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2003 EventsThe Afro Brazilian Movement: New Challenges in 2003 and Beyond- CANCELLED Panelists:
Vovo Antonio Carlos dos Santos--Vovo, as he is internationally known--is founder and creator of the Cultural Association Carnival Group Ile Aiye, along with the late Apolonio de Jesus. Vovo went to college for a degree in Electromechanical Engineering. Before he decided to exclusively work and preside as administrator for Ile Aiye and it's band, he was an operator at CEMAN and COBAFE in the Oil Company of Bahia in 1976-1981. The contributions of Vovo are innumerable for the affirmation of African culture in Brazil. He produced Ile Aiye's four CD's, and was the coordinator of Liberdade's Carnival festivities from 1989-1992. He coordinated Salvador, Bahia's Carnival in 1996. He has produced national and international events with artists hosted by Ile Aiye. Vovo was a member of the Organizing Commission that brought Nelson Mandela to Brazil. Vovo was a member of the Official Committee of the Cultural Interchange Bahia-Benin, consulter for the creation of Afro-Brazilian carnival groups in Rio de Janeiro, Maranhao and Sao Paulo. He was responsible for the Project of Pedagogic Extension and for the Professional School of Ile Aiye. He is also actually a member of the Work Organization for the Valorization of the Black Population in Brasilia, and is a member of the Coordination of the Forum of Culture, among others. With his return to working for uplifting the Black population and it's civil rights, and by doing this through political/cultural manifestations as the carnival group Ile Aiye, the Band Aiye, the School of Mae Hilda, the Project of Pedagogic Extension, the Band' Ere, the Professional School and others. Vovo has accumulated awards and is known through out Brazil and the world. Vovo will be talking about the fight to create Ile Aye and keep it a traditional afoxe in spite of the commercialization of carnival in Bahia and the political situation that typifies Bahia and Salvador. Recent Gains for the Afro-Brazilian Movement-What are the Next
Steps? Prof. J. Michael Turner is Director of the Latin American
and Caribbean Studies Program (LACS) at Hunter College-CUNY. Continued
Ford Foundation financing has permitted LACS and the Global Afro-Latino
and Caribbean Initiative (GALCI) to maintain advocacy programs for Afro
Latino groups in an effort to decrease their historic marginality throughout
the Western Hemisphere. At the same time, Turner continues his democracy/governance
development activities for the U.S. Agency for Development in Mozambique.
He is currently researching contemporary local governance issues and
development challenges within that new post-war Southern Africa democracy.
When: Tuesday September 2, 2003, 5:00pm To reserve, send e-mail to brazilproject@gc.cuny.edu or leave message
at (212) 817-2096
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