Pictures from the 2008 Summer Program in
Rio de Janeiro

     
Brazilian avant-garde poet - Chacal - gives a lecture/performance
     
Professor Silva, from "Casa Ruy Barbosa,"\ teaching a class on Quilombos, runaway slaves settlements


     
Harvard Students Interacting with Brazilian Students through the Arts


     
Instituto Cultural Moreira Salles. Keren Tarin and Rachel Nalebuff enjoy the gardens designed by renowned Brazilian landscape designer Roberto Burle Marx
     
Instructional excursion to the Botanical Gardens
Students learn the colors, textures, and perfumes of a variety of flowers


     
Harvard, PUC students and members of the local community warm up...
     
...to play Capoeira, an Afro-Brazilian Martial Art


     
Instructional Excursion to the Colonial City of Parati
From left to right: Matthew Ross Bloom, Eric Macias, Raul Negron, Carlos Cueto, Melissa Canney, Rachel Nalebuff
     
Kiley McLaughlin and Rachel Nalebuff relax after Instructional Excursion to Parati


       
Instructional excursion to a Coffee Plantation. Students learn traditional ways of dancing...
       
... and Bryant Ives tastes a coffee bean

       
Students enjoy an afternoon with Brazilian children. Harvard students teach American games and music and learn the Brazilian counterparts from the children
       
Melissa Canney and Keren Tarin explore (and enjoy!) the Brazilian sea

Students visiting "Cidade do Samba" learn about Carnival in Rio