Articles tagged with: Amazon
Rare Amazon and Northern folk music from the 30s
Poet and novelist Mário de Andrade is normally associated with the avant-garde Modernist movement that flourished in Brazil in the …
Pororoca surfing in the Amazon
Pororoca is a tidal bore that occurs in the mouth of the Amazon river in the months of February and …
Photographic dialogue between two Amazonian teens
Two Amazonian teenagers that never met exchange experimental photos of their daily life. This is “Meu Mundo Teu”, a poetic …
The Amazon drums of Trio Manari
The very inventive percussion Trio Manari was founded in 2001 in the Northern state of Pará. Márcio Jardim, Nazaco Gomes …
Documentary: How Amazon Natives lose their identities
“Ser ou não ser” is an interesting, awarded 18-minute documentary (with English subtitles), produced and directed last year by Leonardo …
Margaret Mee and the Moonflower: a documentary about the woman who revealed the beauty of the Amazon
British Botanic illustrator Margaret Mee (1909-1988) spent 36 years in Brazil and produced a vast collection of delicate, precise watercolors …
