The programme of work from Brazil in 2012 included:
- The culmination of three years of work led by Gill Roberts with AfroReggae, excluded young people and gifted and talented musicians and dancers in a performance of Brazilian drumming and dance at Danebury Hill Fort.
- Brasil Guitar Duo Programme of classical through to traditional Brazilian sounds.
- Cristina Ortiz Brazilian pianist with Brazilian and French repertoire.
- Brazilian Theory Brilliant meeting of musical minds with a band of folk musicians from São Paulo and Scotland.
- Morena Nascimento and Benjamim Taubkin Dialogue. A dancer with the Pina Bausch company performing solo with one of Brazil’s great pianists and jazz legends. European premiere.
- Tulipa Ruiz Female songstress, part of a new wave in Sao Paulo who are updating the Música Popular Brasileira.
- Do Amor Brazilian sounds mixed with modern indie and afropop.
- Exhibition of Cristal de Luz from COOPA-ROCA. Rocinha Seamstress and Craftwork Co-operative Ltd produce contemporary designed textiles, created in one of Rio’s largest favelas. Workshops enabled secondary school children to customise their t-shirts using Brazilian sewing techniques from artists in Rocinha’s COOPA-ROCA.
- Exhibition, indoors and outdoors, from Chivitz Street artist from São Paulo’s Choque Cultural gallery. Worked directly onto the walls of the gallery and Salisbury skatepark. First time out of Brazil.
- Sculpture from Ana Maria Pacheco, the UK-based Brazilian artist, including her 32 foot boat sculpture The Longest Journey, which was restored especially for its presentation in Salisbury Cathedral.
- Brazil National Exhibition PQ’11 An exhibition exploring contemporary Brazilian scenography, created for the Prague Quadrennial in 2011. UK premiere.
- The Telegraph presents: Rolling down to Rio and up to a Summit Debate chaired by environmental correspondent Geoffrey Lean and a panel of international climate change experts, to co-incide with the Rio +20 Summit.
- The UK premieres of the films 5X Favela and 5X UPP alongside a selection of current and archive Brazilian films curated by Patrick Bliss.
