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Community Event with the Military Police, Brazil – July 28th

So this event started out as…how do you say…COMPLETE CHAOS! 🙂 Tuns of people , burning hot sun, no space to set up, ecs. We found an area where we could do a small scale show and it worked out:)! These people were very poor and it meant the world to them that we would be there. The event was organized by a cop in the military police who was very grateful we came (and didn’t bale when everything was going south:)). So many beautiful people came up at the end to talk and to tell us their stories. We…

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Friday, July 27 201807/27/18 No Response

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Event for the children of the Military Police – July 27th

For my birthday my sister gave me a rabbit. Its a special breed that is super furry and super cute:) I made a magic trick out of a box, some felt, elastic and a drum stick that I use to make the bunny appear (I made the trick for about 10$ compared to a few hundred it would have cost). I have a volunteer blow up a balloon, draw a rabbit on it then put the ballon in the box. They then pop the balloon and Abracadabra, there is a live rabbit:)!! Literally every time I do it there is…

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Sunday, July 22 201807/22/18 No Response

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Event in Brazilian Ghetto – Sunday, July 22

Maybe you have heard of or seen the movie, “City of God” about one of the worst Favelas in Brazil. Normally it is very dangerous to go in or out but we got the opportunity to work with a group who had permission from the gang to put on a party there. It was an incredible experience. There were massive piles of trash on the roads leading to it which they deliberately put there to keep the police out, so we couldn’t drive in but had to walk and carry all our equipment and props in to the Favela. As…

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Saturday, July 21 201807/21/18 No Response

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Community Event in Central Favela, Sao Joao, Brazil – Saturday July 21st

This was a special event at a park in a favela. The lady who organized it invited different small foundations and schools for disabled, special needs and elderly people. There were a lot of kids so we did all of our magic routines, played a cool game with a giant ball and used our costumes and puppets. In one of the magic routines, I start by playing with a jump rope by myself, my brother is playing the song “Fragile by Sting on his guitar. I then stop jumping rope and say that I am so sad, I feel like…

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Friday, July 20 201807/20/18 No Response

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Juvenile Detention Center, Double Presentations, Sao Joao – July 20th

I perform Irish step dance and before I start I show an Xray of my leg which I broke a few years ago. I have a rod and 8 screws in my leg and spent time in a wheel chair. I share how we each have an “X-ray”, we each have scars, some on our body, some on our mind or heart. I then show an Xray of a hand with a nail in it and share how Jesus suffered and bore our pain. He knows what we are going through and can heal us. Afterward I put the X-ray…

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Friday, July 13 201807/13/18 No Response

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Juvenile detention center – July 13th

Here the acoustics were a real challenge and the echo made it hard, but we figured it out. Again we did two different groups of about 150 kids each. We always give out a bunch of candy as they first come in and its cool to see them light up like little kids and realize this is going to be fun. We do a theatrical act where my brother is on stilts, dressed all in black. He is holding on to my sister who is wrapped up in a black piece of fabric. As the hip hop song progresses, she…

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Monday, July 9 201807/09/18 No Response

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Juvenile detention center outside the city, Brazil – July9th

This juvenile detention centers was in a northern city and took a while to find but so worth it. We did two presentations for two groups. My brother designed and printed a number of different large posters that we use as teaching tools to help give the kids visual, practical things to help them. We use the idea of a car to parallel with their life. There are a lot of analogies we take from that such as steering your life, breaking (saying no and stopping bad choices), putting it in gear (starting to think and engage your mind) ecs….

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Sunday, July 8 201807/08/18 No Response

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Special event for children of the Favelas, Brazil – July 8th

This was a very special event called, “Day of Dreams”. A catholic foundation organized a huge festival for 1,500 poor children from different favelas throughout the state. They chose 1,500 volunteers, one for each child, and paired them up so each child got special attention and care. They asked us to do two performances, one for the volunteers before the children arrived, and another one for all 3,000 people at the close of the event. It was an awesome day! At our first performance we did things to pep up and inspire the volunteers to really love the kids and…

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