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YOUTH: THE ART OF TRANSFORMING
Kellogg Foundation 75th Anniversary Latin American
Conference
Partnering with Youth to Build the Future
São Paulo - Brazil
May 30 to June 1, 2005
Latin American Parliament (Parlatino)
The organization of the Youth Festival: The Art of Transforming
during the course of the conference to commemorate the 75th
anniversary of the Kellogg Foundation, bringing together social
projects that draw on a variety of artistic expressions, proposes to
draw attention to the strategic role of art and culture in the
development process.
The results already achieved by these types of initiatives have
identified new directions for public policy and attest to their great
potential appeal for youngsters to express and organize themselves.
Art and culture also play an important role in the processes to shape
identity, strengthen self-esteem, exercise citizenship and respect
diversity, as well as providing possibilities for work and income
generation.
The success of these projects can be seen just as much in rural areas
as in urban centers, in areas of high social risk and in small towns; in
all places sharing a lack of opportunities for today’s youth. It is also
reflected in the revitalization of local development processes in microregions, with an emphasis on restoring and preserving regional
culture. Artistic activities also help strengthen intergenerational
relations by recovering and relaying knowledge and traditions that
are part of a community’s cultural identity.
We hope you enjoy and learn from this unique opportunity.
Andrés Thompson
Program Director for Latin America and the Caribbean
KELLOGG FOUNDATION PRESENTATION / CEPP
PRESENTATION
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The Center for Public Policy Studies – CEPP is very pleased to be
taking part in the organization of the artistic and cultural program of
the conference to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Kellogg
Foundation. This is the first engagement of the Youth Transforming
with Art Program, which is run by CEPP and which will, throughout
2005 with the help of the Kellogg Foundation, develop various
activities in Northeast Brazil, particularly in the micro-regions that
receive the Foundation’s support. These activities include organizing
an Education, Art and Culture Project Database and structuring
mechanisms to promote dialogue exchange and institutional
strengthening.
The conference’s artistic and cultural program includes the Youth
Transforming with Art presentation, with performances by groups
from various regions of Brazil: Afro Reggae, from Rio de Janeiro;
Majê Molê, from Recife, Pernambuco; and Cia. Balé de Rua (Street
Ballet Company), from Uberlândia, Minas Gerais. The São Paulo
percussion group Meninos do Morumbi (Kids from Morumbi) will close
the event. Moreover, young students from the Criar Institute, also
from São Paulo, have been invited to join the production team for this
event.
While providing the conference’s participants and guests with the
high quality performances of these social projects, the program also
proposes to draw attention to the wealth of benefits involved:
personal development and possibilities for economic inclusion,
particularly for youth; the strengthening of institutions; and the
impacts on the communities where these projects are developed.
We are confident that the joy, strength and determination of the
youth performing at the event will demonstrate that it is possible for
them to take center stage and, more importantly, to take control of
their own lives and actively participate in building the future.
Beatriz Azeredo
Director of the Center for Public Policy Studies - CEPP
PROGRAM
ARTISTIC AND CULTURAL LINE-UP
MAY 30 | MONDAY | 8 PM
Cia. Balé de Rua - Uberlândia (Minas Gerais)
MAY 31 | TUESDAY | 7 PM
Banda Afro Reggae – Rio de Janeiro (Rio de Janeiro)
Balé Afro Majê Mole – Recife (Pernambuco)
Cia. Balé de Rua - Uberlândia (Minas Gerais)
JUNE 1 | WEDNESDAY | 5 PM
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Banda Meninos do Morumbi – São Paulo (São Paulo)
OPENING OF THE CONFERENCE
CLOSING OF THE CONFERENCE
LATIN AMERICAN MEMORIAL
BANDA AFRO REGGAE (RIO DE JANEIRO)
The Afro Reggae Cultural Group (GCAR) emerged as the response of
a group of friends to an incident that occurred in the early 90s,
known as the Vigário Geral massacre, in which several people from
this neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro were killed.
Since then, the GCAR has been consolidating its objective to tackle
violence and the risk situations that plague local youth: neglect,
subemployment and drug trafficking. Its leisure and cultural activities
are the elements of interaction and social transformation that enable
youth to recover their self-esteem, nurture the values of citizenship
and acquire new life perspectives. The various programs engage
youth in workshops (dance, percussion, choral music, DJing,
capoeira, graffiti art, soccer) and vocational courses in music and
circus arts. GCAR aims to train youth from the community to work as
cultural and sports instructors, educators, health agents and social
entrepreneurs. It has also developed the Legal Child Project, which
targets children of pre-school age and proposes to secure from
families a commitment to the education of their children.
Today, more than 30% of the organization’s budget comes from its
own revenues (ticket sales from various bands; performances;
lectures) and nearly 100 people, the majority youth from these
communities, be they musicians, artists or educators, have in AfroReggae their opportunity for economic inclusion.
The GCAR also runs the Urban Connections project in partnership
with the Rio de Janeiro City Council, promoting high quality artistic
shows in the region’s shantytowns.
Thirty seven shows have been organized so far, with the participation
of several renowned artists. Over the years, GCAR has acquired
growing recognition: it received the Unesco 2000 Award; it is
supported by artistic celebrities (the singer Caetano Veloso, the
actress Regina Casé and the band Rappa); and it has garnered more
attention from the media, and, primarily, from the residents of
Vigário Geral and Parada de Lucas, besides other communities where
its activities have spread (Cidade de Deus and Morro do Cantagalo).
Among the numerous partner institutions are: Ford Foundation, Rio
de Janeiro City Council, FASE-Federation of Education and Social
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Assistance Organizations, Viva Rio Movement, Credicard Institute,
British and Canadian Embassies, UNESCO, Kellogg Foundation, Cirque
du Soleil, BNDES development bank and Desiderata Institute.
Banda Afro Reggae, which will perform at this youth festival, is a
professional band under contract to Universal Music whose members
all came from the GCAR. Internationally, the band has toured Europe
four times, in 1998, 1999, 2002 and 2004, playing in Paris, Lisbon
and cities in Germany, Holland, Britain and Italy. It has also
performed twice in the United States, in 2000 and 2004, the latter
occasion playing in Carnegie Hall, New York, with Caetano Veloso.
CREDITS
GENERAL DIRECTION | José Junior
VOCALS | Ando; LG
VOCALS AND PERCUSSION | Dinho
PERCUSSION | Altair Martins; Dada; Juninho
BASS | Jairo Cliff
GUITAR | Joel Dias
DRUMS | Cosme
DJ | Magic Julio
PRODUCER | André Cozta
ROADIES | Thiago Neves; Alex Machado
LIGHTING | Celso Rocha
SOUND ENGINEERS | André Nascimento (PA); José Romero (Monitor)
ACTORS | Ana Cristina; Adelson Santos; Piu; Carlos "Fofinho" Souza
ACROBAT | Jorge Luciano
BALÉ AFRO MAJÊ MOLÊ (RECIFE – PERNAMBUCO)
The Majê Molê ballet project pursues social promotion and the
extrication of children and youth from the streets of the Peixinhos
neighborhood, located on the border between the municipalities of
Olinda and Recife, in the state of Pernambuco, Northeast Brazil. The
success of this initiative can be attributed to the dedicated volunteer
work of its founders: choreographer and dancer from the former
company Balé de Arte Negra of Recife, Gilson José Pereira Gomes,
and community health agent Glória Maria Gomes.
The Balé Afro Majê Molê emerged in September of 1997, in the
neighborhood of Peixinhos, when five street performing dancers paid
a light-hearted tribute to Children’s Day. After their performance in
the neighborhood of Água Fria, the girls expressed a desire to
continue dancing, as they led idle lives with little prospect of getting
far in school or integrating into society.
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Inspired by Afro-Brazilian culture, Majê Molê develops choreographies
based on the Candomblé religion and the old Senzala rhythms danced
by plantation slaves, on their history and worshipping rituals, their
work and their traditional festivities. Majê Molê in the Yorubá African
language means ‘children who shine’.
The group receives invitations to perform both in Brazil and abroad,
giving concerts at local and national events, such as Abril Pró-Rock, a
leading pop music festival held annually in Recife, Pernambuco,
where local cultural groups perform. In 2001, Majê Molê embarked
upon a new effort focusing on Afro music, forming the band Rum
Banda, under the guidance of Toca Ogam, a musician from Nação
Zumbi, an established band that originated from the same suburban
region as Magê Molê.
Among its other activities, Majê Molê has its own Afro Ballet School
teaching 20 children from 8 to 12 years of age, as well as a
Percussion School run by the percussionists of Balé Afro Majê Molê.
The production Xenupre Mayn, which means Indian Warrioress
(Indigenous dictionary), pays tribute to the indigenous culture,
although without straying from Majê Molê’s tradition of Afro culture.
CREDITS
CHOREOGRAPHY | Gilson José Pereira Gomes
COORDINATION | Glória Maria da Silva Gomes and Mônica Maria
Soares de Souza
DANCERS | Angélica Lins da Paz; Darlene Mª Gomes da Silva; Edva
Helena do Nascimento; Fernanda Raissa da Silva; Gabrielly dos
Santos Lopes; Gleiciane Souza Barbosa da Silva; Írís Santos da Cruz;
Isís Santos da Cruz; Janaina Santos da Trindade; Juliana Santos da
Trindade; Núbia Ferreira de Andrade; Kassia Carolina Maceste da
Silva; Raniere Gomes do Nascimento; Rafaela Lourentino de Oliveira;
Simone Gomes de Souza
PERCUSSION | Arli Gomes de Lima; Adinã Franklin Barbosa; Gilberto
José dos Santos Filho; Jonathan Cristiano da Silva; Marcilio Souza
Senna
CIA. BALÉ DE RUA (UBERLÂNDIA – MINAS GERAIS)
Being different and having one’s own identity have been the
objectives traced by this street performing group since its creation in
1992. It also rises to another challenge – to build the group into a
dance company that enjoys a position of prestige in Brazilian dance
circles and that offers its members a real possibility of becoming
professional artists.
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This may be a wild, perhaps utopian dream for a street dancing group
made up of local young people from a wide variety of professions:
mechanics, bakers, metalworkers, office boys, cooks, manicurists, car
cleaners, building laborers. They are youth from the suburbs of
Uberlândia who expected little from their future besides basic
survival; they are self-taught artists who never attended any formal
dance school. Their learning was acquired from the school of life,
from their talent, hard work and determination, by overcoming
obstacles and prejudices.
Professionalization came in 2000, after eight years without any form
of support, as a result of the first sponsorship to be issued through
the Minas Gerais State Culture Incentive Law. All the dancers left
their day jobs and were hired to work full-time at the dance
company.
In 2000, the group established a Permanent Street Dance School for
children and teenagers from low-income communities as part of its
New Talents Project. By giving free classes, the project aims to
provide opportunities to the underprivileged, while helping train
dancers and shape citizens. It is through this project, in which 120
youngsters from 8 neighborhoods of the city of Uberlândia
participate, that the company finds the new blood for its cast of
dancers.
In 2002, the company realized another dream. It crossed the Atlantic
in search of new conquests, performing at the 10th Lyon Biennial, in
France, and at the 22nd Festival Oriente Occidente, in Italy. In 2003
and 2004, the performers returned to France for a tour of the
country, in cities such as Paris, Nice and Vaison La Romaine. In April
of 2005, they performed for the first time in Germany, as guest
dances in the “Brasil Move Berlin” festival.
The production E Agora José? (What Now, José?) is inspired by the
poem “José” by Carlos Drummond de Andrade, which paints a picture
of the ordinary man from inland Minas Gerais, his beliefs, customs
and surprises when faced with the modern world.
CREDITS
CHOREOGRAPHY, COSTUMES, SCENERY AND LIGHTING | Marco
Antônio Garcia
MUSICAL RESEARCH | Marco Antônio Garcia and Fernando Narduchi
SOUNDTRACK | “José”: Poem read by Carlos Drummond de Andrade
with musical accompaniment by Billy Forghiery*, Jorge Aragão, João
Mineiro e Marciano, Mestre Ambrósio, Sujeito a Guincho, Luiz
Gonzaga
SOUNDTRACK MIXING AND RECORDING | Fernando Narduchi
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SOUND ENGINEER | Graziano de Carvalho
LIGHTING ENGINEER | Angelo Luiz Lourenço
STAGE TECHNICIAN/PROPERTY MASTER | Reginaldo Soares Cardoso
CO-DIRECTION | Marco Antônio Garcia and José Marciel Silva
BODY CONDITIONING AND GENERAL DIRECTION | Fernando
Narduchi
CAST | Alexandre Bento da Silva; Denner Moreira; Edson Quintiliano;
Guilherme Nascimento de Souza; Jardel Santos Silva; Jhony Marcos
C. Rodrigues; José Marciel Silva; Júlio Cesar Ferreira; Marco Antônio
Garcia; Marcos Paulo Bertoldo; Paulo Edson C. Silva; Paulo Augusto C
dos Santos; Robledo Barbosa Silva; Sandra Mara Silva Gabriel;
Wisney Gomes Mendonça; Diorge Marlon dos Santos
SUPPORT | Uberlândia Municipal Culture Department
SPONSOR | USIMINAS – Minas Gerais State Culture Incentive Law
*(with the kind permission of the composer and the family of Carlos
Drummond de Andrade)
MENINOS DO MORUMBI (SÃO PAULO)
The Meninos do Morumbi Association is comprised of more than 4,000
children and teenagers from the city of São Paulo. The majority live
in the neighborhoods of Campo Limpo, Paraisópolis, Morumbi, Vila
Sônia, Jardim Jaqueline, Real Parque, Caxingui and in the
municipalities of Taboão da Serra and Embu. The group, formed by
Flávio Pimenta in 1996, pursues music as an alternative to the world
of drugs and juvenile delinquency that are widespread in large urban
centers such as São Paulo.
The association develops various activities to complement the artistic
work of the group. Its staff includes psychologists, pedagogues,
teachers of music, computing, dance, theater, singing, soccer, jiujitsu, and tutors who assist with the classes.
The Meninos do Morumbi band has a busy schedule and their concerts
are known for their musical quality. Increasingly sought after for their
performances, the group makes a strong impression on audiences,
playing, dancing and singing more than 20 different arrangements,
including Jongo, Maracatu, Funk, Samba, Maxixe, Aguerê, among
others, setting them apart from any other artistic group.
Music has made these youngsters visible to society. When they
perform, the Meninos do Morumbi are filmed and interviewed, are
given TV and radio air time and command the attention of the written
media. This does wonders for their self-esteem, enabling them to
build new personal histories within a new context. As new types of
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skills emerge in their lives, they begin to enjoy new identities and feel
included as citizens.
Through music, the Meninos do Morumbi give voice to their own
hunger, exclusion and abandonment, to social inequality, and to the
situations of personal and social risk in which they live. Their creation
and performance of musical art surges as a collective cry for
citizenship.
CREDITS
PRESIDENT | Flavio Pimenta
PERCUSSION | (TIMBAL/CONICAL DRUM) Rodrigo Galvão
Shimokawa; Ailton Gonçalves; Julio César dos Santos; Willian
Barboza; Fabio dos Santos; (SURDO/BASS DRUM 1) Denys Alfredo
Mateus da Silva; Jerusa dos Santos; Rharo Pitteli Aldo Simão;
Adriano Calisto; (SURDO 2) Edgar Pareira Neves; Douglas Almeida de
Souza; Danilo de Costa Barboza; Juliana Azzar; (SURDO 3) Romulo
de Araújo; Rafael Abitayo; Tabata Almeida; Danilo Vicente de Paula;
Cláudio Rafael; (SNARE DRUM) Fernando da Silva Marques; Rafael
Alberto; Thamaris Rocha; Leandro da Silva Oliveira; (TAMBOURINE)
Érika Orozimbo; Jonas Ramos; Thiago dos Santos Oliveira; Israel da
Silva Costa; Humberto Moreira da Silva; Luciana Fernandes
SINGING | (1st VOCAL) Cleide Maria; Nathalia Salvado; Michele
Souza; Carolina Borges; Maray Lima; Rafaella Rodrigues; Lais yumi;
Karen Cristina; Daniella Santana; Juliana Aparecida Rodrigues;
(2nd VOCAL) Fernanda Evangelista; Cinthia Thomaz; Bruna Marcela;
Thalita de Moura; Camila de Jesus; Camila Luiz; Vanessa Cardoso;
Miriane Lira; Raquel dos Santos; Nathalia Alves Dantas
SINGING TEACHER | Marcia Naomi Ohtani
KEYBOARD | Rafael Alves Araujo
DANCE | Felipe Tadeu; Gleiber Bonfim; Jeferson de Lima; Renata
Aguiar; Flavia Batista; Tabata Cristina; Tatiane Pedreira; Tatiane
Bezzerra; Bianca Lunelli; Raquel dos Santos; Taiama Marinho; Marcio
Fernando
DANCE TEACHER | Vera Oliveira
CREDITS
ORGANIZATION OF THE YOUTH TRANSFORMING WITH ART
FESTIVAL | Center for Public Policy Studies – CEPP | Angela
Nogueira; Beatriz Azeredo
SUPPORT | Kellogg Foundation
PRODUCTION | ONZE Marketing & Comunicação (with the
participation of young students from the Criar Institute)
VIDEO FILMING | Trip Film | Peter Odor; Marianella Longres
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TEXT TRANSLATION | Mônica YBarra
GRAPHIC DESIGN | DTECH Publicidade
PHOTOS | Mila Petrillo; Ierê Ferreira
KELLOGG FOUNDATION 75TH ANNIVERSARY LATIN AMERICAN
CONFERENCE SUPERVISORY TEAM | Kellogg Foundation Staff |
Kellogg Foundation Consultants: Arturo Jordan; Antonio Nascimento;
Beatriz Azeredo; Bernardo Blejmar; Cacho Bagnasco; Olga Toro;
Rogério Silva; Roseni Sena; Rui Mesquita
CONFERENCE SUPPORT TEAM | Marina Florêncio de Macêdo; Leandro
David Wenceslau; Niédja do Nascimento Nazário; Adriana Correia da
Rocha Dantas; Adriana Gomes de Freitas; Cícero José da Silva;
Edvaldo Pedro da Silva; Jadson Machado de Farias; Janilton Lima dos
Santos; Joaquim José dos Santos; Laudiceia Aguiar da Costa; Márcia
Aurélia Nazário; Nazaré Maria Martins de Santana; Ana Karina
Moraes; Valéria Fernandes; Luciana Almeida; Olivia Martin; Rangel
Arthur
CRIAR INSTITUTE
Youth in training at the Criar Institute participated in the organization
of this event:
PRODUCTION | Gilvania Santos Silva
LIGHTING | Ériton Warley José do Nascimento
SOUND | Camila da Silva Adão
SCENOGRAPHY | Cristiane Rodrigues da Silva
The Criar Institute, founded by the television presenter Luciano Huck,
was established in 2003 with the objective of providing young people
with an all-round education and, primarily, technical vocational
training in various behind-the-scenes areas of television and cinema
to qualify youth for the job market.
Students who participate in Criar Institute workshops live in the
metropolitan area of São Paulo and are selected from the many
youths attended by the social programs of third sector organizations
that are part of the Institute’s Social Allies. Besides meal and
transport vouchers, the youth receive an assistance grant so they can
contribute to the family income without having to abandon their
studies in order to work.