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8th October, 2012

Minas – Heart of Brazil: A festival of arts and culture

Event Details

Date:
8th October, 2012
Time:
6.30pm - 11pm
End Date:
12th October, 2012
Venue:
Strand Campus, King's College London, Strand, London WC2R 2LS
Minas – Heart of Brazil 2012 is a 5-day multi-media event—the first of an ongoing annual series—bringing to the UK the arts of Minas Gerais and promoting collaboration and exchange between Brazilian and London based artists, communities and audiences. It will focus both on the region’s rural traditions and on its contemporary urban cultures, including music, theatre, literature and cinema.
Festival Highlights– The new mineiros— innovators in film, song and drama- Giants of Modernist writing Drummond and Guimarães Rosa – lectures, readings and dramatisations

– “Some New Thoughts on the Minas Conspiracy”, lecture by Prof Kenneth Maxwell (Univ. of Harvard)

– Daily cinema screenings and three original dramas: “Drina”, “Todas Elas” and “O Amor no Grande Sertão”

For full programme information please follow this link.

With thanks to the Arts & Humanities Festival.

Contact: splas@kcl.ac.uk

 


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