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| General view of the opening ceremony |
Mayor Marta Suplicy and Luis Fravre |
Ruy César, Director of Via Magia Cultural Institute |
Brazilian authorities at the official opening ceremony |
The performance Samwaad - streets of encounters |
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| Danilo Santos de Miranda opened the ceremony at the Municipal Theatre |
Danilo Santos de Miranda and Marta Suplicy- Mayor of São Paulo |
Danilo Santos de Miranda, First lady Marisa and Luis Inácio Lula da Silva |
Danilo Santos de Miranda |
Regional Director of SESC São Paulo and president of the council |
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| Speech of Marta Suplicy- Mayor of São Paulo |
Speech of Gilberto Gil- Minister for Culture |
Edson Montenegro and a dancer perform at the WCF |
The performance Samwaad - street of encounters- at the opening of the WCF |
The brazilian national anthen |
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| The Municipal theatre façade |
Opening ceremony of the WCF at São Paulo´s Municipal Theatre |
São Paulo´s Governor and Danilo Santos de Miranda |
Governor Geraldo Alckmim made a brief speech at the WCF |
Iinezita Barroso and Pereira da Viola |
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| Inezita Barroso sings the national anthen |
Inezita and Pereira da Viola at the official opening ceremony of the WCF |
Beginning of the show |
Luis Inácio Lula da Silva at the opening ceremony of the WCF |
Lula and Geraldo Alckmim |
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| Minister Gilberto Gil and Mr. Carlos Lopes from the UN |
Minister Gilberto Gilat the opening ceremony of the WCF |
The performance presents a link between Índia and Brazil |
President Luis Inácio Lula da Silva and the first lady Mariza |
President Lula talks to the Mayor of São Paulo Marta before the ceremony began |
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| Edson Montenegro´s rap |
The secretary for Culture Celso Frateschi, host of the ceremony |
President Luis Inácio Lula da Silva during his speech |
First part of Samwaad - street of encounters |
Second part of the performance |
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| Representative of an indigenous tribe |
Part of the performance Samwaaad |
Samwaad |
Samwaad |
General view of the opening ceremony |
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| Sérgio Mambertti |
Sr. Carlos Lopes |
Antônio Grassi, president of FUNARTE |
The Municipal theatre façade |
Ruy Cézar, Director ofl Via Magia Cultural Institute and Rô Reis, educator and professor |
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| Danilo Santos de Miranda, Chairman of the board of directors of the WCF, Regional Diretcor of SESC São Paulo |
President Luís Inácio Lula da Silva took part in the opening cerecomy of the WCF |
Joel Padula, Technical and social Superintendent and Rosana Cunha, co-manager of SESC´s Management team for Cultural Actions |
Special Theme – Authorial Rights and the crisis in the Music Industry |
Performance at the Fair
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| Louise Beaudoin- from Canada |
Maria Helena Taberna Ayerra- Spanish filmaker and producer |
The Minister of the Special Secretariat of the Presidency of the Republic Matilde Ribeiro |
Abdias was paid homage to at the WCF |
Abdias do Nascimento attends the Closing Ceremony |
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| Abdias do Nascimento |
Opening of the debate Identity and Autonomy- Drawing new Maps |
Amos Gitai, Antônio Arantes, Mauro Maldonato |
Amos Gitai, Antônio Arantes, Mauro Maldonato |
Amos Gitai |
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| André Lepecki- Anthropologist and Playwirght |
Angélica de Moraes-journalist and Art Critic and Gopal Balakrishnan from the USA |
Circus performance at the Main Stage of the Fair |
Armando Silva made his speech at the WCF |
Associated Activity at the Ideas and Opportunities Fair |
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| B Negão also performed at the WCF |
Bonga- a musician from Angola |
Singers greet each other at the show |
Carlos Daniel Dell Santo Seidel, Psychodramatist who is studying to get his Master´s degree in Political Sciences |
Carlos Daniel Dell Santo Seidel, as mediator of the debate and Armando Silva, writer and PHD in Philosophy
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| Carlos Daniel made his speech at the WCF 2004 |
Carlos Fragateiro- from Portugal at one of the debates of the WCF
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Carmem Calvo and Gilberto Gil talk before the debate |
Carmem Calvo Poyato |
Carmem Calvo Poyato |
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| Celso Frateschi made his speech at the Closing Ceremony of the World Cultural Forum |
Chatvichal Promadhattavedi, from Thailand |
Chico Lobo, performed at the Ideas and Oppoortunities Fair |
Filmaker Solanas is warmly acclaimed for his closing speech |
Claudio Antônio de Mauro- Mayor of Rio Claro was the moderator |
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| Children and teens play capoeira |
Indigenous dances at the Ideas and Oppoortunities Fair
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Danilo Santos de Miranda was the mediator of the closing Conference of the WCF |
Danilo Santos de Miranda and Celso Frateschi applaud Fernando Solanas |
Debate - Knowledge, Education, Solidarity, Cultural dimensions of a new time |
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| Debate – Minority groups and their Culture - Human Rights and Human Heritage |
Debate with the Ministers of Culture |
Debate on Global Villages, Local Metropolis |
Debaters discussed the theme - Cultural diversity, Globalisation and Pluralism |
An overview of the Capoeira games
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| Circus performance at the Ideas and Oppoortunities Fair |
Performance of Capoeira Group |
Divina Bautista makes her speech |
Edgard Picolli was the Master of Ceremonies at the evening concert at Ibirapuera Park |
Eduardo Pimenta |
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| Edvaldo Santana opens the shows at the WCF |
Elise M´Balla, from the Cameron director of the Dance Festival |
Erick Becker, from Venezuela |
Fernando Fialho moderator of the debate Cultural Exchange and Post-Colonialism |
The party attracted lots of people at the closing of the WCF |
