Brazilians greet old and much loved friends with the endearment, hello my poet.
That says a lot about the country and its people, don’t you think? You can find out more if you have the chance to travel to Suffolk this weekend. Brazil’s most important literary festival, FLIP (Festa Literária Internaçional de Paraty) will be making its debut in the UK with FLIPSIDE – a vibrant mini-Flip of Brazilian literature, art, music and dance from October 4th to 6th  2013.
It will take place at Snape Maltings in Suffolk – home of Aldeburgh Festival founded by Benjamin Britten in the 1970s.
As with the inaugural FLIP festival 10 years ago, FlipSide 2013 will open with a tribute to the poet and lyricist Vinicius de Moraes and composer Antonio Carlos Jobim, who together created Bossa Nova.
Wish I could be there…I can’t and that’s all there is to it, but I…