THAT NIGHT IN RIO, BrazilFoundations first Benefit Gala in Australia, took place on 26 Feb 2013 at the Qld Gallery

of Modern Art (GoMA) in Brisbane. It was indeed a momentous evening of celebration of Australia-Brazil relations. The event was kindly sponsored by Griffith University and the Australia-Brazil Chamber of Commerce, and inaugurated Australias very first BrazilWeek. A great number of Brazilian and Brazilianist leaders in business, government, nonprofits and academia joined us in celebrating this memorable event, inlcuding:

HE AMB RUBEM BARBOSA Ambassador to Australia Government of Brazil

THE HON TIM NICHOLLS MP Treasurer & Minister for Trade Government of Queensland

MARA BUN CEO, Green Cross Australia former CFO, Greenpeace Au Adviser, BrazilFoundation Australia OSANAN BARROS Partner, Blanco Partners former MD, Banco do Brasil, Europe, Africa & Middle East Adviser, BrazilFoundation Australia PAULO VASCONCELOS Head of Earth Sciences University of Queensland Adviser, BrazilFoundation Australia EDUARDO FERREIRA Director, Wedgebloom former CFO Grupo RBS Adviser, BrazilFoundation Australia CRISTINA TALACKO Director, Council on Australia Latin America Relations former President, ABCC Adviser, BrazilFoundation Australia

SALLYANNE ATKINSON AO QLD Honorary Consul Government of Brazil former Lord Mayor of Brisbane ARMANDO TORRES COO Rio Tinto Alcan

DEB FRECKLINGTON MP Assistant Min for Finance, Adm & Regulatory Reform Government of Queensland JOSEPH SOALHEIRA Principal, Crowley International former Consul-General to Brazil Government of Australia DON BOYD Deputy Global CEO Norton Rose

RODRIGO DE LUCA President Australia-Brazil Chamber of Commerce (ABCC) PATRICIA LOBACCARO Global CEO BrazilFoundation

ROBERT MILBOURNE Partner Norton Rose former General Counsel, Vale Au

The Gala Soire started at GOMA's beautiful Rooftop Terrace from where we watched the night embrace the sky over Rio Brisbane. The air was soft and the Brisbane Chorinho Group filled it with choro, a gentle Samba genre that became popular in the 40s in Rio, before the Samba de Avenida (Avenue Samba) that we hear today in Rio's infamous Carnaval. The musicians beats and notes then became movement as 3 couples from RioRhythmics Dance School glided around the dance floor with the lyrical Samba de Gafieira, a ballroom samba dance style that also became very popular back in 1940s' Brazil. Indeed the 1940s was very much the theme of the night, The Hon Tim Nicholls MP, Andr Levy, Martin Talacko as the Soire set the scene for the Premire screening of Heleno, the heroic and tragic biopic of Brazil's best football player before Pel was Pel: Botafogo's Heleno de Freitas. Heleno's greatest ambition was to take Brazil to the FIFA World Cup and win the title. Back then, no one doubted he'd be able to pull it off. Heleno was a striker with a furious one-man game, and a matine idol, popular with everyone and especially with women. He was at the top of his game and had all the potential to make Brazil the world champion. The 40s were indeed an auspicious decade for Brazil. It was also the time of Carmen Miranda, the Diva who first charmed the world with the images, sounds, scents and flavours of Brazil through Hollywood's silver screens. Indeed THAT NIGHT IN RIO is one of her classics. At BrazilWeek, we pay special tribute to Carmen's legacy to Brazilian cinema as the cover girl of the 4th Brazil Film Festival in the beautiful creations of Brazilian designer Fernando Miranda. Then in 1943, exactly 70 years to this date, New York's MoMA featured the Brazil Builds exhibition. The exhibition launched Brazilian architectural design onto the world stage through the hands of the internationally renowned Brazilian architect, Oscar Niemeyer, who passed away last December, 5 days short of celebrating his 105th birthday. The MoMA exhibition was paramount to earning Niemeyer the position of Chief Architect for all buildings of Brazil's new capital, Brasilia, Canberra's nearly identical twin. After Brasilia, Niemeyer's designs started cropping up all across the world, including the Serpentine Gallery in London, the Tripoli Showgrounds in Lebanon, and most famously the UN Secretariat Building in New York, which he designed with his mentor, Le Corbusier. Niemeyer was also mentor of many himself, not least of which one of Australia's dearest architects: Harry Seidler. Niemeyer was a great influence for Seidler, who often sought his mentor's approval for his work even after having already been an accomplished architect in Australia, and having lived on the other side of the globe for many decades. It was this connection that inspired Australian architect Sam Faigen to reunite both these exponents of Australian and Brazilian architectural design at the exhibition When Harry Met Oscar for BrazilWeek. The exhibition brought their designs side by side, along with their warm and frequent correspondence throughout the years, and was shown at GoMA and at Norton Rose's offices for its Bom Dia Brasil Breakfast Briefing. Fittingly, Norton Rose's offices at One One One Eagle Street are Oscar Niemeyer, Sam Faigen flanked on both sides by two of Seidler's best known buildings: the Riverside Centre and the Riparian Plaza.

The Breakfast included a panel discussion on Australia-Brazil relations, chaired by Norton Rose's Partner and mining law specialist, the Brazilianist Robert Milbourne, with four of the foremost Brazilian leaders in Australia: Government: HE Amb Rubem Barbosa (Ambassador of Brazil to Australia) Academia: Paulo Vasconcelos (Head of Earth Sciences, UQ) Not-for-profit: Mara Bun (CEO Green Cross Australia) Business: Armando Torres (COO Rio Tinto Alcan)

HE Amb Rubem Barbosa, Paulo Vasconcelos, Mara Bun, Armando Torres

Much of the discussion revolved around Brazil's rise to being one of the world's most affluent and influential countries. Brazil now has: largest economy (ahead of the UK) most mobile users (more than Japans) most internet users (more than in UK) most internet hosts (greater than China) most airports (over all EU combined)

6th
largest forex and gold reserves (more than Switzerlands)

5th
largest labour force (larger than Russias)

4th
lengthiest road network (longer than Canadas)

3rd
most extensive waterway network (ahead of the US)

2nd
most twitter users (more than in Japan)

This is the Brazil the world dreamt of in the 1940s. Indeed it was this dream that inspired the Austrian novelist Stefan Zweig to write a book he titled: The Land of the Future. At a time when racism and discrimination were rampant in Europe, Zweig fled anti-Semitism to Brazil. There he found a dynamic multicultural society which he saw as an ideal of racial tolerance and harmonious progress. The book's title entered Brazil's folklore, as for many years, indeed nearly 70, that future never came. Brazilians joked self-deprecatingly that their country was indeed the land of the future, and would remain so indefinitely. Yet, now we can safely say Brazil no longer is the land of the future; it is the country of the present. In fact, it is the country of the moment! Heleno's ambitions were frustrated, and he never made it to FIFA's World Cup. And, yet, next year the World Cup makes it to Brazil. Nevertheless, what Brazil has achieved economically it is yet to accomplish socially. Much progress has been made in this realm, but there is much more to do. In the last 20 years, 20 million people were lifted out of poverty, and another 20 million out of extreme poverty. A rapidly growing middle class is transforming local economies, spurring new products and services to be developed and distributed. While much of that change is fuelled by favourable macroeconomic policies and conditions, this would most certainly be insufficient without careful and painstaking social investment at the micro level. This has been BrazilFoundation's daily routine for the last decade. BrazilFoundation was created 12 years ago by Leona Patricia Cavalcanti-Lobaccaro, Cristina Talacko Forman in New York, a former Chief Information Officer at the UN, and Susane Worcman in Rio, a historian specialised in Rio's immigration. The Foundation's Global CEO, Patricia Cavalcanti-Lobaccaro, came especially from New York to attend BrazilFoundation's first benefit event outside the US. In the last 12 years, BrazilFoundation has invested in excess of $23m in 300+ social ventures across 25 of the 27 Brazilian states. The projects are typically community initiatives in their early stages; hence the social investment is akin to private equity seed capital investments. The only difference is

that the equity is social rather than private and so are the returns on their investment. Everything else is pretty much the same: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. social entrepreneurs pitch their ventures; the ones with clear financial plans and relevant social goals are selected; the Foundation conducts due diligence over them; the ones approved receive an investment schedule; their leaders receive management training; and are expected to report regularly on their progress.

If you'd like to make a social equity investment in Brazil's future, you may do so via the BrazilFoundation, and rest assured its placement and governance will be as thorough as a private equity investment would. Transfers of funds can be in Brazil, the US and in Australia, and all investments are tax-deductible in both Brazil and the US, and shortly in Australia. Click here for means of making your investment: http://brazilfoundation.org/english/contribute/donate.php Back at the BrazilFoundation Gala, the night proceeded with a warm welcome at GoMAs Rooftop Terrace by Andr Levy, Managing Director of BrazilFoundation Australia. The official opening was conducted in GOMAs Cinema Theatre by Mara Bun, a BrazilFoundation Australia Adviser and Gala Chair. Mara acknowledged the presence of The Hon Tim Nicholls MP, Qld Treasurer & Minister for Trade, and of Ms Deb Frecklington MP, Qld Assistant Minister for Finance, Administration & Regulatory Reform. After saying a few words she then introduced HE Amb Rubem Barbosa, Ambassador of Brazil to Australia, who also acknowledged the Qld State authorities, thanked the organisers and shared his views on Brazils moment and Rebecca Hall relationship to Australia. Mara then introduced Rebecca Hall, International Student Mobility Manager at Griffith University, a major sponsor of the BrazilFoundation Gala and of the 4th Brazil Film Festival, who spoke on Griffiths interests and investments in Brazil. Indeed this very month, Griffith University is starting to open its first office in Brazil. The BrazilFoundation Gala also celebrates the move to Queensland of the Australia-Brazil Chamber of Commerce, also a Gala sponsor, as Rodrigo de Luca recently took the helm of its presidency. He closed the opening remarks, speaking of Australia-Brazil trade relations, and ushered in the Qld Premire of Heleno, ahead of the 4th Brazil Film Festival. The Festival is also sponsored by Griffith University and RioLife, and supported by UQ, which hosted it for the first time this year at its Schonnell Theatre. Ana Moore, the Festival Manager and Fundraiser in Brisbane, was a key organiser of BrazilWeek's events. Ana is also the Festival's National Sustainability Coordinator and author of its Sustainability Policy. It is her credit for bringing to the Festival, and indeed to BrazilFoundation Australia, as a member of its Advisory Board, Mara Bun, CEO of Green Cross Australia. With her, Ana organised a series of panel discussions, which Mara chaired, in each of the state capitals of the eastern seaboard: Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane. The panel took place after the screening of the mesmerising documentary Amazonia Eterna. In Brisbane, the panel counted with:

Ana Moore, Rodrigo de Luca, Joseph Soalheiro

FIONA KEM LEIPER Member of the Guardianship Council

DR STEFAN HAJKOWICZ Principal Scientist CSIRO

MIRELLA GAVIDIA PhD Researcher Centre for Social Responsibility in Mining Univ. of Queensland

NICK HEATH National Manager Freshwater WWF

But, Brazil is not only about the four S's: samba, soccer, sensuality and sorests (don't mock my lisp!). On Sat 2 Mar, at the Schonnell Theatre, the Brazilian Almendrix Trio played Brazilian classical music, from Villa-Lobos to Tom Jobim. In its 2nd tour through Australia, the Trio is performing in Brisbane, Sydney and Canberra. The concert was part of Msica no Museu (Music at the Museum, though this time in Brisbane, at the cinema), which has attracted the public back into heritage buildings all across Brazil, breathing life into them with inspiring music. Also at Schonnell Theatre the Brazilian photographer Thiago Theo exhibited his sensual portraits of Brazil's music Divas in the exhibition Snippets of Time. BrazilWeek ended on a high note with a Carnaval party at The RedRoom next to the Schonnell Theatre at UQ. This was a Carnaval party unlike any other, or at least unlike the spectacular Carnaval de Avenida (Avenue Carnival) parties and parades the world has grown accustomed to associating with Brazil. Before Carnaval de Avenida there was Carnaval de Rua (Street Carnival), which still is the most prevalent in Brazilian towns. Que Saudade (Sorely Missed) is brought us back to the origins of Carnaval in Brazil with the Que Saudade do Carnaval de Rua, closing the Weeks cycle after Brazil Film Festivals final screening of Heleno, back where we started. Indeed a momentous time for Brazilian arts, business, nature and culture in Australia!

_________________________ Andr Levy Managing Director BrazilFoundation Australia

CREDITS Prime Sponsor Sponsor Chair GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY griffith.edu.au AUSTRALIA-BRAZIL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE australiabrazil.com.au MARA BUN mara@greencrossautralia.org Adviser, BrazilFoundation Australia ANDR LEVY andre.levy@brazilfoundation.org.au Managing Director, BrazilFoundation Australia ANA CRISTINA BRAUNA MOORE ana.moore@brazilfilmfestival.com.au CARILLON CONFERENCE MANAGEMENT ccm.com.au THIAGO THEO thiagotheo.com BRISBANE CHORINHO GROUP info@chorinho.com.au RIORHYTHMICS riorhythmics.com.au QLD GALLERY OF MODERN ART (GOMA) qagoma.qld.gov.au SWEET BRIGGYS sweetbriggys.com

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