“Favela Da Paz” - Future Sounds from São Paulo
Support the Global Campus education for the peace band “Poesia Samba Soul” in Tamera

“Many of my friends don't exist any more. I'm searching for something more attractive than violence, so that the youth no longer takes part in the drug war”, says Claudio Miranda about the reason for his work. He comes from Jardim Ângela, one of the favelas (Slums) of São Paulo, which the UN declared in the 90's as one of the most brutal neighbourhoods of the world. More than twenty years ago he began to gather friends to make music with cans; at this time real instruments were unreachable.

Today they are running the successful band Poesia Samba Soul and a cultural project which offers hundreds of young people the possibility to learn instruments and to get to know a life perspective beyond drugs and violence. Poesia Samba Soul has established the only studio in the slums of this city where young bands can record their own music. They educate youth in music, video production and design. The band members themselves teach. They show young people a way to express themselves through arts, music and poetry instead of through violence.

In summer 2009 Claudio Miranda came to Tamera for the first time and enchanted many people with his authentic and warm way of making music. Through the new experience of community and the exchange with peace workers from all over the world, the vision grew within him to create a peace community in the middle of the slums, as he calls it, a “favela da paz” (slum of peace). In Tamera, he envisioned first greening his neighbourhood and giving it an artistic design. Back home, he was immediately offered exactly such a project, including the youth, by the city of São Paulo, and other offers of support. Unexpectedly, he had suddenly become a magnet for the manifestation of his vision. A great hope awoke in his group and they started to see their work in the global context of a newly arising planetary community. In moments of danger, it has been his vision which suddenly gave Claudio trust where there was fear before.

During his participation in the Global Campus meeting in the Colombian peace community San José de Apartadó in the beginning of 2010, his vision ripened further. Claudio is convinced that “If we succeed in transforming a place that is known for its brutality into a place of living peace, then all of Brazil will start to listen attentively and will want to do the same.”

At the center of the vision of the “favela da paz“ stands a human community of solidarity and trust. This is why he started to enter into building community amongst his team. Now they need education in Tamera in order to take next steps. Four of the eight main responsible members of the band want to come to Tamera for the Monte Cerro Peace Education for three months, starting in May. The Monte Cerro Peace Education in Tamera is a basic education course in the framework of the Global Campus, an arising international university that educates its students in the knowledge needed to build new models for peace: knowledge about creating community, political theory and technology.

It order to make their education possible, we urgently ask for financial support.

In total, we need 11,000€:
Four flights São Paulo-Lisbon-São Paulo and transportation: approx. € 4000,-
Participation and stay in the Monte Cerro Peace Education for four persons for three months: € 6400,-
pocket money: € 600,-

Whoever wants to support this future project, may contact Patrick Rudolph: pat(at)chinadoc.de
http://www.bandapoesiasambasoul.com.br
Video about the project
A song for Mulatos with images of the Global Campus in Colombia

“Favela Da Paz” - Future Sounds from São Paulo


The positive example of a peacecommunity like San José de Apartado in
Colombia inspired Claudio in Brasil to create a "Favela de Paz" -
"Favela of Peace" :
During his participation in the Global Campus
meeting in the Colombian peace community San José de Apartadó in the beginning of 2010, his vision ripened further. Claudio is convinced that
“If we succeed in transforming a place that is known for its brutality into a place of living peace, then all of Brazil will start to listen attentively and will want to do the same.”
Global Grace em Colombia!
A comemoração de Luis Eduardo Guerra na Comunidade de Paz em San Jose
de Apartado.
The Global Campus : http://www.tamera.org/index.php?id=699&L=0
The band : http://www.bandapoesiasambasoul.com.br/

The video : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dD4InuPoys

I´m amazed what these people are creating !
Peter


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