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- COVER STORIES, Page 59RIO: SUMMIT TO SAVE THE EARTHSideshows Galore
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- Summiteers who find the official speeches a snooze can skip
- out for some rousing rhetoric, tribal wisdom and a festival
- of the arts. Here's a sampler.
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- By ANDREA DORFMAN -- Reported by Ian McCluskey/Rio de Janeiro
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- The '92 Global Forum, Flamengo Park and other city sites,
- Rio, June 1-14 The largest sideshow will be an ecological
- Woodstock for an estimated 12,000 people from "nongovernmental
- organizations," including environmental groups, human-rights
- movements, religious communities, women's caucuses, youth
- associations, trade unions and alliances of indigenous peoples.
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- Some highlights of the agenda: an Open Speakers Forum,
- whose guest list includes U.S. presidential candidate Jerry
- Brown and former Brazilian Environment Minister Jose
- Lutzenberger, and a debate on the possible creation of an
- International Green Cross.
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- "TRANSFORMING AND RE-CREATING RESIDUES: GARBAGE MADE
- CLEAN," Paco Imperial, Rio, May 7 to July 5 Fifteen Brazilian
- photographers display their views of garbage: what it is, how
- it has evolved, how it is disposed of, how it can be recycled.
- The show also features "waste decorations" by artist Antonio
- Manuel.
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- INDIGENOUS PEOPLES' CONFERENCE ON TERRITORY, ENVIRONMENT
- AND DEVELOPMENT, Kari-Oca Indian Village, Rio, May 25-30 Some
- 400 Indian leaders from Brazil's 180 indigenous nations, as
- well as 200 representatives from the U.S., Canada, Australia,
- Latin America, Scandinavia, Asia and Russia, are gathering at
- a specially constructed village near the Pedra Branca Forest.
- Besides environmental issues, the agenda includes such topics
- as land rights and self-government. On May 30 the tribal leaders
- will celebrate the "Day of the White Man" with dance and
- rituals.
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- ECOBRAZIL '92, Anhembi Park Convention Center, Sao Paulo,
- June 6-11 An environmental-technology trade fair, EcoBrazil '92
- will showcase the latest in pollution-control and other green
- equipment from 85 Brazilian companies and dozens of foreign
- firms, including Mercedes-Benz, Mitsubishi and Sun Electric.
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- "30 POSTERS ON ENVIRONMENT AND DEVELOPMENT," Museum of
- Modern Art, Rio, May 29 to June 29 Leading graphic designers
- from 25 countries have contributed posters that portray
- optimistic visions of sustainable development. Organized by
- Design Rio, the show will open simultaneously in dozens of
- galleries around the world.
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- "AMAZON ART," Museum of Modern Art, Rio, June 5-28 This
- eclectic array consists of works by 26 artists from 14 countries
- who were deposited in far-flung corners of the Amazon and told
- to use local materials to depict the region's natural beauty
- and environmental ills.
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- A MIDSUMMER-NIGHT'S DREAM IN THE AMAZON FOREST, Joao
- Caetano Theater, Rio, May 15 to Dec. 15 In this elaborate
- production directed by German filmmaker Werner Herzog, Puck is
- transported to the contemporary Brazilian rain forest. The play
- opens with a Herzog film documentary on the ecological
- devastation of Kuwait.
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- FOREST OF THE AMAZON, Municipal Theater, Rio, June 1-21
- Set to music by Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos, Forest
- of the Amazon is the story of a white goddess who falls in love
- with a rubber tapper, angering both the Amazon tribe that
- adores her and the forest itself. The ballet, described by
- choreographer Dalal Achcar as "a poetic fantasy," is an expanded
- version of one she originally created for Margot Fonteyn.
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- CONCERT FOR THE LIFE OF PLANET EARTH, Rodrigo de Freitas
- Lagoon, Rio, June 7 Actor Jeremy Irons is the host of this
- charity event, which features performances by Placido Domingo,
- Wynton Marsalis and other artists, as well as a fireworks
- display. The nonpaying public can watch the festivities on large
- screens flanking the lagoon.
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