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Brazilian Day Philadelphia celebrates the Brazilian Independence Day. The festival celebrates, promotes, and shares Brazilian arts and culture while fostering intercultural exchange and uniting the Brazilian community. The festival presents a high energy experience with Brazilian arts and culture designed to engage, educate, and inspire participants in the Greater Philadelphia region. In addition, the festival empowers and unifies the Brazilian community by celebrating the diverse ethnic heritage that makes Brazil unique and rich in cultural pride.

Free Family Fun! Brazilian Day Philadelphia 2015 is the much awaited annual celebration of Brazil’s rich culture. Though only in its second year in Philadelphia, our festival boasts an empowering mission to bring the best of Brazil to Philadelphia, build community, and celebrate diversity.

Watch the game at these locations! The world is getting ready and the Philadelphia Union along with our local partners are your Passport to Brazil for events and the latest coverage.  This summer is filled with amazing soccer events on the world stage.

Join virtuoso percussionist ROLANDO MORALES-MATOS and Al-Bustan Takht Ensemble for an evening of music that explores the rhythms of the Latin American & Arab worlds. Their own master percussionist and teaching artist HAFEZ KOTAIN will lead this percussive conversation that crosses cultures and continents.

As part of his residency, Mr. Morales-Matos will lead a workshop at Moffet Elementary in Kensington. The Moffet Elementary drummers will open the culminating performance Trinity Center for Urban Life in Center City Philadelphia.

Join Odunde, Inc for the 38th Annual Odunde Festival, Odunde is one of the longest-running and largest African-American festivals in the country and attracts up to 500,000 people annually.

Wednesday nights ring out this summer in University City as the Penn Museum presents its third annual P.M. @ Penn Museum Summer Nights music series. This year's summer lineup features musical styles ranging from Middle Eastern folk/rock to Brazilian Bossa Nova and lively Creole Zydeco to funk fusion. Drinks and light fare will be provided by the Pepper Mill Café’s garden bar, and guests can purchase combination tickets to explore Penn Museum’s many galleries. On August 8, P.M. @ Penn presents Minas. Playing originals from their CD collection, as well as Brazilian classics, this duo displays multiple talents as vocalists, instrumentalists, and composers with an impressive grasp of awide range of Brazilian musical idioms.

The exhibition Samba Sessão will introduce viewers to the visual culture of African-descended people living in Brazil. Collected in the late-1990s by John P. Axelrod and later acquired by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the fifteen paintings and four sculptures that form the core of the exhibition were all made during the twentieth century and draw on different aspects of Afro-Brazilian life. An examination of Brazilian film and television from the 1950s to the present will also be incorporated in this exhibition. For information about special events related to the exhibition, please visit the Arthur Ross Gallery Events Calendar. Information about visiting hours and directions can be found here.