12/11/2008 Opening Exhibition Ment was one big party!

With over two hundred caipirinhas of served at the event and good music to enoy this friday, it didn't take long for Ments exhibition to turn into a big party, Brazilian style. Although the weather was of the well known Dutch style - cold and rainy - the Brazilians represented well and a beautiful mix of languages and cultures illustrated the strength of the cultural exchange those kind of events provoke. Under the visitors where people interested in art, passionate lovers of the Brazilian culture, local graffiti writers of wheight, art-critics and representatives of local media such as Ondergrond TV
who covered the event.

It is important to remember that Ment's exhibition will be open for visitors in the Carhartt-store during the whole month November and that part of the sale of his artworks Ment will donate to the cultural centre named Projeto Queto his crew Nação is buidling in the favela Sampaio in Rio de Janeiro. Those who didn't have the chance to go see Ment's work, still have the chance to check and support a good cause. For those who already have shown up and participated in the event in some way, Dank u wel!!

12/11/2008 Camera Mundo – 2nd Independent Film Festival 2009 – Open for subscription!

After a very successful first edition the Camera Mundo team has been working hard towards the opening of the subscriptions for the 2nd edition of the festival. Independent filmmakers and animators from all over Brazil are asked to send in their work! The deadline is February 28, 2009. To know more about the rules and regulations, visit our Camera Mundo website, www.cameramundo.nl

In 2009 Camera Mundo will be part of a broader program the city of Rotterdam is planning to celebrate the Brazilian Summer of 2009 in Rotterdam. Camera Mundo will take place from 26 to 28 of June 2009.

Besides the film festival, Caramundo is planning several other artistic, cultural and sportive activities including graffiti, photography, workshops, debates and lots of music from Brazil in Rotterdam during the whole summer! So stay tuned and participate!

We are looking forward to everything that’s coming and we hope we can share it with all of you!

 

02/11/2008 The Carhartt-store in Amsterdam will be thorougly brazilianized with the presence of the unique exhibition of the Rio de Janeiro graffiti writer MENT

MENT (31), born and raised in the suburbs of Rio de Janeiro, is active in the Carioca graffiti scene with the crew Nação since 1998. His style differences from his graffiti mates through the figurative and detailed elements he uses, not only on walls all around town, but also on canvas.

Specialized in a combination of bombers (letters) and the typical sceneries of Rio de Janeiro: the endless favelas filling the green city hills with little houses and an enormous mess of electricity and telephone cables – in other words chaos – that is in contrast with high flats and buildings in rich areas of the city, he leaves a critical note to the spectator about the social inequality that marks Brazil.

MENT is respected all over Brazil because he is not only a graffiti writer, but he also teaches kids that grow up in violent circumstances in deprived areas of Rio de Janeiro."

The Exhibiton
It begins at 6:30 p.m. Of course the original caipirinha's of Um Minuto de Silêncio will be served and you can forget the Dutch autumn for a bit, while drinking this tropical cocktail and enjoying the sounds of DJ Lamme Tonnie (Rednose Distrikt)!

Part of the sales of the artworks, MENT donates to the founding of the cultural centre Projeto Queto in the favela Sampaio in Rio de Janeiro. The centre is coordinated by the graffiti crew Nação and gives youth of the area the opportunity to learn graffiti and design. This way they can learn a profession, get inspired by cultural activity and get distracted from a life in crime and drug traffic.

We think it's a good choice to support MENT's cause by investing in his pieces.

MENT Exhibition / Carhartt Store Amsterdam
Friday, 7th of November
Opening 18:30h
Hartenstraat 16
1016 CB Amsterdam