T-shirts Screen-printing Workshop for Sambistas

Following the announcement last night, I enclose further details below :

• When : Saturday, February 17th 9:00 AM -- 1:00 PM
• Where: Miki's " Art Studio" -- Highgate Hill ( address provided upon registration )
• Cost :
• Between $15.00 -- $20.00 depend on the number of participants. 4hour workshop. . . $10.00 deposit for Gail to buy necessary screen mesh and ink for the day.
• Aim:
  
• 1./ To teach low cost / home based screen printing techniques using little equipment as possible. 2./ Introduction to mono and multi colour screen-printing on t-shirts or cloth fabric ( ? Maracatu skirts )
• What to bring :
  
• 1./ Old clothing : expect ink splash and smear. 2. / Plain t-shirts to be printed on. 3./ Your favourite artwork / design: please keep it simple and clean line. No larger than A4 size paper.4./ Food to share during lunch break.
• Contact : Brian 0411-124721 or 38397975
  

Jason Machado quintet + guests

Tomorrow Wednesday 24 January I'm playing with the Jason Machado quintet + guests at the Press Club in the Valley. There will be quite a bit of percussion as well so it looks like it's going to be a great event.

Entrance free, 1st set starts at 9.30pm, last set ends at midnight!

Rio Carnaval DVD night

Hi, everyone. Would you like to see the official DVD of the 2006 Rio Carnaval?. Everyone's welcome to come down to my place at 21 Ninth Avenue, Sandgate, to see it, on Friday night 9th February. You are also welcome to bring your instruments. (I'll warn the neighbours!). We could see the DVD and have a jam session afterwards; and David will make us a light supper. BYO drinks. If you could let me know if you're coming (for food catering purposes) that would be appreciated. I guess probably around 7.30 pm would be a start time. Hope to see you then! Patty

New accounts for posting

There are some technical changes to the Blog outside my control, and because of this everyone will have to re-register a username/password. You should now have received an email from Blogger/Google informing you of this, and hopefully it has some instructions in it too.

• My recommendation is to choose your username as follows: firstname.lastname@brisamba.com
• Please don't forget your password - I won't be able to retrieve it for you! It might be easy to choose the same password as you already have for the members area.
  

Back to school!

Yes, it's the end of the holiday already, and it's back to Samba School this week!
So, see you Thursday 11 January!

Remember - Toasted TV

Remember - tomorrow Thursday 4 January, from 7.00am to 8.30am, ToastedTV on channel Ten featuring Primavera!

For those with good video recorders: make sure you record this!

Happy 2007!

Three hours to go, and it's time to look back on a fantastic year that saw the continuation of our Primavera, with more members, more gigs, more fun and more ear damage.

Thank you all very much for a great year, and I look forward to making our Samba School even Bigger and Better in the next year!

Happy new year!
Remko

Feedback from yesterday's gig

Thank you all again for a great evening yesterday, and of course for the nice card (yes Gail someone reads these things) and even nicer whiskey.

We sure made an impact that night, and today at work we are receiving many calls from customers who were there that were absolutely amazed! Also the Rydges staff approached me after the performance, asking me about possible future gigs.

So well done everyone!

On a final note, happy holidays everyone and we'll see you back on 11 January (unless we get a gig before that)!

For Gail...

I laughed when I read this and had to think of Gail...

Flamenco Night - Tapas Orders

Hi all!

For those who are coming to the Flamenco night this Friday, I may have forgotten to mention that you may be able to preorder some Tapas snacks (small Spanish tasty snacks of various descriptions) to have on the night. These cost $4 each and are sourced from a notable deli in the region.

The options are as follows:

1. Tortilla (Potato omelette)
2. Patatas al ajillo (Potatoes cooked in parsley and garlic)
3. Pan con aceite y tomate (Woodfired bread slightly toasted and topped with olive oil and crushed tomatoes)
4. Gazpacho (Tomato based soup served iced)
5. Chipirones (Calamari cooked with garlic)
6. Pulpos marinados (Grilled marinated baby octopus)
7. Aceitunas con almendras (Olives stuffed with almonds)
8. Aceitunas variadas (Mixed olives)
9. Chorizo (spicy sausage)
10. Jamon Serrano (Spanish mountain ham)
11. Queso Manchego (Spanish dry cheese from La Mancha)
12. Montadito salchichon (Petit pain filled with melted cheese and salami)
13. Montadito salmon ( Petit pain filled with melted cheese and smoked salmon)

If you need to order, you can call Stephanie (3201 1261), myself (0407 730 569), or tell Cedrick or myself tonight at the gig.

Grasias!

Details for Thursday - Rydges Southbank

Late notice (9am Thursday): I have just been asked if we can play a bit earlier. So if you could be there before 6.30pm, that would be nice. I realise not everyone will get this message in time...

The final gig before Xmas will be this Thursday, 14 December, at the Rydges hotel, Southbank. We will play from 7.00pm - 7.15pm at the rooftop terrace, level 12, and afterwards have a couple of drinks to finish the year!

Please meet 6.40pm at the bar at the ground floor. Paul has kindly agreed to organise everyone, call him on 0427 753408 if you've got any issues. I will be playing with the Jason Machado trio till 6.45pm, and will come down to get you all after that.

Dress code: green shirt, white pants. Brian, could you please play 2nd surdo as Melanie can't make it that night?

Toasted TV - Thank you

A big thank you to all of you who played at MovieWorld yesterday for the recording for Toasted TV. I had lots of fun, and I hope you did too. It was amazing to see how many of you are willing to lie, cheat, or take annual leave to be able to be there. Thank you very much!

This will be broadcasted on Ten on Thursday 4 January, about 7am in the morning (check your TV guide closer to the date).

I look forward to hearing the stories about the rides for those that stayed the afternoon!

Note I will use some very advanced face recognition software to determine if anyone didn't smile enough. The non-smilers will be banned from performances and will be required to sit on the floor behind the shaker section during rehearsals!!!

End of year Gig!

On Thursday 14 December I'm playing with the Jason Machado trio at a Xmas function for the company I work for. As this overlaps with our rehearsal time, and because this would be the last rehearsal for the year, I thought it would be nice to have a guest appearance of the Samba School as well at the end of the function, and after that we can all have a drink before we go on Xmas holidays. Green shirts, white pants please!

Please register for this gig here.

Note the first rehearsal in 2007 will be on 11 January, in the Polish Club.

Details for Toasted TV

On Monday, please be there at 7.50am: "Please meet us at the security boom gate which is 40 metres to the right of the main gate of Movie World. We'll meet you there, and then probably go in the front entrance with the drums."

Remember: pink & green outfit!!!

Angelo's Xmas party

During this party, on Friday 8 December, the answer to the question "who is Angelo?" will be revealed! Please register here!

Please note that Angelo has offered to let friends of the samba school in for $10 at the door rather than $15 if they want to attend the Groove Brazil party (obviously the bateria won't pay to attend). Could everyone bringing a guest/guests to the party please let Paul know on Thursday night?

Location: East Brisbane State School Hall, Cnr Wellington Road and Stanley Street. Free dance class 8.30pm-9.30pm. Dance party 9.30pm - 1am.

Tango Four Gig

Tango Four will be performing at Bemac tomorrow evening Saturday 2 December. Starts around 8pm and tickets cost $16. Would love to see you there! Should be a good night!

Ciao for now
Nicki

Channel Ten contacted me, for their kids show "Toasted TV", they would love to do an episode on the Samba School. It will be an 8 minute special, and would take about 2 hours to film, probably from 8am-10am.

Sounds like a lot of fun, however it is on a working day and I'm aware a lot of you would find it difficult to make it. However, let's see - so please register asap!

The last Polish Beer & Vodka night!

This Friday, we'll have the last Polish Beer & Vodka night! Grazjina is leaving the Polish Club in December, so let's give her a loud farewell! Please register here!

Who's going to Woodford?

I'm going to be at Woodford on the New Year's weekend - Saturday 30th, Sunday 31st, Monday 1st. Is anyone else going to be up there at that time? It would be great to share the fun. I've booked a tent in Tent City so I can have a bit of private space, and not keep people awake with my snoring. :) :)

Monday night is the big Fire Event, which veteran Festivillians will know is Not To Be Missed. I plan to try and get into the lantern parade. Anyone else up for this? Its an enjoyable way to experience this wonderful event. The bonus is that you don't have to fight for a scrap of space amongst the spectators on the hill at the ampitheatre! If there are some of us up there, we could do this as a group, I think it would be a special way to celebrate the start of the new year together. And afterwards I plan to go to the Blues Tent, the Kingdom of Silly Dancing.

Interested? If you don't want to put a comment here, you could email me at pkg18@hotmail.com

Hugs

Patty

Denis & tonight's rehearsal

Tonight is the last rehearsal before Denis commences his great Cuban adventure!!! So please come to tonight's rehearsal and let's see him off in style!!!