#beagá

[brazilspill]

So, this one time back in 2009 or so I went to the mall with my friends in Belo Horizonte and we wanted to watch a movie. So we bought snacks at the mall and went to the movie theatre and the lady at the box office demanded our ID cards to make sure we were all 14 or older. Fair enough.

"I don't have an ID card," I explained in perfect Portuguese, "I'm a tourist. I moved to Canada when I was 10 and I'm just visiting."

The lady wouldn't believe me.

So we had to go find my mom (who was also at the mall) to come and vouch for me.

Except the lady wouldn't believe her either.

"She's my daughter and she's well over 14, you can't just deny her a ticket for no good reason!"

My mom spent a good 10 minutes arguing with the lady, accusing her of being bigoted because I'm short. (I was actually 18 at the time, but I have a back problem that makes me really short).

The lady said she'd only sell me a ticket if my mom bought herself a ticket too.

A couple days later my friends and I were at the mall again and wanted to watch a movie. The same lady was at the ticket booth. When she asked me for my ID I handed her a copy of my Canadian passport.

She stared at it for a solid 30 seconds before quietly going "You're the one I wouldn't sell a ticket to, aren't you?"

[phelipebreves]

Ser feliz custa pouco! #BeloHorizonte #BH #Beagá #MinasGerais #MG #EmeGê #Brasil #Brazil #PraçaDaLiberdade #Liberdade #NoFilter #A71 #GalaxyA71 #SamsungA71 (em Praça da Liberdade) https://www.instagram.com/p/ChdUeNSrCmn/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[sun-setgiirl]

Não tão abandonado assim.

25.10.23

[tesouspen]

É cada lugar lindo que tem pra eu amar... nunca vou parar de viajar! 😍😍 #BeloHorizonte #Beagá (em Belo Horizonte, Brazil) https://www.instagram.com/p/CpA88kFuCpQ/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[allthebrazilianpolitics]

Brazil's new it-town for Carnival 2024

This year, Brazilians seem to have recognised that the heart of carnival culture is not in Rio, but in little-known Belo Horizonte.

The city of Belo Horizonte is little known outside Brazil. Despite being a state capital and Brazil's sixth-largest city, Beagá, as locals affectionately call it, doesn't have beautiful beaches or colonial architecture to help put it on the map. Until recently, the city didn't even participate in Brazil's much-anticipated carnival season.

However, Belo Horizonte's young Carnival has quickly become one of Brazil's most popular. This year's Carnival (officially from 27 Jan-18 Feb, with the festivities peaking from 9-14 Feb) will see a record number of 5.5 million people celebrating in the city's streets – a figure considerably larger than its resident population. Headline acts, including international superstar Anitta, are also making an appearance for the first time, confirming Beagá as Brazil's hot new Carnival destination. 

It would be difficult to overemphasise how important Carnival is in Brazil. The period of merrymaking leading up to Lent is celebrated in other countries, but nowhere else is it pursued with such enthusiasm as in Brazil. Carnival is also big business: in 2023 it contributed more than R$8,180m (about £1.3bn) to the Brazilian economy.

Rio de Janeiro has traditionally captured almost half of this business and attracted most of the international tourists; its Carnival is the world's largest and most extravagant. Coastal cities like Salvador and Recife also have a strong Carnival tradition, while more recently, Brazil's largest metropolis, São Paulo, has emerged as an important Carnival destination. 

But this year, Brazilians-in-the-know are heading to Belo Horizonte.

Continue reading.

[fernandacmello]

😜 (do meu livro Amar é Punk) #fernandamello #frases #carnaval #poesia #brilho #frasesempoderadoras (em Carnaval Beagá) https://www.instagram.com/p/Co3CX1jOFsc/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[viragfold]

“ESCRIBAS – 1st International Exhibition of Asémic Writing”

The exhibition “ESCRIBAS – 1st International Exhibition of Asemic Writing” is part of the program of the V National Festival of Contemporary Art Beagá Psiu Poético. In a production by the Instituto Imersão Latina in partnership with The Virtual Museum of Visual Poetry, the exhibition will present 26 works by artists from 18 countries, constituting the first international group exhibition of its kind held in Brazil.

            Curated by Tchello d’Barros, the exhibition opens on March 14 at 9 am and at 2 pm there will be a lecture by the curator at the exhibition venue, the UFMG Cultural Center. Visitation takes place until 21.Mar.2023, with free admission.

Participating Artistas:  

ADRIAN DORADO (ARGENTINA) | AYIS KELPEKIS (GREECE) | CHEN LI (CHINA /ITALIA) | CHERYL PENN (SOUTH AFRICA) | DAVE READ (CANADA) | DENIS SMITH (AUSTRALIA) |  DONA MAYOORA (INDIA / USA) |  ENZO PATTI (ITALIA) |  FELICIANO DE MIRA (PORTUGAL) | FERRAN DESTEMPLE (ESPAÑA) | JAIME RGUEZ (ESPAÑA) | JOHN R. MCCONNOCHIE (AUSTRALIA) | KEIGO HARA (JAPAN) | MARCO GIOVENALE (ITALIA) | MIRIAM MIDLEY (ARGENTINA) | MUHAMMAD SHEHZAD MAJEED (PAKISTAN) | NICO VASSILAKIS (USA) | PÉTER ABAJKOVICS (HUNGARY) | ROSAIRE APPEL (USA) | SAMI LIUHTO (FINLAND) | SATU KAIKKONEN (FINLAND) | SERSE LUIGETTI (ITALIA) | STEPHEN NELSON (SCOTLAND) | SVEN STAELENS (BELGIUM)  | TCHELLO D'BARROS (BRASIL) | VOLODYMYR BILYK (UKRAINE)

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Curatorial Text:

CALIGRAPHIC POETICS OF ASÉMIC WRITING

                                                         por Tchello d’Barros*

                                           “Asemic writing seems to be a gigantic, unexplored territory.”

                                                                                                                                                    Tim Gaze

The exhibition “ESCRIBAS – 1st International Exhibition of Asémic Writing” presents a collection of works in images with abstract spellings, in the language that is becoming known as Asémic Writing. The set, made up of creations from different parts of the planet, also reveals the plurality of techniques and resources for the realization of these works, transiting between calligraphy, abstraction, engraving and even Visual Poetry.

This show promoted by Instituto Imersão Latina in partnership with The Virtual Museum of Visual Poetry, features 26 works by artists from 18 countries in the V Beagá Psiu Poético program, setting up the first international collective exhibition of this modality held in Brazil.

Spontaneously arising in different cultures throughout history, consolidated as an artistic language at the end of the 20th century, the Asémic Writing still very rare, has been gaining visibility, whether with exhibitions, publications, epistemological studies or placement on the Internet. This hybrid art, which transits between word and image, survived the typographic tsunami of the digital age, privileging handwriting (mainly), albeit abstract, as an expressive manifestation.

The works are made up of often invented letters, words that keep calligraphic remnants, sentence fragments that form thought-provoking abstract figures, configuring every movement that has thickened its network of supporters on all continents. It is an art free of academic labels, institutional immobilization and shallow public cultural policies for the promotion, collection and dissemination of experimental languages. Drawing, painting, infogravure, collages, digital art, interventions and photographs are just some of the resources present in this type of creations, presented here from a perspective of diversity of styles.

It is said of the works of Asémic Writing, which are purposely emptied of meaning – because they are absent of enunciation or message – which does not prevent them from making sense, from the perception of those who observe, since there is a silent dialogue between such contents and the entire lexical and imagery framework of those who immerse themselves in viewing these images.

Theorists of Art in Expanded Field or Expanded Poetry, usually place Asémic Writing in the broad scope of Experimental Poetry. So, provoking reflections on the poetic phenomenon in aspects that strain the limits of language, questioning aesthetic aspects of the hybridity characteristic of contemporary art and provoke the debate about where the compass of poetic making points in our time, are some of the premises that guided the curatorial process for this show.         

*Tchello d’Barros is writer, visual artist and curador.

Master’s student and researcher about Expanded Art on University UFRJ                                                                                           Rio de Janeiro (RJ), Brasil – March 2023

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Service:

Opening: 09h - 14.Mar.2023

Lecture with curator and production team: 14h

Visits: Terça à sexta-feira: 9h às 20h e

                   sáb. e dom. das 9h às 17h - Até dia 21.Mar.2023

Place: Centro Cultural da UFMG

           Av. Santos Dumont, 174. Centro, Belo Horizonte – Brazil

Coordenation: Grupo Transa Poética | Psiu Poético Beagá

Production and Setup: Instituto Imersão Latina - IMEL

Realization: The Virtual Museum of Visual Poetry

Curator: Tchello d'Barros

Free Admission

Links:

Exhibition “Escribas” at Facebook

Instituto Cultural Imersão Latina

Centro Cultural da UFMG

The Virtual Museum of Visual Poetry

E S C R I B A S I Mostra Internacional de Escrita Assêmica 1st International Exhibition of Asémic Writing

[uimanhosa]

Em qual cidade voce mora?

no momento tô em Belorihills, também conhecida como Beagá 🤠

[anotherseting]

BEAGRIME #008

Partying hard in Beagá

[neliotorresblr-blog]

Bloco CAVALO MARINHO de BEAGÁ convida Circo Marimbondo, no Carnaval de Belo Horizonte. Cortejo e desfile realizado no dia 04.02.2024, foi lindoooo!!! Patrocínio Belotur e Prefeitura de BH.

[pyxisbr-blog-blog]

Nossa Beagá, da série "Entre sem bater".

Beagá são muitas. Melhor lugar não há, para quem gosta de ser belo-horizontino.

#NossaBeaga #Entresembater #CesarMenottieFabiano #126anos

[phelipebreves]

Siga em frente, olhe para o lado, se liga no mestiço, na batida do cavaco... #BeloHorizonte #Beagá #BR #Brasil #Brazil #MinasGerais #MG #EmeGê #A71 #GalaxyA71 #Pampulha #LagoaDaPampulha #NoFilter (em Lagoa da Pampulha) https://www.instagram.com/p/ChXwpPJuU4I/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[sun-setgiirl]

08.10.23 - beagá com carinho

[tesouspen]

Viajo. Logo, quero viajar de novo! 😊 #BeloHorizonte #Beagá (em Belo Horizonte, Brazil) https://www.instagram.com/p/CpAwkAMr5ac/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[sandrazayres]

Viral do Tik Tok,MC Braz invade São Paulo com seu funk no pique de BH

Viral do Tik Tok,MC Braz invade São Paulo com seu funk no pique de BHArtista está divulgando seu álbum “Beagá”, em homenagem a sua cidade natal, que conta com grandes parcerias como Delano e Gaab. Show inédito na capital paulista acontece no sábado, 29 de julho, em festa universitáriaDe “Beagá” para o mundo, MC Braz é o principal representante do funk mineiro e, nesta semana, chega com seu…

[fernandacmello]

{ você é carnaval que nunca tem fim } ✨ #fernandamello #frases #carnaval #poesia #brilho #frasesinspiradoras (em Carnaval Beagá) https://www.instagram.com/p/CozYrfpOm1x/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=