Tuesday, May 6, 2008

Falling for São Paulo

I ended up not putting the videos I have made during the culture marathon of São Paulo. It is not that important. The youtube is full of videos of it, if someone wants to check.

What is important is that I decidedly started to enjoy this amazing city. Yesterday, monday night, I went to the theatre to see a play from Colombia called "El paso". It is taking part of the Latin American THeatre Festival that is happening here this week. The place is the Centro Cultural São Paulo, which is a 10 minutes walk from here and the tickets are free. So yesterday I arrived there an hour and a half before the show and manage to get a ticket.

The presentation was good, especially the way it ended. It was one of those plays that give you a delayed pleasure. I mean: you enjoy it during the presentation, but not as much as you enjoy the last minutes and the afterplay.

Still yesterday, I decided to take part in a course at the "Oficina da Palavra Casa Mário de Andrade" (something like: Office of the Word, House of Mário de Andrade, which is a famous classical Brazilian author). It is a course entitled "wathcing the city" and is coordenated by a blogger that use to read sometimes. It happens every tuesday night starting today until june. I think it will be quite fun.

And friday, there will be Rufus. Not bad!

Here it is a video of the controlled caos caused by a french group walking aimlessly in the streets of downton São Paulo:


And some photos of that night as well:

This is the building of the best Law Faculty of the country, which was transformed into a rave


1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I know you would fall for SAMPA! And I wished you to... It sucks when we don´t like the place we live!