SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL – Founded in 1982, the Centro Cultural São Paulo (São Paulo Cultural Center), known as CCSP, is one of the first multidisciplinary cultural facilities in Brazil.
Open to the public, the venue promotes several free or inexpensive events, as well as providing free use areas for its visitors, who may benefit from dance lessons, drawing and much more!
To make your tour easier, we have listed below the main features of the July program, featuring plays, movies, music, and dance:
Movies
Pop Cinema, Fictions/Fricções da Adolescência
July 16th – 27th
Sala Lima Barreto (99 seats)
Free
In partnership with Flipop – Festival de Literatura Pop, CCSP presents the Pop Cinema, Ficções/Fricções da Adolescência exhibition, a selection of films for and about adolescents, and a series of three panels organized by Flipop, where writers discuss topics such as sexuality, emotional education and black consciousness in youth.
Adolescent cinema has always been at the forefront in addressing controversial issues for the general public, since the adolescent genre, the so-called teen pic, which emerged in the 1950s with the growing young population of the post-war period, was defined by being deeply in tune with the issues of each generation of teenagers.
An Afternoon with James Baldwin
July 20th
Sala Lima Barreto (99 seats)
Free
An afternoon dedicated to the American writer James Baldwin, with the screening of two movies inspired by his work — I Am Not Your Negro and If Beale Street Could Talk — and a panel discussion about the author’s current status, comprising Márcio Macêdo, Carol Rodrigues, Alex Ratts, and Allan da Rosa.
Born in 1924, Baldwin is one of the most prominent authors of 20th-century literature and the civil rights movement in the United States. His novels and essays focus on racial, sexuality, and identity issues. This show is a joint venture between the CCSP Film and Literature Curators.
Mostra Peripatumen! O Que as Crianças Pensam (“What Children Think”)
July 26th to 28th
Sala Lima Barreto (99 seats)
Free
The CCSP Mostra Peripatumen! Cultural Action Project “O Que as Crianças Pensam” returns in July. In this year’s edition, as well as a philosophical conversation collectively built by the children, emphasizing the concept of politics with Marcelo Soler, Ph.D. in Scenic Arts from ECA/USP, there will be a film screening of Ernest & Celestine. This is a partnership between the Cinema Curator and the CCSP Cultural Action.
Ernest & Celestine
The film portrays a traditional society of bears in which the friendship between these animals and the mice is not well regarded. Ernest is a big bear, a clown, and a musician, who will shelter in his house the little mouse Célestine, an orphan who has escaped from the underground world of rodents. Through friendship, the two will find a comfortable life, changing the norms of this world forever.
Theatre
Stabat Mater
Fridays and Saturdays, until July 21st, at 9 PM, and Sundays, at 8 PM.
Espaço Cênico Ademar Guerra
R$ 20
In Stabat Mater, Janaina Leite essays a performance on the history of the Virgin Mary through the centuries, while trying to account for the mother’s obliteration in her previous show, Conversas Com Meu Pai (Conversations with My Father). Now sharing the stage with her mother, Janaina verticalizes her investigation of reality in the theatre, this time under the light of the obscene.
De Esperança, Suor e Farinha (Hope, Sweat, and Flour)
Fridays and Saturdays, July 12th – August 11th, at 9:00 PM, and Sundays, at 8:00 PM.
Sala Jardel Filho
R$ 20
A clipping of the lives of five Brazilian characters. Nona, a genderqueer midwife, struggles in a community of contradictions and prejudices; Thayanara, a miner, lives in a hole, grabbing what is denied to women; Menina, the seventh daughter of a prostitute, clings to fantasy to survive; and Tauan, a homeless teacher, travels between heroic delirium and the loss of family and human reference. What brings them together? Flour, an ingredient contained in the dishes of hunger and abundance. The playwright begins with a speech filled with regional language, as diverse as our own ways of thinking about life.
Dance
Boas Garotas – Dança Menor (Good Girls – Minor Dance)
Thursday and Friday, July 25th and 26th, at 9:00 PM.
70 min. – 14 years – Espaço Cênico Ademar Guerra
Free
Espetáculo de dança Boas Garotas
Credit: Divulgação
“Boas Garotas”
Boas Garotas explores relationships between the public and artistic work, discovering eroticism as a way to interrogate and excite the connection between seeing and being seen. Built from a set of videos from part of the Videobrasil Historical Collection, the piece remixed concepts, images and sounds present in these works, proposing approaches between ways of creating and accepting a video and a performance, and questioning possibilities of how to move between the logic of the eye and the logic of touch.
Gênera – Dança Menor (Minor Dance)
Thursday and Friday, July 25th and 26th, at 10:15 PM.
20 min. – 16 years – Espaço Cênico Ademar Guerra
Free
Gênera is a brief conference on the grammatical genders of the Portuguese language.
Ensaios Sobre a Retórica – Dança Menor (Essays on Rhetoric – Minor Dance)
Saturday and Sunday, 27th and 28th July, at 9:00 PM, and at 8:00 PM, respectively
30 min. – 16 years – Espaço Cênico Ademar Guerra
Free
Ensaio Sobre a Retórica is a collection of gestures, an inventory of sounds, a list of images that inhabit the space that exists between words and things. When do the meanings adhere to the noises? Where do the lyrics join the senses?
Entre o Que Se Imagina e o Que Se Pode Tocar – Com Palavras no Meio – Dança Menor (Between What You Imagine and What You Can Touch – With Words in between – Minor Dance)
Saturday and Sunday, 27th and 28th July, at 9:30 PM, and at 8:30 PM, respectively
45 min. – 12 years – Espaço Cênico Ademar Guerra
Free
The new concept by the Núcleo de Improvisação (Improvisation Center), is a dance that is born out of a teased body to destabilize its behavior patterns. It is the attempt and the search for “new stability” that is, however, ephemeral. Jumping between arrangements, the dance is like navigating the flow of events in the game between costumes, light, space, and audience.
Music
The Mönic and Violet Soda
Saturday, July 13th, 7:00 PM
Sala Adoniran Barbosa
R$ 25
Two new bands emerge in the underground scene of São Paulo: The Mönic releases its new album and becomes one of the main garage rock bands in the city, while the quartet Violet Soda, releasing its album Tangerine, unleashes all its passion for guitars and 1990s screamed vocals.
Der Baum and Scarlet Leaves
Sunday, July 14th, at 6:00 PM
Sala Adoniran Barbosa
R$ 25
Two bands with reference to the 1980s, influenced by post-punk and new wave. Between rock and electronic music, the Der Baum quartet also seeks contemporary references — and previews tracks from their next album, D.B. 26.04.93. Scarlet Leaves mixes electronic dance music with ethereal climates and sonority between synthpop and darkwave.
Camarones Guitar Orchestra and Huey
Thursday, July 18th, at 9:00 PM
Sala Adoniran Barbosa
R$ 25
The instrumental band Camarones Orquestra Guitarrística (Camarones Guitar Orchestra) comes to São Paulo on a tour to promote their latest album, Surfers, mixing rock with dancing rhythms of cumbia, steady rock, and surf music. Sharing the stage with Camarones, the contemporary instrumental metal group Huey from São Paulo features their praised album Ma live.
Jadsa and Gumes
Saturday, July 20th, at 7:00 PM
Sala Adoniran Barbosa
R$ 25
Jadsa from Bahia mixes Itamar Assumpção, Jards Macalé, and Gal Costa with Jimi Hendrix, Alabama Shakes and Khruangbin. She is one of the major talents in her State and is about to release her debut album, Olho de Vidro, a mixture of rock, MPB, pop, and jazz. She is accompanied by the Gumes from São Paulo, with references to the new psychedelic, shoegaze, lo-fi, and sad rock.
Monstro Amigo and Applegate
Sunday, July 21st, at 6:00 PM
Sala Adoniran Barbosa
R$ 25
With psychedelic, progressive and space rock influences, the São Paulo trio Monstro Amigo will release an album that solidifies a new formation of the band and ends a tour through several states with the São Paulo performance. The band shares the stage with their fellow countryman Applegate, one of the revelations of the Brazilian psychedelic scene and who is releasing her first album.
Polara and O Inimigo
Thursday, July 25th, at 9:00 PM
Sala Adoniran Barbosa
R$ 25
Born in São Paulo with members from Porto Alegre, Rio de Janeiro, and Osasco, Polara returns to the stage with a memorable performance that is the essence of the spirit: free, contradictory, active and combative. The band from São Paulo, O Inimigo, has its feet stuck in hardcore and is preparing for the release of the band’s third album, Contrariedade.
Ana Frango Elétrico and Sophia Chablau and Uma Enorme Perda de Tempo
Saturday, 27th July, at 7:00 PM
Sala Adoniran Barbosa
R$ 25
The Rio de Janeiro singer features songs with a surrealistic poetic universe, of decadent bossa-pop-rock. In this farewell show from her first album, Mormaço Queima, she plays alongside pop band Sophia Chablau from São Paulo and the band Uma Enorme Perda de Tempo.
Brvnks and Menores Atos
Sunday, July 28th, at 6 PM
Sala Adoniran Barbosa
R$ 25
Brvnks is the pseudonym of Bruna Guimarães, a youngster from Goiás with influences of indie rock, alternative rock of the 1990s, garage rock, and surf music. In her album, she balances the intensity of her songs with simple and melancholic lyrics. The band from Rio de Janeiro, Menores Atos, regarded as one of the revelations of Brazilian rock in the decade, mixes the energy and youth of the genre with the poetry, the simplicity and sophistication of Brazilian music in their new album, Lapso.
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Until July 28th, 2019
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CCSP – São Paulo Cultural Center
Rua Vergueiro, 1000 – Liberdade, São Paulo