I Love Jazz 2010

The edition of the Sao Paulo International Festival I Love Jazz will happen in the city between July 30th and August 5th and will be marked by performances at the Ibirapuera Auditorium and free concerts on points of general crosswalk.
The initiative seeks, among other things, to promote popular participation for a kind of music usually seen as sophisticated and airtight. For this, besides the presentations, there will be lectures, master classes, courses and workshops. In all these cases, the idea is to give great emphasis to the period that includes the 1920 and 1940.
Among the attractions, especially Antigua Jazz Band, Argentinean band formed in 1968. Through solos, duets, trios and small ensembles, the members will present the traditional black jazz on August 4th. The repertoire of songs names like Joe King Oliver, Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton and Duke Ellington.

Program
July 30th - 6.30 om to 8.30 pm
Conjunto Nacional - Av. Paulista, 2073
Choperia Opção - Rua Carlos Comenale, 97
Boteco Rabo de Peixe - Rua Quatá, 426

July 31st - 3 pm to 4.30 pm
Praça Benedito Calixto - Pinheiros
Rua Harmonia, 321/327 - Pinheiros
Alameda Jauaperi 590 - Moema

August 1st - 3 pm to 4 pm
Praça Omaquas - Pinheiros
Zur Alten Muhle - Rua Princesa Isabel, 102 - Tremembé

August 2nd - 12.30 pm to 1.30 pm
Pça. Victor Civita - Pinheiros
Shopping Center Iguatemi - Av. Brig. Faria Lima, 2232

Concerts at Auditório Ibirapuera
August 3d - 8.30 pm
Claude Tissendier 6TET playes John Kirby (FRA)
Leroy Jones Sextet (EUA)

August 4th - 8.30 pm
Antigua Jazz Band (ARG)
The Judy Carmichael Seven (EUA)
Master Class with The Judy Carmichael (EUA)

August 5th - 8.30 pm
Victor Biglioni (ARG)
Elza Soares in My Soul is Black with Nivaldo Ornelas (BRA)
Pink Turtle (FRA)

Anima Mundi 2010

The 2010 International Animation Festival of Brazil, Anima Mundi, starts today and celebrates the production of this genre by promoting the encounter between authors and audience, films screening, competitive exhibitions, workshops, lectures and debates. The event, one of the three largest in the world and the largest in the Southern Hemisphere in the field of animation, will run until August 1st and will take place at the Memorial of Latin America and at the Centro Cultural Banco do Brazil. With over 300 subscribers and about a hundred short national films selected, the festival supports the development of the sector, besides functioning as a platform for spread and discussion.

The English Daniel Greaves and the Canadian Cordell Barker, winners at Cannes Festival, inaugurate the 18th edition of Anima Mundi, with lectures. Besides them, also the Brazilian, Guilherme Marcondes,will take part at a series of debates. Guillerme, who worked overseas and is back in Brazil since 2006,  produced the short film Tyger. Tyger won over 20 international awards, including two at the festival in Clermont-Ferrand, France, and the Award of the Directors of Anima Mundi. Besides the exhibitions, competitive or not, the event also shows in its website the films selected by the competition Anima Mundi Web e Celular.

What you have to see

Rabbit Rabbit of the director Daniel Greaves

Videogioco, a loop experiment, chosen as the best animation of the festival according to the jury

Boogie, el aceitoso, animation from Argentina

Manipulation, winner of the Animation Oscar in 1992

Mary and Max: uma amizade diferente, chosen as the best of the festival by the audience of Rio de Janeiro

Teclopolis, a critic to the modern society

Runaway, a train trip

Service

Where: Memorial da America Latina (from 11 am to midnight) and CCBB (from 10 am to 8 pm)

When: July 28th to August 1st
How much: R$ 6 and R$ 3 (students)

Program: Click here

Website: www.animamundi.com.br/

Pictures of the desert Sao Paulo

Avenida do Estado, avenida 23 de Maio, rua Galvão Bueno, rua São Bento e Avenida Paulista. Imagine what would happen if all of these known addresses of the state capital were suddenly abandoned by the population. What would happen if suddenly, you go out and you find nobody - or almost nobody - in the streets?

The amateur photographer Decio Lira answered this question taking pictures of the streets of an empty São Paulo. Decio worked on the weekends, holidays and days of Brazilian match in the World Cup 2010. He visited some of the best known streets in town. Most of the images were photographed during the games of the Brazilian team. The result is at least curious. Normally chaotic avenues seem desert. In streets such as the Avenida Paulista and Avenida Angelica, Decio found no one, except for a few pedestrians and few cars.

The complete series of pictures with the abandoned city can be seen in the author's Flickr

Paulista Avenue area is rich in theaters

A study of the São Paulo Convention & Visitors Bureau points out some peculiarities of regions of Sao Paulo. Did you know that the center has an area for events larger than Brasilia has? And the Avenida Paulista has more theaters than Santiago (Chile) and 50% more hotel rooms than Campinas? The idea is to show that tourists can enjoy many attractions paulistanas without ever leaving the neighborhood in which they are hosted. Some theaters next to the Paulista Avenue that you can reach with a reasonable walk:

Centro Cultural São Paulo -  Avenida Vergueiro,1000 - São Paulo
Teatro Augusta - Rua Augusta, 943 -  São Paulo

Teatro Bibi Ferreira - Avenida Brigadeiro Luís Antônio, 931 - São Paulo

Teatro Popular do SESI - Avenida Paulista, 1313 -  São Paulo

Teatro Procópio Ferreira - Rua Augusta, 2823 - São Paulo

Teatro Ruth Escobar - Rua dos Ingleses, 209 -  São Paulo

Teatro Shopping Frei Caneca - Rua Frei Caneca 569 - São Paulo

Teatro Popular SESI

Transfer - urban and contemporary art, transfers and transformations -

Transfer is an exhibition showcasing contemporary visual art, street art, skateboarding (via photos, videos and live performances), independent music, as well as underground comics and fanzine art from the last two decades. Featured within the framework of this concept, original artwork and site-specific installations from internationally acclaimed Brazilian and American artists with roots in urban culture will be on view. The exhibition highlights the history and complexity of these interrelated creative cultures between both nations that now are merging with the mainstream art world on an international scale.

Service

Where: Pavilhão das Culturas Brasileiras, Rua Pedro Alvares Cabral s/n, Parque Ibirapuera - Sao Paulo

When: Until September 12th, from 9 am to 5 pm

How much: For free

Website: http://transfer.art.br/

Buy your ticket for the Bon Jovi concert in Sao Paulo

After 15 years, Bon Jovi returns to Brazil to play on October 6th, at the Morumbi stadium. Titled "The Circle Tour", the tour brings the successes of the band's career, like 'It's My Life', 'Have a Nice Day', 'I'll Be There For You' and 'Wanted Dead or Alive'. The pre-sale for the customers of Credicard, Citibank and Diners starts today, Monday (July 26th) and runs till August 1st, while sales to the general public will be only on August 2nd.

The tickets are on sale at Tickets For Fun website (http://www.ticketsforfun.com.br/), telephone (11) 4003-0696 and in the event's official box office, at parking attached to the Credicard Hall.

FILE, International Festival of Electronic Language

FILE, International Festival of Electronic Language, the largest event of this kind in Brazil and Latin America, it started eleven years ago and it places Brazil in the global context of art and technology. This is a festival of artistic productions in the field of electronic and digital arts, besides being an indicator of the plurality of language in the contemporary world. In 2010, FILE accomplishes two achievements: FILE PRIX LUX and FILE PAI. The Festival takes place in Sao Paulo, from July 27th to August 29th, and involves the entire city with performances in various locations, all with free access.

FILE PAI (Public Interactive Art) is an art project which will occupy several areas of Paulista Avenue with interactive works. Instituto Cervantes, Conjunto Nacional, MASP, Fnac Bookstore, stations of the green line subway, buses circulating in the avenue, interactive projections and Fiesp will be all part of the places involved in FILE PAI.

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In 2010, FILE launches FILE PRIX LUX, an international prize for professionals in the area of electronic-digital languages. This is an unprecedented initiative in Latin America. This initiative was conceived to complement FILE's actions in the area of electronic and digital languages, with the intent of rewarding, motivating and stimulating the emergence of new talents.

FILE intends with FILE PRIX LUX, besides the exhibition and presentation of works, to add value to such manifestations, conferring to the awarded artists a national and international impact. The prize had received 1.235 registrations of 44 countries and then 90 works were nominated. The Awards ceremony happens on July 26th, 2010, at Teatro do SESI - São Paulo, with the opening of FILE exhibition.

Service

When: July 27th to August 29th

Where: Avenida Paulista - Sao Paulo

How much: For free

Website: http://www.file.org.br/