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Exhibit: Bandits & Heroes, Poets & Saints: Popular Art of the Northeast of Brazil


  • UH West O‘ahu Library 91-1001 Farrington Highway Kapolei, HI 96707 (map)

Bandits & Heroes, Poets & Saints: Popular Art of the Northeast of Brazil is a travel exhibit at the James and Abigail Campbell Library at University of Hawai‘i West O‘ahu, running from February 12-March 16 in celebration of Black History Month. The exhibit explores how the ancient cultures of Africa blended with indigenous and colonial Portuguese traditions to form the vibrant and complex cultural mosaic of modern Brazil.

The exhibit is a National Endowment for the Humanities on the Road showcase that is being brought to Hawaiʻi with the help of the Hawaiʻi Chapter of The Links Inc., a non-profit group committed to enriching, sustaining and ensuring the culture and economic survival of African Americans and other persons of African ancestry, and will be displayed on the first floor of the James & Abigail Campbell Library.