The odyssey of joining 33 musical projects together, from Portugal and from the two special administrative regions of Hong Kong and Macau, is finally out of the box with mostly all of the aims of Project T(H)REE achieved. After one year of detailed work and effort with the participation of more than one hundred people, David Valentim, the producer, taking all the credits of this olympic challenge, and Bloom * Creative Network, a part of the engine, have launched the first III CD last weekend in Hong Kong and Macau, with two successful events.
T(H)REE is a musical project that brings together for the very first time, on the same record, modern musicians from Portugal, Macau and Hong Kong. Wishing to materialize and shape a truthful blend of cultures the idea also comes from the significant ambition to enhance local music creation beyond its borders. Reaching distant domains, bringing the steer to extensive forms and new contacts as musical and cultural projects that otherwise would never taken place. This project is also born under the structure of a pure and boundless dialogue, where the finest blend of creative processes, sounds and distinctive ways of making music flow in a world without space and distance, making technology the elemental connection and the convergence point. The final result is a surprise and an outlook reference for the music scene of the three territories involved.
III T(h)ree • New Musical Roots from Portugal, Hong Kong and Macau
Concept and Production: David Valentim • Graphic Design: Alexandre Paixão • Photos: Ana Mendonça, António Falcão, David Valentim, Hina Shimomura, Paulo Carneiro • Texts: António Falcão, Erik Piece, Rui Dinis, Yuen Chi-Chung • Mastered by: Alok Leung • Presented and distributed by: Bloom * Creative Network
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T(H)REE is on sale in the following places:
HONG KONG
• White Noise Records [http://www.whitenoiserecords.org]
• Kubrick [http://www.kubrick.com.hk]
• Zoo Records [http://www.zoo-records.com]
MACAU
• St. Paul's Fine Arts Gallery [http://www.stpaulscorner.com]
• Portuguese Bookshop [Rua de S. Domingos 18-20 R/C]
• Pinto Music [Senado Square • next door to Starbucks 1st floor]
• Lines Lab | Bloom [Creative Albergue • Calçada da Igreja de S. Lázaro, 8]
ORDER ONLINE here.
Alguém pode ter ficado espantado por não ter escrito em português o anúncio da festa do 35 de Abril que teve lugar ontem no Rooftop. Foi apenas uma questão de opção na completa falta de tempo. Ao passar a informação não queremos restringi-la apenas a uma comunidade, queremos que, mesmo as nossas datas, cheguem a todos os campos. E foi isso que aconteceu. A preferência por uma divulgação mais vasta do que pela evidência da língua, se assim se pode dizer.
A festa essa foi mais uma vez um sucesso, apesar de algums contra-tempos iniciais com o sistema sonoro. Música portuguesa de todos os quadrantes, de hoje, de ontem, e algumas do tempo da minha avozinha. Fechámos com Zeca Afonso e o "Verdes Anos" do Carlos Paredes. O 35 de Abril, uma data a recordar. Sempre!
Rewriting History through Portuguese music!
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"35 d'Abril"
[APRIL 25 • Saturday • Starting at 10 PM]
The 35 of April is quite a universal date in the Portuguese calendar and probably in fairy-tales, but it happens only every odd year, it means that every 35 years after the revolution the 35 of April comes. And this goes for every country.
It's a date to celebrate liberty and self-determination and most of all the joy of singing on the hope for a new future.
In this special occasion we invite you to commemorate all the steps of the art of making a song through the leaps of Portuguese music. Some would call it the April Songs. We call it Creation.
On the first light of the 25th of April, 1974, in a faraway land, some men and women composed their new destiny saying to the world that the heart and voices could never be stopped. And peacefully history changed. This was achieved through a strategy of many lines and the power of song writing helped it to the final push to what end up to be a spontaneous movement..
This was known as the "Carnation Revolution" but we think that that just happened by chance and is overrated and so any flower goes! ;-)
Well said you just need to come and feel it with your heart, while having a great time at The Rooftop!
HOPE TO SEE YOU THERE! THANK YOU!
DETAILS
Host: Corner's Club
Start Time: Saturday, April 25, 2009 at 10:00pm
Location: St. Paul's Corner • Travessa de S. Paulo • Macau
IIUM PUBLIC LECTURE • Center for Global and Strategic Studies
China’s Age of Openness Before Mao
A LECTURE BY FRANK DIKÖTTER • CHAIRPERSON: ERIC SAUTEDÉ
The era between empire and communism is routinely portrayed as a catastrophic interlude in China's modern history, but this engagingly written book shows instead that the first half of the twentieth century witnessed a qualitatively unprecedented trend towards openness.
Frank Dikötter argues that the years from 1900 to 1949 were characterized at all levels of society by engagement with the world, and that the pursuit of openness was particularly evident in four areas: in governance and the advance of the rule of law and of newly acquired liberties; in freedom of movement in and out of the country; in open minds thriving on ideas from the humanities and sciences; and in open markets and sustained growth in the economy.
Freedom of association, freedom to travel, freedom of religion, freedom to trade and relative freedom of speech wrought profound changes in the texture of everyday life. While globalisation itself was a vector of cultural diversification, pre-existing constellations of ideas, practices and institutions did not simply vanish on contact with the rest of the world, but on the contrary expanded even further, just as much as local industries diversified thanks to their inclusion into a much larger global market. Arguably the country was at its most diverse in its entire history on the eve of World War II – in terms of politics, society, culture and the economy.
Accessible to general readers, while providing an integration of ideas that will be valuable for specialists, this book presents a fresh way of approaching the history of modern China.
In this succinct and vigorous book, Frank Dikötter presents a cornucopia of graphic examples to show that China in the first half of the twentieth century, far from being in a state of decay that called for revolutionary action, was in fact a vibrant and cosmopolitan society. In such a reading, the current Chinese leaders should not be seen as striving to do something bold and new; they are merely struggling to rebuild a network of global connections that Mao and others had systematically helped to destroy. This should be an ideal book to spark class discussion on modern China.ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Jonathan Spence, author of The Search for Modern China and Return to Dragon Mountain.
Frank Dikötter is a Professor of Chinese Modern History at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, and Chair of Humanities at the University of Hong Kong. He has published a series of innovative books, including The Discourse of Race in Modern China and the controversial Narcotic Culture: a History of Drugs and China.
VENUE: IIUM AUDITORIUM • RUA DE LONDRES, 16 (NAPE) MACAU
DATE: APRIL 23, 2009 AT 6:30 PM
TEL: +853-87964404
MORE INFO AT: www.iium.edu.mo
RELATED LINK: FRANK DIKÖTTER WEBSITE
The Age of Openness - China Before Mao, by Frank Dikötter
HONG KONG UNIVERSITY PRESS • 2008 • 125 MOP$ •
* In collaboration with IIUM, Bloom will be present at this session making the book available to all the readers of Macau. Don't miss it!
"SMELLS LIKE THE NINETIES"
[APRIL 18 • Saturday • Starting at 10 PM]
Have you heard of THE ROOFTOP?
Well, there's something going on through the leads of St. Pauls Ruins that is bringing all the saints awake to what's the whiz in town.
THE ROOFTOP is the bar at the St. Paul's Corner Club on the steps of the most remarkable landmark of Macau and it's back with a party. Once more on a venture with Bloom * Creative Network is creating what might be something different in town and surely not to be missed!
"SMELLS LIKE THE NINETIES" is a return to that great stream of sound and fury marked in time and deep down on everyone's memories. That's it, we're inviting you to come on this BUZZ evoking all the hits of Indy, Pop, Punk, Rock, Dance, and Hip-Hop, and whatever, that made the whole of a decade and that are still echoing in our minds.
With the illustrious JORGIBOY, the rage of DJ KUNMING and introducing THE LOUNGE at the Corner's Club, what will be a surprise and a trial for following events, you must come and dance through out the night.
JOIN IN and invite your friends to come! It's simple as that.
DETAILS
Host: Corner's Club
Start Time: Saturday, April 18, 2009 at 10:00pm
End Time: Sunday, April 19, 2009 at 3:00am
Location: St. Paul's Corner • Travessa de S. Paulo • Macau
Debate realizado no Clube Militar relativo ao futuro da comunidade portuguesa em Macau.[CARREGAR NA IMAGEM PARA AUMENTAR]
Some few opportunities from our Creative Network, they are mainly requests from Hong Kong SAR. But that's not a reason for not applying and give it a chance. Here you go:
ACTORS
• ACTORS WANTED [SEALS THEATRE FOUNDATION]
This is a cast for a Play. They require different characters.
A. RANDALL – Male, early 20s, an American marine.
B. ANDERSON – Male, early 40s, an American businessman
C. DA SILVA – Male, 50s, Portugese businessman. Can also be played by Eurasian with Mediterranean look.
D. RAJA & RAMCHAND – Indian and Pakistani partners in retail merchandising.
E. MAY – Female, Chinese, early 20s, Wan Chai bar hostess, fluent Cantonese and Suzie Wong pidgin-English
F. WONG – Male, Chinese mid-30s, hijack leader, fluent English and Cantonese, conversant Cantonese.
G. ABE – Male, Japanese, mid-40s, fluent in Japanese accented English (Japanese not required).
Audition Date: 26th of April, 2009
Performance Dates: 18-20 December, 2009
Send CV and headshots.
Contact: Tammy Tam
Email: tammy@eduarts.com.hk
Phone: 2520 1716
• ETHNIC EXTRAS WANTED [TV COMMERCIAL IN MACAU]
Mature (age 45-60) men and women from different ethnic (African, Indian, Arab, etc) background needed for TVC in Macau. Business look. Send contacts and pictures.
Email: watkisss@hotmail.com
• ASIAN ACTORS WANTED [PUBLIC ENTERPRISE TVC]
This company is looking for three asian actors for a TV Commercial.
A. Male / Female, 20-30 years old, fluent Cantonese
B. Boy / Girl, 4-6 years old, fluent Cantonese
C. Male/ Female 50-60 years old, fluent Cantonese
Casting Date: April 5
If you are interested, please send photos and contacts.
Email: casting@filmfactory.net
• CAUCASIAN ACTORS / ACTRESSES WANTED [EASTER PROMOTION]
Peanut Butter ‘n Jelly Model and Talent is looking for 6 Caucasian female actresses and one male actor for an Easter promotion.
Email: info@peanutbutternjellyhk.com
• ACTORS WANTED [HKAPA STUDENT SHORT FILM]
A. Female Actor - 25-28 years old, height above 155cm, fluent Cantonese
B. Female Actor - 25-28 years old, skinny and short, fluent Cantonese
C. Male Actor - 25-28 years old, look fresh, normal height
Shooting Dates: 21-30 April, 2009 (4-5 days)
Send photos and resume.
Contact: Kim
Email1: himyiktam@yahoo.com.hk
Email2: old_masterq@hotmail.com
Phone: 9046 0606
• OLD CHINESE TALENT WANTED [HONG KONG MOVIE]
Male or female, age 50-70. Send contacts, info and photos.
Email: info@stanleycasting.com
• ACTRESS WANTED [TV COMMERCIAL]
HKBU MFA production looking for an actress for a TVC. Should be around 28 to 34. Cantonese/English speaker. The character is a mother with a young child. Good opportunity for non-experienced actress. Also welcome experienced actress. Please send photo.
Email: fintan.cheng@gmail.com
DANCERS
• CHARACTER PERFORMERS WANTED [FULL TIME, PERMANENT]
A large Hong Kong entertainment company is looking for Character Performers.
Requirements: At least 16 years of age.
Audition: Applicants will participate in a short movement and non-verbal expression exercise.
Please send CV / Resume.
Contact: hkperform@gmail.com
• FEMALE DANCERS WANTED [EVENT]
Peanut Butter ‘n’ Jelly Models and Talent is looking for adult, female dancers. Send bio and photos.
Email: info@peanutbutternjellyhk.com
MODELS
• NUDE MODEL WANTED [ART CLASS WORKSHOP]
A company in Macau is looking for a NUDE MODEL for an Art Drawing Class. Please send an email to BLOOM with photo and any other reagarded information.
Email: root@bloomland.cn
• WESTERN/MIXED TALENT WANTED [PHILIPS HEADPHONE PRINT AD]
Male and female, age 25-35, Western and mixed, prefer some yoga or dance skill.
Shooting Dates: From 31 March, 2009
Email: info@amusemanpark.com
• MODEL WANTED [BEER TV COMMERCIAL]
Looking for Stunt (Stand In).
• Male (25-35 yrs old)
• Asian (Japanese/ Korean/ Chinese/ Eurasian) & Westerner
Casting until the end of April
Email: casting@filmfactory.net
• SPORTY MODELS WANTED [HEADPHONES PRINT AD]
Peanut Butter ‘n’ Jelly Models and Talent is looking for two models for a headphones print ad. Models should be sporty, not too muscular and have a healthy body shape.
A. Female – 20-30 years old
B. Male – 25-35 years old
Shooting Dates: 30 March – 3 April, 2009 (2 days)
Email: info@peanutbutternjellyhk.com
• TALENT / MODELS WANTED [SUPERMARKET TV COMMERCIAL]
Female 25-30 years old, fluent Cantonese
Casting Date: March 31
Please send your photos & resume.
Email: casting@filmfactory.net
MUSICIANS + SINGERS
• FEMALE OPERA SINGERS [EVENT IN HONG KONG]
Two female opera singers needed on April 24. Urgent request! Please send CV, photos, show reels.
Email: chansproductions@gmail.com
• TRUMPETER OR VIOLINIST WANTED [REGGAE COVER BAND]
This group is looking for a trumpet or violin player to be part of a semi-acoustic reggae type cover band.
Email: kisskendy@hotmail.com
• VOCAL PERCUSSION (BEAT-BOX) CLASSES [AMERICAN VOCAL STUDIO]
The American Vocal Studio is offering classes in Vocal Percussion ‘Beat-Boxing’ presented by Cody J. This is a 4-week course with classes scheduled for Tuesday nights. During the course students will explore the basic techniques for making the drum sounds and creating drum grooves. Anyone can learn, and be warned, it is highly addictive!
Contact: Cody J.
Email: cody@americanvocalstudio.com
Phone: 6906 2746
• WESTERN FEMALE PIANIST WANTED [EVENING SHOW]
Chans Productions is looking for a Western female pianist for an evening show. Please send CV, photos and contacts.
Email: chansproductions@gmail.com
• INDIAN SINGER / VOICE ARTIST WANTED [FILM]
Male or female. Please send contacts and demo.
Email: yungp01@netvigator.com
NON-PERFORMING
• COSTUME ASSISTANT WANTED [FULL TIME, PERMANENT]
A large Hong Kong entertainment company is looking for Full Time Permanent Costume Assistants. Responsible for costume registration, distribution, cleaning and repair.
Requirements: Form 3 or above, basic computer skills, previous experience is preferred.
Applicants with more relevant experience may be considered for higher positions.
Please send CV / Resume.
Contact: hkperform@gmail.com
Go get them!
IF YOU WANT TO BE PART OF OUR CREATIVE NETWORK PLEASE SEND YOUR INFO TO root@bloomland.cn. THANK YOU!
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Aqui! (para que não restem dúvidas...)
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[PARA AUMENTAR • OU EM PDF AQUI]Chegou ao fim o enredo da Livraria Portuguesa de Macau. Instituto Português do Oriente recua na decisão de vender as actuais instalações.
Apesar do nosso nome ter aparecido referenciado em alguns momentos na imprensa escrita local, a Bloom manteve-se afastada durante toda a polémica de contestação contra a venda das actuais instalações situadas no centro da cidade, optando pelo silêncio e esperando pela conclusão de todo o processo.
Um mês após a passagem do tufão Hagupit em Macau, em Setembro passado, que destruiu todo o plano então formado, com perdas materiais e emocionais avultadas e incalculáveis, a Bloom foi contactada pelo Instituto Português do Oriente para a possibilidade de gerir a nova Livraria Portuguesa num local diverso da sua actual localização. Recebendo essa oportunidade como uma enorme surpresa prontamente se dispôs a encontrar o lugar ideal para tal encontro. Em Macau a especulação imobiliária é delicada e torna-se difícil encontrar a solução mais correcta e viável. No entanto surgiram duas hipóteses que poderiam ser a marca de uma presença condigna para o futuro de todo o traçado. Desenhámos o cenário sem estabelecer compromissos.
O Instituto Camões de Portugal, sócio maioritário do Instituto Português do Oriente, em Assembleia Geral realizada há dois dias, decidiu entretanto cancelar a venda do espaço da Livraria Portuguesa. Facto que a Bloom acabaria por saber de maneira indirecta pelos jornais e que foi consumado depois da comunidade portuguesa de Macau, em particular, se ter manifestado contra a hipótese dessa transacção. Num protesto iniciado pela mão da associação Casa de Portugal em Macau, tendo lançado para o efeito uma petição online, com resposta determinada, por esse mundo fora, de grande parte dos seus destinatários.
Não nos vamos debruçar sobre o conteúdo da petição, feita minuciosamente com um propósito. Poderíamos manifestar que não continha a exactidão dos factos em causa, mas não o vamos fazer e isso, neste momento, e em qualquer outro que possa surgir, não importa de todo. Não deixava de ser uma causa importante. Aconteceu e o que interessa é a deliberação final ao fim de de um tempo que parecia indeterminado e que acabou por ter um fim.
Não existiu um cronómetro, mas desde o contacto inicial até ao dia de hoje distam quatro meses. Tempo de incrível demora até à possível confirmação. A Bloom ficou congelada todo esse período, absorta em ideias sumptuosas. Muitas vezes recebemos aquelas propostas de correio electrónico não solicitadas “Você ganhou a Lotaria Francesa” ou ”Acabou de ganhar uma herança não reclamada de uma princesa africana”, toda esta história, nesta circunstância, nos parece uma mensagem de SPAM. E a esta distância tudo parece irreal. A livraria, o tufão, as reuniões, as luzes.
Sempre acreditámos, perante o panorama que foi levantado, que tudo poderia não acontecer. Por isso, mesmo solicitados, nunca viemos a público falar sobre o assunto. Talvez, não explicando ao que vínhamos, ao que estava do outro lado da parede, no negro do holocausto da língua portuguesa no oriente, tenha sido um equívoco. Não dizer que tínhamos um projecto de continuidade e a hipótese de um espaço honrado para a edificação de um belíssima Livraria Portuguesa nesta terra, expondo-o às pessoas. “Too late”, alguém dirá. E no fim que dizer? O que resta? Continua tudo como está. É uma repetição de outros acontecimentos também falados na mesma língua, aqui. Os portugueses de Macau ficam mais do que satisfeitos, sobretudo as casas de Portugal e as línguas portuguesas, que vencem esta batalha contra o vento da mudança, tem o deleite da missão alcançada. Será? Terá ficado a causa cumprida? E os escritores que eu gosto, onde estão?
Na razão estava a questão premente de Portugal em abdicar de um espaço físico em Macau onde passam diariamente milhares de pessoas. De abandonar todo a embarcação que já não lhe pertence desde 1999 e desamparar os portugueses que ainda cá se encontram. Um local que tem escrito nas suas paredes a essência de um país e de uma pátria e que se podia volver na possibilidade de ser transformado numa loja de candeeiros. E muito antes de 99, quando se devia ter agido a sério, o que se fez de duradouro pelo português? “A Pátria Vos Honrai que a Pátria Vos Contempla”, ainda hoje está escrito nas Portas do Cerco, na fronteira com o continente chinês. E dizem que desse lado é que se preocupam, que daí é que vem o gosto pela nossa Língua. Pois! Em causa estava a memória de outra época, o símbolo, e a possibilidade de todo o desígnio de uma nação se deslocar para uma rua secundária, sem tanta evidência, apesar de poder ter outra grandiosidade e outro sentido de estado. Isso é irrelevante. Será que não nos podemos valer por nós próprios e partir?
A Bloom nasceu no ano de 2006, abrindo as suas portas em Fevereiro do ano seguinte. Ficava perto do rio, o espaço era pequeno e por vezes deixávamos os clientes sem escolha. Éramos falíveis. No entanto fomos aprendendo a mover-nos, criando o nosso mundo e a nossa imagem, apesar do tempo faltar para uma dedicação exclusiva. Ambicionámos demais, talvez, trazer novas editoras, autores consagrados e aqueles que ficam para lá do consenso comum, os grandes clássicos e em simultâneo os escritores mais arrojados de hoje. Trouxemos pessoas de fora, plantámos um pequeno jardim. Jardim de palavras, feitas com muitas linhas e com muitas páginas. Um livro é um mundo mágico que não acaba. De criatividade, de imagens, de sonhos, de coisas que não se explicam de outra forma. A Bloom mergulhou nesse universo de olhos fechados sem pensar na possibilidade de se dissipar afogada. E no azo da transformação ampliámos o sonho e, mesmo com um túnel por acender, tivemos uma leve esperança de construir outra realidade na cidade. Uma âncora para a disseminação da cultura, a portuguesa e ainda outras, numa janela para o mundo, como um campo de leitura, um lugar para nos perdermos e deixar o tempo correr pelo universo das letras.
É verdade, não desistimos dessa ideia, de criar um espaço assim. Onde por entre um café se possa abordar o tufão da escrita e as vozes doces das palavras. Não temos nada a perder. Mas será que a cidade o merece ou deseja, criando-se assim uma alternativa? E quem somos nós na verdade para vir para aqui fazer afirmações destas? Quem é idóneo no meio de todas estas histórias, os jornais, as instituições, as capas dos livros que não suportam o peso das águas? Será que todos os que assinaram a petição sabiam verdadeiramente o que estavam a assinar? Acredito que sim, pelo nome do País em causa, que é o que importa, mas quantos deles se dedicam realmente à leitura? E em Portugal, alguém sabe hoje o que é isto, o que se passa aqui, alguém tem a noção?
E o que é no fundo a Livraria Portuguesa actual? É tudo o que existe. É o que há. Com os valores bem determinados. São três andares, não importa o elevador, numa rua onde as pessoas passam a toda a hora e que tem um nome gravado em letras grandes. Alguém disse que dava tudo por ela e é tudo o que baste, sem olhar para outro céu. A Bloom também dava tudo por ela, pela ideia de uma Livraria, inserindo no seu escaparate todos os desejos que nos atormentam, mas é preciso que se abram as janelas e deixando-a voar, deixá-la ir para o futuro, num lugar de encontro de culturas e de projecção da cultura lusófona, cá dentro e lá fora. Ali ou noutro lugar. Em todo o seu significado quase que se tornou um local assombrado. Mas somos apenas uma opinião por entre as demais. Logo se verá. Parece-nos que ainda podemos estar todos do mesmo lado.
Deixamos o nosso breve historial com as perspectivas para amanhã que, como o futuro, é sempre um dia incerto. Mas nunca se sabe...
• Breve história da BLOOM [SEGUIR O LINK E CARREGAR EM FULLSCREEN] • O MESMO EM 'PDF' • EM 'DOC'
[BANDA SONORA: The Box "Autumn Yellow", projecto musical que a Bloom trouxe a Macau em Julho de 2007]
LIGAÇÕES RELATIVAS:
• À DISPOSIÇÃO DAS ASSOCIAÇÕES - por Alexandra Lages no Hoje Macau
• CPM DISPONíVEL PARA ASSUMIR LIVRARIA - por Alexandra Lages no Hoje Macau
• VENDA ADIADA - por Raquel Carvalho no JTM
• IPOR SUSPENDE VENDA - por José Costa Santos na Agência LUSA
• ENTREVISTA A JORGE MORBEY - por Sónia Nunes no Hoje Macau
• "CASA DE PORTUGAL NÃO SERIA MÁ APOSTA" - ainda Jorge Morbey por Sónia Nunes no Hoje Macau
• UMA NOVELA À PORTUGUESA - por Arnaldo Gonçalves no Hoje Macau
• MACAU FICARÁ "MAIS POBRE" • por José Costa Santos na Agência LUSA
• DESASSOSSEGO NA LIVRARIA PORTUGUESA - por Arnaldo Gonçalves no Exílio de Andarilho
• SOBRE A ENTREVISTA A AMÉLIA ANTÓNIO NA RÁDIO MACAU • no JTM
• GOLPES DE MESTRES - por Rocha Dinis no JTM
• PETIÇÃO SEGUE ESTA SEMANA • no HOJE MACAU
• A PETIÇÃO • Casa de Portugal em Macau
• ENTREVISTA A CARLOS MONJARDINO • por Emanuel Graça no JTM
• IPOR CONFIRMA POSSIBILIDADE DE VENDA • por José Costa Santos na Agência LUSA via RTP
Com este vento todo, uma das coisas que aprendemos foi que não podemos ser um dueto de Moisés' ou Maomés a remar no deserto. A montanha assim nunca chegará cá abaixo. ;-)
[DE VOLTA À BLOOMLAND]
• Qual é o teu projecto para a Livraria Portuguesa?[PELO QUE NOS COMPETE A BLOOM ASSEGURA QUE O FUTURO NÃO ACABA AGORA]
Bloom * Creative Network have just organized its second party at The Rooftop. It was a great event, everything went just wondrous. Great music, from the Grinderman to stunning Arab beats, and most of the people don't remember how it ended, which is always a good sign. A liaison with a trombone and a guitar took the last breath of the night and St. Paul himself joined us for the last round of Caipiriñas on the ladders of the most famous landmark of Macau. And, yes, we had great disguises, great masks and real homemade productions. Bloom, thankfully, gave some prizes for the best ones. Most remembered will be the prize "Who Wants This Prize?" ;-)
We'd like to thank to the Corner's Club for this unique opportunity, mainly Derek, Sam, Gigi and all the crew of the ship.
And we'll come back very soon with something completely different from a distant place in the world. Stay tuned!
A festa "Traz o Teu Melhor e Disfarce e Mostra o que Realmente És" foi um sucesso. A Bloom agradece a todos os que passaram pelo Rooftop na noite de Sábado e promete trazer muito mais para a pequena Travessa de S. Paulo onde se situa o Corner's Club. Muito obrigado a todos. Até breve!
Na fotografia estão oito pessoas e ainda as mãos de uma outra. O Chefe, ao fundo da mesa, entre-olha uma mulher que está na segunda cadeira ao seu lado direito. Toda a imagem sofre de uma tonalidade verde-azulada, indicação de um balanço de brancos deficiente. Indicação de que tudo está um bocado errado nesta terra.
Em primeiro plano, à esquerda, está outra mulher de cabelo curto que reivindica essa mesma deficiência de cor. O tom do seu penteado vai do azul ao amarelo, tocando com força no castanho. Tem as mãos no colo, uma aperta a outra deixando um dos mindinhos de fora. Olha para a esquerda para o outro lado da mesa, em olhar cruzado, possivelmente para a pessoa de quem só se vislumbram as mãos.
Por detrás do Chefe, na parede, há um reflexo que fugiu do tecto, através do flash, levado por uma decoração em vidro que estraga qualquer noção de equílibrio nesta sala. A grande angular da lente encarregou-se do resto. Os cantos estão retorcidos, a linha do horizonte descaída, e a mulher do cabelo colorido tem uma cabeça do tamanho do mundo inteiro. A isto chama-se deformação de vista. Mas não é nada que um editor de imagem não deixe de resolver.
Transformo tudo. Os cantos ficam à solta, puxo os dois em baixo e as linhas verticais endireitam-se e tornam-se paralelas. Lá ao longe retiro o reflexo por detrás do chefe. E dou-lhe mais luz. Destruo a saturação dos amarelos. Dou vida aos pretos e por fim foco o que ficou por focar.
As oito pessoas estão mais sorridentes e assim o soslaio do Chefe fica mais nobre.
Two years ago after lunch time with nobody watching and with no special happening, we opened our doors for business. Just like that. The birds were on the trees, people were coming out of the temple, the motorbikes from the shop in the corner were all there doing their job, shinning. That was the official opening day of Bloom * Creative Network, culminating a long process of bringing up a bookshop to town. It happened near the Inner Harbour, quite near of San Ma Lou and just in front of the big hole that would come to be the Ponte 16.
Well, Ponte 16 is still there, like a wall crawling upwards from the river banks. We're not. In between these two instants, the Opening in 2007 and Today, something happened. For a while a big hand of water was in the wrong moment in the wrong place. It was on the night of the 23rd of September last year. Suddenly reality gave a jump into fiction and from then till now we still can't differ one from another.
Did we have a bookstore in Hong Kung Miu Square? Did we sell books? Are we on the book business? What's Bloom anyway? Can't we remember? These are questions we can answer easily but in a way we can always tell that random response because now it just doesn't matter. We're out of the field. What matters is what will come next and we're still on the last lines of the period of disaster drawing the scratches of the whole new scenario. Fast and furious fiction passing on into a real frame again. Like the pages of a book that were just thorned aside. By water.
"What's next for Bloom?", you might ask.
First we have to deal with what we're doing in the present time when present time doesn't exist. Are we solving things? Are we on the way up? Are we back in town? The thing is that we still have a sattelite of what was left of Bloom enterprise. It's at Old Ladies House, now renamed Albergue. We called it Bloom Yellow, because of the colour of the building, but even that we've dismissed and we're there only on weekends or when the sun shines bright. But a sattelite without a planet to orbit what is it? Could be a ship adrift on the vast ocean of stars? An orphan crying for help? Perhaps a stray dog lost in the alleys of a city when it should be on the country side. Barely, we don't know.
We're on the future already and we have to wait for the world to rejoin. We're calling our strenghts to go forward and to push everyone aboard. Things changed and we're connected now to all the Natural Causes. Big things we want to do like helping to save the Planet. To enforce the endangerous blindness of our human fellows to come across on a different path. To be conscious and endure. This is not about books, or selling them, or about beautiful stories or some sort of miraculous creativity. This is not about Chinese, about Portuguese or English speaking commuters. It's not about the form. This is about us. This is about what's underneath and what's left of the Darwin evolution. It's not the economic crisis, this is much ahead. And what's in front of our eyes is a delightful Bloomland. This is the deal of our Nature and not about the gambling of what we are. We're not impaired or alone here. It's just the same flesh and blood. The same feet where you can put a pair of shoes. Even if we pretend by repeating the same acts everyday now, we're not kids anymore, we should've been grown-ups by now and we should step at the fore and not in the back.
That's what we stand for, to make a better place to live.
Today, the day of our second anniversary, we were not open. Neither on any colour. We loosened ourselves to the greener part of this land and we're just there making time flow. No candles, no sail. No one to watch. No special happenings. Just the birds, the dogs, the trees on the wind and the power of nature showing its force. And for this instant, day after day, we think everything will go on its place, sooner or later. But what's today if tomorrow's already gone?
Apart from all we'd like to thank you for your patience and apologize for all the flaws we might sourced. As soon as we stitch all the bits of our sail, Bloom 2.0 will come soon to an harbour near you. Don't need to tune it, we'll came just like that, as a natural cause.
[ON THE PHOTO BLOOM RED ONE YEAR AGO]
ARTIGO SOBRE HENRIQUE SENNA FERNANDES NA REVISTA BRASILEIRA BRAVO 
Toca o telefone no escritório de advocacia do escritor macaense Henrique de Senna Fernandes. Chamada de São Paulo. Em Macau, ex-colônia portuguesa na Ásia e desde 1999 região administrativa especial da República Popular da China, os relógios estão no futuro — nesta época do ano, dez horas a mais em relação ao Brasil —, mas o idioma no qual se expressa o jornalista que procura pelo autor ficou no passado. "Can you speak in English?", pergunta do outro lado da linha, com voz constrangida e sotaque achinesado, uma assistente de Senna Fernandes, logo que ouve as primeiras palavras na língua da antiga metrópole.
O episódio reforça a ideia de que Senna Fernandes (1923) talvez represente o último capítulo de peso da história da literatura produzida em português no continente asiático — ou, ao menos, em Macau. Assim, a publicação no Brasil de dois livros do ficcionista, Nam Van (contos, 1978) e Amor e Dedinhos de Pé (romance, 1986), já constituiria, por si só, um acontecimento editorial. Há, no entanto, algo mais a sublinhar: a obra do autor é um paradigma da expressão identitária de Macau, moldada a partir da fricção entre as tradições portuguesa e chinesa, disso resultando uma "cultura de encontro". "O macaense é precisamente o produto do equilíbrio de várias culturas, entre as quais se destacam a portuguesa, a raiz, e a chinesa, o solo. Eu sempre quis mostrar essa possibilidade de duas culturas tão díspares encontrarem uma plataforma de entendimento e de adaptação, criando um mundo novo", explicou o escritor em entrevista a BRAVO.
[TOTALIDADE DO TEXTO AQUI] [FOTO BLOOMLAND.CN]
One thing that Bloom is about is the intent to build a network of creative supplies. Today we come with a list of stage castings scheduled for this weeks, mainly in Hong Kong. If you are interested or know someone who might be just use the contacts bellow.
Thank you and good luck:
• ACTORS/MODELS WANTED [BANK TV COMMERCIAL]
The Film Factory is casting for a TVC. They require Hong Kong people or Asian looking talent.
1. BOSS - Male, age 40-50, Cantonese speaker.
2. AGENT - Male or Female, age 25-30, Cantonese speaker.
3. BANK STAFF - Female, age 20-30, Cantonese speaker
4. WAITER - Male, age 20-30
Casting Dates: 19-24 January, 2009
Contact: Apple
Email: casting@filmfactory.net
Ph: 9655 5514
• ACTORS WANTED [SHORT FILM]
This company is looking for two actors for an upcoming short film. The film is about internet romance, sex and virtual identity.
1. MALE - Chinese, age 30-35, average build.
2. FEMALE - Chinese, age 30-35, good body.
Auditions: After Chinese New Year
Email: kjacobs@cityu.edu.hk
• ACTORS/MODELS WANTED [BANK TV COMMERCIAL]
Such Films is casting for a TVC.
1. FATHER - Male, age 30+, Cantonese speaker.
2. KID - Male, age 5-7, Asian look.
3. LADY - Female, age 20-25, ABC/Asian look
4. MIDDLE AGE WOMAN - Female, age 45-60, Cantonese speaker
Contact: Candy
Email1: candy.f@suchfilms.com.hk
Email2: puiie29@gmail.com
Ph: 9426 4152
• FEMALE FILIPINO ACTOR WANTED [MOVIE]
Star Fantasy is looking for a female Filipino actor to play a Filipino maid.
Shooting Dates: End February, 2009
• CHILD FILIPINO ACTORS WANTED [MOVIES]
Star Fantasy is looking for a range of young Filipino's for various main and extra roles in upcoming movies.
1. BOYS & GIRLS - Age 5-8
2. GIRLS - Age 11-13
Shooting Dates: February & March, 2009
Contact: Keely Chow
Email: starfantasy@gmail.com
Ph: 9163 3376
• ACTORS WANTED [VIDEO GAME]
This company is looking for actors to play roles in a video game for release in the US.
1. ELSIE - Female, Caucasian, blonde, height 5' - 5'6", age 20-25, American accent, must be able to ice skate (martial arts training is a plus).
2. INES - Female, Chinese/Eurasian, height around 5 foot, age 20-25, American accent.
3. TOOTHBRUSH - Female, age 20-25, dark skinned, brunette, height around 5'7"+, Australian accent.
4. FRIDA - Male, age 20-25, Indian/Mexican/Middle Eastern, thin, American accent, height shorter that 5'11".
5. DICK - Male, age 20-25, Korean/Chinese/Japanese, overweight, height 6 foot+, American accent.
6. KING KONG - Male, age 40-50, Asian, tall, lean, American access (bald is a plus).
7. UNCLE S. - Male, age 30-50, dark skinned Asian/Indian, lean body.
8. PRIEST VEGETA - Male, age 20-30, Korean/Chinese/Japanese, average height, American accent.
9. GRANDMA LEUNG - Female, age 55+, short, Chinese, American accent.
10. SYDNEY OPERA - Male, age 30-40, blonde, average height, Australian accent, looks like Steve Irwin.
This job may span over the next few months or possibly year. Please send headshot and resume.
Audition Dates: End February, 2009
Email: matthew@uglyproductions.com
• ACTORS/MODELS WANTED [HEALTH DRINK TV COMMERCIAL]
A variety of actors are wanted in the following roles for a health drink TVC.
1. COLLEGE STUDENTS - Male and female.
2. YOUNG PARENTS
Casting Date: February 15, 2009
Shooting Date: Early March, 2009
Contact: Stephanie
Email: steph.casting@gmail.com
Phone: 9263 2355
• MALE ACTOR WANTED [WORDYBIRD THEATRE COMPANY]
This company is looking for a middle aged male actor of any nationality to play the role of Paul Sheldon in a stage version of 'Misery' by Stephen King.
Casting Date: 3 February, 2009.
Contact: Jodi
Email: briang@netvigator.com
Ph: 9193 6640
Go get them!
The Albergue opened officialy yesterday. Lights, sound, exhibitions, a fashion show, scheduled the event that started at 6 o'clock with a a mighty organization and a crowded audience. Among them many of the VIPs of Macau leaded by the Chief Executive, Edmund Ho. It was an effusive ocasion to glow a line of projects that are coming to this venue. The event marked the intention to grow to a new level. The potential is all there, we will see in the coming months what the future reserves for the whole space and for the district of St. Lazarus where creative industries pretend to flow.
For our part, Bloom is still displaced on the heart of its body. We're still walking and beating but through alleys and sideways. If there's the challenge to overcome for a new life, on a second and strong opportunity, on the same way we are faced for a huge operation that must be accomplished without scars and that needs certainty and consistency. We just want to clean everything, forget the past and start from ground zero onwards. Still today it's hard and painful to return to Bloom Red where the bones and remains of its destruction are completly visible. It's a nightmare on air going through weeks and weeks and we're tumbling down on the way to something that will come, but has time goes it gets more close to a dream then to anything else. We're hoping for the happy ending though.
Bloom Yellow is at Albergue, where the flashes went on. But even there we're faraway to engage on something solid, because we're still raining. Yellow is part of a rainbow and can't be made of shaded colors. We'll give it time. But we can't last forever on the side of un-definition.
Apart from all that, with or without us, Bloom wishes a long life and a great success to Albergue.
[PHOTO BY BLOOMLAND.CN | CLICK TO ZOOM IN]
Não se tem passado muito aqui por este lugar. Estamos meio absortos na esperança de uma resolução que possamos tocar com as mãos. Até lá é isto. Um céu. Um tempo. A terra que nos segura. Não existirá para sempre por baixo dos nossos pés.
Mas iremos voltar a este posto com mais regularidade muito em breve.
This is for Boys and Girls! You just need to bring your guts and come along with us. Where SPEED beats TIME in real life!
Hey, are you a speed racer? Are you feeling cold this Winter? Are you sure? It doesn't matter if you're sure or note, what matters now is SPEED and TIME! Everyone knows that! You should also know.
So, while you're thinking, while you wait for something better later in the year, why not coming for a great afternoon in the depths of tarmac just outside the border of Macau. Yeah, it's in Gongbei, in China, across the main road of shops and bars, where they have these menus with everything for sale.
Meet up at the Border Macau/Zhuhai. Sunday afternoon at 2pm. Or send SMS to 66800024. Or look for Sergio Perez on the radar, he's the guy to beat!
PRICE: 120 RMB for 30 minutes (in periods of 10 minutes races.)
DAY: Sunday, 18 January 2009. 2 PM.
WHERE: Somewhere in Zhuhai City!! Follow us!
[CHECK HERE FOR THE GREEN HOUSE, is around there]
MX-LIBRIS is a new kind of taxi vehicle for the Latin American region. With zero-emissions and an iconic form, it aims for a friendly urban appeal.
MX-LIBRIS is a zero-emissions vehicle incorporating a range of selected technologies from the transportation industry that are appropriate to the Latin American region. The vehicle has been specifically designed as a taxi, taking into consideration the cultural, urban transit, demographic and climate conditions of cities in Latin America. The use of technologies such as fuel cells and “drive-by-wire” make a more optimised use of space by replacing mechanical components with electronic ones and therefore providing more interior space. The vehicle is compact but high to facilitate access for passengers and driver.
The exterior design, which strictly follows its functionality, has been designed to intentionally become an icon of Latin America. Its asymmetric and sui-generis (or unique) form – moving away from typical car styling – make it a memorable object that locals and tourists will recognise as a forward-thinking icon, as opposed to a follower of car trends. The interior design, also asymmetric, responds to the functional needs of both passengers and driver. The interior layout maximises the use of space and promotes interaction between passengers by placing the fourth one facing the other three as well as leaving a central hallway for access.
In terms of sustainability, the design considers several aspects – from the no-emissions technologies to material selection and energy consumption. The aesthetic design does not follow either a sports or family car look because it deliberately aims to create a new segment of public transport with a friendly urban appeal.
[SOURCE RED-DOT]
• CREATED BY ZANIC DESIGN
Macau should just address the importance of these matters and help to create solutions to solve the serious problem of polution in the city. Build a MX-LIBRIS made in Macau, we have everything to learn with this project and use it to carry on, building a bright future. That's why BLOOM is here, to help creating better worlds. Come with us!
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Welcoming the New Year, St. Paul's Corner is joining forces with you for the best expectations of 2009. A unique and great flavour to start the year to come. Forget the troubles and embrace the next year with a big smile full of good hopes. Are not the others who make it happen, who make it good or bad, it's you, you are the one in control! So... what are you waiting for? Make it shine! Make it big! Restart if needed! And Dance all night long!
Located on the heart of the most Famous Historical Landmark of Macau, the Corners Club, in collaboration with Bloom * Creative Network, invite you for a delightful evening of fun and joy. With live music, DJ's, Stand-up mike performances and a dance floor to twinkle the best beat on you. Don't miss it!
VENUE: St. Paul's Corner - The Corner's Club Rooftop Bar
ADDRESS: Travessa de S. Paulo 3,5 & 7
ORGANIZED BY: The Corners Club and Bloom * Creative Network
WITH: Beto Ritchie, DJ Kunming and Buds
DATE: 31st of December, 2008 - 10 pm
FEE: 80 MOP (60 MOP on advanced booking*) - Entrance + Countdown Champagne
* You can book your entrance by email: cornersclub@ymail.com or root@bloomland.cn / by phone SMS: (+853) 66821066 or (+853) 66800024 - stating your name and contact.
[MORE INFO AT: www.stpaulscorner.com and www.bloomland.cn]
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