02 Mar 2006: Latest NEWS !!! Young Photograhers Workshop
THINK CAPOEIRA Young Photographers Workshop in the cinema-theatro in Uruguai at the School of the Rising Sun.
Gallery Arps& Co (Amsterdam, Netherlands) together with the professional photographer Robert Rizzo developed a project with the School of the Rising Sun in Bahia Dorada, Salvador, Brasil. ( Assosaciao dos Filhos do Sol Nascente.)
Following the success of the project in a simular area filled with violence and poverty in Amsterdam, with the titel Children Picture Peace, here at this capoeira school the children age 9 to 14 were invited to make a portfolio of pictures of their neighbourhood, and of the capoeira school of Mestre Pedro.
During a week the children could possess a photocamera and take pictures of their environment, they learned how to make photos and at the end they made for a smashing exibition of 55 pictures.
The exposition is composed in three parts:
1. the making of – photos by Robert Rizzo
2. the selection of the children
3. the selection of the sponsor
These children live in an environment full of prostitution and violence in the barrio Urugai. There is a drugswar out there and little prospective of a job or training. It is for the capoeira school of Mestre Pedro that his pupils learn how to tranform their frustration to a positive attitude towards life. Almost daily they visit the school and play capoeira, the Brasil play that combines music and singing with acrobatic dance and martial art.Children learn to get confidence in their own capacities. They obtain discipline and regularity and selfconfidence. Pedro:"Capoeira is not only wholesome to the body it makes you strong and healthy and developes friendship. Because without the others you cannot play this game. You learn how to behave with rules.It provides a sense of rithm and of music”. Mestre Pedro makes his own songs and sings them with his daugther. The swing is really rap.
Most of the pupils come from the alagados, an area where the houses are built on wooden sticks.The poverty is enormous.
The exibition of the pictures made by children of the barrio Urugai will be taken to show to various places in the world.The children of a capoeiraschool in Amsterdam will also do a workshop and pictures of the different lifestyles will be brought together in a booklet.
All profit of the sales go to the benefit of the capoeiraschool of Mestre Pedro.
Arps&Co Gallery is dediated to corporate sponsoring of social projects to enhance creativity as a mean of expression for a world where there is a place for everybody. See www.arpsgallery.com.
The project is supported by the ICBIE Institute for Brasilian, Italian and European Culture, in Ribeira, lead by formal journalist and theater producer Paulo Gallina.
At March 15th Grand Opening at Casa do Benin, Pelourinho, Salvador
