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What's New This Week With Viver Brasil? 

  • Community Class on Monday with Guest Artist Vania Oliveira!
  • Performance Spotlight on Avaninha at the Ford
  • LA Common's 10th Annual Day of the Ancestors: Festival of Masks
  • #VoiceMoneyTimeOrTalent!: GirlTrek

Symbols, Sambas, Movements of Joy and Resistance

This week we have the amazing Vania Oliveira as our guest artist. She is one of the most important dance authorities on Dances of the Blocos Afro and will be sharing her incredible knowledge with us tomorrow!  Read her bio here

8/17: Vania Oliveira: Dances of the Blocos Afro
8/24: Vera Passos: Dances of the Orixas: Symbols and Movements
8/31: Vera Passos: Samba de Roda

Since VB transitioned to online classes we have reached dancers all over the US and communities in 22 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!

 
 
Click Here To Register for Community Class
Performance Spotlight: 
Avaninha at the Ford Theatres

This week's #PerformanceSpotlight is our performance of Avaninha at Ford Theatres for Viver Brasil’s 20th anniversary concert, Agô Ayó/Spirits Rising.

The celebratory Avaninha calls upon the sacred energies of the orixá through rhythm, song and gesture.  As we revisit this seminal piece from Viver Brasil’s repertoire, the ideas embodied by Obaluaiyê, orixá of health and sickness and epidemic diseases feel more timely than ever.  Join us in a ceremonial meditation of what it means to re-ground, listen to the ancestral messages, come together, and heal in our present reality. 

Choreography by Rosangela Silvestre (2009)
Restaged with additional choreography by Vera Passos (2017) 
Music Jose Ricardo Sousa with additional arrangements by Kahlil Cummings.  
Traditional chants shared by Ebomi Cici
Dancers Laila Abdullah, Bianca Medina, Ashley Blanchard, Samad Guerra, Rachel Hernandez, Ajah Muhammad, Vera Passos, Nagodè Simpson
Singers Emina Shimanuki & Felicia “Onyi” Richards
Musicians Luiz Badaró (percussion), Simon Carroll (percussion), Kahlil Cummings (percussion), Bobby Easton (acoustic and electric guitar), Alberto Lopez (percussion), Fabio Santana de Souza (trombone, cavaquinho, acoustic guitar)
LA Common's A Virtual Celebration of Black Joy
10th Annual Day of the Ancestors: Festival of Masks
LA Commons is hosting A Virtual Celebration of Black Joy, 10th Annual Day of the Ancestors: Festival of Masks on Sunday, August 30th at 2pm PST! Don't miss out on the amazing performances that celebrate 10 years honoring ancestors and uplifting the amazing artists that define our neighborhood and an international contingent of creators from across the African diaspora.

A once in a lifetime experience, come learn about and witness people of African descent coming together to connect with ancient wisdom and to showcase the power of black joy. The program has never been more important as an unapologetic display of Blackness that spotlights the creativity of artists from Leimert Park and around the world in a virtual expression of hope, solidarity and insight.

Highlights:
WORLD PREMIERE - 8:46, Dance of the Queen Mothers by local elder and internationally renowned choreographer Nzingha Camara
Ritual for Healing performed by SHINE MUWASI
A Virtual Tour of Leimert Park with We Love Leimert
Celebratory Performances from across the Africa diaspora - Wezi (Zambia), Kuenta (Aruba/Curacao), Adunni (Nigeria), Viviam Caroline (Brazil), Voices of Creation (Leimert Park)
 
#VoiceMoneyTimeOrTalent -
GirlTrek
This week's #VoiceMoneyTimeOrTalent entry is GirlTrek.  GirlTrek is the largest public health nonprofit for specifically for African-American women and girls in the United States and uses walking to inspire healthy living as well as a way to empower women to organize and mobilize community members.  

As they explain, "Joining GirlTrek's service corps is easy as 1-2-3. First step - walk this Saturday and every Saturday. Use #GirlTrek for the 9am roll call. Second step - compete in fun monthly challenges to build a habit of daily exercise and to get others in your life moving by organizing a trek team! Third and final step - tell somebody! We can't get to a million without you." You can use your time to volunteer and walk, your voice to inspire others to join, or your money to donate! More about the organization: 

Mission: Pioneer a health movement for African-American women and girls grounded in civil rights history and principles through walking campaigns, community leadership, and health advocacy.

To learn more about the organization, click here.
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