LARGO DAS ARTES: DAY 20 - 21

DAY 21

I have some technical issue with the blogger page so I am writing day 21 as a continuation of day 20. I cannot stop now as I promised to myself to write one page a day!

Today is Sunday and I must admit I am pretty tired after only two hour of sleep! I went to see the Carnival Winner Parade with only 6 fantasias selected out of 12. My spot in sector 9 was very good as I could see more dresses and masks' details and dances I missed on the first parade day. The performance started at 10pm on Saturday and ended at 6am the day after and it was spectacular as usual! I did also a lot of movies- intentionally not high definition- and the material I have is enough to edit some videos for a future project. Enjoy this small selection and see you tomorrow!

DAY 20

Only six day to go. The time of the opening is getting closer and closer so we decided to go to work also today that is Saturday until 3pm because after that the Centro becomes empty and it is more dangerous to walk alone. This is how life in Rio is! I went to buy more foam boxes and I invited Janette, the vendor of the shop, to come to the opening as well plus another man that was there and helped to translate my English! Once back to the studio I assembled  the totem as higher as I could (I have still more boxes to go) and on Monday I will test the dry ice.

At 3pm Miguel Sayad arrived and he invited us to go to have a tour at Santa Teresa area to visit a very nice museum called Chacara do Ceu. This museum was the home of Raymond Ottoni de Castro Maya built in 1950. It has been conserved as it was at the time when the owner was living there. 

Than we all went to have a early dinner together and we celebrated with a tasty traditional dish made with tail of ox at Bar do Serafin.  Funny to know that my husband Chris Verheyden is born in the year of the Ox for the Chinese astrology so we celebrate the dish on his honour!