As part of the FotoRio 2011 festival Francisco da Costa is offering a daguerreotype workshop in Lumiar near Rio de Janiero in July. Through google translate here is gist of the portuguese text;

“The purpose of the studio with the century daguerreotype workshop and offer an immersion in this nineteenth-century photographic technica, allowing each particante try for a weekend the whole process, from polishing the copper plate until the image on the silver. Cost: R$ 425 per participant includes two days of classes practicas, classes 15 hours (Manah is later), all materials used and the manual, in addition to food stuffs and stay in Lumiar – RJ”