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What's New This Week With Viver Brasil?
- Community Class Tomorrow!
- Introducing our new Archive Fellow, Sasha Jelan!
- In Case You Missed It: Diaspora Dialogues
- UPCOMING: SITS Social Justice Presentation
- Our second installment of #VoiceMoneyTimeOrTalent!
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Exploring Dance of the Orixas: Symbols and Movement
This week we are blessed with the prodigious talents of Vera Passos, Viver Brasil's Associate Artistic Director!
Since VB transitioned to online classes we have reached dancers all over the US and communities in 20 countries, 34 states, and 219 zip codes in California!
Join our global community every Monday night at 6:30pm!
From wherever you are in the world, you are invited to join us for another Virtual Dance Class.
Every Monday in 2020
6:30 to 8 pm PST
Suggested donation of $5
No one will be turned away due to lack of funds
Click here to register and receive a confirmation email with the link to our virtual Community dance class!
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Introducing Sasha Jelan, our New Archive Fellow!
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We are so excited to announce that Sasha Jelan will be joining us for the next month as our Archive Fellow. She will be working alongside our Artistic Director and Co-founder, Linda Yudin, as they preserve our 22 years' worth of archives! We're excited to share this journey with you all, so keep your eyes out for some throwback pictures and videos. We also want to thank Dance/USA for granting us this amazing fellowship to work with Sasha!
A little more about Sasha:
Sasha Jelan is currently pursuing a masters degree in Archival Studies at Clayton State University. She received her BA in Art at the University of Southern California's Roski School of Art & Design, with an emphasis in photography.
Sasha's professional experience includes supporting the digitization and educational programming of institutions such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Studio Museum in Harlem. Her archival practice is rooted in re-thinking and reclaiming the authorship and access of the African Diaspora.
Dance was a constant in Sasha's youth, where she studied West African, Ballet and Modern dance techniques. Sasha is very excited to revisit the history of African Dance with Viver Brasil, and to support an organization whose mission closely aligns with her archival interests.
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UPCOMING: SITS Social Justice Presentation
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Join Viver Brasil for a public presentation funded by the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs highlighting Viver Brasil's Samba in the Streets Social Justice Series featuring a video culmination and dialogue of our 6 week series of Bloco Afro dance and music with 20 LA City womxn residents and their teachers Clarice Cast, VB Music Director, and Vera Passos, VB Associate Artistic Director. Blocos afro are Afro-Bahian carnival groups who in the 1970s created new forms of music and dance expression which raised awareness and expressed truths of Brazil's history of racism and social inequity of Black peoples and culture.
Join us on Friday, July 17 at 12 PM PST on zoom! Register below.
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In Case You Missed It: Diaspora Dialogues
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If you missed the incredible discussion with Viviam Caroline, Rene Fisher Mims, and Dr. Giavanni Washington don't worry! You can still watch the live stream on LA Commons' Facebook page!
Click here to watch it.
This month, LA Commons is kicking off our summer trek across the African diaspora with a “visit” to Brazil. In celebration of ten years of Day of the Ancestors, ten artists - five local and five international - will engage in a dialogue about the role of creativity in moving us forward; and, in the process, they will showcase their artistic heritage for you to enjoy. We begin this journey in Bahia, the seat of Black culture in this large country, which during the transatlantic slave trade received more humans as cattle than any other place. So, they too struggle with the lingering impacts of this challenging period, but they also benefit from the amazing cultural legacy of those once in bondage, and their artists transmit a vitality renowned worldwide.
In the first conversation, you will meet two dynamic women leaders in the traditionally male dominated world of the drum. Hailing from Salvador, Bahia, percussionist, artist, and activist Viviam Caroline leads all-women Banda Dida, a percussion group (Bloco Afro) providing a platform for the empowerment of black women in Brazil. With a similar goal, Rene Fisher Mims founded S.H.I.N.E Muwasi, which, from a base at The World Stage in Leimert Park, inspires women to find strength and wisdom as performers on African drums. This conversation will be moderated by our own Dr. Giavanni Washington, Executive Director of Viver Brasil.
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#VoiceMoneyTimeOrTalent -
People's Institute of Survival and Beyond
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Our second #VoiceMoneyTimeOrTalent entry is the People's Institute of Survival and Beyond. This organization is dedicated to "understanding what racism is, where it comes from, how it functions, why it persists, and how it can be undone." Their signature workshop, Undoing Racism, does exactly that. We hope if you can't use your voice and time to attend a workshop, that you can use your money and donate to a great organization. A little bit about PISAB:
PISAB is a national and international collective of antiracist, multicultural community organizers and educators dedicated to building an effective movement for social transformation. Their principles are Undoing Racism, Learning from History, Sharing Culture, Developing Leadership, Networking, Undoing Internalized Racial Oppression, Maintaining Accountability, Analyzing Power, Gatekeeping, Identifying & Analyzing Manifestations of Racism.
Click here for more information on the organization.
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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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