Founder & CEO : Shirley Nunes
Shirley sempre esteve envolvida com música desde quando era criança. Durante sua adolescência esteve sempre conectado com arte, linguagem, voluntariado, envolvida com projetos culturais ou sociais. Nosúltimos 10 anos, ela começou a cantar profissionalmente em 2006 em pubs de São José do Rio Preto/ SP/ Brazil. Antes de vir a Londres, participou de vários projetos ( Banda de Maracatu, Carnavais, Bandas de baile…) e começou a estudar Letras ( entre 2004 – 2008). Depois de ensinar na escola pública em 2009, Shirley decidiu estudar inglês em Londres. Desde que chegou em Londres, mais uma vez, viu-se envolvida com a música, fazendo parte de vários projetos músicas com grupo de Maracatu ‘ EStrela do Norte’, Group de Samba-reggae ‘Dendê’, Festival de Forró, Trio de Forró ‘Cactus Flowers’ e regularmente cantou Música Popular Brasileira em vários lugares. Em 2010 começou também a escrever para um jornal da comunidade brasileira ‘Brazilian News’sobre linguagen, música e depois de 2 anos, foi para Brazilian Post, outro jornal onde escreveu sobre ‘What’s on’, onde surge a idéia básica para Guia de eventos Brasileiros que hoje Culturart apresenta mensalmente. A partir dali, Shirley começou escrever periodicamente também para Revista Real, Brasil etc, Elondres.com
Após as experiências na área de ensino, musical no Brasil e em Londres, em 2012, Shirley decidiu fundar uma organização para ajudar a promover arte, cultura e eventos brasilieros, os quais envolve muitos projetos, workshops, palestras da área cultural e educacional, fazendo conexões de professores, produtores, artistas independentes etc. Essa organização chama Culturart.
Editora: Carol Beal Jornalista,
Tradutora: Harriet Batey
From a young age Brazil and its culture have fascinated Harriet, and when she had the opportunity to live in Rio de Janeiro during her undergraduate degree she jumped at the chance. There, she worked for local charity CIACAC, teaching English within two of the city’s favelas. After graduating she moved to Porto, where she again taught English and dedicated herself to improving her command of the Portuguese Language and is currently undertaking a master’s study at King’s College London’s Brazilian Institute. Here, her studies have focused around the development of Brazil in particularly from a politico-social perspective with emphasis on the context of Rio de Janeiro. She hopes to complete her thesis looking at the commodification of favela culture in September of this year and is looking forward to being involved in all aspects of Culturart.
Designer: Natan Herber
Webmaster: Daniel Rodrigues
Assistante: Amie Walker
Amie is an actor living and working in London. Currently studying Portuguese her love of theatre and Brazil brought her to becoming a columnist for Culturart. Amie is passionate about theatre and dance and having performed with the Royal Shakespeare Company as part of the World Shakespeare Festival was exposed to International work that has informed her own practise as a performer as well as introducing her to the rich tapestry of Brazilian Culture. Learn more: www.amieburnswalker.com
Assistante, Produtora de video, Colunista: Pati Nunes
Pati Nunes has lived in London since 2008.She got a multifaceted profile,member of The Federation of Holistic Therapists also the young lady is developing as producer at ADM Aztec Digital Media, she is involved with events,videos,articles and assistance.
Columnist: Alba Cabral ( Culture/ Music)
Alba Cabral is a Brazilian musician, songwriter, cultural researcher of folk traditions. Graduated in Languages from University of São Paulo, Brazil and University for Foreigners of Siena, Italy. Alba has been living between Brazil and London since 2009, developing projects related to music education and Brazilian culture in schools, community centers and institutes in the UK. She also performs Brazilian and Afro-Brazilian music in bands/projects of her own and in collaboration with others musicians. Current blog of poetry and prose www.lucedellamattina.blogspot.
Columnist Nuno Faísca ( Art)
Nuno (artistic name Adantes Vieira), is a Portuguese actor and performer who has lived in London since November 2011. His experience ranges from roles in Portuguese telenovelas, theatre http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgQXMjv3k-k and street performance http://vimeo.com/9782913. He featured in the independent feature length film ‘Além de Ti’, which has already been shown at various Portuguese festivals and is currently being shown at FEST’AFILM 5, the Festival for Luso-Franco Cinema in Montpellier receiving a few awards. Nuno spent a year and a half being involved in street performance for Med Jumping Comics, having done a performance in London for the launch of the German film ‘Bar 25’ in Shoreditch’s Village Underground Club. He is a tenor in the vocal group ‘Nossa Voz’ and sees music, writing and poetry as a form of freedom, liberation and a paradoxically conscious dream.
Fernanda Franco ( Cinema)
She is an Award winner film festival PR with marketing & advertising, curatorship and event production experience. She graduated in Social Communications, in Brazil, before moving to London, in 2001. She holds two MAs, one in Film Theory (2006) and the second one in Producing and Screenwriting (2009) for Film and TV, both by University of Westminster. Since 2005, she has been working with various film events in the UK. She promotes both the UK Portuguese Film Festival and the UK Argentine Film Festival. She produces and promotes the Brazilian Film Festival of London, heading to its 5th edition in 2013, in partnership with BAFTA and sponsored by BNDES. In 2011, she was granted the Brazilian International Press Award. Fernanda is also a script consultant to Independent Film Festival of London and British Animation Film Festival and collaborates with various writers’ blogs. She is currently developing her own script for a TV series in Brazil.
Luana Cavalcanti ( Portuguese)
Wellington Medeiros ( World Cup/ Politics)
Ari Sofianos (Critic)
O Ari Sofianos e grego de origem, mas ele mora em Londres ha muito tempo e tambem ele adora o Brasil, onde ele passa uma boa parte do ano. O Ari e presidente do `St James’s Branch of The International Wine & Food Society’, fundador da Academia Grega de Gastronomia e membro associado da Academia Brasileira de Gastronomia. Ele e apaixonado pela boa comida e o bom vinho e tem escrito criticas para alguns dos melhores guias de restaurantes na Europa.
Photographer: Shirley Amaral
Shirley Amaral gained her BA from the Federal University of Espírito Santo in 2004 and has worked since 2000 as a photographer and graphics editor, in particular using Photoshop. In 2004 she opened a studio though decided to close it on moving to Prague in 2008, and then opened another when she moved to London where she still lives. She arrived in London in 2010 as a freelancer; she worked for a talent agency producing portraits. Currently, she works as a studio photographer and does freelance work for events. Learn more: www.schirleyamaral.com
Photographer: Regina Mester
Regina Mester é fotógrafa independente, poeta e desenhista gráfica. Ela estudou Desenho Gráfico na Universidade de Kingston e participou em várias oficinas de fotografia em Londres e no Brasil. Regina fotografa eventos comercialmente para várias empresas, escolas, pessoas físicas, bem como vários jornais locais. Regina também é diretora da ‘ReMe Arts’ produzindo padrões gráficos para quadros, roupas, acessórios e fotografia. Seu estúdio “Scarf Photography” revela um toque de sensualidade misteriosa dentro de sua natureza evocativa e o seu trabalho de fotojornalismo, denota um forte senso de espiritualidade com certo espaçamento.
Photographer: Fernando BA
Fernando B. Arroteia is a Brazilian freelance photographer based in London. He has great experience working for many years in human resources in big companies in Sao Paulo – Brazil. But, after moving to the UK in 2011, he decided to turn your hobby as a career, using his skills to deal well with people and the photographic skills reached with many courses/workshops/travels. Passionate about many kinds of photography, now he works with social events, parties, portraits and weddings. And he believes there are two essential items that makes a good professional photographer: talent and commitment. Check out his website: www.fernandoba.com
Regina Mester é fotógrafa independente, poeta e desenhista gráfica. Ela estudou Desenho Gráfico na Universidade de Kingston e participou em várias oficinas de fotografia em Londres e no Brasil. Regina fotografa eventos comercialmente para várias empresas, escolas, pessoas físicas, bem como vários jornais locais. Regina também é diretora da ‘ReMe Arts’ produzindo padrões gráficos para quadros, roupas, acessórios e fotografia. Seu estúdio “Scarf Photography” revela um toque de sensualidade misteriosa dentro de sua natureza evocativa e o seu trabalho de fotojornalismo, denota um forte senso de espiritualidade com certo espaçamento.
