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Yahoo
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Jean-Michel Jarre announces first European tour for nine years
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. French electronic music pioneer Jean-Michel Jarre has announced a series of summer concerts throughout Europe for June and July. This will be Jarre's first official tour since 2016 and his first live performance since he headlined the Paris 2024 Olympic Games closing ceremony last September. The shows will take place in some of Europe's most stunning settings - from ancient amphitheatres such as the Arena Pula in Croatia and Anfiteatro Degli Scavi in Pompeii to the iconic Piazza San Marco in Venice, along with royal palaces such as the Royal Palace of Brussels, state-of-the-art arenas and open-air festivals, and will feature highlights from Jarre's 50-year catalogue alongside newer compositions and reimagined classics. "I'm delighted to return to the stage and share this new live experience with fans across Europe," says Jarre. "Each venue on this tour offers a unique atmosphere and energy - they are all perfect settings to bring my music to life." Jarre recently attended the opening of Amazônia in Brussels, an exhibition by renowned French-Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado, for which he composed the evocative original soundtrack. He is also presenting Oxyville at the official Venice Architecture Biennale, which takes place from May 10 to November 23, an electronic musical creation designed with 360° spatial sound, exploring the connection between 3D sound and architectural space. You can see all the European tour dates and ticket details below. Jun 13: NOR Oslo GrefsenkollenJun 15: FIN Helsinki Nordis (Helsinki City Festival)Jun 17: EST Tallin Unibet ArenaJun 20: POL Slupsk Bali Indah: Dolina Charlotty Jun 23: BUL: Sofia Kolodrum ArenaJun 26: HUN BUdapest Papp László SportarénaJun 28: CRO Pula Arena Pula Jul 1: BEL Brussels Royal Palace of BrusselsJul 3: ITA Venice Piazza San MarcoJul 5: ITA Pompeii Anfiteatro Degli Scavi Jul 8: SPA SevillePlaza de España (Iconica Festival) Jul 11: GER Suttgart Schlossplatz (Jazz Open Festival) Get tickets.
Associated Press
6 days ago
- Politics
- Associated Press
A journalist was killed while writing a book on the Amazon. Here's how friends completed his work
BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — After British journalist Dom Phillips was shot and killed while researching an ambitious book on how to protect the world's largest rainforest, friends vowed to finish the project. Three years later, their task is complete. 'How to Save the Amazon,' published Tuesday in Brazil and England ahead of its U.S. release, was pieced together by fellow journalists who immersed themselves in Phillips' notes, outlines and the handful of chapters he'd already written. The resulting book, scheduled to be published in the U.S. on June 10, pairs Phillips' own writing with others' contributions in a powerful examination of the cause for which he gave his life. In addition to the core group who led the work on finishing the book, other colleagues and friends helped to edit chapters, including The Associated Press journalists Fabiano Maisonnave and David Biller. Phillips, who had been a regular contributor to The Guardian newspaper, was taking one of the final reporting trips planned for his book when he was gunned down by fishermen on June 5, 2022, in western Amazon's Javari Valley. Also killed was Bruno Pereira, a Brazilian expert on Indigenous tribes who had made enemies in the region for defending the local communities from intruding fishermen, poachers and illegal gold miners. Their deaths made headlines around the world. Nine people have been indicted in the killings. 'It was just a horrifying, really sad moment. Everybody was trying to think: How can you deal with something like this? And the book was there,' said Jonathan Watts, an Amazon-based environmental writer for The Guardian who coauthored the foreword and one of the chapters. Under the leadership of Phillips' widow, Alessandra Sampaio, a group of five friends agreed to carry the project forward. Along with Watts, the core group also included Andrew Fishman, the Rio-based president of The Intercept Brasil; Phillips' agent, Rebecca Carter; David Davies, a colleague from his days in London as a music journalist; and Tom Hennigan, Latin America correspondent for The Irish Times. 'It was a way to not just feel awful about what had happened, but to get on with something. Especially because so many of Dom's friends are journalists,' Watts said. 'And what you fall back on is what you know best, which is journalism.' Unfinished work researching rainforest solutions By the time of his death, Phillips had traveled extensively across the Amazon and had completed an introduction and nearly four of the 10 planned chapters. He also left behind an outline of the remaining chapters, with different degrees of detail, and many pages of handwritten notes, some of them barely legible. 'I think it's fair to say even Dom didn't yet know what he would do exactly in those chapters,' Watts said. Phillips was searching for hope. He promised his editors a character-driven travel book in which readers would get to know a wide-ranging cast of people living in the area, 'all of whom know and understand the Amazon intimately and have innovative solutions for the millions of people who live there.' The group led by Sampaio selected writers for the remaining chapters, with subjects ranging from a bioeconomy initiative in Brazil's Acre state to global funding for rainforest preservation. Indigenous leader Beto Marubo of the Javari Valley was recruited to co-write an afterword. The team also launched a successful crowdfunding campaign to pay for more reporting trips. Among the group's challenges was ensuring that the book reflected a political shift in Brazil's approach to the Amazon in the years since Phillips' death. Most of Phillips' research was done during the term of right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro, as Brazil's Amazon deforestation reached a 15-year high in 2021. The pace of destruction slowed after Bolsonaro's 2022 defeat by leftist leader Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Fragments of hope, grim statistics Throughout the finished book's more than 300 pages, fragments of hope mix with grim realities. In Chapter 2, 'Cattle Chaos,' Phillips notes that 16% of Brazil's Amazon has already been converted to pasture. Even a farmer who has become a model for successfully increasing productivity without clearing most of his land is criticized for his widespread use of fertilizers. In his chapter on bioeconomy, journalist Jon Lee Anderson visits a reforestation initiative where Benki Piyãko, an Ashaninka leader, promotes environmental restoration coupled with ayahuasca treatment and a fish farm. But the veteran reporter doesn't see how it can be scalable and reproducible given man-made threats and climate change. Later in the chapter, he quotes Marek Hanusch, a German economist for the World Bank, as saying: 'At the end of the day, deforestation is a macroeconomic choice, and so long as Brazil's growth model is based on agriculture, you're going to see expansion into the Amazon.' In the foreword, the group of five organizers state that 'Like Dom, none of us was under any illusion that our writing would save the Amazon, but we could certainly follow his lead in asking the people who might know.' But in this book stained by blood and dim hope, there is another message, according to Watts: 'The most important thing is that this is all about solidarity with our friend and with journalism in general.' ___ The Associated Press' climate and environmental coverage receives financial support from multiple private foundations. AP is solely responsible for all content. Find AP's standards for working with philanthropies, a list of supporters and funded coverage areas at
Reuters
18-05-2025
- Business
- Reuters
Brazil's Haddad backs research on oil reserves near mouth of the Amazon
SAO PAULO, May 18 (Reuters) - Research in Brazil for possible oil reserves near the mouth of the Amazon river has to go ahead but any discoveries should not delay the country's transition to cleaner energy, Finance Minister Fernando Haddad has said. In the quest for new oil discoveries, the mouth of the Amazon is considered the area with the greatest potential in Brazil's Equatorial Margin - a vast region stretching between the states of Rio Grande do Norte and Amapa. "I am in favor of research, I think we have to do it, we have to check what is there. However, the oil that may be there cannot be an excuse for us to delay our (energy) transition," Haddad said in a television interview with local media outlet GloboNews on Saturday. Due to the site's location in the Amazon basin, potential drilling for oil is highly controversial. Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva - known as Lula - defends the exploration efforts. However, other elements in the government are concerned that opening new hydrocarbon projects in environmentally sensitive regions flies in the face of a global quest for cleaner energy options. Haddad called for reducing Brazil's dependence on oil, arguing this would be possible with greater investment in other energy sources. "Brazil has been leading this process for decades," he said.
The Guardian
29-01-2025
- Politics
- The Guardian
Salgado's respect for Indigenous people
Your article ('Let Amazonians speak for themselves': trouble in paradise for Sebastião Salgado's Amazônia, 17 January) commits a grave injustice to the work and legacy of the Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado. Salgado primarily photographs Indigenous groups in their traditional way of life. Communities such as the Suruahá, Zo'é, and Korubo are depicted exactly as they live: Indigenous peoples who have been recently contacted do not wear clothing. These images are central for Brazilian culture, and more importantly, they serve to draw global attention to the need for conservation of the forest – without which these communities cannot survive. Salgado was fully aware that to capture global attention, he needed to reach the depths of the Amazon, photographing areas to which only the Brazilian government, through its National Indigenous Peoples Foundation (Funai), can grant access. Salgado actively collaborates with our organisations and only photographs groups that have invited and authorised him to do so. As an Indigenous person from the Marubo ethnic group, I was portrayed by him and witnessed his dedication to identifying others who were photographed by their full names and their locations. When first published, the article neglected to mention that within Salgado's Amazônia exhibition, leaders from these groups share their stories, challenges and issues through video presentations. Here are Amazonian Indigenous voices speaking for themselves, as the article's headline proposes, yet this vital feature of the exhibition was not mentioned. Furthermore, it is important to highlight Salgado's significant role alongside Brazilian Indigenous movements. As a member of the Union of Indigenous Peoples of the Javari Valley (Univaja), I can testify how, thanks to his political influence, Brazil's supreme court ensured that medical care reached Indigenous groups when they were abandoned by the Bolsonaro government during the Covid-19 pandemic. This resulted in the legal instrument known as ADPF-709, which has been crucial for many of these communities, including those in voluntary isolation and recently contacted. Beyond photographing our communities, Salgado supported the creation of a surveillance system in the Javari valley, which involved the indigenist Bruno Pereira, who was tragically killed alongside the Guardian journalist Dom Phillips. Thanks to his efforts, we established a partnership that facilitated a project that was honoured with the UN's Equator prize in 2024 as an innovative initiative in environmental Vargas MaruboUnion of Indigenous Peoples of the Javari Valley (Univaja)
