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Friday, March 2, 2001
Carrboro to Host Brazilian 'Carnaval'
By Matt Viser
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Local residents will get the chance to
, elebi ate Brazilian culture this weekend
Uuougn dancing, eating and hstening to
the Carnaval 2001 Celebration, an
annual Brazilian cultural festival, will be
held at the Carrboro Arts Center begin
ning at B:30 p.m. Saturday and lasting
>‘Hit ,' 30 a.m. Sunday.
Nmce 1641, Carnaval has been cele
brated in Brazil for four days prior to the
nan of Lent, the 40-day period that pre
ectes Easter, which actually began
Wednesday.
Although the event will be primarily
attended by Brazilians in the area, Claudia
Vot unento, one of the coordinators of
this y ear’s event in Carrboro, also expects
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people to come from across the state, trav
eling from as far away as Boone.
Nascimento said she is planning for a
much larger event than Camavals in the
past “It’s going to be big,” she said. “There
should be 800 to 1,000 people there.”
Like the Carnaval in Brazil, the
Carrboro Carnaval will feature the
samba, a dance that originated from
ancient rhythms of African slaves
brought to Brazil. “Samba is the rhythm
of Carnaval in Brazil,” Nascimento said.
For the first year, the Carnaval will also
bring in a live band, the Greensboro
based Energia Brasil, to assist in the samba
dancing. In addition to music and dance,
the Carnaval will also feature Brazilian
food, drinks and art
“For Brazilians, it’s wonderful. It’s
always great to celebrate your culture.”
The Brazilian Carnaval started being
celebrated in the Triangle area in the late
19705. After a brief hiatus, Carnaval was
revitalized in 1980 when George
Entenman started having the Carnaval at
his home. “We got about 200 people in the
house,” Entenman said. “It’s a really won
derful time. There’s tremendous energy.”
But as the event grew larger it began
to require an increasingly large amount
of work and funds to organize.
“(Carnaval) needed a corporate struc
ture to do it,” Nascimento said.
So in 1999, the Brazilian Association
of the Triangle joined in the efforts to
celebrate Carnaval.
The Brazilian Association of the
Triangle is a group that both unites
Brazilians in the area and educates oth
ers about Brazilian culture.
Nascimento said the association has
more than 600 members who are
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As it has evolved over the past 350
years, Nascimento said Carnaval has
become more of a celebration of
Brazilian culture, regardless of one’s reli
gious background. She said Carnaval is
a time to free the imagination and cele
brate the positive aspects of life.
“It’s like Mardi Gras,” she said. “The
whole country stops for four days.”
Although the Arts Center event won’t
be as long as the actual Carnaval in
Brazil, organizers say it will be no less
celebratory. Nascimento said, “We’re
going to have in one night what happens
(in Brazil) in three days.”
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