Screenings

Frames of Mind, Cinematique, Vancouver

A screening with extended discussion and expert panel about migration and mental health

Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival

Athens Ethnofest

Favela Cine Clube, Providência favela

The last screening was by Favela Providencia underneath a highway. We met at Central Station (see film with same name, very good!) and...

UniRio, University Campus, Botofogo

This I think was the best screening in Rio. The students at this state university had organised it very well, and a woman who was helping...

PUC Rio, University Campus

This was a small screening organised by the film lecturer, and the talk was a lot about film-based questions rather than social issues....

CIEP Ayrton Senna school, Rocinha favela

To screen in Rocinha was always important for obvious reasons. Actually it is at the edge of Rocinha across the road, in a school where...

NECVU, Centre of Studies of Citizenship and Urban Violence, Federal University of RJ

The main speaker was an anthropologist called Mariana Calvacante. She said she had been crying the whole day due to Bolsonaro winning....

Forum Grita Baixada, Novo Iguaçu, Rio suburbs

It was was the evening after the elections in which Jair Bolsonaro, the extreme right-wing conservative, had one the first round and made...

Institute of Psychiatry, University of São Paulo teaching hospital

Debate speakers: Oswaldo Ferreira Leite Netto (IOP Psychoanalyst); Laura Andrade (IOP Dept of Psychiatric Epidemiology) Attendees: Staff...

Matilha Cultural Cinema

Attendees: General public Debate speakers: Lee, Sam, Students at Cursinho Popular Martin Luthar King This was such a special night....

ComCom Project, Cubatão, outskirts of São Paulo State

We spent the day in this part of São Paulo State called Cubatão. It is an example of how urbanisation projects can be done well. We saw...

PUC University, Department of Human Rights/ organised by Valdênia Lanfranchi, lecturer on law

Attendees: PUC teachers and post-doctorate students Debate speakers: Professor Bader Sawaia, PUC Course leader of the dept of Social...

Unibes Cultural Cinema

Debate speakers: Gabriel Feltran, Maria Teresa Fedeli (Specialist in urban architecture, particularly in favela communities) Two women...

Instituto Federal São Paulo, Suzano (IFSPS)

Place: Suzano, a district on the outskirts of SP State Attendees: Students mostly aged 16-18; members of staff Debate speakers: Lee and...

Escola da Cidadania Sapopemba & CEU Rosa da China Place: Sapopemba

Attendees: Students mostly aged 16-18 from Sapopemba; human rights workers Debate speakers: Valdênia Lanfranchi (lawyer and human rights...

Centre of Study for Urban Planning (CEBRAP)

Attendees: Researchers and Post-Doctoral students mostly in sociology and anthropology; other staff members of CEBRAP Debate speakers:...

Cursinho Popular Martin Luther King

Place: Ferraz de Vasconcelos Attendees: Students mostly aged 16-18, mostly from Ferraz When we walked into the school the morning of our...

Kings College London

British Academy of the Arts and Humanities

We were asked to talk in a conference of mainly academics from 27 countries discussing solutions to various urban issues.