Twenty-two reproductions of works by the renowned Brazilian urban artist in the United States are on display. Visa applicants can view the exhibit celebrating the bicentennial of the U.S.-Brazil diplomatic relationship, which will take place in 2024. The U.S. Consulate General in Sao Paulo, located in the district of Santo Amaro, launched a permanent exhibition with 22 panels that reproduce murals made by …
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By U.S. Mission Brazil | 3 March, 2023 | Topics: Art & Culture, Public Affairs, Sao Paulo, U.S. & Brazil
Interested parties may submit proposals until December 20 Brasília, November 14, 2022: The United States Embassy and Consulates in Brazil are pleased to open a call for proposals for the Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation (AFCP) – an initiative that provides financial support for the preservation of cultural heritage and history. Brazilian partners have received …
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By U.S. Mission Brazil | 14 November, 2022 | Topics: Art & Culture, News, Press Releases, Public Affairs, U.S. & Brazil, U.S.-Brazil Priorities
The initiative works with the financing of projects to preserve the Brazilian cultural heritage Brasilia, November 12, 2021: The U.S. Embassy and Consulates in Brazil invite applications for the Ambassador’s Fund for Cultural Preservation (AFCP), an initiative that seeks to finance individual projects to preserve Brazil’s cultural heritage. Proposals must be submitted by November …
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By U.S. Mission Brazil | 12 November, 2021 | Topics: Art & Culture, Embassy, Press Releases
Registration for the program is open until March 10 Brasilia, February 10, 2021: Registration for the OneBeat music exchange, promoted by the U.S. Department of Education and Culture, in partnership with Found Sound Nation of New York, is open until March 10. The program will digitally convene 70 musicians from up to 44 countries in …
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By U.S. Mission Brazil | 10 February, 2021 | Topics: Art & Culture, Press Releases, Public Affairs
Training program for young screenwriters is the first initiative to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Fulbright program in the world and aims to give voice to underrepresented segments in the audiovisual industry Brasilia, November 19, 2020: The U.S. Embassy and Consulates, in partnership with the Fulbright Commission in Brazil, launch the Fulbright Course for …
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By U.S. Mission Brazil | 19 November, 2020 | Topics: Art & Culture, Education, Press Releases, Scholarships and Exchanges, Study in the U.S., U.S.-Brazil Priorities
The program will help teachers explore alternative teaching methods The U.S Embassy, in partnership with Belo Horizonte’s City Hall, will carry out an online training program for 30 teachers from the municipal public school system. The initiative, called English Language Specialist, will start online activities on September 2nd and will last for eight weeks. …
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By U.S. Mission Brazil | 2 September, 2020 | Topics: Art & Culture, Belo Horizonte, Education, News, Press Releases, U.S. & Brazil
During the visit by President Bolsonaro to Washington, Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation Marcos Pontes and State Department Deputy Assistant Secretary Jon Piechowski met with fourteen researchers impacted by the National Museum of Brazil fire. The researcher were conducting research at the National Museum in Rio de Janeiro and lost their work in the …
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By U.S. Mission Brazil | 19 March, 2019 | Topics: Art & Culture, Education, Featured Event, News, U.S.-Brazil Priorities | Tags: #BolsonaroVisit
U.S. Consulate and Cinemateca Capitólio will screen feature films and documentaries in free sessions from March 26 to April 2 Porto Alegre celebrates its anniversary on March 26 and the U.S. Consulate decided to honor the city and its residents with a free showcase of films at the most iconic movie theater of Porto Alegre, …
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By U.S. Mission Brazil | 19 March, 2019 | Topics: Art & Culture, Events, News, Porto Alegre, Press Releases, Public Affairs
Fifty public high school students from all parts of Brazil will return from the United States on February 3, after participating in the 17th exchange of the Youth Ambassadors Program.
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By U.S. Mission Brazil | 31 January, 2019 | Topics: Art & Culture, Education, Embassy, English Learning, News, Notification, Press Releases, Public Affairs, Scholarships and Exchanges, Study in the U.S., U.S. & Brazil, Youth Ambassadors
Rio de Janeiro, December 20, 2018 – The U.S. Diplomatic Mission in Brazil, the Fulbright Commission and the Smithsonian Institution announced on December 17, an emergency exchange program for 14 researchers whose research was interrupted by the fire at the National Museum in Rio de Janeiro, last September. In 2019, they will travel to the …
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By U.S. Mission Brazil | 20 December, 2018 | Topics: Art & Culture, Consul General, Education, Events, Rio de Janeiro, Scholarships and Exchanges, U.S. & Brazil
On July 18, 2018, 60 recipients of the English Access Microscholarship Program visited U.S. Embassy Brasília for an afternoon-long Intensive Session. Students from Taguatinga, DF participated in this event, one of many occurring during the month of July throughout Brazil – in Salvador, BA; Recife, PE; Franca, SP; Belém, PA; and Uberlândia and Belo Horizonte, …
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By U.S. Mission Brazil | 18 July, 2018 | Topics: Art & Culture, Education, Embassy, English Learning, News, Public Affairs, U.S. & Brazil
Students from the art classes at the American School of Brasilia (EAB) and the School of Nations (EDN) participated in an Earth Day art contest organized by the U.S. Embassy’s Green Team, as an initiative to promote greater awareness of the importance of recycling to protect the oceans and environment.
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By U.S. Mission Brazil | 3 May, 2018 | Topics: Art & Culture, Chargé D’Affaires, Deputy Chief of Mission, Environment, News
The United States Diplomatic Mission to Brazil brings to Salvador, Belo Horizonte, Ouro Preto, Porto Alegre, and Brasilia, from May 1 to 14, the gospel band “Oscar Williams & the band of Life.”
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By U.S. Mission Brazil | 25 April, 2018 | Topics: Art & Culture, Belo Horizonte, Embassy, Events, News, Porto Alegre, Press Releases, U.S. & Brazil
The U.S. Consulate General in São Paulo launches a photo contest “What do you like the most about the United States?” sponsored by the U.S. Department of State. The two winning photos will be published as cover pages for the Consulate’s page on Facebook, and the authors of the photos will each win as a …
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By U.S. Mission Brazil | 25 January, 2018 | Topics: Art & Culture, News, Public Affairs, Sao Paulo
Researchers and fans of Brazilian chapbooks have another option to get information about this popular genre of Brazilian culture online. Since February 2017, the US Library of Congress, through its office in Rio de Janeiro, has provided a digital collection on the subject – the Brazil Cordel Literature Web Archive.
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By U.S. Mission Brazil | 30 March, 2017 | Topics: Art & Culture, News, Press Releases, Rio de Janeiro
On February 27, cultural heritage professionals from Brazil, Colombia, Ghana, Jamaica, Mozambique, Senegal, Sierra Leone, and South Africa will gather in Charleston, South Carolina for a Department of State sponsored workshop on the protection of sites and antiquities associated with the trans-Atlantic slave trade.
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By U.S. Mission Brazil | 23 February, 2017 | Topics: Art & Culture, History, News, Public Affairs
Rio de Janeiro, August 18, 2016 – On August 9, Consul General James Story participated in the opening of Olympic and Paralympic Exhibit, “Design & Utopia of the Games,” at the Sebrae Reference Center for Brazilian Craft (Centro Sebrae de Referência do Artesanato Brasileiro – CRAB). The cultural production company M’Baraká created the exhibit featuring Olympic and Paralympic design items from …
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By U.S. Mission Brazil | 18 August, 2016 | Topics: Art & Culture, Consul General, News, Rio de Janeiro | Tags: accessibility, design&utopia, libras, sebrae
Rio de Janeiro, July 8, 2016 – U.S. filmmaker Deborah Riley Draper and Hollywood star Blair Underwood visited Rio de Janeiro between June 27 and 30, 2016, to participate in the Brazilian première of the film Olympic Pride, American Prejudice. Directed by Draper and narrated by Underwood – also executive producer of the film –, Olympic …
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By U.S. Mission Brazil | 8 July, 2016 | Topics: Art & Culture, Consul General, Events, News, Public Affairs, Rio de Janeiro, U.S. & Brazil | Tags: 4July, Draper, OlympicPrideAmericanPrejudice, Underwood
Good music straight from Nashville to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the founding of Belém! In spite of being born without his left forearm, Tony Memmel learned how to play the guitar all by himself after building his own model of adhesive tape to fix a peak to his arm. Ain’t that cool? If you …
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By U.S. Mission Brazil | 14 May, 2016 | Topics: Art & Culture, Embassy, Events, Public Affairs, U.S. & Brazil
Independent U.S. film directors Lacy Schwartz and Ramona Diaz visited Recife on the first stop of the Mission’s American Film Showcase (AFS) Program. During two days in Recife, the filmmakers screened their documentaries and talked to students about movie industry. Lacey’s film Little White Lie, an autobiographical account of her own path to discovering her …
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By U.S. Mission Brazil | 11 March, 2016 | Topics: Art & Culture, Events, Public Affairs, Recife
The U.S. Consulate of São Paulo celebrated Black History Month on February 25-26 with two special commemorative events. On Thursday, February 25th the Consul General provided opening remarks for a Consulate wide event highlighting the origins of Black History Month in America and the contributions of African-Americans to society. The event took the theme further …
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By U.S. Mission Brazil | 29 February, 2016 | Topics: Art & Culture, Events, Public Affairs, Sao Paulo, Social Inclusion
New York-based Rock/classical fusion band Break of Reality (Patrick Laird, Meta Weiss and Andrew Janss – celli; Ivan Trevino – percussion) performed sold-out concerts in Rio de Janeiro with the Brazilian Symphony Orchestra (OSB), led by U.S. conductor Lee Mills. On August 11, the quartet played a mix of American and Brazilian music accompanied by …
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By U.S. Mission Brazil | 14 August, 2015 | Topics: Art & Culture, Events, Rio de Janeiro
As part of the celebration of the 200 Year Anniversary of the U.S. Consulate General in Recife, American Opera singer Frieda Gebert visited the city of Recife to provide two and a half weeks of training and master classes for 25 singers from seven states of Brazil. The classes were part of the forth edition …
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By U.S. Mission Brazil | 31 July, 2015 | Topics: Art & Culture, Events, Recife
In a partnership between the U.S. Consulate General of São Paulo and the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (PUC/RS) Institute of Culture, on July 10, 2015, U.S. Conductor Zvonimir Hacko, Director of the Oregon Music Festival and Artistic Director of the Austrian Symphony Orchestra, and violinist Carla Trynchuk, international soloist and Professor …
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By U.S. Mission Brazil | 16 July, 2015 | Topics: Art & Culture, Events, Sao Paulo
The U.S. Consulate General in Rio de Janeiro brought a renowned U.S. hip hop choreographer, dancer and dance instructor, Bryan Tanaka, to interact with Brazilian and international dancers at Rio de Janeiro Hip Hop Kemp (Rio H2K), the largest international street dance festival in Brazil. Bryan Tanaka, who is famous for having choreographed and danced …
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By U.S. Mission Brazil | 24 June, 2015 | Topics: Art & Culture, Events, Rio de Janeiro
Nearly 100 young musicians from the State of Sao Paulo Youth Symphony Orchestra made their U.S. debut in March, the first time a Brazilian orchestra has ever performed in Washington. Ambassador Ayalde was there to welcome them at their first stop at DC’s Kennedy Center, as part of theIberian Suite: global arts remix festival. Two …
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By U.S. Mission Brazil | 22 April, 2015 | Topics: Ambassador, Art & Culture, Events, Sao Paulo
R.J. Cooper award-winning chef shares North American cuisine at events in Belo Horizonte, São Paulo, and Rio de Janeiro From April 17-28, the United States Diplomatic Mission in Brazil is sponsoring the visit of U.S. celebrity chef R.J. Cooper to Belo Horizonte, São Paulo, and Rio de Janeiro, to share his award-winning interpretation of North …
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By U.S. Mission Brazil | 17 April, 2015 | Topics: Art & Culture, Belo Horizonte, News, Public Affairs, Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo
The U.S. Consulate General in Sao Paulo Public Affairs Officer Rakesh Surampudi spoke at the opening ceremony of the “International Seminar: Museum, Migration and Identities,” which took place March 26-28 at the Museum of Immigration . The initiative was organized by the Immigration Museum in partnership with the U.S. Consulate General in São Paulo, with support from the British …
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By U.S. Mission Brazil | 8 April, 2015 | Topics: Art & Culture, Events, Sao Paulo
The U.S. Consulate General in Recife scheduled a series of activities in the capital of Pernambuco state with the American violinist Francesca Anderegg. The musician gave a free concert accompanied by Recife’s Orquestra Criança Cidadã (OCC) at the Luiz Mendonça Theatre in Dona Lindu Park, a recital at Oficina Brennand, and shared even more experiences with the young OCC …
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By U.S. Mission Brazil | 7 April, 2015 | Topics: Art & Culture, Events, Recife
International Conference on Immigration Museums 10:00 a.m., Thursday, March 26, 2015 Good morning. Thank you for that warm introduction. I’m so happy to welcome you to this conference. This event and the photography exhibit that opens here tomorrow represent the strong relationship between Ellis Island and the Sao Paulo Immigration Museum – a project that …
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By U.S. Mission Brazil | 1 April, 2015 | Topics: Art & Culture, Events, Public Affairs, Sao Paulo
Today, the United States and Brazil represent the two largest democracies in the Western Hemisphere, but we also share a common immigration heritage. Both countries welcomed millions of immigrants from around the world at the turn of the 20th century; and both Ellis Island in New York and the Hospedaria dos Imigrantes (Immigrants’ House) in …
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By U.S. Mission Brazil | 1 April, 2015 | Topics: Art & Culture, Events, Sao Paulo
American violist Jennifer Stumm, known internationally as one of the most innovative solo artists of her generation, performed and taught at the 33rd Curitiba Music Workshop, through the support of the United States Consulate in Sao Paulo. Teaching viola to music students from all over Brazil and Latin America January 9-15, Stumm also performed before …
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By U.S. Mission Brazil | 23 January, 2015 | Topics: Art & Culture, Events, Sao Paulo
The Consulate General of the United States of America in Sao Paulo, in partnership with the Souza Lima Music Academy and the renowned Berklee School of Music collaborated on the third intensive jazz improvisation course “Berklee on the Road,” or BOR, November 19-22 in Sao Paulo. Berklee music professors worked with Souza Lima professors to …
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By U.S. Mission Brazil | 8 January, 2015 | Topics: Art & Culture, Events, Sao Paulo
To celebrate Black Awareness Day and the 40th anniversary of the Curitiba Camerata Antigua, the United States Consulate General in Sao Paulo brought to Brazil American singer, pianist, composer and conductor Diane White-Clayton, known as Dr. Dee, who introduced African American spirituals to audiences and musicians in Sao Paulo and Curitiba. Dr. Dee’s first stop …
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By U.S. Mission Brazil | 23 December, 2014 | Topics: Art & Culture, Events, Sao Paulo
The 2014 edition of Feira Preta, the largest Afro-Brazilian culture fair in Brazil, took place December 2-7 in São Paulo, drawing over 18,000 visitors and over 100 exhibitors including artists, civil society organizations and entrepreneurs, among others. The U.S. Consulate supported the December 3 seminar on production in the creative industry at the Social Service …
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By U.S. Mission Brazil | 22 December, 2014 | Topics: Art & Culture, Events, Sao Paulo, Social Inclusion
“A Journey through the African Diaspora,” a project that brought together public school students of African descent in the United States and Brazil to examine questions of race and identity, has been recognized by the Municipality of Sao Paulo for promoting a culture of human rights in municipal schools, receiving a second place award from …
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By U.S. Mission Brazil | 22 December, 2014 | Topics: Art & Culture, Events, Human Rights, Sao Paulo, Social Inclusion
