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EducArte’s Brazilian Dance Workshop
2021-12-04 14:00 - 14:45 (America/New_York) | St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church, 4512 College Avenue, College Park, Maryland, 20740
Learn samba from Zezeh, Brazilian dancer, teacher, choreographer, performer, and healer from São Paulo with a mission to bring more joy to the world through art. Zezeh will demonstrate and teach the basics of samba dance.Also stay for our percussion ensemble workshop with André Coelho immediately following the dance workshop!
This is a regularly occurring Brazilian dance workshop hosted by EducArte. All levels are welcome to participate.
This event is free and open to the public. While primarily intended for adults, everyone is welcome. Please note that this will be held at St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church at 4512 College Avenue in College Park, MD.
The event is a program of College Park-based arts non-profit EducArte. Special thanks to event sponsor, the College Park Arts Exchange.

ABRACE weekly music lessons
2021-12-04 10:30 - 12:00, 2021-11-20 10:30 - 12:00, 2021-11-13 10:30 - 12:00, 2021-10-30 10:30 - 12:00, 2021-10-23 10:30 - 12:00, 2021-10-16 10:30 - 12:00 | McLean High School, 1633 Davidson Rd, McLean, VA, 22101, United States
For ABRACE members only. To learn more about ABRACE, visit abracebrasil.org. Learn more about EducArte’s music program with ABRACE here.

Choro Lecture Series: Pixinguinha and Black Contributions to Choro Music, by Ceylon Mitchell
2021-12-03 18:00 - 19:30 | Old Parish House of College Park, 4711 Knox Rd, College Park, MD, 20740, United States
Many of the early great composers and performers of the choro genre were Afro-Brazilians, like Patapio Silva and Pixinguinha. In this lecture, Ceylon Mitchell talks about Pixinguinha, the father of Brazilian choro. Pixinguinha’s compositions and playing style are by far the most popular and have a heavy influence to this day. Ceylon will demonstrate Pixinguinha’s compositional innovations, such as his use of counterpoint melody.
This is a free, in-person, and socially distanced event that will later be posted to EducArte’s YouTube page. EducArte follows all City of College Park, Prince George’s County, and Maryland State safety guidelines.
About Ceylon Mitchell:
Ceylon Mitchell II is a contemporary classical flutist, educator, and entrepreneur on a mission to celebrate Black and Latinx voices in classical music. Originally from Anchorage, Alaska, he now resides in the Washington D.C. metropolitan area. After earning a Bachelor of Music (Woodwind Performance) and a Master of Music Education degree from Boston University, he went on to earn a Master of Music Performance degree from the University of Maryland, College Park. Ceylon is currently a Doctor of Musical Arts student under the tutelage of Dr. Sarah Frisof, also at the University of Maryland, College Park. Recent achievements include the Strathmore Artist in Residence Class of 2021, a Prince George’s County Forty UNDER 40 Award in Arts & Humanities, and a 2019 Prince George’s Arts and Humanities Council Artist Fellowship Grant. As part of the grant, Ceylon and an acclaimed ensemble presented a classical crossover series of music performances during National Hispanic Heritage Month 2019, exploring classical and popular flute music in the Latin American countries of Puerto Rico, Cuba, and Brazil.
An active freelance flutist and chamber musician, Ceylon is committed to promoting traditionally marginalized communities. As a music educator, Ceylon maintains a private studio in Maryland and serves as the Potomac Valley Youth Orchestra flute choir conductor. He previously served as a teaching artist with the Boston Flute Academy and as the director of the Boston University Flute Ensemble. Ceylon supports performing artists, arts organizations, and beyond with multimedia production and digital marketing consulting as the founder and co-owner of M3 | Mitchell Media & Marketing, LLC. He is also an active arts advocate in the D.C. area, serving as the marketing committee chair with the Umoja Flute Institute, a junior board member of Washington Performing Arts, a Professional Member of the Recording Academy Washington D.C. Chapter, and Arts Advocates Network of Maryland (AAMN) member with Maryland Citizens for the Arts. Ceylon currently resides in Prince George’s County, Maryland with his wife and two sons.
This final lecture in the Choro Lecture Series will be followed by a short performance/demonstration of choro music.

This project was made possible by a grant from Maryland Humanities, with funding received from the Maryland Historical Trust in the Maryland Department of Planning. Maryland Humanities’ Grants Program is also supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities and private funders. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this series do not necessarily represent those of Maryland Humanities, Maryland Historical Trust, Maryland Department of Planning, or National Endowment for the Humanities.
Learn more about the full Choro Lecture Series this fall.

Pablo Regis Quartet at Mr. Henry's
2021-12-02 19:30 - 22:30, 2021-11-04 19:30 - 22:30 | Mr. Henry’s, 601 Pennsylvania Avenue SE, Washington, DC, 20003, United States
The Pablo Regis Quartet will play at Mr. Henry’s as part of “Groove Thursdays,” a series featuring the best of Brazilian music in Washington, DC.
Mr. Henry’s is artist friendly and offers opportunities to many performers in this area. Make sure you get your seats early because ticket holders are always guaranteed to get the best seats in the house!

Giving Tuesday 2021
2021-11-30 | MD
GivingTuesday is a global day of generosity that will take place on November 30, 2021. GivingTuesday was created in 2012 as a simple idea: a day that encourages people to do good. Over the past nine years, this idea has grown into a global movement that inspires hundreds of millions of people to give, collaborate, and celebrate generosity.
People can show their generosity in a variety of ways during GivingTuesday⁠⁠—whether it’s helping a neighbor, advocating for an issue, sharing a skill, or giving to causes—everyone has something to give and every act of generosity counts.
Even in times of economic uncertainty, we each have a deep reserve of generosity, which we can deploy in myriad ways to make a difference–your time, your kindness, your skills, your voice are all things you can give in addition to charitable donations.
EducArte appreciates any support you can offer, at any giving level. Please consider giving to EducArte on this GivingTuesday through our donations page.

EducArte’s Brazilian Percussion Workshop & Jam
2021-11-20 15:00 - 16:30 | Old Parish House of College Park, 4711 Knox Rd, College Park, MD, 20740, United States
Learn from and jam with Brazilian samba master percussionist André Coelho from Rio de Janeiro. André will show and demonstrate each of the essential Brazilian percussion instruments. Participants will learn basic rhythms and the event will finish with a jam session. Also come early for our dance workshop with Katie Kirkpatrick immediately before the percussion ensemble!
We will have some percussion instruments, like pandeiros, tamborins, and surdos for participants. But please bring your instrument if you have one.
This is a regularly occurring Brazilian percussion meetup. All levels are welcome to participate.
This event is free and open to the public. While primarily intended for adults, everyone is welcome. Please note that this workshop will be held at Old Parish House of College Park at 4711 Knox Road.
The event is a program of College Park-based arts non-profit EducArte. Special thanks to event sponsor, the College Park Arts Exchange.

EducArte’s Brazilian Dance Workshop
2021-11-20 14:00 - 14:45 | Old Parish House of College Park, 4711 Knox Rd, College Park, MD, 20740, United States
*****UPDATE: WE HAVE HAD TO MAKE A LAST MINUTE TEACHER SUBSTITUTION FOR THIS CLASS. Kate Spanos will be teaching frevo instead of Katie Kirkpatrick teaching samba. If you’ve never danced frevo, it is a fun carnival dance from Recife, and it will be taught for all levels! Learn more here: https://www.educarteinc.org/event/educartes-brazilian-dance-workshop-7/*****
This event is free and open to the public. While primarily intended for adults, everyone is welcome. Please note that this workshop will be held at Old Parish House of College Park at 4711 Knox Road.
Learn from Brazilian samba dancer Katie Kirkpatrick, who has been performing and teaching in the DC area for over ten years. She has trained with some of the best samba experts in the country, as well as from Brazil, and specializes in choreography, technique, and stylings. Katie will demonstrate and teach the basics of samba dance. Also stay for our percussion ensemble workshop with André Coelho immediately following the dance workshop!
This is a regularly occurring Brazilian dance workshop hosted by EducArte. All levels are welcome to participate.
The event is a program of College Park-based arts non-profit EducArte. Special thanks to event sponsor, the College Park Arts Exchange.

Pablo and the Baile Band (private event)
2021-11-19 19:00 - 22:00 | MD
Private event with Pablo and the Baile Band. Want to hire the band for your event? Contact us.

Choro Lecture Series: Connections between Brazilian Choro and American Jazz, by Andy Connell (virtual)
2021-11-19 18:00 - 19:30 | Zoom
In this lecture, Andy Connell, PhD, discusses the similarities between American jazz and Brazilian choro. He also presents the work of Hermeto Pascoal, one of Brazil’s most eccentric, prolific, and treasured composers and musicians, and a man once described by Miles Davis as “one of the most important musicians on the planet.”
This is a free, virtual event that will later be posted to EducArte’s YouTube page.
About Andy Connell:
Andrew Connell is an ethnomusicologist whose primary research is in Brazilian popular instrumental music, focusing on issues of identity and musical globalization. He has recent articles published in Music Cultures of Latin America: Global Effects, Past and Present (UCLA Selected Reports in Ethnomusicology) and Women and Music in America Since 1900 (Greenwood Press) and has given presentations at various national and international conferences including the Society for Ethnomusicology and the International Council of Traditional Music. His current scholarly activities include completing a book on Brazilian jazz.
As a performer, Dr. Connell plays saxophone and clarinet in ensembles ranging from jazz to classical chamber music to Brazilian chorinho. He studied jazz improvisation and arranging with Ray Brown, clarinet with Rosario Mazzeo, Janet Averett, and Fred Ormand, and saxophone with Don Sinta. He has played with the Santa Cruz, Monterey, and Toledo (Ohio) Symphonies, and has appeared at the Monterey, Montreux–Detroit, and San Francisco jazz festivals, and the Spoleto Festival USA. In addition, Dr. Connell has performed with a wide range of artists including Luciano Pavarotti, Dave Leibman, Lou Rawls, Mike Marshall, and Hermeto Pascoal, and has recorded for the Musical Heritage Society, Intrada, Adventure Music, Earthbeat! Traveler, and Acoustic Levitation labels. At James Madison University, Dr. Connell teaches courses in American music, the history of jazz, world music, and coaches small jazz ensembles.
This project was made possible by a grant from Maryland Humanities, with funding received from the Maryland Historical Trust in the Maryland Department of Planning. Maryland Humanities’ Grants Program is also supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities and private funders. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this series do not necessarily represent those of Maryland Humanities, Maryland Historical Trust, Maryland Department of Planning, or National Endowment for the Humanities.

Learn more about the full Choro Lecture Series this fall.

Pablo’s Baile at Bossa Bistro
2021-11-18 21:30 - 23:30 | Bossa Bistro, 2463 18th Street NW, Washington, DC, 20009, United States
Pablo’s Baile occurs every third Thursday of the month at Bossa Bistro! An electrifying mix of percussion, passion, and Brazilian Portuguese, Pablo’s Baile showcases the best of live Brazilian dance music, including samba and forró.
$10 at the door

EducArte’s Brazilian Percussion Workshop & Jam
2021-11-06 15:00 - 16:30 | Old Parish House of College Park, 4711 Knox Rd, College Park, MD, 20740, United States
Learn from and jam with Brazilian samba master percussionist André Coelho from Rio de Janeiro. André will show and demonstrate each of the essential Brazilian percussion instruments. Participants will learn basic rhythms and the event will finish with a jam session. Also come early for our dance workshop with Zezeh immediately before the percussion ensemble.
We will have some percussion instruments, like pandeiros, tamborins, and surdos for participants. But please bring your instrument if you have one.
This is a regularly occurring Brazilian percussion meetup. All levels are welcome to participate.
This event is free and open to the public. While primarily intended for adults, everyone is welcome. Please note that this workshop will be held at Old Parish House of College Park at 4711 Knox Road.
The event is a program of College Park-based arts non-profit EducArte. Special thanks to event sponsor, the College Park Arts Exchange.

EducArte’s Brazilian Dance Workshop
2021-11-06 14:00 - 14:45 | Old Parish House of College Park, 4711 Knox Rd, College Park, MD, 20740, United States
Learn samba from Zezeh, Brazilian dancer, teacher, choreographer, performer, and healer from São Paulo with a mission to bring more joy to the world through art. Zezeh will demonstrate and teach the basics of samba dance. Also stay for our percussion ensemble workshop with André Coelho immediately following the dance workshop!
This is a regularly occurring Brazilian dance workshop hosted by EducArte. All levels are welcome to participate.
This event is free and open to the public. While primarily intended for adults, everyone is welcome. Please note that this workshop will be held at Old Parish House of College Park at 4711 Knox Road.
The event is a program of College Park-based arts non-profit EducArte. Special thanks to event sponsor, the College Park Arts Exchange.

EducArte’s Brazilian Percussion Workshop & Jam: Ijexá Rhythm Edition
2021-10-23 15:00 - 16:30 | St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church, 4512 College Avenue, College Park, Maryland, 20740
This event is free and open to the public. While primarily intended for adults, everyone is welcome. Please note that this time the workshop will be held at St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church at 4512 College Avenue in College Park, MD.
Learn from and jam with Brazilian samba master percussionist André Coelho from Rio de Janeiro. André will show and demonstrate each of the essential Brazilian percussion instruments. Participants will learn basic rhythms and the event will finish with a jam session. Also come early for our dance workshop with Andressa Telles immediately before the percussion ensemble!
We will have some percussion instruments, like pandeiros, tamborins, and surdos for participants. But please bring your instrument if you have one.
Please bring agogôs and congas if you have them because we will focus on ijexá rhythms for the next few classes.
This is a regularly occurring Brazilian percussion meetup to create a new community ensemble. All levels are welcome to participate.
The event is a program of College Park-based arts non-profit EducArte. Special thanks to event sponsor, the College Park Arts Exchange.
Register for free

EducArte’s Brazilian Dance Workshop
2021-10-23 14:00 - 14:45 | St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church, 4512 College Avenue, College Park, Maryland, 20740
This event is free and open to the public. While primarily intended for adults, everyone is welcome. Please note that this time the workshop will be held at St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church at 4512 College Avenue in College Park, MD.
Learn from Brazilian dancer Andressa Telles, formal carnival queen from Santos, Brazil. Andressa will demonstrate and teach the basics of samba dance. Also stay for our percussion ensemble workshop with André Coelho immediately following the dance workshop!
This is a regularly occurring Brazilian dance meetup to create a new community ensemble. All levels are welcome to participate.
The event is a program of College Park-based arts non-profit EducArte. Special thanks to event sponsor, the College Park Arts Exchange.
Register for free

Choro Lecture Series: Choro as an Element of Brazilian National Identity, by Bryan McCann, PhD
2021-10-22 18:00 - 19:30 | Old Parish House of College Park, 4711 Knox Rd, College Park, MD, 20740, United States
In this lecture, Bryan McCann, PhD, talks about choro’s influence in Brazilian music and society. Choro musicians, who were virtuosic by necessity, became the go-to studio musicians in the early radio and recording industry of Rio de Janeiro. Later legends of Brazilian music like Villalobos and bossa nova great Tom Jobim studied choro and brought these qualities to their respective genres and music. McCann will also talk about the relationship between choro and bossa nova, as well as bossa nova as a global genre.
This is a free, in-person, and socially distanced event that will later be posted to EducArte’s YouTube page. EducArte follows all City of College Park, Prince George’s County, and Maryland State safety guidelines.
About Bryan McCann:
Bryan McCann is Professor of Latin American History and Chair of the History Department at Georgetown University. He is a specialist in Brazilian cultural and social history. He is the author of Hello, Hello Brazil: Popular Music in the Making of Modern Brazil (Duke University Press, 2004), João Gilberto and Stan Getz’s Getz/Gilberto (Bloomsbury, 2018), and numerous other publications on Brazilian music, urban history, and their broader implications.
This project was made possible by a grant from Maryland Humanities, with funding received from the Maryland Historical Trust in the Maryland Department of Planning. Maryland Humanities’ Grants Program is also supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities and private funders. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this series do not necessarily represent those of Maryland Humanities, Maryland Historical Trust, Maryland Department of Planning, or National Endowment for the Humanities.
Register for free
RSVP on Facebook
Learn more about the full Choro Lecture Series this fall.

Pablo’s Baile at Bossa Bistro
2021-10-21 21:30 - 23:30 | Bossa Bistro, 2463 18th Street NW, Washington, DC, 20009, United States
Pablo’s Baile occurs every third Thursday of the month at Bossa Bistro! An electrifying mix of percussion, passion, and Brazilian Portuguese, Pablo’s Baile showcases the best of live Brazilian dance music, including samba and forró.
$10 at the door
RSVP on Facebook

EducArte’s Brazilian Percussion Workshop & Jam: Ijexá Rhythm Edition
2021-10-09 15:00 - 16:30 | Old Parish House of College Park, 4711 Knox Rd, College Park, MD, 20740, United States
This event is free and open to the public. While primarily intended for adults, everyone is welcome. It will be held at the Old Parish House of College Park at 4711 Knox Road.
Learn from and jam with Brazilian samba master percussionist André Coelho from Rio de Janeiro. André will show and demonstrate each of the essential Brazilian percussion instruments. Participants will learn basic rhythms and the event will finish with a jam session.
We will have some percussion instruments, like pandeiros, tamborins, and surdos for participants. But please bring your instrument if you have one.
This is a regularly occurring Brazilian percussion meetup to create a new community ensemble. All levels are welcome to participate.
The event is a program of College Park-based arts non-profit EducArte. Special thanks to event sponsor, the College Park Arts Exchange.
Register for freeRSVP on Facebook

EducArte’s Brazilian Dance Workshop
2021-10-09 14:00 - 14:45 | Old Parish House of College Park, 4711 Knox Rd, College Park, MD, 20740, United States
This event is free and open to the public. While primarily intended for adults, everyone is welcome. It will be held at the Old Parish House of College Park at 4711 Knox Road.
Learn from Brazilian samba dancer Katie Kirkpatrick, who has been performing and teaching in the DC area for over ten years. She has trained with some of the best samba experts in the country, as well as from Brazil, and specializes in choreography, technique, and stylings. Katie will demonstrate and teach the basics of samba dance. Also stay for our percussion ensemble workshop with André Coelho immediately following the dance workshop!
This is a regularly occurring Brazilian dance meetup to create a new community ensemble. All levels are welcome to participate.
The event is a program of College Park-based arts non-profit EducArte. Special thanks to event sponsor, the College Park Arts Exchange.
Register for free
RSVP on Facebook

Choro Lecture Series: African and European Connections in Brazilian Choro, presented by Tom Rohde
2021-10-08 18:00 - 19:30 | Old Parish House of College Park, 4711 Knox Rd, College Park, MD, 20740, United States
In this lecture, Tom Rohde demonstrates how African dances, such as lundu, were combined with the European polca and schottische to create choro, a uniquely Brazilian rhythm. This mixing was controversial at the time because Brazilian high society discriminated against African cultural products.
About Tom Rohde:
Mr. Rohde is a classical guitarist and musicologist who earned a Bachelor of Music degree from Ithaca College and a Master of Music degree from the New England Conservatory. He is currently a Ph.D. candidate in musicology at Catholic University with a minor in Latin American music. His area of specialization is Brazilian music and culture and his dissertation focuses on cultural adaptation and recontextualization in Brazilian popular song. His knowledge of Brazilian music has been enhanced through his experience performing with Brazilian music groups in Boston and Washington D.C. for more than twenty years. While living in Boston he was a member of the New World Guitar Trio, with whom he recorded the CD Exiled and toured throughout Brazil, Taiwan, and the United States. Mr. Rohde is a contributing author to the Greenwood Encyclopedia of Latin American Popular Music and he currently teaches Music Literature and Music in Western Civilization at Catholic University and he is a Lecturer of Music History and Culture at George Washington University.
This project was made possible by a grant from Maryland Humanities, with funding received from the Maryland Historical Trust in the Maryland Department of Planning. Maryland Humanities’ Grants Program is also supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities and private funders. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this series do not necessarily represent those of Maryland Humanities, Maryland Historical Trust, Maryland Department of Planning, or National Endowment for the Humanities.
This is a free, in-person, and socially distanced event that will later be posted to EducArte’s YouTube page. EducArte follows all City of College Park, Prince George’ County and Maryland State safety guidelines.
Register for freeRSVP on Facebook
Learn more about the full Choro Lecture Series this fall.

Pablo Regis Quartet at Mr. Henry's
2021-10-07 19:30 - 22:30 | Mr. Henry’s, 601 Pennsylvania Avenue SE, Washington, DC, 20003, United States
The Pablo Regis Quartet will play at Mr. Henry’s as part of “Groove Thursdays,” a series featuring the best of Brazilian music in Washington, DC.
Mr. Henry’s is artist friendly and offers opportunities to many performers in this area. Make sure you get your seats early because ticket holders are always guaranteed to get the best seats in the house!
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NextLOOK residency: Ainihi e Alteridade: Performing Otherness
2021-10-01 19:00 - 21:00 | Joe’s Movement Emporium, 3309 Bunker Hill Road, Mount Rainier, MD, 20712, United States
NextLOOK artist residency, The Clarice at the University of Maryland + Joe’s Movement Emporium
This new dance and music project examines ainihi (“identity” in Hausa) and alteridade (“otherness” in Portuguese) based on the traditions of Nigeria and Brazil. Multidisciplinary artists Sinclair Ogaga Emoghene, Pablo Regis, and Kate Spanos create a collaborative work that includes new and traditional songs and dances, an audience feedback session, and an artist discussion.
This is a final open rehearsal, where the audience will be asked to participate in the creation process (at whatever level they are comfortable). This event will be preceded by three days of open rehearsals on Tuesday 9/28, Wednesday 9/29, and Thursday 9/30 at 7-9PM.
More information at Joe’s Movement Emporium and The Clarice.
This event is part of NextLOOK. In partnership between The Clarice and Joe’s Movement Emporium, NextLOOK supports the development of new music, plays, dance and other experiences by regionally-based performing artists. These artists are mentored by seasoned arts administrators from The Clarice and Joe’s Movement Emporium to construct innovative methods of deepening the audience’s involvement in their creative process. By removing logistical barriers of cost and space and providing a sounding board for artists creating new work, NextLOOK invests in the regional arts ecology and creates an accessible, exploratory environment that connects intriguing artists with adventurous audiences.
Made possible, in part, by the Maryland State Arts Council and the Morris & Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation.

NextLOOK open rehearsal: Ainihi e Alteridade: Performing Otherness
2021-09-30 19:00 - 21:00, 2021-09-29 19:00 - 21:00, 2021-09-28 19:00 - 21:00 | Joe’s Movement Emporium, 3309 Bunker Hill Road, Mount Rainier, MD, 20712, United States
NextLOOK artist residency, The Clarice at the University of Maryland + Joe’s Movement Emporium
This new dance and music project examines ainihi (“identity” in Hausa) and alteridade (“otherness” in Portuguese) based on the traditions of Nigeria and Brazil. Multidisciplinary artists Sinclair Ogaga Emoghene, Pablo Regis, and Kate Spanos create a collaborative work that includes new and traditional songs and dances, a carnival-style parade, an audience feedback session and an artist discussion.
Join us throughout the week on September 28, 29, and 30 for open rehearsals from 7-9PM. We will do a final open rehearsal at the end of the week on Friday, October 1 at 7PM.
More information at Joe’s Movement Emporium and The Clarice.
This event is part of NextLOOK. In partnership between The Clarice and Joe’s Movement Emporium, NextLOOK supports the development of new music, plays, dance and other experiences by regionally-based performing artists. These artists are mentored by seasoned arts administrators from The Clarice and Joe’s Movement Emporium to construct innovative methods of deepening the audience’s involvement in their creative process. By removing logistical barriers of cost and space and providing a sounding board for artists creating new work, NextLOOK invests in the regional arts ecology and creates an accessible, exploratory environment that connects intriguing artists with adventurous audiences.
Made possible, in part, by the Maryland State Arts Council and the Morris & Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation.
