“1,2,3, 1,2,3” – time is given for another Crescendo concert, at 11:30 am at the Solar da Música Nova Auditorium. The organization, as usual, is by the Loulé Conservatory of Music – Francisco Rosado. Crescendo, on the third Saturday of each month, are opportunities to watch the evolution of young talents at the public music school, so important for the training of young musicians but also for the mental structuring of tomorrow’s citizens.
In the Portuguese parliament, between the deputies’ benches and the tribune with members of the Government, there is, exactly in the middle of the room, a desk with nothing around it where two employees work who have the mission of transcribing everything that is said there. Through his fingers, speeches, interventions, asides, insubordination and even gestures are recorded. There are hundreds of thousands of pages that record debates, constituent assemblies, votes, advances and setbacks in social, labor and human rights. Guide for a possible country is a show created from these records, to tell the story of the last fifty years of our democracy.
How do babies end up in the womb? What is this thread that is attached to the baby? What is your name? Is it for the baby to hold on? And me, how was I born? These and other questions are part of the child’s curiosity. A seed that grows and transforms. A heart that beats. Two arms that embrace the world. Two eyes that open and a song that is heard. It is the string of life, the string that tells your story and ours and that accumulates stories from other lives. This cord has no end.
BRIEF INTRODUCTION “Together we are stronger than apart.” A Dog, a Cat, a Rooster and a Donkey take us to a theatrical show based on the Grimm brothers’ tale, entitled “The Bremen Musicians”. The project seeks to explore the themes of Good and Evil, Justice and Injustice, Old Age and Weakness, Hope and Union in the Fight for Freedom, present in the German fable. dreams, we need to be together.
No Limite da Dor is a play that aims to raise awareness and spark debate about the situations faced by the characters. These are, without a doubt, important data so that we can preserve a collective memory about the inhumane events experienced by the Portuguese people during the Salazar dictatorship.
PROGRAM MAY 22, 2024 – 9:00 PM | CINETEATRO LOULETANO At the Limit of Pain, by Companhia Lendias d’Encantar [Portugal – PT] Theater | M/12 | 70 minutes | 5€ MAY 23, 2024 – 9:00 PM | CINETEATRO LOULETANO Ilha dos Sem Terra, by RaizArte [São Tomé and Príncipe – ST] Theater | M/12 | 45 minutes | 5€ MAY 24, 2024 – 9:00 PM | CINETEATRO LOULETANO There is no sea, by Teatro Por Que Não? [Brazil – BR] Theater | M/14 | 65 minutes | 5€ MAY 25, 2024 – 9:00 PM | CINETEATRO LOULETANO Lenna Bahule presents “Kumlango”
Ilha dos Sem Terra is a journey that combines past stories and memories with present experiences, where a sense of belonging transcends geographic location and seeks to assert itself elsewhere. A show inspired by the stories of people who were born in one country, acquired the culture of another and are in a constant process of affirming their identity and origin.
A 739.26 km road that connects a country, from North to South, that passes through 11 districts and 35 municipalities, that runs through 11 mountains and crosses 13 rivers, and that serves as the terrain for a trip that is as much a crossing through Portugal in 2024, like a vertical line that goes back 50 years to rescue documents, reports and memories, with the Commemorations of the 50th anniversary of the 25th April Revolution as its artistic vector. At the origin of this partnership between Teatromosca and LAMA Teatro is a skein (narrative) that unfolds from the meeting between the father of Pedro Alves, born in Chaves, and the father of João de Brito, coming from Faro, in those remarkable days 1974 and which turns out to be an elaborate web of 11 mysterious photographs that give rise to 35 letters, which unfold into 13 faxes, which multiply into countless phone calls, which turn into e-mails, which unravel into messages of Whatsapp, until they are finally extended into videos on social media… The aim is, in this way, to bring to the fore stories and memories that have not always been illuminated, voices that are rarely heard and to […]
“Portugal arrived in India… and then? In the second part of the epic “I am Portuguese, Portugal”, we are dazzled by the opulence of the 16th century Portuguese court. XVIII and the bravery shown by the people during the French invasions; we review the political crisis that was triggered by the death of D. João VI and the civil war that followed; we remember the first republican ideals. Since then, several political upheavals have occurred, such as the Estado Novo and the Carnation Revolution. Portugal reached the century. XXI focused on Europe, but rooted in its history and traditions, in fado and… in saudade.”