Virada Cultural: Don’t Sleep São Paulo!

May 15th - May 16th in São Paulo Brazil is the Virada Cultural, the night where the city doesn’t sleep to enjoy activities all night long. Various venues are set up throughout the downtown areas with stages for concerts, dance areas with reggae, samba rock, and Brazilian hip-hop.  Artists create light shows on buildings, circus performers do special high wire acts between skyscrapers and street performers are everywhere in between. Food vendors and restaurants stay open all night as well as some grocery stores to keep the party going by supplying snacks throughout the night. Other venues also take part. Movie theaters create special screenings with themes like “Culinary Cinema” and “Horror Films” and charge just $1 Reais ($0.50 USD) to enter.

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Street Film

Do you know your city so well that you can capture the small moments that define your city? A Brazilian duo known as Cinema de Rua in São Paulo, Brazil capture the essence of the city in their short films. They take video footage of the most mundane scene- the rainfall, apartment buildings, plastic and turn it into short visual poems. The concept is interesting because it is not made with an objective of tourism so it shows that city for what it really is and I would love to see others do the same thing about their cities.

Here are a few of their films: The Rain, The Plastic Bag and Video Graphite. More are available on their blog Cinema de Rua.

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