CURATION
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Name:
Fernando Guerreiro
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City/Place:
Salvador, Bahia
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Country:
Brazil
Life
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Bio:
Fernando Guerreiro é um renomado diretor teatral, gestor cultural e radialista. Reconhecido por sua contribuição significativa para a revitalização e popularização do teatro baiano em nível nacional, ele também se destaca como um talentoso descobridor de artistas, tendo lançado muitos nomes proeminentes na cena teatral, televisiva e cinematográfica. Com uma carreira que abrange mais de 40 anos, Guerreiro dirigiu mais de 60 espetáculos, incluindo produções aclamadas como "A Bofetada", "Vixe Maria! Deus e o Diabo na Bahia", "Os Cafajestes" e "De Um Tudo".
Em 2018, Guerreiro surpreendeu ao estrear como ator no espetáculo autoral "Revele", uma peça que combina elementos de stand-up comedy, talk show e conversa descontraída, explorando sua jornada profissional e pessoal. Por 15 anos, ele foi uma figura proeminente como apresentador do programa de rádio diário "Roda Baiana" na Rádio Metrópole, dedicado à cultura e comportamento. A partir de março de 2022, ele assumiu um novo desafio na mesma estação, liderando o programa de humor e informação "Revele". Demonstrando sua versatilidade, Guerreiro também se tornou um colunista semanal no jornal "Correio", com sua seção "Fala, Guerreiro!", onde aborda de maneira bem-humorada questões cotidianas.
Desde 2013, Guerreiro atua como presidente da Fundação Gregório de Mattos, o órgão de cultura da Prefeitura de Salvador. Durante sua gestão, ele implementou políticas culturais mais abrangentes, descentralizadas e democráticas para o município. Isso incluiu o lançamento do Programa de Fomento, que oferece editais e prêmios para promover a diversidade cultural, desde projetos na economia criativa até iniciativas de agentes culturais comunitários. Outros marcos de sua gestão incluem a revitalização do programa de incentivo fiscal Viva Cultura, o estabelecimento do Selo João Ubaldo Ribeiro e a criação da Salvador Filmes, refletindo uma abordagem abrangente da cadeia produtiva da cultura.
Guerreiro também se dedicou à institucionalização cultural em Salvador, liderando a elaboração do Sistema Municipal de Cultura e promovendo legislação específica de patrimônio para proteger bens materiais e imateriais por meio de processos de tombamento e registro. Além disso, ele inaugurou e reabriu espaços culturais descentralizados em vários bairros da cidade, incluindo a revitalização dos Espaços Boca de Brasa.
English:
Fernando Guerreiro is a theater director, cultural manager, and radio host. One of the main figures responsible for popularizing and revitalizing theater in Bahia, Brazil, he is also known for discovering talents in the theatrical scene, television, and cinema. Over his 40-year career, he has directed more than 60 productions, notable among them being "A Bofetada," "Vixe Maria! God and the Devil in Bahia," "Os Cafajestes," and "De Um Tudo."
In 2018, he made his debut as an actor in the original play "Revele," which blends stand-up comedy, talk show, and conversation, reflecting his professional and personal journey. For 15 years, he was one of the presenters of the radio program "Roda Baiana," a daily magazine covering culture and behavior, on Rádio Metrópole. Since March 2022, he has taken on a new challenge on the same radio station, hosting the humorous and informative program "Revele." He expanded his scope of work and became a weekly columnist for Correio with "Fala, Guerreiro!," where he humorously discusses everyday subjects.
Since 2013, he has served as the president of the Gregório de Mattos Foundation, the cultural agency of the Salvador City Hall. At the institution, he has been responsible for developing a broader, decentralized, and more democratic cultural policy for the municipality. He implemented the Fomento Program, which includes calls for proposals and awards promoting cultural diversity, ranging from structuring projects in the creative economy to initiatives by community cultural agents.
The revival of the tax incentive program Viva Cultura, the launch of the João Ubaldo Ribeiro Seal, and the creation of Salvador Filmes are hallmarks of his administration, representing a policy focused on various dimensions of the cultural production chain. He invested in cultural institutionalization in the municipality by developing the Municipal Culture System and creating specific heritage legislation, ensuring the safeguarding of tangible and intangible assets through various processes of designation and registration. Additionally, he inaugurated and reopened decentralized cultural spaces in various areas of the city, such as the refurbishment and restructuring of the Boca de Brasa Spaces.
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Integration is a superpower...
This technological matrix originating in Bahia, Brazil closely integrates creators around the world with each other and the entire planet. It is able to do so because it is small-world (see Wolfram):
Bahia itself, final port-of-call for more enslaved human beings than any other place on earth throughout all of human history, refuge for Lusitanian Sephardim fleeing the Inquisition, Indigenous both apart and subsumed into a brilliant sociocultural matrix comprised of these three peoples and more, is small-world.
America is small-world. Mozambique is small-world. Central Asia is small-world. Ukraine is small world...
Human society, the billions of us in all the complexity of our relationships, is small-world. Neural structures for human memory are small-world. Neural structures in artificial intelligence are small-world...
In a small world great things are possible. In a small-world matrix they are universal.
Alicia Svigals
"Thanks, this is a brilliant idea!!"
—Alicia Svigals (NEW YORK CITY): Apotheosis of klezmer violinists
"I'm truly thankful ... Sohlangana ngokuzayo :)"
—Nduduzo Makhathini (JOHANNESBURG): piano, Blue Note recording artist
"Dear Sparrow: I am thrilled to receive your email! Thank you for including me in this wonderful matrix."
—Susan Rogers (BOSTON): Director of the Berklee Music Perception and Cognition Laboratory ... Former personal recording engineer for Prince; "Purple Rain", "Sign o' the Times", "Around the World in a Day"
"Dear Sparrow, Many thanks for this – I am touched!"
—Julian Lloyd Webber (LONDON): Premier cellist in UK; brother of Andrew (Evita, Jesus Christ Superstar, Cats, Phantom of the Opera...)
"This is super impressive work ! Congratulations ! Thanks for including me :)))"
—Clarice Assad (RIO DE JANEIRO/CHICAGO): Pianist and composer with works performed by Yo Yo Ma and orchestras around the world
"We appreciate you including Kamasi in the matrix, Sparrow."
—Banch Abegaze (LOS ANGELES): manager, Kamasi Washington
"Thanks! It looks great!....I didn't write 'Cantaloupe Island' though...Herbie Hancock did! Great Page though, well done! best, Randy"
"Very nice! Thank you for this. Warmest regards and wishing much success for the project! Matt"
—Son of Jimmy Garrison (bass for John Coltrane, Bill Evans...); plays with Herbie Hancock and other greats...
Dear friends & colleagues,
Having arrived in Salvador 13 years earlier, I opened a record shop in 2005 in order to create an outlet to the wider world for Bahian musicians, many of them magisterial but unknown.
David Dye & Kim Junod for NPR found us (above), and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (he's a huge jazz fan), David Byrne, Oscar Castro-Neves... Spike Lee walked past the place while I was sitting on the stoop across the street drinking beer and listening to samba from the speaker in the window...
But we weren't exactly easy for the world-at-large to get to. So in order to extend the place's ethos I transformed the site associated with it into a network wherein Brazilian musicians I knew would recommend other Brazilian musicians, who would recommend others...
And as I anticipated, the chalky hand of God-as-mathematician intervened: In human society — per the small-world phenomenon — most of the billions of us on earth are within some 6 or fewer degrees of each other. Likewise, within a network of interlinked artists as I've described above, most of these artists will in the same manner be at most a handful of steps away from each other.
So then, all that's necessary to put the Bahians and other Brazilians within possible purview of the wide wide world is to include them among a wide wide range of artists around that world.
If, for example, Quincy Jones is inside the matrix (people who have passed are not removed), then anybody on his page — whether they be accessing from a campus in L.A., a pub in Dublin, a shebeen in Cape Town, a tent in Mongolia — will be close, transitable steps away from Raymundo Sodré, even if they know nothing of Brazil and are unaware that Sodré sings/dances upon this planet. Sodré, having been knocked from the perch of fame and ground into anonymity by Brazil's dictatorship, has now the alternative of access to the world-at-large via recourse to the vast potential of network theory.
...to the degree that other artists et al — writers, researchers, filmmakers, painters, choreographers...everywhere — do also. Artificial intelligence not required. Real intelligence, yes.
Years ago in NYC I "rescued" unpaid royalties (performance & mechanical) for artists/composers including Barbra Streisand, Aretha Franklin, Mongo Santamaria, Jim Hall, Clement "Coxsone" Dodd (for his rights in Bob Marley compositions; Clement was Bob's first producer), Led Zeppelin, Ray Barretto, Philip Glass and many others. Aretha called me out of the blue vis-à-vis money owed by Atlantic Records. Allen Klein (managed The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Ray Charles) called about money due the estate of Sam Cooke. Jerry Ragovoy (Time Is On My Side, Piece of My Heart) called just to see if he had any unpaid money floating around out there (the royalty world was a shark-filled jungle, to mangle metaphors, and I doubt it's changed).
But the pertinent client (and friend) in the present context is Earl "Speedo" Carroll, of The Cadillacs. Earl went from doo-wopping on Harlem streetcorners to chart-topping success to working as a custodian at PS 87 elementary school on the west side of Manhattan. Through all of this he never lost what made him great.
Greatness and fame are too often conflated. The former should be accessible independently of the latter.
* I renegotiated sync rates for Earl and for The Flamingos. Now when I hear "Speedo" in a movie soundtrack (Goodfellows and others), or "I Only Have Eyes for You" (a million films), I remind myself that the artists (and now their heirs) were/are getting double what they were getting before.
Matrix founding creators are behind "one of 10 of the best (radios) around the world", per The Guardian.
Recent access to this matrix and Bahia are from these places (a single marker can denote multiple accesses).
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Nduduzo Makhathini
Susan Rogers
Julian Lloyd Webber
Clarice Assad
Kamasi Washington
Randy Brecker
Matt Garrison
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