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10/02/2019
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Brazilian Pipers Pipe Band 20 Years Anniversary

Resplendent in their kilted uniforms, the boys of the Brazilian Pipers Pipe Band, based in São Gonçalo, have become a regular and very popular attraction at BCS events, with their lively display of foot-tapping Scottish and Brazilian tunes. Not many of us will be aware that it’s twenty years now since the band was inaugurated by retired Fusileiro Naval officer José Paulo Perreira Filho as a social project to develop and create opportunities for teenage boys from one of the […]
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10/09/2018
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7th SAS/BCS Caledonian Ceilidh

Article by James Frew, Chair of the St Andrew Society.   St. Andrew Society of Rio de Janeiro *Founded in 1906*  Scottish week October 06 to 14 2018 If you’ve ever heaved a rock into the still water of a Scottish loch, you’ll have seen how far the ripples keep going long after there’s no sign of where the rock submerged and just at the point where attendances at Audrey Hieatt’s Scottish country dancing classes at the Paissandu Club have […]
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16/04/2018
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AGM 2018

The 2018 BCS Annual General Meeting took place at the Jubilee Hall on April 10th. All members were invited to attend, to hear the Chair’s report on 2017 and approve the annual accounts. Council and Officers elected for 2018-2019: Jenny Byers – Chair Margo Black – 1st Deputy Chair David Merrylees – 2nd Deputy Chair Alexander Corrie – Hon. Secretary Bill Ballantyne – Hon. Treasurer Richard Laver Susan Malpas David Richardson Noreen Smith Anna Whyte Kathryn Wilson Catherine Cleeve – […]
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27/06/2017
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Of such is the kingdom of heaven

I write on the day of the burial of Revd Graham Roy Smith. It is for others to write a full obituary but my admiration for him and my sadness at his death compel me to dedicate this last Umbrella Chaplain’s Corner to him. It is hard to fathom the depth of the perseverance and humility and dedication of an expatriate Anglican minister who in his late 60s would raise the funds and then launch a new congregation in the […]
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21/06/2017
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An interview with Jonathan Dunn, OBE

As most of our readers know, since 2014 Jonathan Dunn has been HMCG Rio or, written out: Her [Britannic] Majesty’s Consul General in Rio de Janeiro. He and his family – wife Karen, sons William and George – have been an integral part of our local community during their stay here, but they will soon be leaving us to return to the UK.
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12/06/2017
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The British School

On May 19th several former TBS Board members past and present got together to visit the School’s recently completed Barra site. The group, which included no less than four former Chairmen, enjoyed a tour guided by Head of Site Robert Franklin and Finance and Admin Manager Claudia Ribeiro. Along on the visit were people who, at various times in the past, dreamed about and then worked hard to make the dream of a new purposebuilt school building come true. All […]
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