Fri Feb 19, 6pm Mama Geni’s Brazilian dinner sold sep, 7pm screening.
$8, $6 mbrs, stus, capoeiristas. Stay for Bob Marley’s Birthday – Soul Shakedown Party with Unity Reggae band for $8!
Fundraiser for Pé no Chão's City of Rhyme Music Collective.
A screening of two internationally recognized documentaries from the most violent favelas (slums) in Recife, Brazil. In Favela Rhythms youth examine their walled cities of violence, drugs, and dreams. Three years later, some of the very same youth make City of Rhyme, as they set out to record a rap album condemning this violence and injustice. Discussion follows w/ Gardner, Shaw, and Brazilian youth via webcam. Favela Rhythms, 2005, 30 min. City of Rhyme, 2008, 30 min.
FREE PARKING ('til the snow melts)! M&T Bank lot, 3401 Eastern Avenue, entrance on Highland Ave. Three blocks east of The Patterson, right on Highland, left into lot.
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