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DESCRIPTION:SF *Brazilian* Portuguese Language (and dancing!) Meetups\n\nRh
 ythmic Uprising\na documentary film about social change in Bahia\n\nScreeni
 ng\, Performance and Discussion\nSaturday\, July 25 2009 3-6pm $7\nMCCLA Th
 eater\n\nPart of the 13th annual Mission Creek Music and Arts Festival\n\nS
 pecial performance by:\nBA*TU*KE\n\n\nRhythmic Uprising is a documentary by
  filmmaker Benjamin Watkins that shows how the transformative powers of Afr
 o-Brazilian performing arts are used to fight racism and inequality in Bahi
 a\, Brazil.\n\nAround the world\, the celebrated Afro-Brazilian region of B
 ahia is known for it's vibrant dance and music manifestations. This film ta
 kes a look behind the scenes of those grandiose carnaval spectacles to see 
 how local cultural leaders utilize these arts to change lives.\n\nBahia boa
 sts the largest concentration of african descendants outside of Africa. As 
 shown in Rhythmic Uprising\, Brazil's blacks have used Afro-Brazilian cultu
 ral conventions to maintain their African heritage and wage war on poverty\
 , racism\, and oppression over the last four centuries. As freed slave comm
 unities called 'quilombos' did during the time of slavery\, cultural leader
 s featured in the film are dismissing the racist\, unbalanced power structu
 res of modern Brazilian society by organizing their own microcosms. They cu
 ltivate social institutions based on equality and African heritage that fun
 ction as refuge for at-risk black youth. In contrast to larger Brazilian so
 ciety\, these groups empower and encourage their youth to pursue brighter f
 utures. \n\nRhythmic Uprising is a Brazil-USA coproduction. Cultural projec
 ts featured in the film include an all-women drum corps named DiDá\, a circ
 us group heavily rooted in Afro-Brazilian expressions named Circo Picolino\
 , a theater group that portrays African myths named Bejé Eró and a Capoeira
  Angola association named ACANNE. Historical Afro-Brazilian cultural conven
 tions featured in the film include capoeira\, candomblé\, quilombos\, afoxê
 s\, and blocos afros.\n\n\nwww.rhythmicuprising.org\nwww.mcmf.org\n\nMissio
 n Cultural Center Latino\n2868 Mission St btwn 24th & 25th Street\nSan Fran
 cisco\, CA 94110\n(415) 821-1155\nmissionculturalcenter.org\n\nSan Francisc
 o\, CA  94101 - USA\n\nSaturday\, July 25 at 3:00 PM\n\nPhoto: http://photo
 s2.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/5/7/0/a/event_922282.jpeg\n\nDetails: http
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