NEW YEAR'S EVE WITH SAMBAGURU!
@ South Coast Winery (Temecula, CA)
http://www.jazzandblues.org/features/2009/rhythmOnTheVineNewYears/
http://www.jazzandblues.org/features/2009/rhythmOnTheVineNewYears/
Saturday, December 26, 2009
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
BRAZILIAN HEART / DECEMBER 2009
DECEMBER 2009
SINCE 1998
Just arrived from Guadalajara where I sang with Viver Brasil Dance Co. at Feria del Libro. This year the International Book Fair was honoring the city of Los Angeles. The Fair attracts an incredible
amount of young people who are hungry for Culture. They were amazingly warmth. The organizers offered performances all over town presenting French, Middle East, African, Indian, Hawaian, Brazilian, and Spanish artists. The Festival of Sacred Music Team treated us beautifully ending our stay with a tour of the city, and a dinner with a margarita included!
If you ever go to Guadalajara, please visit the Palacio del Gubierno to see the Orozco's Murals! It's amazing.
Below, you'll find a list of Brazilian theme gifts I made for you, and a story by Rumi that I want to share. Let me know what you think.
Enjoy. : )
SHOWS:
Sambaguru on December 31st, 2009
@ South Coast Winery (Temecula, CA)
Sambaguru on January 9th, 2010
@ SOB (NY)
http://sobs.com/node/89
http://sobs.com/node/89
CHRISTMAS GIFT RECOMMENDATIONS:
1. PAULO COELHO’S Biography by Fernando Morais.
I met Paulo Coelho in Rio when my band played at his wife’s birthday party in Copacabana. One day he visited the apartment I used to live with my partner, and we exchanged books. He got my book about the Middle Ages (he had not written The Alchesmist yet.)
The Brazilian writer Fernando Morais wrote another book called “Olga,” that I recommend as well.
2. LULA MARCONDES paintings, drawings, etc. Lula is from Recife,
Pernambuco, and I met him through Global Crest, a company created by Christi Pemberton and based in North Carolina that did a presentation with Sambaguru’s music. His pieces make me smile.
3. TRIBO, Sambaguru’s new CD. We are very proud of this new one. Special guests include: Oscar Castro-Neves, Paul Jackson Jr,, Justo Almario, Siedah Garrett (lyricist),The Vine Street Horns, and more. TRIBO appeared in the preliminary list for the Grammy 2009. Our previous CD, Navegar ao Sol, was also in the preliminary list.) Digstation.com is a great site to purchase from, and treats us with respect. Enjoy the video below!
4. If you’re crazy about T-SHIRTS and Brasil, try these 2 sites:
5. BRAZILIAN FILMS
6. PHOTOGRAPHY BOOK
My friend Jorge Vismara has 2 beautiful books: “The Gift of Water”
with Viver Brasil Dance Co, and “Amazon River.” Check it out!
7. BRAZILIAN BIKINI
Sometimes girls ask me about the Brazilian “cut.” Ok, here it is.
8. EYES OF A CHILD – DONATE
Antonio Covarrubia invited me to sing at one of his fundraisings this
year. It was an honor. Please, donate if you can.
9. YOGA UNVEILED
After watching this movie I realized how much more is to be learned. I’ve been doing Yoga for a long time (Hatha in Brasil, Bikran style here in Los Angeles, and now Kundalini)
10. SKIN PRODUCTS
I found them at BRAZZIL magazine online.
FOR YOU
JESUS ON THE LEAN DONKEY (By Rumi)
Jesus on the lean donkey,
This is an emblem of how the rational intellect
Should control the animal-soul.
Let your spirit be strong like Jesus.
If that part becomes weak,
Then the worn-out donkey grows to a dragon.
Be grateful when what seems unkind comes from a wise person.
Once, a holy man, riding his donkey, saw a snake crawling into
a sleeping man’s mouth! He hurried, but he couldn’t
Prevent it. He hit the man several blows with his club.
The man woke terrified and ran beneath an apple tree
with many rotten apples on the ground.
“Eat! You miserable wretch! Eat”
“Why are you doing his to me?”
“Eat more you fool.”
“I’ve never seen you before!
Who are you? Do you have some inner quarrel with your soul?”
The wise man kept forcing him to eat, and then he ran him.
For hours he whipped the poor man and made him run.
Finally, at nightfall, full of rotten apples,
Fatigued, bleeding, he fell and vomited everything,
the good and the bad, the apples and the snake.
When he saw that ugly snake come out of himself, he fell on his knees
before his assailant.
“Are you Gabriel? Are you God?
I bless the moment you first noticed me. I was dead
and didn’t know it. You’ve given me a new life.
Everything I’ve said to you was stupid!
I didn’t know.”
“If I had explained what I was doing,
you might have panicked and died of fear.
Muhammad said,
“If I described the enemy that lives inside men, even the most
courageous would be paralyzed. No one would go out, or do any work. No
one would pray or fast, and all power to change would fade from human
beings,’ so I kept quiet while I was beating you, that like David I
might shape iron, so that, impossibly, I might put feathers back into
a bird’s wing.
God’s silence is necessary, because of humankind’s faintheartedness.
If I had told you about the snake, you wouldn’t have been able to eat, and if you hadn’t eaten, you wouldn’t have vomited.
I saw your condition and drove my donkey hard into the middle of it,
saying always under my breath, “Lord, make it easy on him.” I wasn’t
permitted to tell you, and I wasn’t permitted to stop beating you!”
The healed man, still kneeling, “I have no way to thank you for the
quickness of your wisdom and the strength of your guidance.
God will thank you.”
FELIZ NATAL & FELIZ ANO NOVO!
Merry Christmas & Happy New Year!
Katia : )))
Monday, November 2, 2009
BRAZILIAN HEART
NOVEMBER 2009
SINCE 1998
SHOWS:
Tuesday, November 10
With Oscar Castro-Neves
@ AT&T Performing Arts Center (Dallas, TX)
Saturday, November 28 at 8pm
With Viver Brasil
@ Japan America Theatre
Also featuring Shakti Dance Cia and Halau Keali’I O Nalani
Presented by World Festival of Sacred Music
THE QUEEN OF BRAZILIAN THEATER
The Brazilian actress Fernanda Montenegro turned 80 years old this last October. On her birthday, the editor in chief of one of the biggest newspapers in Brasil ( O Globo ) asked her to choose and edit all the articles of the Section B (Arts) of the paper. It was a present to her and to Brasil.
If you don’t know her work, here’s a link to her interview with David Letterman when she as nominated for Best Actress for “Central Station” (1998 movie directed by Walter Salles.)
BRAZILIAN POETRY
In 1987 Fernanda Montenegro brought to the stage “Dona Doida” (Miss Crazy,) a stage play with texts by Brazilian poet Adelia Prado.
Here’s a poem called Lesson from “Bagagem” (Baggage) translated by Ellen Watson. I still have this book that a sweet poet friend gave me in Rio. Enjoy.
“It was a shadowy yard, walled high with stones.
The trees held early apples, dark
Wine-colored skin, the perfected flavor of things
Ripe before their time.
Clay jugs sat alongside the wall.
I ate apples and sipped the purest water,
Knowing the outside world had stopped dead from heat:
Then my father appeared and tweaked my nose,
And he wasn’t sick and hadn’t died either;
That’s why he was laughing, blood
Stirring in his face again,
He was hunting for ways to spend this happiness:
Where’s my chisel, my fishing pole,
What happened to my snuffbox, my coffee cup?
I always dream something’s taking shape,
Nothing is ever dead.
What seems to have died fertilizes.
What seems motionless waits.”
Peace,
Katia : )
BRAZILIAN HEART
NOVEMBER 2009
SINCE 1998
For me Halloween is a mix of Brazilian Carnaval and São Cosme e São Damião Day. Everybody knows what Carnaval is all about, but few people knows what São Cosme e São Damião is. September 27 in Brasil is considered the Day of Saint Cosme and Saint Damião, the twin brothers who protects children (pharmacists and doctors as well.) On that day people distribute candy to the kids and food to the poor. In Bahia, they are called “orixás Ibeji.” The legend says they were born in Arabia of Christian parents on the V Century. They were healers who ended up persecuted and killed accused of witchcraft.
SHOWS:
Tuesday, November 10
With Oscar Castro-Neves
@ AT&T Performing Arts Center (Dallas, TX)
Saturday, November 28 at 8pm
With Viver Brasil
@ Japan America Theatre
Also featuring Shakti Dance Cia and Halau Keali’I O Nalani
Presented by World Festival of Sacred Music
THE QUEEN OF BRAZILIAN THEATER
The Brazilian actress Fernanda Montenegro turned 80 years old this last October. On her birthday, the editor in chief of one of the biggest newspapers in Brasil ( O Globo ) asked her to choose and edit all the articles of the Section B (Arts) of the paper. It was a present to her and to Brasil.
If you don’t know her work, here’s a link to her interview with David Letterman when she as nominated for Best Actress for “Central Station” (1998 movie directed by Walter Salles.)
BRAZILIAN POETRY
In 1987 Fernanda Montenegro brought to the stage “Dona Doida” (Miss Crazy,) a stage play with texts by Brazilian poet Adelia Prado.
Here’s a poem called Lesson from “Bagagem” (Baggage) translated by Ellen Watson. I still have this book that a sweet poet friend gave me in Rio. Enjoy.
“It was a shadowy yard, walled high with stones.
The trees held early apples, dark
Wine-colored skin, the perfected flavor of things
Ripe before their time.
Clay jugs sat alongside the wall.
I ate apples and sipped the purest water,
Knowing the outside world had stopped dead from heat:
Then my father appeared and tweaked my nose,
And he wasn’t sick and hadn’t died either;
That’s why he was laughing, blood
Stirring in his face again,
He was hunting for ways to spend this happiness:
Where’s my chisel, my fishing pole,
What happened to my snuffbox, my coffee cup?
I always dream something’s taking shape,
Nothing is ever dead.
What seems to have died fertilizes.
What seems motionless waits.”
Peace,
Katia : )
Monday, October 5, 2009
TRIBO ON GRAMMY'S NOMINATING BALLOT!
TRIBO, my new recording with Sambaguru, is on the Nominating ballot for the GRAMMY(Best Contemporary World Music Album Category!) www.sambaguru.com
I’m grateful. More Magazine online published another story I wrote. This time is non-fiction one about my first trip to the United States (to be continued, of course.)
The picture above was taken at Chico World Music Festival. Here’s the quote Dan Dwayne, director of CUS Chico wrote about the performance.: “Katia wowed the Chico World Music Festival with her incredible voice, limitless energy, and an honest commitment to sharing the poweR of samba with the audience. Multiple standing ovations and smiles galore were followed by a rush to the CD table for her music.”
Rio de Janeiro will host the Olympics 2016!! Check it out the Master Plan for it! (In 2014 the World Soccer Cup will be in Brasil)
SHOW
Saturday, October 17
Fundraising for Eyes of a Child USA
“Eyes of a Child” is dedicated to providing emergency and long- term aid to children in desperate need throughout the world, including the United States, by building charitable capital and making philanthropic grants to individuals, families and worthy humanitarian organizations.
THEATRE
Latina on the Loose with Mina Olivera at LATC (downtown LA)
BRASIL 1967
The song “Roda Viva” was composed in 1967 by Chico Buarque for his first attempt as a playwright. The play is about a singer called Benedito Silva who changes his name to Ben Silver to please his audience. According to the newspaper Folha de Sao Paulo, the members of the group Command of Communist Hunting were responsible for the invasion of the Ruth Escobar Theatre in São Paulo on July 18, 1968, where they beat the cast members of Chico Buarque's play Roda Viva. Buarque was forced to flee the country at that time. He went to live in Italy for 18 months. http://www.youtube.com/user/katiamoraes#play/all/favorites-all/0/Clv5-Q4Dqw8
SHOWS AROUND LA
October 9 @ Ford Amphitheater
KPFK 90.7FM Fundraising
October 24 @ Royce Hall (UCLA)
Gal Costa & Oscar Catro-Neves
YOU TUBE
A Little bit of the Brazilian scene in LA in 1994.
FOR YOU
Brazilian poet, lyricist, diplomat Vinicius de Moraes wrote a poem to Manuel Bandeira (my childhood favorite):
“Lucid, tall and ascetic brother
Of a sad and clear heart
What dream you dream alone
Poet, father, harsh brother?”
And Manuel answered Vinicius with a poem in 1948:
“What dream? I don’t quite know.
Maybe to be at easy with myself, happy
Happy like I never was!
Pulling from the roots
This endless and futile craving
To possess what possesses me.”
Peace. Always.
Katia : )
Monday, August 31, 2009
BRAZILIAN HEART / SEPTEMBER 2009
SEPTEMBER 2009
SINCE 1998
I was having a conversation with my friend Dilma Barros from Cabo Verde about how we grew up distrusting policemen in our countries. The chat started when we met two nice American policemen at the Levitt Pavilion in downtown Los Angeles before my performance. During the show the musicians noticed how one policeman gently pulled a drunk guy from the dance floor (where kids were having fun) and brought him aside. When the policemen left we congratulated them. As they were leaving on their “earthy conscious politically correct” bikes, one of them told me he had given my phone number to the drunk guy. (Check pic below)
CREATIVE WRITING
MORE magazine accepted and published my first short story. Check it out! And leave a comment! : )
http://www.more.com/4879/7234-tale-of-a-city-sleeker
TRIBO
Tune in to Tom Schnabel's program at KCRW this Sunday, Sept. 6 from 12noon to 2pm. He'll be playing music from my new CD with Sambaguru called TRIBO.
BRAZILIAN COMMERCIAL
This 1978 commercial got an award at Cannes Fest. I love this Blue Man!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foXx_SKLe3k
SEPTEMBER: BRASIL’S INDEPENDENCE MONTH
Saturday, September 12 from 1pm to 2pm
Brazilian Heart Dance
Introduction to Brazilian Culture Thru Movement
@ Newbury Park Athletic Club
161 N. Reino Rd., Newbury Park, CA 91320
(805) 499-0023
http://www.npathleticclub.com/
Saturday, September 12 from 12 noon to 6 pm
@ La Brea Tarpits (Hancock Park)
5801 Wilshire Blvd. Los Angeles CA 90036
Food, crafts and live music. Free Admission
http://www.brazilian-consulate.org/files.php?id=95
Fri, Sat, Sun, Sept 11, 12 & 13
@ Hollywood Bowl
Blame it On Rio/ Hollywood Bowl Orchestra
with Seu Jorge and Bebel
Saturday, September 19 @ 12 noon and 2pm
Katia Moraes & Pure Samba
@ Chico World Music Festival (Chico)
http://www.csuchico.edu/upe/performance/cwmf.html
Friday, September 25
Viver Brasil Dance Company
@ MOOLA (Museum of Latin America/ Long Beach)
BOBBY MCFERRIN PLAYING WITH YOUR BRAIN!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBJ7mBxi8LM
MOVIE (“Walt & El Grupo”)
Went to the film screening and thought it was very interesting. James Stemple did a great job with the music. Check it out. Walt Disney on a goodwill trip to South America in 1941. Let me know what you think.
Opening in Los Angeles @The Landmark Regent (Westwood) on September 11th.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmwqA0KNmfk
THEATRE
“Latina on The Loose” @ LATC opens on September 25.
BRAZILIAN SCIE-FI
Believe or not this 1926 book by Montero Lobato talks about a U.S. election determined by race and gender. Check this out.
http://www.slate.com/id/2200417/
FOR YOU
I don’t hope my writing will alter anything… In the end, we don’t want to alter things, we want to bloom one way or another.
Quote by Brazilian writer Clarice Lipector
Peace,
Katia: )
Friday, July 31, 2009
BRAZILIAN HEART/ AUGUST 2009
BRAZILIAN HEART
August 2009
Since 1998
My husband and I moved to a beautiful home. We’re SO grateful. I feel we’re living in our own bed & breakfast on the countryside… We’re surrounded by hiking trails and close to the ocean. This morning I caught a smell of CARQUEJA in the air when I was hiking in the mountains. It transported me to the Friburgo Mountains outside of Rio where I used to pick this plant by the road to make a tea. It’s bitter but good for the liver.
http://www.amazonbioenergetics.com/reports-carqueja-drapeau.htm
Let me share a very cool quote from Brick Wahl from LA Weekly: “(...) But there ain’t a Brazilian singer in town who is as irresistible as Katia Moraes. Crowds go nuts when she performs. The energy, the charisma, the sheer joy of Brazilian music just fills a space. Her Sambaguru is a sharp band, too. They’ll probably be mining their latest, Tribo (she’s yet to record a clinker) and Culver City will be rocking Rio-style when they hit the stage in front of City Hall on Thursday night."
And a review of Sambaguru’s CD TRIBO from a guy in Netherlands: http://www.djscurio.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=1&Itemid=4
Performances:
Thursday, Aug. 13 with The Latin Project @ Zanzibar http://www.zanzibarlive.com
(Santa Monica)
Saturday, Aug. 22 with Mitchell Long http://www.rhythmjazzations.com/ (Malibu)
Aug. 29 with Duo @ http://www.theseabirdjazzlounge.com/ (Long Becah)
A little preview of my Duo project: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGbUljUtQGs
DOCUMENTARY
BEFORE MUSIC DIES It’s a must see! http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-856606244008931882
BEYOND IPANEMA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccpmNkRSRH4
PURE MUSIC POETRY! (Join me on Facebook)
http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=132682469898&ref=mf
BRAZILIAN POET PAULO LEMINSKI
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paulo_Leminski
“When I look in the eys
I know when a person
Is inside
Or outside
Whoever is outside
Doesn’t hold
A look that lingers
From within my center
This poem looks at me”
WONDERS
Have you ever asked yourself why time passes slowly when you're a kid and faster when you're an adult?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/6926500.stm
BOOK
A friend sent me a gift last month: a book entitled The Upanishads (one of the old spiritual scriptures from India). Now I’m reading “The Essence of the BHAGAVAD GITA: Explained by Paramhansa Yogananda, As Remembered by His Disciple, Swami Kriyananda…”
MUSIC
BRAZILIAN GUITARIST/SINGER RAUL SEIXAS singing GITA (Seixas/Paulo Coelho)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Is-zWk5awSA
“In the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous and cosmogonal philosophy of the Bhagavad-gita, in comparison with which our modern world and its literature seem puny and trivial.”
(Henry David Thoreau)
FOR YOU
Por que você me pergunta?
Why do you ask me?
Perguntas não vão lhe mostrar
Questions won’t show you
Que eu sou feito da terra
That I am made of the earth,
Do fogo, da água e do ar
Of the fire, of the water and of the air.
(Excerpt of GITA by R. Seixas/P.Coelho)
Beijo, peace and Namastê,
Katia : )
Saturday, June 27, 2009
BRAZILIAN HEART/ JUNE 2009
I watched the Jackson 5 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil when I was a little girl. It was love at first sight! Later, when I moved to Los Angeles, I had the honor to sing on a event put together by MTV called "Dinner with Michael Jackson". MTV chose people from all over the world to come to LA and meet him. It took place on a big tent close to Palm Springs right beside the set where he was filming a video. I have to admit that I was shocked when I saw his face, but my love for his artistry was and is big than the visual surprise. He was a big inspiration in my artistic life. It was bittersweet to celebrate my birthday on the day he passed away.
Love always, Katia Moraes : )
Deepak Chopra's Tribute to Michael Jackson (Beautiful):
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/deepak-chopra/a-tribute-to-my-friend-mi_b_221268.html
Love always, Katia Moraes : )
Deepak Chopra's Tribute to Michael Jackson (Beautiful):
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/deepak-chopra/a-tribute-to-my-friend-mi_b_221268.html
Saturday, May 2, 2009
BRAZILIAN HEART/ MAY 2009
BRAZILIAN HEART
MAY 2009
SINCE 1998
Just came back from Florida where I was visiting a couple of friends in the Gulf Coast area. The air made me feel I was in Brasil…warm breezes, warm waters… I drove around the small and rich community of Casey Key with my husband and counted 30 homes for sale. Things are changing (things are always changing)…for a better and more balanced future. Hiked a lot, biked a lot, tanned my skin the way I love, and wrote lyrics for a ballad. In it I mentioned the gardenias and jasmines, the waves, the sun that rises everyday to warm us all.
I saw sandhill cranes (cool singing,) ibises, herons, pelicans, egrets, red cardinals, rabbits, gopher and soft shell tortoises and lots of lizards. Visited the Legacy Trail and saw an old picture of a “color school.” The old rail company had a school for their black workers… This reminds me of Obama’s voice reading the book he wrote about his father. Have you read or heard? No? Try. What a beautiful human being he is.
LISTEN to a sandhill crane! http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Sandhill_Crane/id
SHOWS
Friday, May 15 at 9pm @ SPAZIO (Sherman Oaks)
With SAMBAGURU
http://www.spazio.la/cgi-bin/calendar/calendar.cgi
To download the new CD TRIBO:
http://www.digstation.com/AlbumDetails.aspx?albumid=ALB000026953
Saturday, May 9 @ Senzala (Sunnyvale) special guest with Phil Hawkins Band
Saturday, May 16 and 23 at 11pm @ LIMA Lounge (Tarzana)
With PURE SAMBA (The Brazilian Hangout!)
www.braziliannites.com
Saturday, May 30 @ HEINEKEN JAZZ FESTIVAL
(San Juan, Puerto Rico)
With OSCAR CASTRO-NEVES
http://www.prheinekenjazz.com/
DANCE
Viver Brasil Dance Company Audition is seeking two male dancers and 1 female dancer for the upcoming ’09 – ’10 Season
Thursday, May 7, from 7:30-9:30pm
@ Lula Washington Dance Theatre Studio, Studio B,
3773 Crenshaw Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90016
www.viverbrasil.com
PANTANAL: THE LARGEST WETLAND IN THE WORLD
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIVcBZG9eAk&feature=related
THEATRE (Brazilian AUGUSTO BOAL dies, but lives!)
http://www.democracynow.org/2005/6/3/famed_brazilian_artist_augusto_boal_on
"Shakespeare used to say—not used to say, but he said in Hamlet that the theater should be and is like a mirror in which we look at the mirror and then we see our vices and our virtues. I think that’s very nice, but I would like to have a mirror with some magic properties in which we could—if we don’t like the image that we have in front of us to allow us to penetrate into that mirror and then transform our image and then come back with our image transformed. The act of transforming, I always say, transforms she or he who acts. So to use the theater as a rehearsal for transformation of reality."
BRASIL REJUVENATION ARTS RETREAT
With Micheline Berry from May 9th thru May 20th
http://www.zendancing.com/cgi-bin/miva?Order/order.mv+
FOR YOU
“ (…) If the cultivated fields of this world are too hard
And the soils destroyed by war don’t produce peace
Tie your plough to a star
and you’ll be the crazy farmer of the stars
The free countryman of the skies,
And the further you get from the earth
The further you’ll be from God”
(Quote from the song Tie Your Plough to a Star by Brazilian composer and singer Gilberto Gil)
“ You will not bee punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger. “ (Buddha)
Peace and Namastê
Katia : ))
Sunday, March 22, 2009
Brazilian Heart/ April 2009
BRAZILIAN HEART
April 2009
Since 1998
SHOWS (CELEBRATING SPRING WITH JOY)
Every Saturday starting April 4th! @ Lima Lounge!
BRAZILIAN NITES with a LATIN FLAVOR
Learn to Samba with Diane, Show with Katia Moraes & Pure Samba, Caipirinhas, guarana, coconut water... enjoy a true Brazilian atmosphere!
Saturday, April 4 from 9:30pm to 2am
19540 Ventura Blvd., Tarzana, CA
(818) 566-1111
www.braziliannites.com
UPDATE SAMBAGURU
"Everyday" - directed by Richard Levine (Nip & Tuck) will have a scene featuring our song "Pra Tocar Pandeiro" (Sambaguru).
The film stars Helen Hunt and Liev Schreiber, along with a notably eclectic cast. It is currently in post-production (editing). The release date has yet to be announced, but the buzz is already strong!
The film version of the song is on the CD "Live" by Sambaguru.
The studio version is on "Navegar ao Sol".
www.sambaguru.com
GRATITUDE (GRATIDÃO)
finally got a picture of my mom and I when I was a baby. It was taken when she was bathing me in this big steel bowl. We are both smiling and looking at the camera. Yesterday I blew up a copy of it, framed it and put on top of my desk beside my laptop. This morning I got an email from Michelle Burns from New Jersey. She has an autistic child called Danson and together they wrote a book. Danson, who is 9 years old now, wrote 50 poems using an alphabet board to express his feelings. After reading her Blog I breathed deeply, looked at the beautiful picture beside my computer and felt completely grateful.
April is Autism Month. Take a minute to read her story, learn, buy the book if you can, and be grateful.
http://www.dansonsbook.com/dansonsblog/
AROUND LOS ANGELES
This exhibit runs until May 29 @ Brazilian Mall
The Brazilian Consulate Gallery is celebrating PRIMAVERA (Spring) with Art featuring: Ana Paula Negrão, Andréa Nantes, Bia Gayotto, Bruna Massadas, Eunice Broderick, Flavia Monteiro, Marcelo Moreira, Noeli Zanon, Marcia Brito, Olavo Multini, Rose Lobo and Sandra Zebi on Friday, March 27 @ Brazilian Mall 10826 Venice Blvd., Culver City CA 90232
RSVP: cultural@brazilian-consulate.org
(323) 651-2664, ext. 219
THE BEAUTY OF THE BRAZILIAN WOMAN
My friend Sean posted a little piece of BELEZA DA MULHER BRASILEIRA live (Brendle/Moraes) in YouTube. You can find this song in Sambaguru's new CD TRIBO. ENJOY!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uagSFYwwufs&feature=channel_page
BRAZILIAN FOOD / MOQUECA
This is my favorite dish from Brasil and I do it well! See the pic above! Try Moqueca Restaurant for a great tasty journey.
http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/587113
BANDA BLACK RIO!
Went to a show in March that brought me back to the 70’s. It was Brazilian composer and orchestrator Artur Verocai in his first appearance in LA. He has a 1972 record that was released in 2003 and became a hit among the U.S. Hip Hop community. Artur was backed up by a young and talent orchestra with Airto Moreira, Justo Almario, and members of Azymuth as special guests. It was a blast! Had the pleasure of talking with Carlos Dafe who was one of the original singers of the 1972’s CD (Pic above). I believe they were filming that night, but while the DVD is in its way, check this link and enjoy the sound of one of the greatest samba/funk bands of Brasil!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4v2RgancH3k&feature=related
BRAZILIAN LITERATURE / CLARICE LISPECTOR
“When I learned to read and write, I devoured books! I thought books were like trees, like animals: a thing that was born!”
http://www.vidaslusofonas.pt/clarice_lispector2.htm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ad7b6kqyok (Interview in Portuguese)
If you are in FACEBOOK, join BRAZILIAN HEART and keep in touch. I have been adding interesting cultural links there.
RAPE/ABORTION IN BRASIL/CONTROVERSY
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/28/world/americas/28brazil.html?emc=eta1
FOR YOU
“Não pense que escrevo aqui o meu mais íntimo segredo pois há segredos que eu não conto nem a mim mesma.”
Don’t think I write my most intimate secret here because there are secrets I don’t even tell to myself.
(Clarice Lispector/ 1920-1977)
DO YOU WANT TO UNDERSTAND WOMEN?
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_type=&search_query=alison+armstrong&aq=f
Peace and Light,
Katia : )
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