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From My Desk...I keep hoping for better times, less worries, more health, less crime less violence, less hunger, less abuse, and I say less because we could hope for none at all, but that is a whole other story.

I have felt loss, and dispair, I even felt no hope at all, but life always shows me a brighter day, and my Faith takes over changing it all.

I am an optimistic and a believer that everything will be better, and that everyonewill lend a hand, or help and even care. I hope... to see a better world.

One thing I got to taste, eternal undying love. And I am thankful for that.

We hope you enjoy this issue we have tons of creativity, talent, success and endless beauty. Thanks to all the beautiful people that collaborate with us.Our special thanks to Jai Gallery Curator and Director Coralie for the interviewwith Gabriel Wickbold, our cover. Our Europe Art Editor our extra talented Artist Alchimist, Suzana Jardim, bringing us the Magical Dominique Lacomte, and I also would like to thank Edmundo Cavalcanti and congratulate him for the passion, and devotion to the Art, and his first Expo. Great Job Edmundo!

There is a lot of good stuff inside! Enjoy! See you in two weeks !

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Art Editor BrazilEdmundo Cavalcanti

Art Editor EuropeSuzana Jardim

Art USAJai Gallery Curator & DirectorCoralie Claeysen-Gleyzon

A Voz do PoetaNilton Bustamante

Escritora Vera FonsecaPoesia Em todo Lugar

Orlando Music SceneLarry Poynter Jr

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ArtOur Cover-Gabriel WickboldArt photography interviewedBy Coralie Claeysen-Gleyzon

Artist Dominique LacomteBy Suzana Jardim

Artist Gilberto GomesBy Edmundo Cavalcanti

Brazilian Expo Tanto MarS. Paulo Brazil

Art Photography Kim Keeever

PoetryNilton BustamanteVera FonsecaEdimundo Cavalcanti

TourismThe New Cabana Bay Beach ResortUniversal Orlando

Seaworld Celebrates 25th Anniversary

The Fishing Mania at The Disney Resorts

Community NewsNews at Orange County government

City Hall News and Calendar

The Orlando City Soccer news.

Coming UpJesus Christ Superstar Production

The Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra Next Events

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Consumer NewsDavid Yurman New Store at The Mall at Millenia

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A Palavra e o PoetaMisty

Autor: Nilton Bustamante

Agora a pouco me deixei levar por algo que a madrugada oferece, mas não mostra, não deixa nas prateleiras, nem nas gavetas... Mas, preci-so de um trago, e o meu trago é música, Sarah Vaughan deslizando “Misty” pelos meus cantos.Já que estou descalço, quero dançar, no meio da sala, pode ser nas esquinas, pode ser qualquer lugar, no banheiro, no jardim, desde que haja noite, desde que seu rosto encoste ao meu. Ah, estar descalço é estar nu, é entrega, é intervalo, é liberdade, é ser índio, é sentir os sentidos to-cando a pele e um pouco mais.

Você e eu, nesse imenso e inconfundível silêncio, essa nebulosidade de tanto a dizer, e não querer falar nada, tocar apenas com os olhos o que se vai por outros esconderijos, por outras miragens, outras vertigens... Você e eu, e nossa maneira de ser, fazer manhas, raspando minha barba por fazer em seus seios que não me deixam, não me deixam em paz...

Esses encontros madrugadas, são para saltar fe-licidade de altos trampolins, é perigo constante, é frio percorrendo todos os caminhos, e mesmo assim esse gosto de bis, esse gosto de querer mais e um tanto mais, mais e mais, deitar no ta-pete com os pés no sofá, olhar para o teto, con-tar carneirinhos, rir à toa, tal é essa coisa, esse modo de tecer momentos e colocar nas paredes, pra ficar grude, pra ficar por perto, e depois lem-brar...

Ahã, essa canção... Acho que fiquei assim, zonzo, rodando, vendo você ir e voltar, roda-coração, esse balanço, esse trapézio, esse descuido, essa vontade de beijar baixinho, vendo filmes-cober-tores avançando pelas claridades das manhãs,

sem os sustos, sem os medos, sem explicações na ponta da língua, sem bater cartão do tudo igual, apenas você no meu colo, mas não que-ro boneco de ventríloquo, quero sua libertação para você usar sua própria voz, fazer de sua lín-gua o que bem quiser, beijo ou malcriação, tudo o que desejar... A anarquia nesses momentos cabe tão bem, sem saber o que virá do outro, dois desiguais, dois estrangeiros que se encon-tram e deixam a natureza conduzir a orquestra de nós dois... Você sabe bem o que é isso, não é mesmo, meu bem?

Ah, meu amor, o mundo, o nosso mundo, precisa mesmo desses dias madrugadas, ouvir “Misty” e esperar amanhecer sem pijamas, apenas des-calços e bêbados de amor...Sarah Vaughan: “Misty”

Em todo lugar. Vera Fonseca

O mundo da gente,Com raízes diversas,Mistura de tantas raças,Traços e pele diferentes,Falando outras línguas,Somos de lados opostos,Com tanto em comum,Dúvidas e esperanças,Nutrem estas vontades,De ver na terra a paz,A soberania soberba,Riscada definitivamente,Derrubando as fronteiras,Eliminando o sofrer,Criada por tiranos,Que usam o poder,Para atos indigestos,Como se neste processo,Fossem seres especiais...É a diversão no paraíso,A dança dos tolos,Querendo demais,O que é de todos,E o que é de ninguém,Vida que passa lenta,Morte rápida e violenta,Não importam os rótulos,Ninguém escapa disto,Há um destino traçado,Desviar das más ações,Fazer do tempo instrumento,Para ter a liberdade de escolha,Compor o caminho sem culpas,Pois, ao plantar e disseminar o bem,Estaremos sincronizados com todos...Então, vamos dar as mãos,Este mundo está muito carente,E a emoção de doar, está em todos,Basta entender que somos iguais,Encarar nos olhos do próximo,Para ver que podemos ser a luz,Deste maravilhoso mundo...Vera Fonseca.Poema do livro PASSAGEIRA

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“Rosas para uma dama” Edmundo Cavalcanti

Fiz-te estas duas rosasPodem não serem tão formosos.Mas fiz pensando em ti.Minhas mãos ficavam tentando coresAmarela como a primaveraBranca que me traz muita pazVermelha como minha paixão.Rosa, como um sonho suave, sensação prazerosa.Verde, medo de perder-te.Fui levado inconsciente para o azul. Tranquilidade, serenidade e harmonia.Tudo que eu queria e nem sabia.Te rosto, nunca vi, mas posso imaginar.Podes não acreditarEstou a te amar.Sei que rosas têm espinhosMas, fazem parte de nosso caminho.Mas temos que segura-las com jeitinhoEvitando os espinhos.São suas, receba e cuide delas com muito carinho.Rosas iguais a estas nunca receberas, são únicas.Especiais, e te trarão muita paz.

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Universal Orlando's Cabana Bay Beach Resort Is Now Open

Brand-New On-Site Hotel Features Family Suites, 10-Lane Bowl-ing Alley, Retro Arcade, a Zero-Entry Pool with a Waterslide and Interactive Water Play Area for Kids - and More

Universal's Cabana Bay Beach Resort officially wel-comes its first guests today. This brand-new value and moderately-priced prop-erty is the fourth on-site hotel at Universal Orlan-do Resort and evokes the classic, retro-feel of icon-ic beach resorts from the 1950s and 60's.

Located on-site at Univer-sal Orlando Resort, the new hotel is a destination within itself - featuring a stunning design with bold colors, retro-inspired ar-chitecture and sweep-ing vistas that transport guests back to a time of re-laxation and endless fami-ly fun. Cabana Bay guests can experience incredible amenities throughout the hotel, including:

• Bowling a strike at the 10-lane Galaxy Bowl

• Channeling the godfa-ther of fitness at the Jack LaLanne Physical Fitness

Studio• Racing down the icon-

ic dive tower waters-lide and splashing into a 10,000 square foot ze-ro-entry pool in the Ca-bana Courtyard

• Enjoying a retro-themed specialty cocktail from Swizzle Lounge or Atom-ic Tonic

• Finding something deli-cious for the entire family at Bayliner Diner, a food court with something for everyone to enjoy includ-ing a salad bar, burgers, sandwiches, pizza, pasta andand-go items

• And this summer, guests will be able to enjoy even more incredible ameni-ties, including a second 8,000-square-foot zero en-try pool, Universal Orlan-do's first lazy river at an on-site hotel, The Hideaway

Bar & Grill, and addition-al moderately-priced fam-ily suites and value-priced standard guest rooms.

When complete, Universal's Cabana Bay Beach Resort will feature a total of 1,800 rooms - 900 family suites and 900 standard guest rooms.

Guests can stay in a family suite, which sleeps up to six people and includes a fold-out foam bed, kitchenette, a sliding partition for priva-cy, two flat-screen TVs and

a bathroom with prepara-tion spaces for three people at once. Cabana Bay guests also get exclusive benefits only available to on-site ho-tel guests at Universal Or-lando, including Early Park Admission to The Wizard-ing World of Harry Potter one hour before the theme park opens.

Rates for the family suites begin at $174 per-night, and can run as low as $134 per-night depending on the length of stay. Rates for the standard guest rooms - which will be available this summer - begin at $119 per night, and can run as low as $93 per-night depending on the length of stay.

“We’ve sought to create a special place where families can spend time together and create long-lasting mem-ories outside of the theme parks,” said Russ Dagon, Vice President and Execu-tive Project Director, Uni-versal Creative. “From the moment they step inside, families will be transported back to a different, more re-laxing time.”“We are thrilled to finally

welcome guests into Cabana Bay Beach Resort,” said Ad-nan Bizri, Managing Direc-tor, Universal’s Cabana Bay Beach Resort. “This is the perfect addition to Univer-sal Orlando’s already stellar line-up of properties, allow-ing families to continue a wonderful vacation well be-yond the theme parks.”

To learn more or to make a reservation, call 1-888-273-1311 or visit www.univer-salorlando.com. Universal’s Cabana Bay Beach Resort is co-owned and managed by Loews Hotels & Resorts.

SeaWorld's 50th Celebration is a Sea of SurprisesSeaWorld Parks & Enter-tainment launched a multi-park celebration to com-memorate a key event in the company's history.

The original SeaWorld® Park opened its gates for the first time in March 1964 on Mission Bay in San Di-ego.

SeaWorld’s 50th Celebra-tion features a Sea of Sur-prises(TM) throughout an 18-month celebration high-lighting some of the most memorable SeaWorld ex-periences in San Diego, Orlando and San Antonio.

For nearly five decades, SeaWorld has surprised and amazed guests with unique entertainment, thrilling rides and up-close encounters with animals. During SeaWorld’s 50(th) Celebration visitors will be invited to take part in the excitement through new interactive experiences, shows and pathway per-formances, even more up-close animal encounters throughout the park and “The SeaWorld Surprise Squad” treating guests with prizes every day.

SeaWorld’s 50(th) Celebration Sea of Surprises(TM) Highlights

• SeaWorld San Diego will celebrate 50 years by completely trans-forming the park’s ar-rival experience. Explor-er’s Reef(TM) will open in March for the cele-bration kick-off, and im-mediately immerse park guests into an undersea oasis. From the moment they enter the park, guests can connect with the sea through multiple touch pools featuring shark pups, rays, skates and delicate little clean-er fish.

• SeaWorld is known for amazing entertain-ment and each park will have something new for the 50(th) celebration. Kicking off on March 21, Park pathways will come to life with spontaneous entertainment.

• “Bubble Blowout” is sure to be a guest favorite with a fantastical vehiclecre-ating bubbles of all siz-es and shapes. Engag-ing performances with sea-inspired costumes and props will pop up at unexpected moments to surprise guests

throughout the day, like “Splash Dance” and the “Sea Street Band.”

• Starting this summer, new shows offer guests the chance to celebrate the longer park hours. “Shamu’s Celebration: Light Up The Night” is a nighttime Shamu Show debuting at all three Sea-World parks.

• The high energy show will include new, origi-nal music and produc-tion elements, as well as new killer whale be-haviors. SeaWorld San Antonio will also launch a new 50(th)-Celebra-tion-themed ski show for the summer season.

• The “SeaWorld® Sur-

prise Squad” will roam the SeaWorld parks on a daily basis giving away prizes and special gifts, including exclu-sive access to rides, be-hind-the-scenes experi-ences, Shamu-themed merchandise, reserved show seating and more.*

For more information and continuing news about SeaWorld’s 50(th) Cele-bration and the Sea of Sur-prises, visit

www.seaworld.com/celebration

SeaWorld's 50th Celebration is a Sea of Surprises

SeaWorld guests are often greeted by an animal am-bassador, many of whomwere orphaned or injured in the wild and given a sec-ond chance thanks to the SeaWorld Rescue Team. As part of SeaWorld's 50th Celebration, there will be more surprise encounters with animal ambassadors throughout the day. A pair of Magellanic penguins, a lemur, or even a parade offlamingos could surprise guests at any moment at all three SeaWorld locations.

• To showcase SeaWor-ld's commitment to the environment and pas-

sion for protecting the ocean, a series of giant sea life sculptures will be displayed throughout the parks. SeaWorld com-missioned environmen-tal art group The Washed Ashore Project for a col-lection of larger-than-life

sea-themed sculptures - many weighing more than half a ton.

• The material used to create these pieces comes from the billions of pounds of garbage - mostly plastics - that wind up in our oceans.

• These amazing works of

art point to the urgent need to protect marine animals from such dangers and pre-serve their ocean habitats.• As part of its continuing

commitment to new tech-nology that enhances the

guest experience, Sea-World's 50th Celebration will include new ways for fans to connect to the parks and each other though dig-ital devices.

The parks will be launching a variety of enhancements, from interactive apps that provide fun new ways to experience the park to new games and video content.

Take Me Fishing™ Hooks Walt Disney World Resort Guests On Fishing And Boating

TakeMeFishing.org Connects Children and Families with Nature through its Sponsorship of the Fun Ed-ucational Fishing and Boating Experiences at Walt Disney World Resort

In today's age where getting kids outside to exercise and enjoy nature can be more challenging than ever, Take Me Fishing(TM) and Walt Disney World Resort are making it easier for families to connect with the outdoors through fishing and boating.

Beginning this month, The Recreational Boating & Fishing Foundation (RBFF) and its Take Me Fish-ing(TM) campaign are sponsoring the fun and edu-cational family catch-and-release fishing and boat-ing experiences offered to guests at the Walt Disney World Resort in Lake Buena Vista, FL.

Three locations at the resort offer Take Me Fish-ing(TM) branded guided fishing and boating experi-ences. In addition, visitors to Disney's Fort Wilder-ness Resort & Campground have the opportunity to participate in dockside fishing, while visitors at Disney's Port Orleans Resort-Riverside can try their hand at cane pole fishing. Guests can also enjoy the "Take Me Fishing Challenge" recently introduced at Disney's Fort Wilderness Resort & Campground.

"With the popularity of fishing and boating on the rise with women and children in the U.S., collabo-rating with the Walt Disney World Resort is helping us get even more families engaged in these sports," said Frank Peterson, president and CEO of RBFF. "Our collective dedication to conservation and fam-ily activity make this relationship ideal to showcas-ing the magic of fishing and boating."

Guests who boat and fish at the Walt Disney World Resort will be encouraged to continue these memo-rable experiences at home by connecting with Take-MeFishing.org, which provides more information about where to boat and fish in their local commu-nities. Parents can also find how-to videos to learn fishing basics as well as additional safety tips and advice.

In addition to Take Me Fishing's presence at the Walt Disney WorldResort, they have a relationship with Disney Media Networks to spread the word about the benefits of fishing and boating. This rela-tionship includes sponsorships on Disney Channel and Disney XD, activating through Radio Disney at popular events around the country, as well as inte-gration of the Take Me Fishing messaging in online content and mobile apps.

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Orange County Mayor Jacobs called in the experts — student athletes from four local winning high school basket-ball teams — to help her with her NCAA bracket selections. On hand to assist the Mayor were bas-ketball champions from Winter Park (boys), Evans (boys), Edgewater (girls) and Wekiva (girls) High Schools. The ex-perts all agreed it would be Florida all the way. “One great Florida university, FSU, brought home the National Football Championship this year, so I feel excited and confident to predict another great center of learning, the University of Florida, is going to match that achieve-ment by bringing home the National Basketball Championship,” said Mayor Jacobs. The students assisted in creating Mayor Jacobs’ bracket for the NCAA 2014 Bas-ketball Championship games, which will be held at the Amway Center on Thurs-day, March 20 and Saturday, March 22. The participating students were select-ed by their high school principals. “When Mayor Jacobs asked for our championship male and female basket-ball student athletes to help with her

bracket selections, we were so excit-ed,” said Orange County Public Schools spokeswoman Kathy Marsh. “Our stu-dent athletes are sharp and well-trained on what to seek in quality college ath-letes.” Student athletes arrived at the Orange County Administration Center in their team uniforms and gathered in the Mayor’s Conference Room to go over the NCAA 2014 Basketball Champion-ship brackets and the picks for Mayor Jacobs. "It was great to join with basketball champs from across Orange County to help Mayor Jacobs select her bracket," said Dewey Johnson of Winter Park High School. "We think we've got a winning bracket!" WKMG Local 6, hosts of the NCAA 2014 Basketball Championship games, and Orange TV recorded the bracket selec-tion.

The footage is available from Orange TV via our FTP site. Please point your FTP client to ftp://ftp.orangetvfl.org/News Username: otvguest Password: vision1* The file to download is labled: Mayor Jacobs NCAA Brackets.mp4.

Student Athletes Assist Mayor Teresa Jacobs in NCAA Bracket Selections

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Guests boarded and toured SunRail during the preview celebration for the Sand Lake Road station. Orange County, FL – Orange County celebrated the opening of the newest SunRail station at the intersection of Sand Lake Road and Orange Avenue last Sunday afternoon, March 30. The Sand Lake Road station preview celebration welcomed community leaders, elected officials and citizens to the historical event.

Festivities began at 1 p.m. with re-marks and a proclamation read by District 3 Commissioner Pete Clarke. Representative Linda Stewart praised the arrival of SunRail and is work-ing with the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) to place suit-able markers designating this stop as the Historic Pine Castle Station, upon completion of construction. FDOT District 5 Secretary Noranne Downs touched on the safety and connec-tivity of the final SunRail route. Af-ter the program, guests boarded and toured the SunRail train.

During the preview, engineers and train representatives answered questions and shared the benefits of riding SunRail. Food trucks, local vendors, kid-friendly activities and other community agencies were also

part of the community celebration.The Sand Lake Road station is de-signed to connect with future rail options to Orlando International Airport to the east, and the Orange County Convention Center and In-ternational Drive tourism district to the west. This station also serves the residents of nearby Belle Isle, Edge-wood and Taft. Station designs in-clude a park and ride lot as well as bus and passenger drop-off areas.

“Judging by Sunday’s turnout, there seems to be a lot of interest in Sun-Rail and we hope that the people who visited will become passen-gers and customers,” Commissioner Clarke said. “SunRail will change the way we live as it will stimulate eco-nomic growth and development.”

The entire 61-mile system from DeLand to Poinciana will be built in two phases and comprised of 17 sta-tions when complete. Phase I from DeBary to the Sand Lake Road Sta-tion will be fully operational on May 1. Double-decker passenger cars will feature wide, comfortable seats with access to rest room facilities, power outlets, and free unlimited wireless Internet connectivity.

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Mayor Jacobs joins the ribbon cut-ting ceremony of the Central Flori-da International Trade Office at the National Entrepreneur Center.

Orange County, FL – Orange County Mayor Teresa Jacobs and represen-tatives from JPMorgan Chase & Co. celebrated the grand opening of the Central Florida International Trade Office (CFITO) at the National Entre-preneur Center on Friday morning.

“The creation of CFITO will enable Orange County companies to tap into key trading markets and ex-pand their export opportunities,” said Mayor Jacobs. “We’re also im-proving efficiency and streamlining the process for foreign investors to help them connect with local part-ners to establish local operations.”

CFITO is a regional hub for foreign entrepreneurs and international companies interested in doing busi-ness in Central Florida. The CFITO office is now open at the Nation-al Entrepreneur Center at Orlan-do Fashion Square and serves as a central location for connecting the global trading community to local companies.

CFITO also supports small business-es looking to export goods and ser-vices through international part-nerships and resources.This one-year pilot program was made possible by a $65,000 con-tribution from Orange County and a dollar-per-dollar matching grant from JP Morgan Chase.

“Central Florida is already a global leader in tourism,” said Jerry Ross, Executive Director of the NEC. “As we develop a greater awareness of our region’s business opportunities, Orange County is positioning our region as the ideal hub for interna-tional trade in the Americas.”

CFITO will improve the efficiency of routing and directing inquiries by potential international trading part-ners, while leveraging our region’s existing network of support orga-nizations to assist local businesses who want to explore international trade opportunities.

As of August 2013, Florida’s total merchandise trade exceeded $105 billion, with $3.9 billion originating from the Orlando–Kissimmee–San-ford region.

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OC Mayor Teresa Jacobs, Monica Correa-Bright HousePresident AACC Coco Johnson and AACC Board Director

IOA Corporate 5kMore than 525 corporate teams made up of 7,100 runners and walkers are currently reg-istered for the IOA Corporate 5k on Thurs-day, April 17. Over 17,000 runners and walk-ers (700+ teams) are expected at Lake Eola in the heart of Downtown for the IOA Corporate 5k benefiting the Track Shack Foundation, a 501©(3) organization established to promote health and fitness.

Celebrating workplace health and fitness, lo-cal corporations, non-profits, churches and clubs will enjoy the City’s largest night run, walk and office party of the year. Networking will begin at 5 p.m. and the race will begin at 7:15 p.m. To register or for more information on the event, please visit corporate5k.com.

Dear Community Leader,

On May 1, our community will have the benefit of being able to commute throughout Central Florida on SunRail, our new 32-mile, 12-sta-tion commuter train that serves DeBary on the north to Sand Lake Road on the south, with four stations in the City of Orlando.In advance of May 1, I hope you’ll take advan-tage of one of the many opportunities to learn more about how SunRail will serve the City of Orlando.

Attend a Station Soft Opening

You’re invited to attend one of the City of Orlan-do station’s soft openings where you’ll have an opportunity to tour the train and stations and learn more about SunRail’s service, schedule and prices.

• Florida Hospital Station (500 East Rollins Street), April 3 from 6:30 am to 9:45 am

• LYNX Central Station (101 West Livingston Street), April 4 from 11 am to 1 pm

• Church Street Station (99 West South Street), April 10 from 11 am to 1 pm

• Orlando Health/Amtrak Station (250 Colum-bia Street), April 9 from 6:30 am to 9:00 am

• Celebrate the Grand Opening of SunRail

On Wednesday April 30, the SunRail train will take a whistle stop tour to each of 12 stations to officially commemorate the opening of the line. Each station is planning festivities and events to welcome the train to its station and to the City of Orlando. It is anticipated that the train will arrive at the following stations at the following times:

• Florida Hospital Station (500 East Rollins Street), 10:30 am

• LYNX Central Station (101 West Livingston Street), 10:40 am

• Church Street Station (99 West South Street), 10:50 am

• Orlando Health/Amtrak Station (250 Colum-bia Street), 11:00 am

The whistle stop tour will conclude with a large grand opening event at the Sand Lake Station (8030 South Orange Avenue). A large crowd is expected so it’s advisable to arrive at the Sand Lake station no later than 11:00 am if you’d like to attend the grand opening.

Ride the Train…for Free!May 1-16, SunRail will be testing service and schedules and you are invited to ride SunRail for free. Please visit SunRail.com for the com-plete schedule. SunRail is the spine of what will eventually be a region-wide, multi-modal network of transportation options that allow us to get where we want to go without having to rely solely on car ownership and expen-sive gasoline. SunRail also encourages smart growth and transit-oriented-development with new projects at each station creating jobs and boosting the economy.

I hope you’ll join me in attending one or more of these events to celebrate our new SunRail commuter line. For information on these and other SunRail events, please visit cityoforlando.net/sunrail or www,SunRail.com.

Sincerely,Buddy DyerMayor

Project DTO - Advancing

Project DTO – Advancing Downtown Orlando is a comprehensive vision-ing process to formulate the next chapter of Downtown Orlando’s evo-lution! The primary outcomes of this process will include a DTO Vision Plan, DTO Marketing Strategy and a new Downtown Orlando Community Redevelopment Area Plan to act as a roadmap to achieving the envisioned Downtown.

The process will emphasize heavy public and stakeholder outreach, in-cluding crowd sourcing and interac-tive public experiences to gain insight into the community's needs and in-terests. Additionally, the Project DTO Task Force will be working in coordi-nation with the ongoing Parramore Comprehensive Neighborhood Plan.

“This task force is unique because it allows people who are passionate about Downtown to have the oppor-tunity to help shape its future,” said Mayor Dyer. “With this type of collab-oration we will ensure that Downtown Orlando re

Downtown Orlando

mains the region’s cultural, econom-ic and social hub.”

The Project DTO Task Force will be chaired by Fred Kittinger, Associate Vice President at the University of Central Florida. Brooke Myers, Presi-dent of Emerge Real Estate Ventures LLC and Philip Holt, Co-founder and CEO of SPLYT will serve as Vice Chairs. The Executive Advisory Com-mittee will be chaired by Cari Coats, President of C2 Advisors LLC. The group is expected to develop recom-mendations and present their find-ings in the first quarter of 2015. For more information, please vist pro-jectdto.com.

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City of Orlando Multicultural Events

Wednesday, April 9 District 1 City Commissioner Jim Gray will host the seminar 'Successful Strate-gies for New Businesses' from 6-7:30 p.m. at the Valencia Community College, Lake Nona Campus.

The workshop will be presented by the Hispanic Business Initiative Fund (HBIF) and conducted in Spanish. Entrance is free-of-charge. RSVP: jpulido@hbifflorida.org

Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer's 2014 State of the City

Thursday, April 10 at 10:30 a.m. at Church Street, Downtown Orlando (out-side) – The annual address gives Mayor Dyer the opportunity to share the City’s current and future plans with the commu-nity.

Hispanic Business & Consumer Expo

April 11-13 at the Orange County Con-vention Center - The Expo provides an environment to strengthen the econom-ic development and community integra-tion between businesses and the Hispan-ic community in the region. The City will have a booth. Information: http://www.hbcexpo.com.

Ventana Al JazzApril 12 at Lake Eola Park Amphitheater from 5:30-10 p.m. – Come with your family and friends to enjoy the beautiful sunset while enjoying the best Jazz Latino. En-

trance free-of-charge.

HOLA 10th Anniversary Event (New Date!)

Wednesday, April 16 - Join Mayor Dyer at the Open House to celebrate the 10th anniversary of HOLA from 3-7 p.m. at the Primrose Community Center Gym (595 N. Primrose Drive).

3-7 p.m. -HOLA Community Partners Fair5:30 p.m. - Program with the participation of Mayor Buddy Dyer and Commissioner Tony Ortiz.

Information: Alicia Ramirez alicia.ramirez@cityoforlando.net

SunRail Soft Opening Events

Please mark your calendars to attend one of more of the City of Orlando station’s soft openings. You will have an opportuni-ty to tour the train and stations and learn more about SunRail’s service, schedule and prices. The City of Orlando’s soft openings are the following dates and times.

• Florida Hospital Station (500 East Rol-lins Street) - April 3 – 6:30 to 9:45 a.m.

• LYNX Central Station (101 West Living-ston Street) - April 4 – 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.

• Church Street Station (99 West South Street) - April 10 – 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.

• Orlando Health/Amtrak Station (250 Co-lumbia Street) - April 9 – 6:30 to 9 a.m.

W I T H H O L A ! 10 YEARS

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 16, 20143 – 7 P.M. PROGRAM BEGINS AT 5:30 P.M.

PRIMROSE COMMUNITY CENTER 595 N. PRIMROSE DRIVEORLANDO, FL 32803

For the past 10 years, the HOLA o ce has provided valuable information and referral services to hundreds of residents and families in our multicultural community, connecting them with more than 140 government and community organizations to find jobs, housing, healthcare services, educational opportunities and many other resources.

* HOLA Community Partners will be on site to provide services to residents.

DIEZ AÑOS • TEN YEARS

For more information, contact Alicia Ramirez at 407.246.4652 or alicia.ramirez@cityoforlando.net.

Celebrate

Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer invites you to an Open House to celebrate the 10th Anniversary of the Hispanic O�ce for Local Assistance (HOLA).

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BRANDON BOYD TO PLAY ‘JUDAS ISCARIOT’, JC CHASEZ AS ‘PONTIUS PILATE’, MICHELLE WILLIAMS AS ‘MARY MAGDALENE’,JOHN ROTTEN LYDON ANNOUNCED AS ‘KING HEROD’ AND

INTRODUCING BEN FORSTER IN THE ROLE OF ‘JESUS’

Ticket presales begin April 7 at 10 a.m.Tickets On Sale Beginning Friday, April 11 at 10 a.m.

STARS ALIGN FOR BIGGEST NORJESUS CHRIST SUPERSTARCOMING TO ORLANDO AT THEAMWAY CENTER ON SATURDAY, JUNE 14

Photo credit Duncan Barnes

“Jesus Christ Superstar,” the global phenom-enon that has wowed audiences for over 40 years, is reimagined for the 21st century as an arena-rock spectacular.

The biggest ever North American arena tour of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s ground-breaking rock musical is coming to Orlando at the Amway Center on Saturday, June 14 with an extraordinary cast of rock, pop and R&B superstars. Tickets go on sale Friday, April 11 at 10 a.m. through Ticketmaster.com, by calling 800.745.3000 and at the Amway Center box office. American Express® Card Members can purchase tickets before the general public be-ginning Friday, April 4 at 10 a.m. Tickets range from $34.50 to $149.50 with a limited number of Gold Circle seats and VIP Experience pack-ages available. Additional ticket fees may ap-ply. Brandon Boyd, Grammy® nominated lead vo-calist of rock band Incubus, is confirmed for the role of ‘Judas Iscariot’, Grammy® nomi-nated *NSYNC vocalist, JC Chasez, will play ‘Pontius Pilate’, Grammy® Award winner and member of Destiny’s Child, Michelle Williams, will take the female lead as ‘Mary Magdalene’, English singer-songwriter and lead singer in Public Image Ltd. (PiL) and Sex Pistols, John Rotten Lydon, will play ‘King Herod’ and in-troducing British actor and singer, Ben For-ster, who won England’s “ITV Superstar” com-petition in 2012 and played the lead role in the UK and Australian arena tours of “Jesus Christ Superstar,” will revive his role as ‘Jesus.’ With over 50 cast and musicians on stage this is one arena show that can’t be missed! The North American leg comes on the heels of the wildly successful UK and Australian are-na tours, which began in the UK in Septem-ber 2012 and commenced in Australia in May

2013. The Times said, “The show gets the right balance between the spectacular, the jokey and the sin-cere. The performances from the well-choreo-graphed supporting cast are fine throughout. Honestly, it’s enough to give rock opera a good name.” The Evening Chronicle exclaimed, “the extravagance of the production, a flamboyant spectacle of acrobatics, dramatic flames and provocative pole dancing,” and Liverpool Dai-ly Post claimed, “Restored to its rock roots, the star-studded second coming of Jesus Christ Su-perstar is big, brash and bold…” and the Man-chester Evening News stated, “from the very opening strains the pounding music, the huge and sophisticated video backdrops and pulsat-ing energy from a talented ensemble cast make this a true spectacle.” “In 1971 Andrew and I were thrilled by the first-ever Jesus Christ Superstar tour of the United States,” said Tim Rice. “We certain-ly did not imagine then that 43 years later we would be witnessing another America-wide tour of our first big hit show. We are delighted and grateful that enthusiasm for Superstar has been maintained over the years and this new production presents the work in its most pow-erful format - as a true rock experience.” “Jesus Christ Superstar began life as a rock al-bum...probably because nobody believed back in 1969 that you could present a stage musical about the last days of the life of Jesus Christ.

I shall never forget its first live performance in the Civic Arena, Pittsburgh on July 12th 1971. Of course JCS subsequently became a legit theatre stalwart, but I, personally, have always hankered after seeing it again in the arenas where it started," said Andrew Lloyd Webber. “I’m excited to be involved with Jesus Christ Superstar,” said Michael Cohl. “The show has evolved greatly over the past 40 years

and it is exhilarating to be a part of a proj-ect that marries this incredible property and its extraordinary music with the new, innovative technology that has become available for live shows. This arena rock spectacular is a whole new experience for fans.” "I am so thrilled to be a part of this amazing production!” said Brandon Boyd. “I grew up on Andrew Lloyd Webber's classics and never imagined I would be playing a role in one, let alone with such an incredibly diverse cast of players. Truly an honor!" "When I heard Jesus Christ Superstar was coming to the States, I was excited at the idea to be a part of telling one of the most influential stories in history through the scope of such a talented composer, Andrew Lloyd Webber,” said JC Chasez. “I’m excit-ed to work with such a dynamic cast, and to bring Jesus Christ Superstar back to its roots as a rock arena experience." “I am so excited to be part of such a leg-endary production alongside an amazing cast!, said Michelle Williams. “I am truly looking forward to this experience!” “I'm here to sing with the King of the Jews, who could ask for anything more?” said John Rotten Lydon. “I feel so excited to bring this produc-tion to North America,” said Ben Forster. “America has to experience this rock are-na spectacular as Andrew Lloyd Webber envisaged it. I am the real life Billy Elliot, from a coal mining city in the north of En-gland to touring huge arenas across North

America! You are about to witness my dream come true!” The Jesus Christ Superstar Arena Spectac-ular North American Tour is presented by S2BN Entertainment and The Really Use-ful Group. TICKETS: $34.50 to $149.50. Buy tickets at amwaycenter.com, Chase Box Office at Amway Center, Ticketmaster retail loca-tions, charge-by-phone at 800.745.3000 or at Ticketmaster.com. All dates, act(s) and ticket prices are subject to change without notice. All tickets are subject to applica-ble taxes, service, handling and facility fee charges. For Amway Center box office and ticket information, visit amwaycenter.com (phone purchases are not available through the Amway Center box office). The Am-way Center is located at 400 West Church Street and the box office is located on the north side of the Amway Center, near the intersection of Church Street and Hughey Avenue. #SuperstarTourwww.JesusChristSuperstar.com

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Orlando Philharmonic’s Stages Verdi’s La Traviata

On May 9 & 11, the Orlando Phil-harmonic Orchestra will pro-duce Verdi’s romantic opera, La Traviata, at Bob Carr Performing Arts Centre (401 W. Livingston Street, Orlando). Performances will be Friday, May 9 at 8 p.m. and Mother’s Day, Sunday, May 11 at 2 p.m. Tickets are $20-$82, available at 407-770-0071 or visit OrlandoPhil.org. Set in the ornate salons of 19th century Paris, La Traviata (“The Fallen Woman”) tells the story of Violetta, a famed courtesan who enjoys her carefree life, but longs for passion. She falls deeply in love with a young respectable nobleman, but their affair is cut short by his family’s disapproval and her frail health. Most will recognize the plot of La Traviata from its adaptation for Baz Luhrmann’s 2001 Austra-lian-American jukebox musical Moulin Rouge! and J. F. Lawton’s classic 1990 movie Pretty Wom-an, starring Richard Gere and Julia Roberts, also based on Al-exandre Dumas’ 1848 novel The Lady of the Camellias.

Orlando Philharmonic’s Stages Verdi’s La Traviata

Conducted by Orlando Philharmonic Music Director Christopher Wilkins and staged by Frank McClain, the orchestra’s production will star Cuban American soprano Elizabeth Caballero as Violetta. Caballero has been hailed as one of the leading sopranos on the scene today. Her recent performances of Violetta received raves including

The Daily Page declaring, “With a love-ly voice, she has a compelling sense of drama. As she puts the role through its paces, she creates a Violetta of passion and vulnerability, able to move from a conflicted sense of herself, through cru-el sacrifices, to profound commitments. Even before her death scene, this Violet-ta is really heart-wrenching. Tenor Brian Jagde, a force in his own right, will perform the role of Alfredo, while the imposing baritone Stephen Powell takes the role of Alfredo’s father, Giorgio. Other cast members include Sa-mantha Barnes Daniel (“Flora”), Gabri-el Preisser (“Baron Douphol”), Andrew Gray (“Marchese d’Obigny”), Thomas Potter (“Dottore Grenvil”) and María Laetitia (“Annina”). View full bios online at OrlandoPhil.org. “Verdi's score contains some of the most beautiful music ever written. Its soaring tunes reveal every nuance of the passion Violetta and Alfredo feel for one anoth-er,” said Christopher Wilkins. “The fa-mous falling melody that recurs many times throughout the opera represents Violetta herself, both her loving nature

and her despair at the thought of losing all that she loves. I know this is going to be an opera that everyone will enjoy.”The Philharmonic’s production will be fully staged with sets and costumes and the orchestra positioned on stage as part of the production. The opera will be sung in Italian, with English translations pro-jected above the stage.***Now in its 21st season, the Orlando Phil-harmonic is Central Florida’s resident professional orchestra, comprised of tal-ented musicians recruited from around the world. The Philharmonic inspires audiences with over 125 musical expe-riences annually, ranging from classical and chamber music concerts to pops performances, staged opera produc-tions, outdoor concerts and education programs for all ages.

The orchestra has produced opera since the Orlando Opera closed its doors in 2009. Committed to building a sustainable future for classical music, the Philharmonic cur-rently has a budget of $3.6 mil-lion, holds an endowment of $4 million, and has maintained a balanced budget every year of its existence. Learn more at www.OrlandoPhil.org | @Or-landoPhilOrch | www.facebook.com/OrlandoPhilOrch

On Saturday, April 12, the Orlando Phil-harmonic Orchestra will perform Peter & The Wolf and other Musical Stories, a FREE outdoor family concert in Loch Ha-ven Park (Princeton Ave and 17-92, Orlan-do), sponsored by Dr. Phillips Charities, in memory of Della Phillips. The event will include food trucks and an instrument pet-ting zoo beginning at 4:30 p.m., pre-con-cert entertainment by Mr. Richard & The Pound Hounds at 4:30 p.m., and a 6 p.m. concert of animal-themed music by the Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra, with a special actor/narrator from Orlando Rep-ertory Theatre. For more information, call 407.770.0071 or visit OrlandoPhil.org

Conducted by Paul Hostetter, the concert will feature a combination of classical and contemporary storytelling music, includ-ing works by Felix Mendelssohn, Aar-on Copland, Maurice Ravel, and Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov as well as contemporary composers Andrew Lloyd Webber and El-ton John. After a brief intermission, the orchestra will perform the children’s clas-sic Peter and the Wolf, complete with nar-ration and opportunities for audience par-ticipation.

The orchestra last performed in Loch Ha-ven Park in 2012 for their Star Spangled Birthday concert, an event that attracted over 1500 audience members.

The concert is funded by Dr. Phillips Char-ities, with additional sponsorship from Florida Hospital Government and Health Policy, and The Christ School. The con-

cert will be performed in honor of Della Phillips, the wife of early citrus pioneer, Dr. Philip Phillips, once the largest pro-ducer of citrus in the world. Mrs. Phillips was known for her love of classical music, especially works by Mendelssohn, and for hosting outdoor concerts on the lawn of the Phillips family home on Lake Lucerne in downtown Orlando. Mrs. Phillips’ inter-est in music stemmed from early training in piano and music theory while attending private schools in New Orleans and Mobile.“Della Phillips shared her love of classical music with family and friends by hosting performances of many world class musi-cians on the lawn of the Phillips family home,” said Ken Robinson, President of Dr. Phillips Charities.

“Dr. Phillips Charities is pleased to renew this tradition in her honor with sponsor-ship of the Peter & The Wolf and Other Mu-sical Stories. We hope this family-friendly event will introduce classical music to a whole new audience in the Central Florida community and not only entertain, but in-tellectually stimulate, children and adults alike.”

The Peter & The Wolf and Other Musical Stories is a family-friendly, alcohol-free event. Attendees are encouraged to bring their own picnics and seating. Leashed pets are permitted in the park. In the case of rain, call the Orlando Philharmonic Box Office to confirm the concert will take place as scheduled. Parking, facebook event and other information at www.OrlandoPhil.org, or call 407-770-0071.

Dr. Phillips Charities presents Orlando Philharmonic’s Free Outdoor Family Concert “Peter & the Wolf and other Musical Stories”

The Art Of Activewear: Koral Reimagines Fitness With Its First Stunningly Versatile Spring/Summer CollectionActivewear gets upgraded to modern, sexy with a sophisticated new trend - workout to street.

Uptown sophisticate meets downtown edge: Koral introduces the fine art of activewear with their first modern collection, debuting this month. Reimagining the way fashion meets fitness, Koral creates

luxurious pieces that seamlessly transition from workout to street.

From Brazilian born fashion phe-nom Ilana Kugel and Los Angeles fashion veteran Peter Koral, comes Koral Activewear, a high-tech, com-fort-chic collection that effortlessly takes women through spin class to farmer's market then sipping at the cafe.

Versatility, elegance, and figure flattering fabrics are top priority for Ilana Kugel, who combines her na-tive Brazilian flavor with L.A. sen-sibility. Growing up on the spirited beaches and diverse streets of Rio de Janeiro, Kugel was inspired by the sensuous, organic shapes and urban compositions surrounding her. After studying design, swim-wear was the natural progression to befit her tropical roots and new daily life on the beaches of South-ern California.

An expert in design and construc-tion, Kugel's understanding of how to enhance the feminine shape is embedded in the DNA of her sexy, edgy line of mix-and-match active-wear and loungewear. With jump-suit sightings adorning the spring runway, she is first to evolve the on-trend one-piece into a slimming high performance jumpsuit.

The 2014 Spring/Summer Ac-tivewear Collection presents an abundance of shine with Koral's standout pieces: the sexy, coveted jumpsuit in brushed elastane and Infinity leggings and shorts in high

fashion sheen. Other highlights include sports bras, tanks, and cropped pants that usher in the sun with eye-popping colors and mesh overlays.

From Koral's Loungewear Collec-tion, fresh proportioned crop tops, tanks, and lounge pants in light-weight French Terries and cotton slubs ooze comfort and ease, while two-way jackets and vests are set to be popular for any destination when paired with coordinating ac-tivewear.

This spring, Koral also introduces Infinity, a new revolutionary fabric that is notably comfortable, soft to the touch and durable, retain-ing its shape and resisting chlorine ten times more than conventional fabrics. Another new textile is Eva-nesce by Koral, a moisture manag-ing, body-smoothing compression fiber built to wick away perspira-tion and inhibit unpleasant odors.

Crafted in Los Angles with the high-est quality standards, Koral Active-wear is available now with finer retailers, including ShopBop.com, Carbon38.com, Nordstrom.com, Equinox, and boutiques across the U.S. Prices range from $58.00 for a basic top to $244.00 for a zip front jacket.

Experience the new elegance of ac-tivewear at activewear.koral.com.

Play with Pele! Sports Legend Pele Introduces First and Only official App

Football fanatics now have a chance to get closer than ever before to the legend himself with the launch of the new mo-bile gaming app Pele: King of Football www.peleapp.com.

The engaging "flick-to-shoot" app in-vites users to follow in Pele's footsteps, finding their way from the backstreets of Brazil all the way to the grandeur of the World Stage.

The first-of-its-kind biographical game is free to download and features virtu-al players in 3D, in-game rewards which can be used to gain power-ups, and ac-cess to "The Vault" where they can view exclusive video highlights and original, never before seen inter-views from Pele himself.

"This is an entertaining new way to connect with my fans, especially the younger generation of football fans who never got to see me play. I look forward to sharing my life and career experiences in an interac-tive way with users of this app, and meeting some lucky winners one day," says Pele.

"We took our love of gaming and sport and combined them to bring an entirely new fan experience to mobile gaming - giving fans the only chance to take on football legend Pele," says, Josh Blitz, Co-Founder and CEO of Cosi Productions. "Pele - King of Football is the first of its kind offering amazing real-life re-wards and a visually immersive ex-

perience - which we see as the way for-ward for mobile gaming."Additional features include:

• Real world prizes - Everything from signed soccer balls and jerseys,2014 FIFA World Cup final tickets (can't say FIFA World Cup), a chance to try out for a pro contract and a meet-and-greet with Pele in Brazil!

• Pele Blitz - Users can play against friends and challenge the world in-hourly online competitions and lead-erboards

• Over 800 goals and challenges to complete from the backstreets to the

big leagues

Pelé lança primeiro e único oficial App - Pelé: Rei do Futebol

Os fanáticos do futebol têm agora a chance de chegar mais perto do que nun-ca do legendario jogador com o lança-mento do novo aplicativo de jogos móveis Pelé: Rei do Futebol www.peleapp.com .

A envolvente app “flick-to-shoot” convida os usuários a seguir os passos de Pelé, por seus caminhos desde as ruelas do Brasil por onde jogou ate a grandiosida-de que alcançou nos estádios mundiais

A primeira de seu tipo biográfico de jogo é gratuita para download e apresenta jogadores virtuais em 3D, recompensas no jogo que podem ser usadas para rece-ber power-ups, e acesso ao “The Vault”, onde podem visualizar os destaques ex-clusivos e originais, como fotos e entrev-istas nunca antes vistas do Rei Pelé.

“Esta é uma nova forma divertida de se conectar com os meus fãs, especial-mente a geração mais jovem de fãs

de futebol que nunca chegou a me ver jogar. Estou ansioso para compartilhar minha vida e experiências de carreira de forma interativa com os usuários deste aplicativo, e me reunir com alguns dos vencedores um dia “, diz Pele.

“Nós levamos o nosso amor ao fute-bol e ao esporte e combinamos em uma experiência totalmente nova para os fãs de jogos para celulares - dando a eles a única chance de as-sumir a lenda do futebol Pelé”, diz, Josh Blitz, Co-fundador e CEO da Cosi Productions.

“Pelé - O Rei do Futebol é o primeiro de seu tipo que oferece incríveis recompen-sas na vida real e uma experiência visual envolvente, que vemos como o caminho a seguir para jogos móveis”

As características adicionais incluem:

• prémios no mundo real - desde bo-las de futebol e camisetas assinadas, 2014 FIFA World Cup bilhetes para as finais (não se pode dizer da Copa do Mundo FIFA), a chance para experi-mentar para um contrato profissional e um meet-and-greet com Pelé no Brasil!

• Pelé Blitz - Os usuários podem jogar contra amigos e desafiar o mundo em

competições por hora online e leader-boards

• Mais de 800 metas e desafios para com-pletar a partir das ruelas à grandes li-gas

Orlando City SC announced today that the club will provide live online broad-casts in both English and Portuguese language for each OCSC home game in 2014. City has made notions of their as-pirations to become a global brand and becomes the first professional sports team in the United States to provide online broadcasts in both English and Portuguese.

To provide the Portuguese commentary for the broadcast, the club has hired former TV Globo and SportTV commen-tator Marcos Peres. A native of Brazil, Peres has extensive knowledge in inter-national communications having previ-ously reported on a variety of high-pro-file sporting events and teams.

With Da Silva coming on board as the majority owner in 2013, Orlando City has been keen on becoming a promi-nent brand not only within the United States but also outside of the nation’s borders as well. Last year, the club launched an Orlando City Brasil Face-book page which has already climbed to over 700,000 likes.

The Portuguese broadcasts will begin with the Lions’ match against the Roch-ester Rhinos on Saturday, April 5. Kick-off for City’s match against the Rhinos is set for 7:30 p.m. EST.

To tune in to the Portuguese broadcast, visit YouTube.com/OrlandoCityBrasil

ORLANDO CITY SOCCER ANUNCIA JOGOS NARRADOS EM PORTUGUÊS

O Orlando City SC anunciou hoje que o clube vai ofere-cer transmissões online ao vivo em Inglês e Português para cada jogo em casa durante 2014.

O Orlando City sempre teve aspirações de se tornar uma marca global e torna-se o primeiro time de fute-bol profissional nos Estados Unidos a fornecer trans-missões online em Inglês e Português.

Para realizar esse sonho de narrar também em Por-tuguês para a transmissão de seu jogos locais, o clu-be contratou o ex- TV Globo e SportTV comentarista Marcos Peres.

O comentarista brasileiro Marcos Peres tem amplo conhecimento em comunicações internacionais ten-do anteriormente relatado uma enorme variedade de eventos esportivos de alto perfil e equipes.

Com Flavio Augusto Da Silva vindo a bordo como o acionista majoritário em 2013, o Orlando City tem se esforçado em tornar-se uma marca de destaque, não só dentro dos Estados Unidos, mas também fora das fronteiras do país. No ano passado, o clube lançou uma página do Orlando City Brasil Facebook, que já tem mais de 700 mil likes.

As transmissões em português começarão com o jogo contra o Rochester Rhinos no sábado, 5 de abril. O pon-tapé inicial para a partida contra o Rhinos está marca-da para 19:30 EST.

Para sintonizar a transmissão em Português, visite www.YouTube.com/OrlandoCityBrasil

Orlando Magic Launches Google Glass Technology In-Game to Enhance Fan Experience

Magic remains focused on customer experience and technology

To further engage and enhance the fan experience, the Orlando Magic is unveiling Google Glass tech-nology for the Magic’s matchup with the Brooklyn Nets on Wednesday, April 9. The Google Glass in-game experience, in partnership with the soft-ware platform CrowdOptic, will capture new and unique perspectives of the in-game experience in real time and instantly share these views for all fans to see through Magic Vision, the tallest high-definition video board in an NBA venue.

Magic fans will experience the game through the eyes of a variety of Magic talent and in-game performers. In fu-ture games, fans throughout the night will be surprised with random one-of-a-kind Orlando Magic experiences and their reactions to winning these prizes will be captured for the entire arena to see. “The Magic is always looking for new ways to engage and enhance the fan ex-perience,” said Magic CEO Alex Mar-tins. “Google Glass and CrowdOptic provide a unique and organic opportu-nity for fans to see a different viewpoint of the game. We are excited to test this technology with some of the savviest fans in the league.”

The experience will be powered by Crow-dOptic, a software platform which ana-lyzes the real-time Google Glass feeds and curates them by their subject mat-

ter and quality, exporting only the highest quality live footage to the scoreboard. CrowdOptic’s abil-ity to analyze where mobile and wearable devices are aimed allows future opportunities, such as op-timizing in-seat arena services or providing fans the option to control their own broadcast. The Magic and Amway Center have been recog-nized for their efforts in the areas of technology and customer service receiving TheStadiumBusi-ness Awards’ 2013 Customer Experience Award and being named the 2012 Sports Facility of the Year by the SportsBusiness Journal.

"The Orlando Magic is on the forefront of tech-nology adoption for fan enhancement,” said CrowdOptic CEO Jon Fisher. “CrowdOptic is pleased to bring Google Glass to the Magic to further enhance their in-arena experience."

With the Magic’s home, Amway Center, being largely focused on technology and the custom-er-experience, Google Glass provides another av-enue to continue growing this area for the team. The Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Gold certified Amway Center fea-tures a sustainable, environmentally-friendly de-sign and unmatched technology, featuring 1,100 digital monitors, the tallest high-definition video

board in an NBA venue and multiple premium amenities available to all patrons in the building. The more than 1,100 screens of high-definition content via Internet Protocol Television and a state-of-the-art digital signage network which maximizes fan engagement and interaction, dis-tributes an unprecedented amount of patron in-formation, as well as providing unlimited oppor-tunities for advertisers and sponsors.

Magic Vision is a Daktronics center-hung score-board which includes four primary high defini-tion LED video displays with 840 lines of reso-lution, eight auxiliary video/scoring/statistics displays and two LED ring displays.

The venue is the first in the world to utilize high resolution 6 mm surface mount LED pixel tech-nology on all of the center-hung digital displays. More than 9 million individual LEDs are used in the 18 displays incorporated into the cen-ter-hung scoreboard. Overall dimensions of the center-hung scoreboard are 42 feet by 41 feet by 41 feet (HxWxD), making it the tallest and most capable of any in NBA venues.

Victor Oladipo and his Google Glasses

Orlando Magic Players and CoachesSign for the Central Florida Community

Orlando Magic players and coaches signed items during the team’s second internal autograph session on Thursday, March 27. Each season, the entire Magic team autographs more than 1,000 items for schools, nonprofit organi-zations and other charita-ble events.

The items signed included photos, basketballs, jer-seys, shoes and a variety of Magic paraphernalia all autographed using the official autograph mark-er of the Orlando Magic, Dixon Ticonderoga Redis-harp Permanent Marker. The value of the exclusive autographed items is ap-proximately $130,000. The items are distributed into the community during the season to assist charitable endeavors. The Orlando Magic cele-brates 25 years of Magic basketball both on and off the court. The Magic’s com-mitment to Central Florida is celebrated in its Silver Season with 25 years of giving through more than $40 million donated to the local com-munity by way of event sponsorships, donated tickets, autographed mer-

chandise, scholarships and grants over the years. Through a quarter century of giving,

Magic community programs have im-pacted nearly two million total youth

along with more than 5,000 player and community ambassador appear-ances. The Magic continues its quest to be champions on the court and in the community and looks toward a city that flourishes through a collab-

orative effort of the Magic’s coaches, players, employees, partners, fans and Central Floridians. To learn more about the Magic’s community efforts, please visit http://www.nba.com/mag-ic/magic-in-the-community.

David Yurman Unveils New Orlando Boutique

David Yurman, America's pre-mier fine jewelry and timepiece designer, unveiled a new bou-

tique at the Mall at Millenia in Orlando. This retail location replaces the compa-ny's former store in the same mall, offer-ing guests a larger, yet intimate shopping experience.

The design was conceptualized by the renowned architectural firm of Gabel-lini Sheppard Associates. The new store will expand to 1,993 square-feet and will feature classically modern architecture. Modeled after an artist's workshop, ev-ery element of the interior thoughtfully reflects the brand's luxurious yet relaxed aesthetic.

The boutique will carry David Yurman's classic collections, including gold and sterling silver designs for women and men; Cable Kids®; timepieces; and the Wedding Collection. Newly launched collections will also be available, in-cluding the Hampton Cable Collection®, Starburst Collection, and pieces from the Petite Pave Collection, as well as the Frontier Collection and Chevron Col-lection for men.

The new Orlando boutique is located on the second floor of the Mall at Millenia at 4200 Conroy Road.

World First Solo Show For Kim Keever 'Underwater' Abstracts Opens At Waterhouse & Dodd, New York

Startling and beauti-ful photographic im-ages, generated by releasing and explod-ing paint pigment in a 200 gallon water tank, are to feature in a one-man show at the pres-tigious Waterhouse & Dodd's Upper East Side gallery in Man-hattan from 2(nd) April to 6(th) May.

Created by leading New York artist Kim Keever, the 'Kim Keev-er: Abstracts' exhi-bition represents a world first showcase for the latest series of photographs created by the artist in his New York studio.

Keever, whose works are represented in many of the major museums and col-lections around the United States, has de-veloped a unique pro-cess through which he creates photographs that capture the ex-plosions of color and form resulting from the release of paint pigments into his huge studio water tank.

“I’ve always lived near the water, wheth-er it was the Eastern Shore of Virginia, Chi-cago or New York City. There’s a peaceful at-traction to the flat rip-pling surface and the mysteries below.

Once I started taking photographs of con-structed landscapes submerged in water in a 200-gallon aquar-ium, I realized I had found my signature work as an artist,” he said.

Keever recently dis-pensed with the land-scape elements al-together and started working only with col-ored paint pigment dropped into the wa-ter and photograph-ing the event. “It is a very freeing process. I can explore color and form like never before, albeit through random events since I have very little control once the paint starts moving. Aside from the continued use of water in a tank sur-rounded by lights,

"Existing col-lectors and new converts alike will find this show compelling view-ing; Keever's work is unique.

His earlier land-scapes are at first glance red-olent of the Hud-son River School and are more structured, while the new abstract images, with the paint dispersing through the water more randomly, are more color-ful and modern," said Ray Water-house, principal of Waterhouse & Dodd. "And they are so afford-able, starting at around $3,000."

Keever, who originally stud-ied thermal en-gineering and worked with NASA, combines his knowledge of science with his artwork, allow-ing him to under-stand better the properties of the materials he is

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His work is held by the Metropol-itan Museum of Art, New York; Museum of Mod-ern Art, New York; Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn;

Hirshhorn Mu-seum, Washing-ton, DC; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia and oth-ers. He current-ly lives and works in New York City.

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Gabriel Wickbold’s art is funda-mentally Brazilian. It talks of the passion, colors, sensuality and flamboyance associated with Brazil and its genuine people.

I first discovered Wickbold’s work while researching interna-tional photographers for a local exhibition, and I was immediate-ly taken with the young Brazil-ian’s vibrant images, bursting with life and energy.

In Sexual Colors, his naked models are drenched in paint. This has been a 5 year-long project in which Wickbold looks at how the body can become a canvas or even more: a base, a platform, a space for an instal-lation.

Wickbold pours or throws paint at his models, but he also paints on them with brushes and his fingers to create interesting vi-sual variations. The colors are bold. The project daring.

“The explosions of paint echo explosions of sexual-ity” he says. The mere fact

that he often uses his fingers to paint on the naked faces and bodies only adds to the inherent sensuality of the images.

Sexual Colors reached world-wide recognition in 2010 and has not stopped gaining valu-able coverage since.

Wickbold is a self-taught photog-rapher and he believes this ex-plains why there are no bounds to his creativity. He is free to let his imagination run wild. And wild it is! Wickbold’s latest work entitled Sans Tache [meaning “unstained” in French] encap-sulates living crickets and flies in framed artworks; a process in which the bugs end up eat-ing away precious photograph-ic prints representing bodies floating in the air.

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The theme is that of life itself: for-ever evolving, disintegrating, and changing into something new.

Wickbold is an artist who throws himself into his creative impulses and embraces them entirely. The work is compelling and intense. It is not for the faint-hearted.

In May this year Wickbold’s large-scale work (pieces sized at 110cm x160 cm) will be exhibited in an important show traveling from Rio, Sao Paulo to Porto Alegre.

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Dominique Lecomte an artist who occupies the chair 153 Mondia Academy of Art .

I found Dominique Lecomte between sever-al intelligent comments and art in Facebook conversations. After awhile we decided to become friends and in my travels I've always had a good friend to talk . The deepness of his works of art and surprising beauty, as if not enough the docility and intelligence in the deepest conversations.

Dominique is a French native who adopted Brazil as his land many years ago. He lives in a city known by few in the state of São Paulo, the City of Catanduva, that I had the opportu-nity to know in the 90s .

Last February, I had the pleasure to read in a publication that he was invited to honor his art with a specific chair at the Mondial Acad-emy of Art. I strongly believe that the recog-nition of an artist at this level in life is one of the greatest honors an artist can receive, after all performing in repeated expositions sever-al times around the world is an achievement, but are events that enrich the curriculum and experience of the artist, although, receive the honor of an Academy of Arts in the center of the art world is a historical fact that makes the work of an artist to be celebrated forever .

When did painting has invade your life?Art has always been part of my life ... at first as a joke , as occupational therapy for punish-ment ... then became an escape from my real-ity, puberty and adolescence (think, to some extent, still is). In a row, appeared as a mode of expression to become a life goal .I started painting oil at age 20, when I got my box of oil paints and started my career when

arriving in Brazil at age 23.

What did you learn with painting?Art taught me how to live and be in a psycho-logically complicated and illogical society ... taught me to develop my own philosophy of life so I could balance my emotions and feel-ings in an aggressive social context, allowing me to handle better(?), to relate with others lack of comprehention, which always has dis-turbed me, still does, causing a feeling of be-ing marginalized. The art was and is a faithful companion throughout my emotional, psy-chological, philosophical and " parasexual" relationship ... not only financial, but nothing is perfect ... lol )

What is the philosophy of your work?Could simply say that the philosophy of my work is the philosophy of my life... But I think it is more representative of the con-sequences of my philosophy of life ...Late-ly, much of my work is based in the uncon-scious, the observation of my work and the reactions it causes, say that it is “ Existen-tialism “ in question” or “as a question”...

How did this journey come about?My life journey as an artist was totally by leaps and bounds ... The only goal we had was to all artists ( I suppose), which was to be recognized as such, to have the feeling that “ did not talk to the walls “ when I ex-pressed picturalmente ... and , of course , to be able to live worthily of my art. But the path to that is tortuous and very meaty . The life of an artist is not easy, requiring many sacrifices and perseverance, stubbornness not to say ...

What are the most memorable moments of recognition?

For me to be invited to occupy a chair in a Mondial Academy of Arts is a great achievement, the achievement of a vocational goal.Receiving an invitation that was made by a serious entity, directed by highly skilled people is a recognition of my value for my work and not by dubious views that has nothing to do with Fine Arts ..... makes me feel that all the sacrifices have been worth it, I did not live my ideal wonder .... it is the greatest of all the awards .

How is to be an artist who acts in the world?

Now, what it means in my art? Tak-ing great pleasure to work, to contin-ue, will not change anything .... I was invited by my work the way it is, and so there is no reason to modify it ..... Just continue as before, always try to do better, without regard to produc-tivity .... to honor the invitation re-ceived in respect from Mondial Art Academy and my own art .

email and face book: lecomte.d @ hotmail.com

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What are the most memorable moments of recognition?

For me to be invited to occupy a chair in a Mondial Academy of Arts is a great achievement, the achievement of a vocational goal.Receiving an invitation that was made by a serious entity, directed by highly skilled people is a recognition of my value for my work and not by dubious views that has nothing to do with Fine Arts ..... makes me feel that all the sacrifices have been worth it, I did not live my ideal wonder .... it is the greatest of all the awards .

How is to be an artist who acts in the world?

Now, what it means in my art? Tak-ing great pleasure to work, to contin-ue, will not change anything .... I was invited by my work the way it is, and so there is no reason to modify it ..... Just continue as before, always try to do better, without regard to produc-tivity .... to honor the invitation re-ceived in respect from Mondial Art Academy and my own art .

email and face book: lecomte.d @ hotmail.com

Blog :http://www.dominiquelecomte.blogspot.com/

Dominique Lecomte um artis-ta que ocupa a cadeira 153 da Academia Mondia de Arte.

Encontrei Dominique Lecomte em diver-sos comentários inteligentes e de arte pelas conversas de Facebook. Assim resolvemos ser amigos e em minhas viagens sempre tive um bom amigo a dialogar.

Suas obras de arte absolutamente profun-das e surpreendentes, como se não bas-tasse a sua docilidade no tratamento e in-teligência de diálogos dos mais profundos.

Dominique é um Francês que adotou o Brasil como sua Terra há muitos anos e vive em uma cidade por poucos conhe-cida no interior do Estado de São Paulo, Catanduva. Cidade esta que já tive a opor-tunidade de conhecer nos idos da década de 90.

Agora em Fevereiro de 2014 tive a grata satisfação de ver uma publicação na qual humildemente informou aos amigos ter sido convidado a Honrar sua arte com uma cadeira específica na Academia Mon-dial de Arte.

Acredito muito que o reconhecimento de um artista neste patamar em vida é uma das grandes honrarias que um artista pode receber, afinal fazer exposições repetidas vezes pelo mundo é uma conquista, mas são eventos que enriquecem o currículo e a experiência de mercado, mas receber uma honraria de uma Academia de Ar-tes do centro do mundo das artes é um fato histórico que faz a obra de um artista começar de novo e para sempre. Do

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Quando a pintura invadiu a sua vida?A arte sempre fez parte da minha vida... no início como brincadeira, como terapia ocu-pacional durante os castigos... Depois, se tornou uma fuga da minha realidade, na pu-berdade e adolescência (acho que, até certo ponto, continua sendo). Em seguido, apare-ceu como modo de expressão até se tornar um objetivos de vida. Comecei a pintar à óleo aos 20 anos, quando ganhei minha caixa de tintas à óleo e iniciei minha carreira ao che-gar no Brasil aos 23 anos.

O que aprendeu com a pintura?A arte me ensinou como viver e conviver numa sociedade psicologicamente complica-da e ilógica... me ensinou a desenvolver minha própria filosofia de vida para que possa equil-ibrar minhas emoções e sentimentos num contexto social agressivo, me permitiu lidar melhor possível (?), com a incompreensão al-heia que sempre provocava em mim (ainda provoca), a sensação de ser marginalizado. A Arte foi e é uma fiel companheira durante toda minha vida num relacionamento afeti-vo, psicológico, filosófico e "parasexual"... só não foi financeiro, mas nada é perfeito... rs)

Qual é a filosofia da sua obra ?Poderia simplesmente dizer que a filosofia da minha obra é a filosofia da minha vida... Mas creio que seja mais uma representante das consequências da minha filosofia de vida...Ultimamente, trabalho muito na base do in-consciente, e, ao observar o meu trabalho e as reações que ele provoca, diria que se trata do "Existencialismo" "em" questão ou "como" "questão"...

Como se deu este percurso de vida?O meu percurso de vida como artista foi to-talmente aos trancos e barrancos... O úni-co objetivo que tinha era o de todos os ar-tistas (suponho), que era ser reconhecido

como tal, para ter a sensação que "não falava para as paredes" quando me expressava pic-turalmente... e, é claro, para conseguir viver dignamente da minha Arte. Mas o caminho para isso é tortuoso e muito ingrato. A vida de artista plástico não é nada fácil, exigindo muitos sacrifícios e perseverança, para não dizer teimosia...

Quais são os momentos mais marcantes de reconhecimento ?

Para mim, ser convidado a ocupar uma ca-deira numa Academia Mondial de Arte, rep-resenta uma grande conquista, a realização de um objetivo profissional. Receber um convite desse, feito por uma en-tidade séria, dirigida por pessoas altamente capacitadas é um reconhecimento do meu valor, pelo meu trabalho e não por exibições duvidosas que nada tem a ver com Artes Plásticas.....Me faz sentir que tudo os sacri-fícios terão valido a pena, que não vivi o meu ideal a toa....É o maior de todos os Prêmios.

Como é ser um artista que atua no mundo?Agora, o que significa na minha Arte ? Ti-rando o maior prazer de trabalhar, de con-tinuar, não mudará nada.... Eu fui convidado pela minha obra do jeito que é, e portanto, não há razão para modificá-la..... Apenas continuar como antes, ou seja, sempre tentar fazer melhor, sem preocupação com a pro-dutividade.... Honrar o convite recebido em respeito á Mondial Art Academia e à minha própria Arte.

Espero ter respondido a altura das suas per-guntas ( só para constar e entre nos.... é a pri-meira vez em anos de entrevistas que recebo perguntas sensatas e inteligentes... Foi um prazer responder.).

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Nascido Gilberto Geraldo dos Santos Gomes (16 de outubro de 1955) em Apareci-da, SP, muito deveria ser falado sobre a vida e a obra de Gilberto Gomes, exímio pintor, retratista, desenhista, professor, ilustrador, gravador, escultor e restaurador.

Há 50 anos vem se dedicando às Artes Plásticas, construin-do entre São Paulo, Bahia e Rio de Janei-ro, uma brilhante car-reira artística, com o nome ligado a uma trajetória reconheci-da nacionalmente e que para orgulho de nosso país, com de-stacada repercussão internacional, tanto como artista plástico quanto como crítico de arte escrevendo para jornais e revistas.

Originário de família simples, desde cri-ança começa a estudar artes com o re-nomado escultor Teixeira Machado. Sua obra densa e polifacetada se alicerça em notáveis esculturas, desenhos e pintu-ras que passam pelas escolas do expres-sionismo, figurativismo, abstracionis-mo sem se comprometer com qualquer expressão artística de maneira pontual. Com preferência pelas cores azul, bran-co e dourado, muitos e variados são os temas inspirativos de Gilberto Gomes, que vão desde momentos históricos até paisagens e emocionantes retra-tos de personalidades que marcaram a história do Brasil e da humanidade.

Jorge Amado quando conheceu sua obra, comentou: "Pareceu-me estar di-ante de um pintor de sensibilidade e ofício. Suas telas demonstram a qual-idade de um artista sério, que busca sua expressão própria". O pintor Carlos Bastos, também de Salvador, escreveu em 1978: “[...] jovem entre São Félix e Cachoeira deixa entrever a sua pintu-ra, algo das cidades velhas e barrocas; a sua exuberância tropical parada no tempo”...

Gilberto Gomes também é músico. Na década de 1970, atuou como Contra-baixista em várias Bandas. Tocou com Fauze Andare, vencedor de uma das edições do Festival da MPB em Piraci-caba - SP e Pouso Alegre - MG, além de acompanhar grandes nomes também da MPB, nesta mesma época. Hoje é Tecladista que nas horas vagas, curte a música que também nasceu

com ele.Posteriormente na Bahia, fre-quentou os ateliês de Rescála, Carlos Bastos, Carybé e dos alemães Rainer e Karl Hansen.

Nesse meio tempo é escolhido por aclamação a Presidente do Foto Cine Clube da Bahia, trabalhando ao lado de José Mário Peixoto Costa Pinto e Ar-nol Conceição, promovendo Salões Na-cionais e Internacionais de Fotografia. Nessa época conhece Glauber Rocha e Geraldo Sarno.

Professor de desenho e pintura dos Cur-sos de Extensão (Prodesca - Cachoeira - BA) da Universidade Federal da Bahia e da Oficina de Artes da Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana, entre os anos de 1976 a 1984.

O livro “Contando a Arte de Gilberto Gomes”, foi lançado pela Editora Noovha América. São Paulo – SP – 2006 que faz parte da Coleção do mesmo nome, que tem dentre outros, Portinari, Di Caval-canti, Djanira, Aldemir Martins e Wal-domiro de Deus.

Gilberto Gomes é artista catalogado em diversos segmentos culturais nacionais e internacionais, dentre eles o Benezit, Paris, França e International Dictionary Of Artists – EUA. No Brasil está presente no Dicionário de Pintores Brasileiros – Walmir Ayala – 1986 – Artes Plásticas Brasil – Julio Louzada, Dicionário de Ar-tistas Plásticos Brasileiros – Constantino Cury – São Paulo – 2005, dentre outros livros e enciclopédias de Arte.

Possui também vasta obra publicada a nível nacional, como duas emissões de Bilhetes da Loteria Federal da Caixa e uma série de cartões telefônicos da Telefôni-ca!

Em 2012 o artista recebeu a Medalha Olímpica de Ouro nas Olimpíadas de Londres – Mostra Internacio-nal denominada Olympic Fine Arts – Royal Museu Of London, ao lado de 500 artistas selecionados dos 80 Países participantes convidados. Esta Mostra faz par-te de todos os Jogos Olímpicos, desde Beijin na China, como forma de unir a Arte ao Esporte!

Detentor de prêmios em Exposições e Salões de Arte no Brasil e Exterior, possuindo dentre outros, Medal-ha de Ouro, Medalha de Honra, Menção Honrosa, Comenda e Medalha de Dom Quixote, Medalha do Mérito Cultural da UNAP e diversas Salas Especiais, ao lado de grandes artistas brasileiros. Possui tam-bém um vasto currículo com participações em cente-nas de eventos.

Gilberto Gomes pertence a várias Entidades Culturais Brasileiras, dentre elas a Associação Paulista de Belas Artes e a Sociedade Brasileira de Belas Artes.

“Ver sua arte é quebrar as molduras e romper as formas na busca do sentido do mundo represen-tado pela sensibilidade de um artista singular”.

Alexandre Marcos Lourenço Barbosa - Historiador e Autor do Livro "Contando a Arte de Gilberto Gomes" - Editora Noovha América - São Paulo - SP - 2006.

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Gilberto Geraldo Gomes dos Santos born on October 16th, 1955 in Aparecida, S.P. Brazil. A lot can be said about Gil-berto Gomes life and work, accomplished painter, por-trait artist, designer, teacher, illustrator, engraver, sculptor and restorer.

Fifty years of life dedicated to Fine Arts between Sao Pau-lo, Bahia and Rio de Janeiro, a brilliant artistic career, na-tionally recognized with in-ternational reputationboth as an artist and as an art critic writing for newspapers and magazines.

Originally from a small fam-ily, as a child he begin to study art with the renowned sculptor Teixeira Machado. Its dense and multifaceted work is grounded in remark-able sculptures and paint-ings that passed by schools of expressionism, figurative, abstraction without commit-ting to any artistic expression in a timely manner.

With preference for the blue, white and gold, many and varied colors are inspirational themes for Gilberto Gomes, ranging from historical mo-ments and landscapes and

exciting portraits of person-alities that marked the histo-ry of Brazil and of humanity .

When Jorge Amado met his work, commented: " It seemed to be facing a paint-er sensitivity and craft. His paintings demonstrate the quality of a serious artist, who has his own expression."

Artist Carlos Bastos, from Salvador-Bahia-Brazil,also wrote in 1978 : " [ ... ]young artist, between Cachoeira and São Félix hints through his paintings something of the old and baroque cities ; its tropical exuberance fro-zen in time " ...

Gilberto Gomes is also a mu-sician. In the 1970s, he served as bassist in various bands. Played with Fauze Andare, winner of one of the editions of the MPB Fes-tival in Piracica-ba - SP and Pou-so Alegre - MG, besides play-ing with the big names on MPB,

from his time. Today de key-boards in his spare time, en-joying music a talent that was also born in him .

Later in Bahia, attended the workshops Rescala, Car-los Bastos, Carybé, German Rainer and Karl Hansen. In the meantime he was cho-sen by acclamation as the Foto Cine Clube President of Bahia, working alongside José Mário Peixoto Costa Pin-to and Arnol to Conception, promoting National and In-ternational Salons of Photog-raphy. At that time he met Glauber Rocha and Geraldo Sarno .

Drawing and Painting Course Extension Professor (Prodesca-Waterfall-BA), at Federal University of Ba-hia and the Office of Arts at State University of Feira de Santana, between the years of 1976 and 1984 .

The book " Telling the Art by Gilberto Gomes " was launched by Publisher Noovha America.

São Paulo - SP - 2006 is part of the collection of the same name, which has, among others, Portinari, Di Cav-alcanti, Djan-ira, Aldemir Martins and Waldomiro de Deus.

G i l b e r t o Gomes is cat-aloged in var-ious national and interna-tional cultur-al segments, including the Bénézit, Par-is, France and International Dictionary Of Artists - USA.

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present in the dictionary of Brazilian Painters - Wal-mir Ayala - 1986 - Fine Arts Brazil - Julio Louzada, Dic-tionary of Brazilian Artists - Constantine Cury - São Paulo - 2005, among other books and encyclopedias of Art.

It also has vast work pub-lished nationally as two is-sues of the Federal Lottery Ticket Box and a series of phone cards withTelefon-ica!In 2012 the artist re-ceived the Olympic Gold Medal at the London Olym-

pics - Shows International called Olympic Fine rts - Royal Museum Of London , hand selected 500 artists from 80 countries invited to the participants.

This exhibition is part of every Olympic Games since Beijin China, as a way of uniting the Arts and the Sports!

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“Exposição homenageia o Descobrimento do Brasil”

“O Mar é uma extensão de água salga-da conectada com um Oceano”.E foi assim, que por Mares nunca Dan-tes Navegados, os portugueses chega-ram ao Brasil e a outros continentes.”.

Na charmosa Galeria para Exposições, do belíssimo edifício neocolonial da sede da Casa de Portugal em São Pau-lo, com a presença de inúmeros e se-letos convidados, a “AnjosArtGallery”, realizou no último 3 de abril um calo-roso vernissage da exposição coletiva “Tanto Mar”, sob a curadoria da con-hecida galerista e artista plástica Maria dos Anjos Oliveira.Homenageando o descobrimento do Brasil e comemorando o dia 22 de abril, um grupo de 15 talentosos artistas se-lecionados, uns já de renome nacion-al e internacional e outros mostrando orgulhosamente pela primeira vez sua precocidade artística, num dos espaços expositivos mais destacados da capital do Estado de São Paulo, estarão expo-ndo suas brilhantes obras até o dia 31 de Abril. “Tanto Mar”, uma exposição que ficará marcada pela alta qualidade do con-junto das diversas técnicas e estilos dos seus expositores, Uma exposição imperdível!Dos artistas participantes, duas delas já foram motivo de entrevistas em edições anteriores da revista, são elas Izabel Litiere e Lari Namaste.

Aproveitamos a ocasião para conver-sar com Maria dos Anjos de Oliveira a curadora e organizadora do evento:Maria, o que te motivou a criar este even-to em homenagem ao descobrimento do Brasil?Maria: O motivo para criar este even-to, foi baseado nas comemorações ao Descobrimento do Brasil, juntando assim mais um punhado de artistas e suas obras, numa completa confrater-nização de ideias e tendências.Qual o critério para escolha dos artistas e suas obras?Maria: O critério é sempre baseado

numa obra de excelente qualidade, e quando o artista precisa de uma boa chance para mostrar o seu trabalho e não há um tema definido, o artista mostra o que realmente sabe fazer. Muitos artistas brasileiros estão ex-pondo seus trabalhos fora do Brasil e com sucesso, Inclusive, você esta pro-movendo em maio uma exposição em Sevilha-Espanha e convidando artistas aqui do Brasil para participarem.Qual a razão que estes artistas estão ex-pondo seus trabalhos no exterior?

Será porque os europeus mais especifica-mente, valorizam e admiram mais uma obra de arte, seja pintura, escultura, etc?Maria: A razão principal para o artista brasileiro expor no exterior, é porque a qualidade de nossos artistas é admi-rada lá fora, o artista precisa fazer um bom currículo e assim, ter a chance de expor suas obras em galerias brasilei-ras de qualidade.É fato que o europeu admira e valoriza sim a arte brasileira, eu mesma tenho uma galeria na Europa, especializada em Arte Latino Americana, principal-mente a boa arte brasileira.Conversamos também com as jovens artistas Lari Namaste e Watusi Caruli:

O que vocês estão sentindo em relação de serem as mais jovem artistas a partic-ipar desta exposição.?Larissa: É gratificante poder estar fa-zendo parte de uma exposição na Casa de Portugal ao lado de artistas mais ex-perientes e há mais tempo na carrei-ra das artes visuais. O fato de ser mais jovem, entretanto, não causa dispari-dade nem receio, pois há artistas que iniciam a vida profissional nas artes já depois de aposentados, enquanto out-ros crescem pintando. Acredito que to-dos estão sempre em igualdade, basta ter vontade de abrir a janela da alma. Watusi: Para mim é um enorme praz-er poder participar junto com pessoas experientes e grandes nomes da arte, fico extremamente lisonjeada e gra-ta por ter sido escolhida para partici-par de uma exposição tão importante como essa, e com tema também tão

importante, em comemoração ao de-scobrimento do Brasil, e em uma gale-ria tão conceituada como essa.

Quais os planos de ambas para o futuro?Larissa: Quanto aos planos para o fu-turo, penso muito em expandir meu trabalho para o maior número de pes-soas possível, para passar minhas men-sagens de bem estar e positividade e permitir que a terapia das cores seja absorvida pelos apreciadores da arte, que é uma comunicação ainda não muito bem compreendida, mas defin-itivamente sentida.

Watusi: É poder levar um pouquinho da minha arte para varias regiões, na-cional e internacionalmente também...

Local: Galeria Casa de PortugalEndereço: Av. Liberdade, 602-Liber-dade- São Paulo/SP.Período de 03 até 31 de Abril (entrada franca) Artistas participantes do projetoBia MartinsCelina Lima VerdeElza CarvalhoElsa OliveiraEdmundo Cavalcanti Francisco BorgesInês TrezzaIzabel Litieri Lari NamastêMarcia BarattoOlivia CarnevaleOsmar CarboniT. MachadoUgolinaWatusi Carulli Kazuhe Shizuro Fotos: Sandra Lozano /Mario Giuseppe Melchiore-Melk AnjosArtGalerryFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/AnjosArtGalleryCasa de Portugal Instituição CulturalSite: http://www.casadeportugalsp.com.br/

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A Arte de “Tanto Mar”

Maria dos Anjos Oliveira Curadora

Artista Marcia Baratto

ArtistaKazuhe Tiruzu

Artista Osmar Carboni

Artista Izabel Litieri

Artista Francisco Borges e a Direita Artista Bia Martins

Artista Fatima Matinho

Da topo a direita, Artista Elza Carvalho, Olivia Carnevale, Lari Namaste, Ines Treza, e Artista e Poeta Edmundo Cavalcanti

Da topo a direita, Artista Elza Carvalho, Olivia Carnevale, Lari Namaste, Ines Treza, e Artista e Poeta Edmundo Cavalcanti

Longines - Baselworld 2014

The Longines Elegant Collec-tion is the perfect embodiment of the classical design and sleek lines typical of Longines time-pieces. With a diameter of 25.50, this model in steel and rose gold cap is set with 52 diamonds and displays a white mother-of-pearl dial with diamond indices. It is fitted with the self-winding me-chanical movement L595. Long-ines - Baselworld 2014

With a diameter of 49.50 mm, this new model is fitted with a manually wound L506 calibre and shows the hours and minutes, as well as having a small seconds at 6 o'clock.

Its white dial features a railway track min-ute-ring, large painted black Arabic numer-als and a second min-ute-ring with red nu-merals.

Pink Breguet hands complete the harmo-ny of the dial while the sides and the bow are finely worked in imi-tation of the original model. The back cov-er is decorated with a stamped out horse mo-tif and opens to reveal a solid case back.

The Longines Heritage 1935 is based on a time-piece originally created for aviators but which went on to prove highly popular among the general public.

Its cushion-shaped steel case has a diameter of 42 mm and houses the auto-matic calibre L615.

The matt black dial dis-plays white Arabic numer-als with Super-LumiNova® as well as a small second and the date at 6 o’clock. The watch is fitted with a black alligator strap.

This year, Longines cele-brates the 60th anniver-sary of the filing of the patent for its "Conquest" brand.

To mark this occasion, the Swiss watch company is launching its Conquest Heritage 1954-2014. With a diameter of 35 mm, this model in rose gold dis-plays a sunray silver dial with pink applied indices. Fitted with the mechan-ical calibre L633, it indi-cates the hours, the min-utes and the seconds.

The caseback is screwed down and decorated with a gold and enamel medal-lion representing a con-stellation. This timepiece is numbered and limited to 60 pieces.

The Longines Col-umn-Wheel Single Push-Piece Chronograph mod-els take their inspiration from the first chronograph wristwatches developed by Longines in 1913.

This steel model is fitted with the L788 calibre, a column-wheel single push-piece chronograph move-ment developed by ETA exclusively for Longines. With its 40 mm diameter, its case is fitted with mov-ing lugs.

The white dial features black Roman numerals and a red "XII", a small seconds at 9 o'clock and a 30-minute counter at 3 o'clock. The date aperture is situated at 6 o'clock. Blued hands harmonious-ly complete this timepiece, which comes with a brown alligator strap.

Twenty one years ago a relentless romantic passion for the American Way inspired the formation of Confederate Motorcycles in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

The first nine months of existence were en-tirely conceptual. It was determined that the effort would be design driven and product focused. The creative approach would be organic. Our products would be the most exclusive, small-batch handcrafted thor-oughbred motorcycles ever produced. The singularity of line memorialized by Oscar Wilde’s commentary concerning effective industrial design would inform joinder of the power, strength and beauty line in the form of American drag race industrial de-sign architecture, which was benchmarked as our core competency.

Our cultural cornerstone would be non-ma-terialism. Our executive approach would emphasize principled individualism. Our goal would be to nurture diverse actualized creativity.The effort relocated to San Francisco in 1992. A fruitful collaboration with San-dy Kosman and Martin Windmill began. Sandy and Martin were, without question, America’s leading motorcycle drag racing chassis design specialists.

For a glorious 18 months we lived in a blue sky bubble, dreaming up the beginning of something immortal, the finest American road bike, without any compromises, ex-

cept the limitations of resources to which we were availed. We fantasized about a massive forged one piece centered crank-shaft located in a unitized power train case with our own proprietary mounting speci-fications. Unfortunately our resources did not allow for such a solution. So, as neces-sity is the father of invention, we invented a non-unitized yet fully loaded cradled pow-er train mounting system by re-bundling and reconfiguring substantive proven high performance components, which we were resourced to procure. The result was a mas-terwork.

We resolved to use the toughest up-side-down, turned-around, vertical mount transmission located at the swing arm piv-ot by a dual threaded axle mounting a billet inner primary tied to a middle motor-trans-mission lap mount at the center strut of the cradle additionally supported by large di-ameter outrigger bearings mounting the output shaft to the swing arm pivot point.

A big-boned three inch hard steel backbone, two-inch down tube and 1 ¼ inch cradle additionally supported precise neck/swing arm perpendicularity. This first generation chassis-architecture is the ideal paterfamil-ias upon which our second and third gen-erations owe their deep within the oily bits thoroughbred design DNA. I was awarded Engineering Patent Patent #5857538.pdf for the superior torsion and bend rigidity of this body of work.

X132 HELLCATEngineX132 Copperhead; 132 cubic inches (2,163 cc); 56° Fuel Injected V-Twin; 4.4” Bore x 4.4” Stroke; One-piece Forged Crank; Journal Bearing Design

PowerTorque: > 150 Foot PoundsHorsepower: > 132 BHP

Unitized CaseMachined 6061 Aircraft-Grade Billet Alu-minum

TransmissionConfederate Patented 5-Speed Close Ra-tio; Patented Output Shaft Bearing Sup-port System

Chassis3” 120 Wall Hard Steel Backbone; 3” 120 Wall Hard Steel Down Tube; Hand Tig Welded Fabrication

SuspensionFront: Custom Marzocchi RAC 50mm Fork; Rebound and Compression Adjust-able for Low and High Speed ActuationRear: Custom Race Tech Coil-Over-Shock; Rebound and Compression Adjustable for Low and High Speed Actuation

WheelsCarbon Fiber; Front: 3.5” x 17”; Rear: 6”x 17”

TiresFront: Pirelli Diablo Rosso 120/70 ZR;

Rear: Pirelli Diablo Rosso 190/55 ZRBrakesFront: Dual Beringer 4 Piston AEROTEC Radial Calipers; Dual Beringer AERONAL Floating Stainless Steel DiscsRear: Single 2 Piston Brembo Monobloc Caliper; Cross-drilled Brembo Stainless Steel Disc

Lighting5.75” Round LED Headlamp; Integrated High Beam, Low Beam, Running Lights; LED Tail Lamp, Brake, Running Lights, Blinker System

Fuel CellConfederate Proprietary Design; Deep-drawn Steel; 4.75 Gallon Capacity

InstrumentationMotogadget Precision Analogue Tachom-eter; Digital Speed, Status

GeometryWheelbase: 62.5” ; Rake: 23.5 Degrees; Trail: 3.8”

ErgonomicsControls: Mid-Rear; Clip-On & 2” Rise 1” Back Clip-On; Seating: Solo Seat; Seat Height: 30”

Weight500 lbs

Price$55,000.00 USD

Receita fácil de Mousse de Maracujá2 xícaras (chá) de suco concentrado de maracujá2 envelopes de gelatina sem sabor1 xícara (chá) de água fria2 xícaras (chá) de água fervente1 xícara (chá) de açúcar1 xícara (chá) de creme de leite sem soroModo de Preparo

Em uma tigela, hidrate a gelatina na água fria.Adicione a água fervente e mexa até dissolver completa-mente.Leve para gelar até que se obtenha a consistência de clara de ovo.Coloque a gelatina no liquidificador, acrescente os demais ingredientes e bata bem até ficar espumosa.Distribua em taças e leve à geladeira até ficar completa-mente firme. Essa receita é ideal para os dias de calor que se aproxi-mam......Para mais dicas e receitas acessem o sitewww.culinariafacil.com beijos e ate a próxima edição

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