SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 6, 2009
Civic Ceremony
12:00 pm
Hoisting of the Brazilian Flag and performance of the National Anthem
Boston City Hall Plaza, Government Center, Boston, MA

OUTDOOR FESTIVAL
12:00 to 6:00 pm
Artesani Park
1234 Soldiers Field Road, Boston, MA
Directions

Attractions:
- Official opening – Performance of the Brazilian National Anthem by Ana Lucia Vlieg Paulin
- Festival opening parade
- Children’s activities (pony ride, balloon sculpture, face painting, drawing)
- Ethnic food, information and service stands
- Mobile art gallery
- Live performances by Receita de Samba, Pixaim and Band, Jucimara and Marcus Santos
- Capoeira with Mestre Chuvisco

Free parking - Handicapped accessible


TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 8, 2009 - 7 PM
Brazilian Film Screening:
“O Outro Lado da Rua” (The Other Side of the Street)
Directed by Marcos Bernstein. With Fernanda Montenegro and Raul Cortez.
Regent Theatre
7 Medford Street, Arlington, MA
http://www.regenttheatre.com
Directions

Regina, a lonely 65 year old who works on the neighborhood watch for the police in Copacabana, believes to have witnessed a murder in the building across the street, and ends up getting involved with the suspect in a potentially dangerous chain of events that will force her to take stock of her life.


WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 9, 2009 - 7 PM
Fernando Holz and Soul Brazil Band - Samba and MPB
Framingham Public Library, Costin Room
49 Lexington Street, Framingham, MA
www.framinghamlibrary.org
Directions


THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 10, 2009 - 7 PM
Brazilian Film screening:
“Carlota Joaquina: Princesa do Brasil” (Carlota Joaquina: Princess of Brazil)
Directed by Carla Carmurati. With Marieta Severo and Marco Nanini.
Tabocas Steak House
26 Andover Street, Lowell, MA
http://www.tabocassteakhouse.com
Directions

Carlota Joaquina - Princess of Brazil) is a 1995 Brazilian comedy film directed and written by Carla Camurati. The film shows Charlotte of Spain's saga to conquer her enemies and become a queen. It tells a summarized tale, mixing history with legend, from her childhood until her mythical suicide. The death of the king of Portugal D. Jose I in 1777 and the declaration of D. Maria I’s insanity in 1792, leading his son D. John and his Spanish wife, Carlota Joaquina, to the Portuguese throne. In 1807, to escape from Napoleonic troops, the couple moves to Rio de Janeiro, where the royal family lives in exile for 13 years.


TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 15, 2009 - 7 PM
Brazilian Film screening:
“Villa-Lobos – Uma Vida de Paixão” (Villa-Lobos – A Life of Passion)
Directed by Zelito Viana. With Marcos Palmeira, Antônio Fagundes and Letícia Spiller.
TSAI Auditorium - CGIS Building Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA
http://www.drclas.harvard.edu
Directions

The film tells the story of aging Villa-Lobos going to a gala concert at Rio de Janeiro’s Municipal Theatre for a tribute in his honor. This is the last time he is coming out of his house alive. His looks are feverish and attentive. Different scenes of the concert will bring back memories of his life. Villa-Lobos suffers a great many ordeals: the violence of his father, his mother's sadness, the disaffection of Lucilia, his first wife, the inability to have children, the no acceptance of his art, the possible loss of Mindinha, his great love, the abyss between genius and madness. The pieces of this game recreated chronologically conforms the personality of Villa: energetic and fragile, humble and megalomaniac, amorous and egocentric, brilliant and naive, adventurous and independent, sensitive and brutal.

Free admission in all events.