This week, our Friday performance will be from Fernamda Ca, an up and coming singer/songwriter from Juiz de Fora. For more information on Fernamda Ca see: http://www.myspace.com/fernamdaca.
Come and join us at MUDE or UCAM!
Ideais e Ações: 13h30 as 15h30. Apresentação de projetos de sucesso na área social – Instituto Realice e prof. Márcio Schiavo.
Instituto Realice:
Fundado em junho de 2003, o Instituto Realice é uma organização sem fins lucrativos, criada para desenvolver as informações geradas pelo Projeto Realice – Um Mundo de Soluções Sociais para o Brasil. O Projeto Realice foi o primeiro projeto do Instituto e teve como objetivo catalogar iniciativas e tecnologias sociais inovadoras, desenvolvidas em outros paÃses do mundo, para formar um banco de dados de soluções sociais para serem aplicadas no Brasil.
Prof. Márcio Schiavo
Titulação: Doutorado em Comunicação Social. Mestrado em Administração pela Boston University School of Management e Pós- Graduação/ MBA em Marketing pela Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro.
Diretor-Representante do Population Media Center no Brasil, Diretor-Presidente da Comunicarte Agência de Responsabilidade Social. Consultor da Petrobras, Fundação Banco do Brasil, Instituto Souza Cruz, Rede Globo de Televisão, Secretaria Nacional de Direitos Humanos, UNESCO, entre outras organizações governamentais e não-governamentais.
Today from 13h30 to 15h30 we are joined by Aid Global (Portugal) and Ação da Cidadania contra a Fome, a Miséria e pela Vida. The two organisations will be sharing experiences and discussing some of the biggest humanitarian challenges they currently face. Come and join us at MUDE or UCAM!
About Aid Global (Portugal):
AIDGLOBAL’s Vision is based on the belief of a better world, where each one of us is invited to participate, assuring the dignity and respect for human rights and sharing of resources in a sustainable way.
AIDGLOBAL’s Mission is to integrate and act for the well being of the Community of Portuguese Language Countries’ (CPLP) populations, contributing for the improvement of their lives through the promotion of different forms of Action and Integration into areas such as Cooperation for Development, Education for Development, Migrations, Training and Volunteering.
About Ação
da Cidadania contra a Fome, a Miséria e pela Vida:
“Democracy and poverty are incompatible”, wrote the sociologist Herbert de Souza, “Betinho”, in 1993, launching Ação da Cidadania as one of the most creative, innovative and important social movements in Brazil. Among its objectives are the promotion of the mobilisation of all segments of Brazilian society in finding solutions to the issues of hunger and misery in order to realise the dream of a country without hunger, without poverty, where everyone has rights of citizenship, where justice is more than one word and that social integration is more fact than rhetoric. Since 1993, Ação da Cidadania aims to encourage citizen participation in the construction and improvement of public social policies.
Last week we had Rogerio Jacques and Sophie Pinto reading from the works of Bruno Munari and Italo Calvino.
Today at Dialogue Cafe, at 13h30 to 15h30 (Brazil), we have the creators of FESTLIP – the Festival of Portuguese Language Theatre – Tânia Pires and Luciana Rodriguez, talking about the Festival which is now in its third year. The Festival, which takes place in Rio de Janeiro, brings together the 8 countries of the the Community of Portuguese Speaking Countries (CPLP) which have Portuguese as an official language: Angola, Cabo Verde, Guiné-Bissau, Mozambique, Portugal, São Tomé e PrÃncipe, East Timor and Brazil.
Today at 19h30 (Lisbon) Joana Lobo Antunes will be doing a demonstration of the Theatre of the Oppressed. Come and join us at MUDE or UCAM.
Theatre of the Oppressed is a participatory form of theatre that was developed by Augusto Boal in Brazil. It involves actors and non-actors playing out stories of oppression (factory owner mistreating the workers/abusive husband abusing his wife etc). In these performances, the audience can stop the performance at any time, take over from one of the actors and re-write the story. This can continue until all the members of the cast and the audience are satisfied with the new script.
Between 1993 and 1997, Boal was a Councillor in Rio de Janeiro. During that time, he developed ‘Legislative Theatre’ which is based on the same principles as Theatre of the Oppressed, but instead of acting out a scene where someone is being oppressed, the subject of the performance is a proposed new law. Spectator-actors (or Spect-actors) can take to the stage, express their opinions and support, oppose or modify any of the proposals. This approach was recently used in the UK in Brighton to promote public engagement in a local health improvement programme.
To find out more see Augusto Boal, Theatre of the Oppressed, Pluto Press, 1979, Augusto Boal, Games for Actors and Non-actors, Routledge, 2002 and Legislative Theatre: Using Performance to Make Politics, Routledge, 1998.
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