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AEC-TEA is a community-based association located in Capim Grosso, Bahia, Brazil. We are a group of volunteers working together to organize educational projects and to create a space where people can meet, exchange ideas, discover strengths and talents, gain access to information, have fun, and build friendships. Named after our town's first teacher, the Tarcilia Evangelista de Andrade Educational-Cultural Association was founded by local students and teachers with the goals of increasing access to higher education and encouraging volunteer work as a means to improve the quality of life in our community. We invite Brazilian and international volunteers to participate in our projects.
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 The famous MBB project (Música Bacana Brasileira, or Bodacious Brazilian Music) is set to see yet another installment this month. Some of Capim Grosso's (and Finland's) best musicians will unite to pay homage to Gilberto Gil, one of Brazilian music's most important figures and erstwhile Minister of Culture.
The event will include samba, forró, reggae and other rhythms championed by Gil and will also act as a project to introduce young people to some Brazilian classics that are increasingly ignored as more modern sounds overwhelm the airwaves in Capim Grosso. |
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 In March, AEC-TEA will promote a new Hip Hop music program with Joe Motley (www.mrmotley.com). Capimgrossenses will have the opportunity to learn how to rap or sing and record their own CD. Get in touch with AEC-TEA to learn more about how you can participate!
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 On February 17th, AEC-TEA initiated a new internship program in an effort to increase the participation of local volunteers in the day-to-day running of AEC-TEA. The new interns (Kelly, Aline and Eulália) are already showing volunteers how to get the best deals at the outdoor market, helping them in community volunteer work with children, and getting to ready to receive and orient new volunteers.
The program is a partnership with the US-based ABCeX, which is providing coordination of the new program in order to ensure that volunteer opportunities at AEC-TEA will continue to be dynamic and sustainable in the future. The program is off to a great start and we hope it will be repeated. Thanks to everyone involved in the process! |
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 The second semester of 2010 ended on the last week of November, with the presence of AEC-TEA students from our English, Spanish and Photography programs, in addition to students from Ballet and English for Kids. At the event, students bid farewell to international volunteers from Finland and Mexico, not forgetting to mention volunteers from New Zealand, Ireland and Spain that helped out this semester but have already moved on.
The most important new presentation at the event was the launch of our new site linked the the "Feira Cultural" carried out in May. The cultural celebration was part of a larger effort to collect data on local Capim Grosso artists. A new AEC-TEA website is making this information available to the public for the first time. See the city's wealth of artists here: www.cultura.aec-tea.org.
The night ended with another performance of MBB (Música Bacana Brasileira, our program of cover performances of the work of Brazil's best artists). Local Capim Grosso musicians played all the best songs of the famous Brazilian band Os Titãs.
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