22 episodes

Brazil Culture Connections features interviews with Brazilian artists and cultural leaders, connecting through the pandemic. The podcast offers content not represented in the English language mainstream media to engage with the Brazilian context through candid discussions with artists and leaders on the ground.

Brazil Culture Connections Jamie Andreson

    • Arts
    • 5.0 • 9 Ratings

Brazil Culture Connections features interviews with Brazilian artists and cultural leaders, connecting through the pandemic. The podcast offers content not represented in the English language mainstream media to engage with the Brazilian context through candid discussions with artists and leaders on the ground.

    Arte popular como ferramenta política

    Arte popular como ferramenta política

    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 desafios que os artistas populares passam em conseguir direitos e recursos necessários para a produção artística devido o estado burocrático.

    • 1 hr 6 min
    Popular art as a political tool

    Popular art as a political tool

    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
    artists to secure the rights and resources they need to produce given a strict state bureaucracy.

    • 18 min
    The Portela Samba School: pedagogy and power from the block

    The Portela Samba School: pedagogy and power from the block

    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 second season, Art and Culture on the Peripheries

    • 20 min
    A Escola de Samba Portela: pedagogia e potência no seu território-berço

    A Escola de Samba Portela: pedagogia e potência no seu território-berço

    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 tema da segunda temporada, Arte e Cultura nas Periferias. 

    • 52 min
    Capoeira na Diáspora

    Capoeira na Diáspora

    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 aprender com ele desde então. Com experiência treinando mais que 6.000 alunos, em 2020 Mestre Peti fundou a Escola Cultural Bantos Capoeira em seu bairro de Cosme de Farias. Ele descreve a importância cultural da capoeira como uma ferramenta de mudança social na sua comunidade, e a disciplina física, emocional, mental e espiritual que a capoeira cultiva. Azmera reflete sobre o significado histórico dessa arte marcial Afro-Brasileira, e como capoeira lhe fornece “os frutos do espírito” através de uma comunidade poderosa global comprometida com a transformação social.

    • 52 min
    Capoeira in the Diaspora

    Capoeira in the Diaspora

    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 Peti founded the Bantos Cultural Capoeira School in 2020, having trained over 6,000 students respectively. He describes the cultural importance of using Capoeira as a vehicle for social change in the community of Cosme de Farias, and the physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual discipline Capoeira cultivates. Azmera reflects on the historical significance of this Afro-Brazilian martial art, and how Capoeira has provided her with “fruits of the spirit” through a powerful community around the world committed to social transformation.

    • 58 min

Customer Reviews

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9 Ratings

9 Ratings

Intersting women ,

Brazil Culture Connections

The women that are being interviewed in this podcast are very inspiring, I find they work to do beautiful. I am happy to be able to hear their story of their work in Portuguese and English, it creates a great duality. I find it interesting how different the story can be when told from the women themselves for from Jamie Lee, the English speaking podcast producer.

Camille Bieber ,

Brazilian culture

I have always wondered about Brazilian cultures and felt like I was left out of the loop because I can’t speak Portuguese. So the English episodes make me feel included in the discussions!! I enjoy when there are Portuguese quotes in the English episodes so I can understand them in context.

mikaylakohanski ,

Insightful bilingual podcast

This in information that I cannot find anywhere else! It gives so much insight and information about the Brazilian culture. It is great to listen to during car rides!!

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