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What's New This Week With Viver Brasil?
- Community Class Tomorrow With Vera Passos!
- Our Music Director, Clarice Cast, is FAMOUS!
- Performance Spotlight on our 2020 SITS Alamaba Tour
- TODAY: LA Common's Diaspora Dialogue: Curaçao at 2pm!
- #VoiceMoneyTimeOrTalent!: PDX Protest Bail Fund
- UPCOMING: Dancing the Kings
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Exploring Dances of the Órixas: Symbols and Movement
This week we have the ever-beautiful and knowledgable Vera Passos, teaching dances of the Órixas: symbols and movements.
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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Check out our Music Director, Clarice Cast's, pandeiro video!
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Our incredibly talented Music Director, Clarice Cast, made an amazing pandeiro video with Lara and Umaytá! The video of the pandeiro playing trio has over 26,000 views. Let's help it go viral! We love to see our percussion QUEENS! Check out their video here!
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Performance Spotlight:
Samba in the Streets (SITS) 2020 Alabama Tour
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This week's #PerformanceSpotlight is a class from our 2020 SITS Alabama tour!
Viver Brasil conducted a 3-hour master class at Alabama State University, Montgomery during SITS Alabama 2020. We shared the dances and rhythms of Ramunha, Bloco Afro and Badaró's brand of Dança Afro. He, along with assistance from Laila Abdullah and Shelby Williams-Gonzalez, taught the students excerpts from his signature choreography, Navio Negreiro. In less than 30 minutues, Mestre Badaró magically had the ASU dance students rockin' it! Drums by Avila Santo, 3 ASU music students and our Alabama collaborators, Barry Johnson, and his drum mentees, Nkosi Johnson, Jordan Franklin and Wali Muhammad. Super gratitude to Dr. Joan Burroughs, ASU faculty member and VB SITS Alabama collaborator for creating this wonderful experience.
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LA Common's Diaspora Dialogue: Curaçao TODAY at 2pm PST!
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LA Commons is hosting Diaspora Dialogues: Curaçao on TODAY July 26th at 2pm PST! Don't miss out on this amazing conversation with Diamanta, lead singer of KUENTA, and DJ Linafornia about the beautiful island of Curaçao and how Black people had to keep the beat alive to survive.
In the third series of artist conversations, we reintroduce Amsterdam-based Diamanta, lead singer of KUENTA, which literally translates to drums and stories in her native language, Papiamento. When we brought Diamanta and her bandmates to Los Angeles in 2014, they were a huge hit, playing all over the city in addition to their dynamic presence in Leimert Park. We loved learning about their ancestral home in the ABC Islands of the Dutch Antilles (Aruba, Bonaire and Curacao) and the wonderful roots music, Tambú, that provides the backbeat for their 21st Century “Tambutronica.” Diamanta’s MC chops and singing brings it all together. Joining her in the dialogue will be DJ Linafornia whose sound was formed in the ether of warm, sunburst skylines, and the cool whoof of speakers in some of LA's most hallowed underground haunts including Leimert Park’s own Bananas at KAOS Network. She embodies the new generation of producers, always stepping forward, still staying true to her roots, to the sounds that originally inspired her. Among her accolades, she was the first black woman to be given a DJ residency for the final month of Low End Theory’s epic tenure at the Airliner. Both of these women excel at bridging past, present and future to ensure Black culture survives and thrives.
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#VoiceMoneyTimeOrTalent -
PDX Protest Bail Fund
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This week's #VoiceMoneyTimeOrTalent entry is the PDX Protest Bail Fund. Most are aware that the current administration has sent in federal forces to shut down protests in Portland, Oregon. According to the BBC, "Federal officers in unmarked vehicles appeared to forcefully seize protesters from the streets and detain them without justification. They have also fired tear gas and less-lethal munitions into crowds of demonstrators." It is time for us who are not in Portland to support the peaceful protestors fighting for a more equal world with our money. A little more about the PDX Protest Bail Fund:
The General Defense Committee Local 1 in Portland, Oregon, has established a fundraiser to cover bail and other legal expenses for protesters arrested in Portland, Oregon in connection to protests against George Floyd's murder by Minneapolis police, along with general police brutality. At last count, more than 14 protestors were arrested. We expect that number to rise — processing appears to be unusually slow at the Multnomah County Justice Center.
Click here to donate.
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UPCOMING: Dancing the Kings
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Photo: Jorge Vismara
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YOU ASKED FOR MORE!
Join our wise elder Dona Cici and VB's Associate Artistic Director Vera
Passos for an intensive/workshop exploring the dances, stories and
songs of the kings of the dance: Exu, Omolu, Oxumarê, Xango.
Save the date
August 15, 2020 at 10am PST
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