This Wednesday (25) in your ANBA Bulletin: farm Olhos D’Água, in Mateus Leme, Minas Gerais, will start shipping its lychees and its first batches will ship out to Dubai, United Arab Emirates. CEO Patrícia Nogueira said they are supposed to go by plane on December right after harvest. “The product will get flown in via Emirates airline, one or two pallets’ worth of fruit per week for this particular buyer, but we’re looking for more partners,” she told reporter Bruna Garcia. The company has been selling fruit within the country since 2014, but this year’s crop will make exports possible. The company intends to remain in the foreign market over the next few years.
Check out that paintings by 12 contemporary artists from Brazil are on display at The Cube, within the Central Park Towers complex in Dubai’s financial district. The show opened last Monday (23) and runs until October 19. The pictures are by Bia Ferrari, Anne Wegge, Claudia Costa, Marina Maia, Yara Mattos, Yara Rangel, Hermano Ferro, Julio Cets, Paula Paes Leme, Carla Cavendish, Edith Rocha, and Cristina Pires Furtado. The exhibit is backed by the Arab Brazilian Chamber of Commerce.
And also a meeting between Franciscans and Muslims to occur on Saturday (28) at the Santo Amaro Mosque in São Paulo. The event celebrates the 800th anniversary of Francis of Assisi’s visit to Muslim religious leader sultan Al-Malik al Kâmil al Ayoubi in Egypt, a step towards religious tolerance. It’s supported by Franciscan Province of the Immaculate Conception of Brazil and the Federation of Muslim Associations in Brazil (Fambras), with backing from the National Islamic Union and of the Muslim Beneficent Society.
