As you can see, SambaMax got a lot of attention. A LOT! You can be as enthusiastic as you want to ;) Snapshot of the bride on which people were watching It is essential for Caipirinhas that there are ice. LOTS of ice! Small parade A small bateria

On the 7th September 1822 Brazil announced its”Independence Day”. As history tells us, Portugal reigned over Brazil and it was actually the King of Portugal (Dom Pedro I, nicknamed “the Liberator”) who declared in the ‘Grito do Ipiranga’: “By my blood, by my honor and by God: I will make Brazil free.” Now that is a man of his word. No need to tell that Brazilians are masters in celebrating. They are usually having big parades on the 7th.   September and this year is no exception. The parade counts this year 6321 people divided among 4664 military and 1657 civilians. It is starting with the passage of historic flags , followed by the first group to be the Ex-Combatants of the armed force followed by the ‘Marinha do Brasil’ (the Navy), the Army, the Airforce, the Military Police, the Salvamar (Coast Guard) and last but not least schools and civil institutions. All by all a powerful commemoration of a historic event. Written by  Marie-Julie de Meyere

The World of Jorge Amado/ Jorge Amado and the World  A day of literary and cultural reflections marking the  100th anniversary of Jorge Amado’s birth  The British Library Conference Centre - 8 June 2012  Writer João Ubaldo Ribeiro, Kenneth Maxwell (Harvard University) Writer João Ubaldo Ribeiro, Kenneth Maxwell (Harvard University), Mark Sabine (University of Nottingham) Anthropologist Roberto Damatta (Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro) Anthropologist Roberto Damatta (Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro), Ana Maria Machado (Academia Brasileira de Letras ) and David Treece (King’s College London) Fernanda Gláucia Pinto (foreign lector at Aarhus University), Anthropologist Roberto Damatta ( Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro) , Vinicius M. de Carvalho (lector at Aarhus University) Vinicius M. de Carvalho (lector at Aarhus University)/ Fernanda Gláucia Pinto (foreign lec