This episode profiles an inspirational Italian-Brazilian-Australian on a mission to spread the power and benefits of capoeira, including into Australian schools.

Professor Vitor-Pehzao Angolero has a PHD in industrial robotics and software engineering and also runs a non-for-profit organisation called Greengold Association for Human Development, which runs programs using capoeira to target at risk youths and others – and with some incredible results, as you’ll hear.

Lusofonia's host Fernando de Freitas joins Vitor at one of his weekly Angola Capoeira classes in Byron Bay for this radio feature about the man, his inspiring journey, and his MISSION.

More Information:

Bay FM - http://programs.bayfm.org/lusofonia/2019-05-24

Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/phezao.angolero

Greengold Association for Human Development - https://www.greengoldart.org/

Capoeira Mission - Professor Vitor-Pehzao Angolero Radio Feature

This episode profiles Brasil’s youngest ever research doctor – Dr Juliano Morimoto - who at just 25 years of age qualified for a doctorate from the renowned Oxford University in 2016. 

Since then he’s been based in Australia, as a Research Fellow in the Department of Biological Sciences at Macquarie University in Sydney.

Dr Morimoto talks about his interesting mixed Japanese-Portuguese heritage, his research work with fruit flies, and his deep concerns for the divided state of his home country.

He laments the division and polarisation in Brasil, and speaks out against the massive cuts in higher education funding and the opening up of the Amazon basin for agri-business under the new administration of Jair Bolsonaro.

More Information
'Brazil: towards an uneducated country' - Nature Ecology & Evolution

'Exterminator of the future': Brazil's Bolsonaro denounced for environmental assault - The Guardian 

One hundred years of Japan in Brazil - Gabriel Elizondo Al Jazeera English 22 June 2008

Speaking Out! Dr Juliano Morimoto

In this episode we profile accomplished jazz musician Anna Salleh, of mixed Malaysian Australian heritage, who fell in love with Afro-Brazilian music early in life.

She rediscovered bossa nova, samba and choro some 10 years ago and spent some time learning her craft in Rio de Janeiro.

Since then she's been performing nationally and internationally, achieving great acclaim for her show ‘Gorgeous Songs from Brazil & Beyond’, which has featured some of Australia’s best jazz and world musicians.

Now she’s teamed up with award-winning guitarist, composer and recording artist Guy Strazz for a series of shows they’re calling ‘Afro Latin Moods’.

More Info:
https://www.annasalleh.com/
https://www.facebook.com/AnnaSallehMusician/
http://guystrazz.com/music/3151-2/

Afro Latin Moods - Anna Salleh Profile

Brazil’s internationally renowned National Institute for Space Research - known as INPE – has released data showing an 88% rise in deforestation in June.

The news has alarmed people around the world. The 'lungs of our planet earth are in danger of reaching a tipping point that could turn the Amazon rainforest into a savannah.

This episode explores how the policies of the new Brazilian administration of Jair Bolsonaro are accelerating the deforestation of the great Amazon., and the growing international fight to safe it!

It includes great forest sounds and music and an interview with Carlos Rittl, the executive secretary of Climate Observatory, a network of Brazilian civil society organizations. He speaks with 'Democracy Now' presenters are Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez.

More Info: 
programs.bayfm.org/lusofonia

Saving the Amazon

Weekly radio show featuring lively discussion, stories, music, and ideas from the Lusophere - Brasil, Portugal, Timor-Leste, Mozambique, Angola, Cape Verde, Macau & more - on BayFM 99.9 http://programs.bayfm.org/lusofonia/

Lusofonia

Popular tracks