A lot of people don’t know that Wel­ling­ton has quite a siz­able Brazili­an expat­ri­ate com­munity. A bunch of them and their Kiwi friends have been work­ing hard to put togeth­er the Live Brazil 2009 Fest­iv­al this week­end.

The fest­iv­al will com­prise music, dance, capoeira, and cook­ing and drink work­shops. It starts on Fri­day night with a per­fo­mance fea­tur­ing Tam­bolelê (from Minas Gerais) at the Memori­al Theatre on the Vic cam­pus, with most oth­er events tak­ing place at the South­ern Cross.

Full details at this chaot­ic but inform­a­tion-rich site or in sum­mary form here.

This par­tic­u­lar Wel­ling­tonista will be lurk­ing in Car­men Mir­anda’s band on Sat­urday night – come and demon­strate your fruit-laden cos­tume and we can have a caipirinha.