Beat Carnival Residency with Bongar (Brazil) 13 – 20 June
16th June 2010
John Wilson, sticks, takes time out with
Beto da xamba – pandeiro; Tontonho da xamba – pandeiro; Guitinho da xamba – vocals
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and Sam Davidson, guitar, joins in.
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Bongar, Beat, Brazil, Ballymena, Belfast & Big drum
Bril.
Bongar, from Olinda-Recife in Pernambuco, NE Brazil
are in Belfast for a cultural exchange. They will be working with Beat’s youth groups, Beatndrum and traditional drummers and musicians. The Residency culminates in the Beat Carnival Weekend with the Belfast City Carnival on saturday 19th June.
–> Click here to go to video: Grupo Bongar
Workshop session 1, Sunday
Friday Night 19th February 20.00 – 12.30 at the Black Box, £5 on the door
“We’ll be doing the place up all fancy like and have some great entertainment for you.
The night will be produced in association with newly opened Liberation Laboratory (LibLab) Recording Studio. Performances by:
The Wee Weirdies; Scorpion Jack; a drum excursion
by Mike Sampson and Rohan Young;
BeatnDrum Samba band and Beatndance;
and to finish the evening off, some serious dancing
action with Beat DJs Mathias, Damo and Gavonio.
We’ll also have some madness happening through
the night off stage keep your eyes open you never
know who you’ll bump into!”
“I’m delighted and honoured to have been presented with the Leading on Sustainability award: the level of leadership and achievement evident in the Awards was extremely high. This recognition has good timing, with all the development work that we are embarked on: particularly plans to create a new Carnival Centre of Excellence in Belfast.”
David Boyd, Director of the Beat arts company in Belfast
See News story on Beat website
Just a few snaps from W[r]ite Noise…
First look photos at today's Fly Butterfly! event at Belfast City Hall....
And a first look video from Dave Powell…
Many more photos/video clips to follow….
Just to get you in the mood tomorrow – featuring classic carnival tunes, samba music, butterfly-themed songs and a track from the super duper Colenso Parade who will be playing live live live in front of Belfast City Hall!
Click the fab carnival pic below – spotify required!!
Butterfly Carnival Samba Magical Spotify Playlist
Maeve, Katie and Emma fluttered round Belfast all day today – click the pic to see what they got up to and to see some preview shots of Saturday’s aerial spectacular!!!
So this Saturday is Fly Butterfly day at Belfast City Hall – in case you didn’t know already all the details are here!
But as everyone knows, if you want to be a beautiful butterfly you have to start out as a caterpillar and this is the theme of our creepy, crawly, funny, colourful, lively, noisy and very very fun carnival parade.
Today Katie and Maeve take to the streets bedecked in carnival finery and bring the butterflies to all reputable Belfast media outlets – keep an eye out for us in town and maybe we’ll let you take our picture!!
Meanwhile, here’s a few caterpillar preview pics to get you in the mood 
The Beat Inititaive are very excited about our involvement with the Connections programme of which Fly Butterfly! is just the beginning…
Fly Butterfly! is funded by Legacy Trust UK, an independent charity set up to help build a lasting cultural and sporting legacy from the 2012 Olympic Games, and is part of the Connections programme which is managed by the Arts Council of Northern Ireland.
Legacy Trust UK is an independent charity whose mission is to support a wide range of innovative cultural and sporting activities which celebrate the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games and which will leave a lasting legacy in communities throughout the United Kingdom. The Trust is funded by a £40 million endowment from the Big Lottery Fund (£29m), Department for Culture Media and Sport (£6m) and Arts Council England (£5m).
Professional synchronised swimming team, Aquabatix during the launch of the Legacy Trust UK Connections programme at Queen’s Physical Education Centre, Belfast
Northern Ireland Legacy Trust UK Programme Co-ordinator, Marian Clark de Monreal said,
“Fly Butterfly is the Beat Initiative’s first main event in the Northern Ireland Connections programme. These activities have been funded to help build a cultural and sporting legacy from the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games and it is important to realise the amount of training and skills development which precedes this event.
The Beat Initiative have recruited more than 500 new participants from the arts, sports and community sectors and, in the training programme for excellence, circus skills with disabled adults and aerial dance techniques are just a few of the activities which have been taught and the evidence of which, we will see at the exciting Fly Butterfly performance during Belfast City Hall’s re-opening celebration.”
