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What's New This Week With Viver Brasil?
- TODAY LA Common's 10th Annual Day of the Ancestors: Festival of Masks
- Community Class on Monday with Vera Passos!
- Watch our performance of Agô Ayó on From The Ford This Thursday!
- Focus Brasil Awards Los Angeles 2020
- Performance Spotlight on Cor da Pele [Skin Color] World Premiere 2017
- #VoiceMoneyTimeOrTalent!: Equal Justice Initiative
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LA Common's A Virtual Celebration of Black Joy
10th Annual Day of the Ancestors: Festival of Masks
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LA Commons is hosting A Virtual Celebration of Black Joy, 10th Annual Day of the Ancestors: Festival of Masks TODAY 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)
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Symbols, Sambas, Movements of Joy and Resistance
This week we have our Maestra and Associate Artistic Director, Vera Passos, teaching Samba de Roda.
8/31: Vera Passos: Samba de Roda
*If you can, bring a long skirt to class*
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!
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We are so thrilled to be a part of The Ford’s Virtual season with highlights from our 20th-anniversary show, Agô Ayó with introductions by our co-artistic directors, Linda and Badaro and our choreographers, Vera and Shelby.
Tune in Thursday, September 3rd at 6:30 pm PST!
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We're so happy to be nominated for the Focus Brasil Awards Los Angeles 2020
Please vote for us:
-Dance and Folkore (Category 9): Viver Brasil Dance Company
Please vote for our incredible Music Director:
-Instrumentalist (Category 6): Clarice Cast
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Performance Spotlight: Cor da Pele [Skin Color] World Premiere 2017 Marina Magalhães & Dancers
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Photo by Gennia Cui for the Ford Theatres
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This week's Performance Spotlight is Cor da Pele [Skin Color] World Premiere 2017
Cor Da Pele (Skin Color) is a contemporary Afro-Brazilian dance piece that exposes and interrogates the toxicity of anti-blackness in Latinx culture. Inspired by the poetry of Nayyirah Waheed, the work seeks to rewrite our relationship with black ancestry as Latinx people, while reclaiming our history as mixed-race people of color from Latin America and the United States. It is at once an offering to ancestors, a space for celebration and mourning; an act of resistance. Magalhães' 8th-month residency with VB included Cor da Pele artists attending Undoing Racism Training with the People's Institute for Survival and Beyond.
Concept
Marina Magalhães
Choreography
Marina Magalhães in collaboration with the dancers
Dancers in photo
Rachel Hernandez, Marina Magalhães, Bianca Medina, Nagode Simpson
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#VoiceMoneyTimeOrTalent -
Equal Justice Initiative
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This week's #VoiceMoneyTimeOrTalent entry is the Equal Justice Initiative. The Equal Justice Initiative "provides legal representation to people who have been illegally convicted, unfairly sentenced, or abused in state jails and prisons." They also work to challenge the death penalty and excessive punishment while providing re-entry assistance to those formerly incarcerated.
Their museum in Montgomery, Alabama "uses interactive media, sculpture, videography and exhibits to immerse visitors in the sights and sounds of the domestic slave trade, racial terrorism, the Jim Crow South, and the world’s largest prison system." It also honors the lives lost to racial terror lynchings, in the National Memorial for Peace and Justice (pictured). This organization truly is combatting racial injustice from every front, so please consider using your #voice to share about this organization, or your #money to donate. More about the organization:
Mission: The Equal Justice Initiative (EJI) is committed to ending mass incarceration and excessive punishment in the United States, to challenging racial and economic injustice, and to protecting basic human rights for the most vulnerable people in American society.
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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