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Olá Comunidade! Hello Community! 

What's New? 

  • Samba In The Streets Continues This Week!
  • Vera Passos Teaches Last Community Class of the Month on Monday!
  • Join Us at Dancing the Queens this Saturday!
  • Thank You for Your Love to Dona Cici!!

SAMBA IN THE STREETS IS BACK...ONLINE!

Our Samba in the Streets project has been inspired by the Bahian Bloco Afro Movement which affirms the ideologies of social justice, racial, social and economic equity through the inclusionary Afro-Brazilian cultural practices of dance and music!  We honor the ancestral wisdom of the orixa dance and rhythms which informed the new contemporary dance forms called bloco afro or samba reggae.   
 
Workshops this Wednesday feature VB guest artist from Brazil Ze Ricardo (percussion) and our own Luiz Badaró (dance).

*These FREE workshops have something for everyone - novice and experienced alike!*  

Percussion: 5pm - 5:45pm on IG (@viverbrasildance)  
Dance: 6pm - 6:45pm (on Zoom)

How do I join?

For percussion: follow viverbrasildance on Instagram and catch our live story at 5pm on Wednesday! 

For dance: Click the button below to register and receive a confirmation email with the link to our FREE workshops!
 
Click Here To Register for SITS Dance Workshops

Last Vera Passos Class From Brazil!


Join us tomorrow, Monday, May 25, to be blessed with the prodigious talents of Vera Passos, Viver Brasil's Associate Artistic Director for the last time this month!  

Since VB transitioned to online classes we have reached dancers all over the US and communities in 17 countries, 30 states, and 219 zip codes in California!
 
Join our global community this Monday night 
at 6:30pm! 
 
**The community class is going to remain at 6:30pm PST until we are back in person.**

From wherever you are in the world, you are invited to join us for another Virtual Dance Class.  

 
Monday, May 25, 2020
6:30 to 8 pm PST
FREE & ONLINE!

 
Click here to register and receive a confirmation email with the link to our virtual Community dance class!

 
Through dance, song and story connect to the ancestral wisdom of the female orixa queens, the iyabas, with the Ebomi and Wise Woman Elder Dona Cici and the contemporary dance teachings of Maestra Vera Passos.

Saturday, May 30, 2020
11am - 2pm
Fee: $30

You will not want to miss this event!
Register and Purchase Tickets Below or Venmo: linda-yudin
Register and Buy Tickets for Dancing the Queens
Thank you for your love!

Thank you to all who sent loving words and kind wishes to our beloved Dona Cici. For those who still want to please do. It's not too late. 
 

As many of you know she has had a very emotionally challenging last week. On Thursday, May 7, she lost her brother to Covid 19 in Rio. On Tuesday, May 12, she lost her momma. Dona Dulce was 105 1/2 years old and passed in Rio from natural causes. 

She has been under strict quarantine/shelter in place in Bahia as she is considered at high risk because of her age (80), health conditions of diabetes and high blood pressure. Despite these issues, she is managing well and taking very good care of herself with the help of her adopted family.  She welcomes visits to her gated door of her home as well as phone calls! 

So many of you have experienced her here in LA and/or in Bahia–her peaceful loving kindness, her extraordinary knowledge as a storyteller, dancer, and singer.  And now we believe she needs YOUR LOVE by sending ecards, videos, emails with LOVING words of support and condolences.  At this moment Brazil is not accepting international mail so ecards, emails, videos and notes of any length will be so welcomed. 

She will be so appreciative. Words of support are keeping her spirits high and your encouragement will soothe her hurting heart and spirit.

You may send your kind thoughts to: info@viverbrasil.com or reply to this newsletter and we will make sure she receives your outpouring of love. You may also call her at 011-55-71-3261-3400 (her landline). Bahia is 4 hours ahead of PST. 
 
DO YOU LOVE WHAT WE'RE DOING?

We have received many requests about making donations to Viver Brasil.  We are a 501(c)3 organizations to which tax-deductible donations can be made at any time.  Donations support our community and arts programming!  Please visit viverbrasil.com/support (or click the button below) to donate.

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Obrigado! Thank you!
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