The South American Festival of Arab Culture will feature over 150 presentations, including dance performances, Arabic calligraphy workshops and exhibitions this year.
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To Rafah Barakat, head of the Qatar-Brazil Year of Culture project, the events are an opportunity for people in both countries to know one another better. Brazilian exhibits in Doha are already a hit.
Clown group Traço Cia de Teatro from Santa Catarina will take part in Festiclown Palestina, in October. The event will bring circus shows to Palestinians and Syrians who live in refugee camps in Lebanon.
Lebanese institute will promote long distance classes about geopolitics of the region and Lebanon. Registration is open until March 31st.
The Saudi government plans on holding the event in June. Deputy minister Abdulaziz Almulhem, in charge of international cultural relations, paid a visit to the Arab Brazilian Chamber.
Carolina Ponte and Pedro Varela will showcase their work at Doha’s Anima Gallery from February 9th to April 9th. The show is an action of the Qatar-Brazil Year of Culture.’
The National Library Foundation has opened applications for grants for foreign publishers who wish to take Brazilian authors abroad to promote their books. Applications must be submitted by March 10.
The Arab country is showing this Thursday (30), at the Museum of Islamic Art, the film Central Station, opening a series of monthly screenings to take place all year long. The project is part of the Year of Culture Qatar Brazil 2014.
Mohamed El Sayed will teach Sufi and belly dance techniques. Lessons will take place on February 15 and 16. Registration is open.
Premiere ICArabe celebrates the Institute of Arab Culture’s tenth anniversary and shows national and Latin American productions with Arab themes. The exhibit starts in São Paulo, on February 03.
‘Omar’ was nominated for the Academy Award in the Best Foreign Language Film category. Among the nominees, are films from Italy, Belgium, Denmark and Cambodia.
Zaatari – Children of the War, exhibit by Brazilian photographer Gabriel Chaim, brings 25 images of the lives of children who have escaped the conflicts in Syria. The show is open until February 07 in Belém, in the Northeast of Brazil.
The Arab television channel will show two films made in Brazil under the Project Viewfinder, which sponsors documentaries about social issues in Latin America. One shows the reality of the homeless in São Paulo and the other Haitian immigration in Acre.
Brazilian artist Marilza Ramos has already exported her pictures to the region through trade shows. After a recent exhibit in Qatar, she plans on opening a studio in Doha and a showroom in Dubai.
