Star And Shadow Events 2012-06-24 to 2012-06-24

Heleno - Uk Premiere

2011 / Brazil / Dir José Henrique Fonseca / Portuguese with English subtitles / DVD

Heleno de Freitas was a Brazilian football legend whose career for Rio’s football team Botafogo shone briefly, but brightly, through the 1940s.

Canny Little Library

The Canny Little Library stocks books, zines and pamphlets with a focus on titles with a more critical stance towards the society we live in and not available in most regular libraries/ bookshops. All titles are available to browse and borrow for free. The Star and Shadow also houses a large collection of film, photography and theatre books available for browsing and reference. The library can be contacted at cannylittlelibrary@gmail.com

Portuguese Language Cafe

Ola! Queres falar Português? Do you want to speak Portuguese?

Drop by to learn some Portuguese phrases or chat with native speakers and students. Lead by Clarisse Almeida (Brazil) who teaches Portuguese at the Centre for Lifelong Learning and Fatima Taborda (Portugal) from Newcastle University.

Part of ¡VAMOS! Festival 2012