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King’s College London is committed to a meaningful engagement with Brazil through extensive research collaborations, exchanges and many other activities.

Every year, King’s welcomes around 100 students from Brazil and beyond into a wide range of undergraduate and graduate programmes. We also have an alumni community of over 360 in Brazil.

To celebrate our proud tradition of engagement with Brazil, we host the annual Brazil Week so we can celebrate all things Brazil at King’s.

For the next three months, Chamos is hosting a website where you can purchase photographs by these four renowned Venezuelan and German artists and help a child in Venezuela.

CARF is hosting a concert on 6th February at Cadogan Hall in Belgravia along with Tucca, another Brazilian charity that raises funds to fight children's cancer.

César Camargo Mariano brings his Brazilian quartet to join three outstanding classical musicians - soloists and members of the acclaimed Berliner Philharmoniker: Walter Seyfarth (clarinet), Rüdiger Liebermann (violin) e Egor Egorkin (flautes), presenting the Bossa-Jazz style and Legendary-Classical music.

Lisbon-based singer-songwriter Salvador Sobral makes his long awaited debut singing from his new album Paris, Lisboa, a multilingual exploration of the two cities.

The former Buena Vista Social Club™ kingpin makes a rare London appearance and his first at the Barbican in more than ten years. Eliades is known as Mr Chan Chan in his hometown of Santiago de Cuba, from the song that Compay Segundo gave to him to make its first recording. His unique guitar and vocal style has made him a champion of string and percussion driven son, bolero and guaracha. Eliades has nurtured and grown the legacy and repertoire of greats like Compay, Miguel Matamoros and Celia Cruz.

Join the Anglo Argentine Society on a scientific and historical tour of Patagonia as experienced by Darwin, led by Stuart Blake.

“They can be described only by negative characters; without habitations, without water, without trees, without mountains, they support merely a few dwarf plants. Why then, and the case is not peculiar to myself, have these arid wastes taken so firm a hold on my memory?”

These were Charles Darwin’s thoughts on Patagonia: not particularly flattering, but clearly a memorable experience. Darwin spent over eight months in and around Patagonia (and only one month in the Galápagos), and it is clear Patagonia played a crucial role in helping him form his theory of evolution.

The London Latin Music Festival is back in April in its 20th year. First shows have just been announced. The festival hosts global superstars and the very best emerging talent from across the Latin Music world in venues across Central London. It boasts an array of UK debuts, world premieres and rare UK appearances.

Learn more about upcoming cultural events at Instituto Cervantes.