Finally, spring!
Spring has arrived, here in my portion of the Bottom Half, even if that means having to suffer through the occasional tropical storm.
Today, that meant going for a walk down the Rio Cotia, the river flowing through the municipality next door, until we met the 'Cachoeira da Graça'. 'Cahcoeira' means waterfall, while 'Graça', capitalised, would imply the name 'Grace', but could also be the noun, or even 'free'.
It is 'free', as in that it is freely accessible. And, with the extensive urban agglomeration that is greater São Paulo, one of the few waterfalls that are accessible within reasonable striking distance from the city.
What that means, is that it not only attracts families who want to lounge in the sun, while benefiting from the cooling effects of the water's haze, but also that it attracts practitioners of Umbanda, the Afro-Brazilian religion which, though with broad and global roots, only took shape in its current form, most probably as late as the early 20th century, on the opposite side of the bay from Rio de Janeiro.
This time, we did not leave any offerings, and joined the sunbathers instead.
See you at the cascades!
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18 Oct · Tue · 18:00 (UTC)
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Meet the authors who are writing about walking and the landscapes through which we walk, at walk · listen · create’s Walking Writers Salons. We are delighted to have biologist and award-winning nature writer David George Haskell join us in October, talking about “Sounds Wild and Broken: Sonic marvels, Evolution's Creat... Keep reading
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A micro-app which constructs the soundtrack of the places you physically move through. Keep reading
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They say smell is the quickest route to memory. Your walk, today, is as a future perfumer...
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12 Oct · Wed · 13:00 (UTC)
· Sidmouth, UK
A Sound Walk, together, as part of Sidmouth Science Festival, with Emma Welton. Keep reading
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13 Oct · Thu · 08:30 (UTC)
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In this workshop, multimedia storytellers Kaska Hempel and Bronwin Patrickson will introduce you to using an izi.travel app for creating a mobile-phone audio tour t... Keep reading
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From our network
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Fun news: I’ll be selling some of my Social Practice zines and a few copies of Some Social Practice at the Twin Cities Book Festival at the Title Collective table. ... Keep reading
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Forming a portal between Yarun (Bribie Island) and Whangarei, this mixed media work … Keep reading
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I’ve been a fan of radio aporee for what must be more than 15 years. The platform is a collaboratively constructed collection of field recordings from all over the ... Keep reading
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Le plus difficile est de sortir des sentiers battus, fussent-ils auriculaires, de tordre des approches audio-paysagères pétries d’habitudes, d’infléchir des situati... Keep reading
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Stuff we found
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Visitors to the Chinati Foundation’s special exhibition space this weekend will encounter an elevated 80-foot-long blue-green terracotta tile installation by abstra... Keep reading
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Walking in the mural capital of the world is like browsing through an outdoor museum. Here are six murals in Philadelphia which certainly deserve a closer look Sour... Keep reading
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