Guerra, & Ashley Blanchard.
Photo: Gennia Cui
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#VoiceMoneyTimeOrTalent - Dignity & Power Now
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This week's #VoiceMoneyTimeOrTalent entry is Dignity & Power Now. Dignity & Power Now is a grassroots organization, based in LA, that fights for the dignity of all incarcerated people, their families, & communities. Their guiding principles are abolition, healing justice, and transformative justice with programs centering on activism, health and wellness, and leadership building. More specifically, they offer a coalition to end sheriff violence, a coalition to stop jail construction, an arts and wellness collective, a rapid response team of healers, a leadership institute for high school aged youth affected by incarceration, a leadership institute for people coming home from prison, a reentry program inside Soledad State Prison, and an influential media department. Please consider using your #voice to share, your #time to volunteer or your #money to donate to this amazing organization. More about the organization:
Mission: Our mission is to build a Black and Brown led abolitionist movement rooted in community power towards the goal of achieving transformative justice and healing justice for all incarcerated people, their families, and communities. For more information visit: http://dignityandpowernow.org/
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DO YOU LOVE WHAT WE'RE DOING?
Your generosity support our artists, our dance and music making, and our community programming.
We welcome your donation to Viver Brasil, a 501(c)3 organization to which tax-deductible contributions can be made at any time. Please visit viverbrasil.com/support or click the button below to donate.
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