Esse episódio apresenta o sociólogo Ruy Braga e o artista circense Jonatas Campelo numa conversa sobre seus pontos de vistas sobre a produção artística nas periferias das cidades de São Paulo e Salvador da Bahia, respectivamente. Jamie Lee Andreson modera a conversa que foi gravada pessoalmente na Universidade Estadual da Pensilvânia (Pennsylvania State University) em janeiro de 2023, quando o doutor Ruy Braga estava em residência como professor visitante. Discute os temas como a construção de identidades periféricas, as periferias urbanas como centros da produção cultural brasileira, e os des ..read more

This episode features the Sociologist Ruy Braga and the performance artist Jonatas Campelo as they discuss their points of view on artistic production in the Brazilian peripheries of São Paulo and Salvador da Bahia, respectively. This conversation moderated by Dr. Jamie Lee Andreson occurred in person at the Pennsylvania State University in January 2023, when Dr. Ruy Braga was in residence as a visiting professor. The topics discussed include the making of peripheral identities, the urban peripheries as the centers of Brazilian cultural production, and the long-standing challenges for popular ..read more

In this episode we host the cultural director of the Portela Samba School Rogério Rodrigues Santos to talk about Portela’s production and history in the periphery of Rio de Janeiro. We discuss the centennial history of the School and its origins in the Oswaldo Cruz neighborhood, where Rogério accompanied the development of the school since the 1970s. He also created the project www.portelaweb.org as a digital archive of Portela that presents their main figures and annual samba stories. We reflect on the politics of culture and the current cultural scene in Brazil to consider the theme of our s ..read more

Nesse episódio recebemos o diretor cultural da Escola de Samba Portela, Rogério Rodrigues Santos, para falar sobre a produção cultural da Portela e sua história na periferia do Rio de Janeiro. Conversamos sobre a história centenária da escola e suas origens no bairro de Oswaldo Cruz, onde o entrevistado acompanhou o desenvolvimento da escola desde a década de 1970. Rogério também criou o projeto www.portelaweb.org como um acervo digital da Portela que apresenta suas personagens e enredos principais. Refletimos sobre as políticas de cultura e o cenário cultural atual no Brasil para pensar o tem ..read more

Esse episódio especial é uma colaboração entre Conexões Culturais Brasil e Break the Boxes Stories. Jamie Lee Andreson, Ph.D. modera a conversa com Azmera Hammouri-Davis, MTS, que entrevista seu primeiro professor de capoeira Cleber Sousa de Santos, conhecido como Mestre Peti. Mestre Peti é um pai, um irmão e um líder internacional da capoeira que ao longo das últimas três décadas leva seus trabalhos da sua cidade natal de Salvador da Bahia à várias regiões do mundo. Azmera começou seus treinamentos com Mestre Peti quando tinha sete anos na Praia Pompano na Flórida, EUA, e ela continua a apren ..read more

This special episode is a collaboration between Brazil Culture Connections and Break The Boxes Stories. Jamie Lee Andreson, Ph.D. cohosts with Azmera Hammouri-Davis, MTS, who interviews her original Capoeira instructor, Cleber Sousa de Santos, Mestre Peti. Mestre Peti is a father, brother and an international master of Capoeira who's taken his craft from his home city of Salvador da Bahia to various parts of the world over the last three decades. Azmera began learning from Mestre Peti when she was seven years old in Pompano Beach, Florida, and has continued to learn from him ever since. Mestre ..read more

This episode is the launch of our second season “Art and Culture on the Peripheries.” In this series we concentrate on urban contexts through conversations with cultural producers working in the Brazilian peripheries. For this episode “The Scream of the Streets” we talked in person with the visual and grafitti artist Eder Muniz, known in the streets of Salvador as Calangoss. Eder Muniz shares his journey as a young Black man growing up in his neighborhood and how street art freed him from oppressive structures to become a global artist known for his images and messages left in every part of hi ..read more

Neste último episódio da nossa primeira temporada, Baianas em Foco, recebemos a entrevistadora convidada Dra. Vanessa Castañeda para realizar a entrevista com Tânia Pereira de Jesus, uma Baiana de acarajé e Iyalorixá Toya. Tânia apresenta sua trajetória como Baiana de tabuleiro, a herança religiosa do acarajé e as diferenças entre o acará de terreiro e o acarajé do tabuleiro. Elas conversam sobre ABAM – a Associação de Baianas de Acarajé e a articulação das Baianas nas políticas de cultura no Brasil, considerando as conquistas passadas e os desafios atuais da pandemia ..read more

The final episode in our first season Baianas em Foco features guest host Dr. Vanessa Castañeda as she interviews the Baiana de acarajé and Candomblé priestess Tânia Pereira de Jesus. In this English language episode the creator Dr. Jamie Lee Andreson speaks with Dr. Castañeda about her years of research experience, collaboration and activism with the Baianas de acarajé in Salvador, Bahia. Baianas are street vendors, generally older, Black women, who sell various foods associated with the city of Salvador; the most famous of which is acarajé, a black-eyed pea fritter fried in palm oil with ori ..read more

This fifth episode features the samba master Dona Nildes Bomfim and her daughter Mileide Bomfim – two important women keeping alive the samba de roda traditions from their state of Bahia.Dona Nildes and Mila are not just musicians, singers and dancers, they are producers, directors and administrators. We discuss their samba group Espermacete, which is not just about music, but also community, social service, family traditions and preserving generational knowledge ..read more