Lang Lang with Youth Orchestra of Bahia @ Royal Festival Hall

Back in 2010, the Youth Orchestra of Bahia became the first Brazilian youth orchestra to perform in Europe, at the Southbank Centre, in London. Almost a year after, the young and talented musicians of Bahia came back to Southbank’s Royal Festival Hall on Saturday 21st May. This time the Youth Orchestra of Bahia were accompanying the world acclaimed Chinese pianist Lang Lang and the seventeen year-old Venezuelan conductor virtuoso Ilyich Rivas. Continue Reading

Internationally acclaimed director and playright Gerald Thomas launched his London Dry Opera Company with the show Throats in February, and Jungle went along to check it out.

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New book on sustainable product design authored and edited by Brazilians educates consumers and professionals alike

If you had to choose one term that’s on everyone’s lips in the design world today, it would be ‘sustainability’. It has struck a chord in the market of product design and these designers were some of the few who knew how to capitalise on the benefits of working with such a fascinating concept, full of possibilities. Continue Reading

Everything began in 2003. It was the first year of FLIP – Festa Literária Internacional de Paraty (Paraty International Literary Festival) – and despite the lack of pretensions on the part of the organisers, who were afraid of a huge fiasco, the event brought around 500 people to the historic and cobbled streets of Paraty.

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The Spanish restaurant that turned into a book

The latest edition of Tapas: Simple Combinations, Striking Flavours may have a new cover, but the thinking behind it (albeit subconsciously) began about 20 years ago. That’s because its authors, Carlos Horrillo and Patrick Morcas, are the owners of El Parador (elparadorlondon.com), a Camdnen restaurant specialised in the famous small servings. Continue Reading

As you probably already know from posters all over town (and the pages of Jungle), Festival Brazil is painting the Southbank Centre yellow and green this summer, and luckily for us it also goes for the restaurants and bars right across the site. One such eatery, Feng Sushi has got their own Brasilian chef, Clebson Vasconcellos, on the team, and invited him to create a special ‘tropical’ menu especially for the festival. Continue Reading

JD headed down to the Saatchi Gallery to see what it made of BRIC…

Two years has passed from when the Tate Modern’s walls were layered with the bright colours of 6 graffiti artists/collectives, with Brazil’s Nunca and the duo Os Gêmeos playing their part. The stage, or canvas, couldn’t have been much larger. And this April, the artistic prowess of Brazil has been invited for another chance to shine, as it takes its place alongside Russia, India and China, comprising the BRIC nations, in a project realised by Phillips de Pury & Company.

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Gottahave

If you’re itching to get in world-cup-fever mode, or just fancy showing off your trendy-and-green credentials, then Nike have some extra good news for you; they’ve just launched the new football kits to be worn by nine teams competing in this year’s World Cup in South Africa, including Brasil – and they had a rather large trump card up their sleeve; they’ve managed to make each shirt from up to 8 recycled bottles. When you tot it all up, they’ve saved 13 million plastic bottles from going to waste in Japan and Taiwan, which is enough to cover almost 30 footy pitches! Continue Reading