Contrasting styles, subjects and humors(humours) are among the advantages of attending an international film festival. As a resident of Rio de Janeiro where local cinemas currently feature some of the most banal and sill…
Where are musical geniuses produced? Not necessarily or exclusively at New York City’s famous Juilliard School of Music or on the streets of Vienna near the homes of Beethoven, Schubert, Mozart, Strauss and other musical…
Anyone who has spent enough time in Brazil will agree with this observer that there are ` certain` coincidences which only occur in this part of the world. Rio Convention Week is chock full of events and with more visito…
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If French futurist and science fiction writer Jules (1828-1905, `20,000 Leagues Under the Sea`) Verne could attend Rio Innovation Week 2025 at Pier Maua, downtown Rio de Janeiro, he would feel right at home. Billed as `t…
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The 23rd edition of the Paraty International Festival of Literature (FLIP) which concluded on Sunday 3 August 2025 displayed –-at least to this veteran of four FLIPs—current tendencies of contemporary writing both in Bra…
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Located in Rio de Janeiro state, “Coffee Valley” or” O Vale do Café,” has morethan coffee beans but a rich, colorful culture including back- to- nature healing clinics, an annual music festival, a variety of health food…
by Susie Verde On 25 and 26 July 2025, the beautiful Rio de Janeiro Art Museum (MAR) hosted the VII Seminar on Image Reading: The “Epistemology of Nise da Silveira,” bringing together mental health professionals from dif…
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Whom have you ever dreamt of being? A movie or TV soap opera star, a handsome or beautiful being, a film director or famous cinema maker or someone living a more adventuresome and glamorous than yourself? This is one of…
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Despite the former site of the 2016 Summer Olympic games in Rio being so far from my residence here in Copacabana, this bookworm decided to return to the Rio Biennale on what I imagined would be a quiet Tuesday. At the s…
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