The history of a Brazilian Martial Art

Talk by Master Marcio Mendes

Tuesday, November 24 @ 3 pm

TF 102 - Teefy Hall (57 Queen’s Park Crescent East) University of Toronto

Free Attendance / Talk in English

Capuera or capoeira? Is it a dance? A fight? Or a game? Has it begun in Africa or Brazil? In this talk you will have an overview about different aspects of capuera: its definition, history, music and movements. We will go through a short journey about where and when it all began. In 2014 UNESCO acknowledge it as an Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. We will also discuss on the way the movements define their styles from ancient to modern ones such as TRECIRAL.

Master Márcio Mendes is from Belém, Amazon Region in Brazil. In Canada since 1999, Mendes has given classes, performances, and lectures in several universities including Canada, England, Angola, Mozambique, Germany, Australia, Trinidad & Tobago, Turkey and Portugal. Mendes holds a MA in Fine Art from York University and currently pursuing a philosophy degree. He published a book on TRECIRAL technic created based on capuera and Afro-Brazilian religion movements.

Monday, 19 October 2015

Imagine the Truth: Jacinto Lucas Pires

Jacinto Lucas Pires was born in Porto in 1974 and now lives in Lisbon. He is a writer, playwright, musician, and soccer aficionado. Several translations of his short prose recently appeared in an issue of The St. Petersburg Review, made by Jaime Braz and Dean Thomas Ellis.

This contemporary Portuguese writer is a keen observer of the quotidian. Like a gifted photographer, he seizes fragments in the people, places, and objects surrounding us, asking how can this be? He follows the wandering thought and unlikely possibility, tracks curious trajectories, and probes them until they bloom into singular narratives.

In this talk, he invites us to deepen our knowledge of the construction of reality, in fictional texts.

FREE ADMISSION

October 26th, 2015
Victoria College, VC 212
(91 Charles st.)
1 pm - 2 pm