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[dropcap]R[/dropcap]IO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – With the long-awaited arrival of the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Rio Olympic Games looming ever closer you’d be forgiven for thinking that you’ve seen just about every Brazil-related documentary going.  Whether it be on gangs, policing, poverty, mass protest movements, deforestation, water pollution, plastic surgery or even sport – you […]

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Living your Dream started in November 2012 when Diana Martínez, volunteer in the orphanage Casa do Caminho, in Xérem, Brazil, gave the first English lesson to one of the former residents: Davi Porfirio. Bart Bijen, the former Director of this orphanage, was looking for an English teacher for Davi so he could get ready for […]

Learning portuguese in Rio de Janeiro is great. An increasing amount of foreigners are travelling to Brazil for work, attracted by its growing economy and rising middle class. Tourism is booming and a string of upcoming international events and a world-famous Carnival will ensure that this trend continues. Arriving for the first time, however, many […]

[dropcap]R[/dropcap]IO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Last week I wrote about the movie ‘Waste Land’ (‘Lixo Extraordinário’), a documentary about a Rio-based social project led by Brazilian artist Vik Muniz. As it happens, Vik Muniz has chosen none other than Vidigal for his latest social project.  He’s been busy constructing a new building-studio-facility which sits at the top of […]