MARCH 2024
AJT’s Annual Benefit Performance
BRAZIL
Benefit Performance: Saturday, March 23, 2024
Ages: 5 and up
Benefit Auction, Reception, and Performance will all be in the Atwood Concert Hall.
The B2wins are a total experience. Come dressed for Carnival in bright colors, long feathers or sparkling sequins and get ready for an energetic, high-flying, confetti-launching, break-dancing, costume covered, uplifting, fantasy-filled 90 minute ride that you won’t soon forget!
AJT Annual Benefit Festivities to Include:
● Live, silent & online auctions
● Champagne reception
● Heavy h’ors doeuvres & dessert
PLUS a LIVE performance of B2wins in the Atwood Concert Hall!
Ticket price includes reception, show ticket and a tax deductible
donation to Alaska Junior Theater.
Alaska State Fair favorites return to Anchorage – fun loving twin brothers present “Top 40 From the Last 40.” Four decades of the music you know and love with a unique twist. Get ready to sing, dance, laugh and take your soul on a feel good ride through the chart topping hits of American Music. This unforgettable, engaging show is all ages and features one of a kind renditions of everything from Elvis to Ed Sheeran, Bon Jovi to Dua Lipa, Louis Armstrong to Guns n Roses and countless other timeless hits, all crafted in a non-stop thrill experience of music and happiness fans across America are calling “the must see show of the season!”
Growing up in the violent, impoverished slums of Rio De Janeiro, the Twins began playing classical music on violins their father handmade. They used music as an escape from their reality and began teaching others in their neighborhood to do the same. After being featured on National Public Radio, the Twins were invited to the US on full ride music scholarships in 2008.
After performing over 1,000 shows around the world the past decade, the B2wins continue to cultivate a loyal fan base wherever they perform. From hip-hop heads to jazz aficionados, pop enthusiasts and ravers, rockers to reggae fans, all find common ground together with the B2wins. Using music as the tool, the B2wins are on a mission to make the world smile.
The longest bridge in the Southern Hemisphere connects Rio de Janeiro to Niteroi, a city of half a million people in southeastern Brazil. Niteroi is a financial and commercial center, with modern buildings and shopping malls, but the Caldas family lives in its poorest area—the favela, a Portuguese word that more or less translates to “slum.”
Favelas throughout Brazil are distinguished by their primitive infrastructure and public services, high crime and extreme poverty. Most residents have no diploma. Most boys become men who work a life of hard labor for low wages. They start families and build atop their parents’ homes, often using whatever materials they can find or afford, creating an urban landscape of dirt and brick dotted with pastels and bright colors.
“We had nothing, but at the same time we had everything,” Walter says inside the small apartment near Ingersoll Avenue he shares with his wife, Molly, and new dog, Branca, a gentle pit bull who likes to sleep. He talks over the loud buzz of an air conditioner attached to the wall over the couch, and hums “No Diggity” by Blackstreet as he searches his laptop for photos of home. He shows them off with great pride.
“Everything we are today—the personality, the craziness—is from here,” he says. “Our childhood was everything you could ever imagine. Pure happiness. Freedom.”
The brothers and their friends spent their days running barefoot in the streets, playing soccer for hours, riding bikes down to the water, eating out of the garbage when they got hungry. Kids were everywhere. For a while, the family made trips to a local well for water before their father was able to install a primitive plumbing and water storage system in their home, a small brick structure without glass or screens on the windows.
Wagner says living in the favela is a “beautiful reality” in which people don’t think about money. No one considers themselves poor.
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