Consequences of the Phenomenon El Niño in South America

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Maria Ines Villarejo from Paraguay

              As everybody knows El Niño is a phenomenon that causes intense rains. Since last year some countries of South America are facing this. When I say some countries I’m talking about Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay and Bolivia. I am from Paraguay and my country at this moment is having a lot of problems because of this phenomenon.

                Since last year the rain has not stopped. At the minimum it rains two or three times a week. In the beginning, I thought that this would have a positive impact, meaning that the agriculture will increase and yes that happened but problems happened, too.

                The Paraguay River has been increasing since El Niño started. In my country, poor people live on the shore of the river in small and poor houses the majority of them made by straw. So now all this area is flooded and almost one hundred thousand people have been evicted from their houses and they are living in the streets and parks.

                The people in my country that are not affected by the flooding try to help to the poor people by giving food, clothing and a place to live temporally. However, there is not much to do because the rain does not stop and the floods either.

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Top 5 Restaurants in Santa Barbara

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by Jennifer Spielmann, Switzerland

  1. South Coast Deli
  2. California Pasta
  3. Eureka!
  4. Sandbar
  5. California Pizza Kitchen

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South Coast Deli is our number 1 because it is right on the other side of the school. The food is really delicious and worth the prices they charge. If you are in a rush, you can call them to pre-order your food. Also all the employees are very kind and friendly. Worth trying it.

Calilsfornia Pasta

You will find California Pasta right on the left side when you are entering Paseo Nuevo on State Street. The cool part at CP is that you get a 10% discount as an EF student. California Pasta has some of the best pasta in Santa Barbara. If you are a pasta lover, you definitely have to check this place out!

Eureka!eureka

The location of Eureka is easy to find. Just walk down Chapala Street and there it is on the left side. This restaurant also has a bar, which is awesome for those who like to drink and watch a game on the screen. Eureka has different kinds of food, which should definitely match your taste.


sandbarSandbar

As the name itself says, it is a bar, but also a restaurant. They do offer special deals at different times of the day. If you are sitting outside they have heaters, which are shaped like a pyramid with flames in the center. Sandbar is a nice place with an amazing atmosphere. This place is on the left side on State Street, toward the beach.

California Pizza KitchenCPK

California Pizza Kitchen is right next to Eureka in the Paseo Nuevo Mall. This place is awesome if you really like pizza. Sometimes you have to wait to get seated, but the restaurant has a waiting area with benches in front of it. You also can order something for take out. Even when you are eating in there you can ask to take the leftovers with you. You should definitely check it out.

How a Body Moves

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The Sao Paulo Museum of Modern Art gives their space to the visual arts exhibition “Dancing Museum”

Arthur Henrique Ribeiro da Costa – Brazil

 

The São Paulo Museum of Modern Art is getting ready to show the “Dancing Museum”. The exhibition brings 38 works in the collection that is integrated in the choreographic world, exploring aspects of our bodies as movement elements. Also, the masterpieces are exploiting all the space in the room, as if they were “dancing” to the appreciation of the observers.

For their selection, the meeting between Felipe Chaimovich, curator of MAM and Inês Bogéa, director of the São Paulo Dance Company, resulted in a new experience to try other ways to be physically in a museum. The connection with dance and how the body is present in the space is the great attraction of the set. According to Geise Reis, 26, a team member of the museum, “we don’t want you to be stopped. In all the museums, you have to follow a certain sequence of screens on the wall, but not here. The works are all around the space, making the visitor to move like in a dance” says Geise, who guides the public all around the area all week.

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The arrangement of parts in the Great Room of MAM is distributed according to dance fundamentals. In three areas, choreographic principles as gravity, balance and fluctuation, respectively, are shown through studies that, depending on the situation, require the participation of viewers, making them stepping barefoot in green and yellow scales or flipping giant book pages. The interactivity that the exposition provides is a differential which made the Argentine Mariana Iriberne, 25, come to Brazil: “I love modern art and (interactivity) is curious, if not funny. These masterpieces make us feel comfortable as they enter in our feelings, making us become relaxed as we move from one space and another”, said the web designer in his first time in Brazil.

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To give a final touch to the work, the São Paulo Dance Company performs in some presentations throughout the month, offering some worskhops to the visitor and interacting with the works of the museum. Coordinated by choreographer Clébio Oliveira and the dancer Rafael Gomes, the performances leave all perplexed, from adults to children. The art teacher Luciana Amaral God, 43, took her class to appreciate the work, making her student perplex by the art demonstrated in the museum: “It is important stimulate the culture”, said the teacher of Pueri Domus school.

 

 

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Art’s pioneers of Brazilian’s kinetic art, Abraham Palatnik and Hélio Oiticica, worldwide recognized artists are in the exhibition. Haruka Kojin, Sergio Camargo and other great talents are also there as well. Dancing Museum extended until January 15. The ticket costs 6 reais and the entrance is free on Sundays.