The exhibition marks the 30 years of the Foundation and the 20th anniversary of Museu de Serralves, presenting the programme of the Performing Arts Service between 1999 and today. It was born and developed through compromises between seemingly irreconcilable objectives: on the one hand, the need to present concrete data (names, dates, images) that showed where, how and when certain artists performed, and mirrored the pioneering character of the importance given to the performing arts by Serralves; on the other hand, it translates what seems to immediately distinguish these arts: the implication of the spectator, the eminently collaborative spirit, the "here and now" as opposed to "this was". The compromises included by putting on display documentation and letting its visitors know who has performed in Serralves (and when, how and where), while presenting elements that evoked the “here and now.” The documentation was incorporated through a process of collaboration: once the programmers Cristina Grande and Pedro Rocha selected the images and words that best illustrated the last twenty years of their programming (between stage photography and graphic materials that announced and accompanied the activities), it was commissioned to a graphic designer, Luís Teixeira, to create a book that would never be published, whose pages would be exclusively presented on the walls of Biblioteca de Serralves, along with the recordings of shows and props to which these programmers considered to be of special importance. At the same time, it was decided to occupy a considerable area of the library’s mezzanine with an object that would immediately evoke the idea of theatre and could "trigger" the viewer: a small stage waiting to be occupied. The visitor can and should sit down to read (programming texts, key books to understand the performing arts today) and, most importantly, to hear testimonials and memories of spectacles written by people especially attentive to Serralves' performing arts programming - between artists, musicians, writers and current or former directors and programmers of theatres and music and performance festivals - and then read by two actors. These testimonies came to reconcile the irreconcilable: the memories of certain shows, or of concerts and performances - necessarily subjective, incomplete, fragmentary - constitute the necessary counterpoint to data, dates, chronologies, documentation. It is largely thanks to them that this exhibition is not just about "what it was"; it is also now, and it is also here.
National Geographic has explored the planet for over 130 years and is distinguished by challenging, protecting and inspiring humanity to go beyond. It all started in 1888 with an invitation, which brought together the 33 founders of the National Geographic Society in Washington D.C. Among them geologists and cartographers, bankers and lawyers, scientists and military leaders began to delineate the purpose of the organisation. Everyone believed that science coupled with a clearer perception of our world would have the power to change it, improving it. With neither staff nor headquarters, the National Geographic Society began charting new routes, discovering new cultures and going beyond. We celebrate Alexander Graham Bell, Amelia Earheart, Alexander Graham Bell, Robert A. Bartlett, Richard E. Byrd, Barry Bishop, Jane Goodall, Sylvia Earle, Dian Fossey, Jacques Cousteau, Robert E. Peary, and so other big names in the National Geographic’s history. To share the expeditions, discoveries and scope, the National Geographic magazine was created in 1888. Its first edition was sent to an exclusive list of 200 members. In 2015, the National Geographic Partners was founded and its platform reaches over 450 million people, 43 languages, in 172 countries every month. The will of our 33 founders was fulfilled. We reached the four corners of the earth and went further. 131 years later, we continue to point our lenses at the most inhospitable places and the harshest realities of our planet, we continue to pursue big questions and challenge thoughts once accepted, we continue to protect and inspire humanity to go beyond. But none of this would be possible without your contribution. Thanks to you we have already awarded over 14,000 research grants, supporting ambitious projects in the areas of science, exploration and conservation. When you read, watch, buy or travel with us, you are supporting the work of our scientists, explorers and educators around the world. Because of you, our cause exists. Thank you for helping us contribute to a more sustainable planet.
Words are words: is it known / That the heart is about the ear? Let us look once again at what "he did not know how to love and loved", as the "Moor of Venice" says of himself. But there is only Othello - the "strange stranger/ from here and everywhere" - because there is Iago, the prophet of resentment and disorder, and because there is the beautiful Desdemona, Shakespearean word meaning "love". Nuno Carinhas focused his gaze on this bizarre love triangle, the most intimate or claustrophobic nucleus of Shakespeare's most poignant "domestic tragedy". The spectacle begins and ends in a darkness that is pierced by light. And it advances, unstoppable, through the shadows of Venice and Cyprus, geographies of order and chaos, surrounded by water, an element that leads, mirrors, distorts. A tragedy par excellence of doubt and vulnerability, Othello appeared at TNSJ one year after Macbeth, forming a Shakespearean diptych where Nuno Carinhas put in perspective two radical and exuberant visions of evil. "You only see evil in full use.
A series of absolutely improbable, yet extraordinary renditions (featuring Ming Smith, Frida Orupabo and Missylanyus). Renowned director of photography and filmmaker, Arthur Jafa presents in this exhibition works that he has been making as a visual artist for the past two decades. In film, photography and sculpture, Jafa's oeuvre reveals the determinant role of race, gender and social class in mainstream popular culture and in the media in the United States and beyond. From Spike Lee and Stanley Kubrick to Beyoncé and Solange, Arthur Jafa has collaborated with many noteworthy filmmakers, artists and musicians. For this exhibition, Jafa invited photographer Ming Smith and visual artist Frida Orupabo, and incorporated materials from Missylanyus’ YouTube channel to create an audiovisual experience that is both a political reflection and a visionary perspective.
Spontaneous and popular fair where you can buy birds, food and cages. Even if you do not want to buy anything, you can enjoy the singing birds, their colour and the liveliness of the fair. When passing through the fair, one must take a look at the breath-taking view of the Douro River and its bridges.
A gathering place for various collectors, this fair has as purpose the sale and exchange of coins, postcards, stamps and other related collectibles. It takes place under the arcades of the buildings surrounding the square.
Circus and marionettes draw closer in the poetics of flight, the marionettes without being subject to the laws of gravity and the circus artists by defying gravity. An intermittent aerial life unites the marionette and the trapeze artist. Cabaret Molotov is a performance that is the result of an experimental work in which we try to bring our way of making theatre closer to a certain circus related poetics. This creation is an approach to musical theatre with marionettes, a form of theatre which was very popular in Europe in the middle of the last century. Therefore, this cabaret is a melancholic one, inspired by our memories, but enlightened by our contemporary vision of both theatre and the world. In Cabaret Molotov, there are wandering chorus girls in love, trapeze artists, absurd clowns, one-man bands, rabbit-men, human cannonballs, cyclist bears, singing poodles, dancers and ballerinas who dance to the sound of waltzes, tangos, polkas, tarantellas and Kurt Weil’s old songs. Did Cabaret Molotov really existed, or was it nothing more than a place invented by Vladimir the Russian, for the scenery of his love for the trapeze artist Matrioska?
In times of social isolation the importance of music is doubled, which perhaps like no other art allows us to travel without leaving the place. Aware of this, the European Concert Hall Organization (ECHO) makes available, every day from 23 March at 19:00, a concert recorded in one of its rooms - the best in Europe. A member of ECHO, Casa da Música broadcasts this luxurious programme through its website, with groups, conductors, soloists and works of worldwide prestige, so that, even without leaving home, you can access some of the most beautiful places that human talent and creativity have managed to conceive throughout history.
In times of social isolation the importance of music is doubled, which perhaps like no other art allows us to travel without leaving the place. Aware of this, the European Concert Hall Organization (ECHO) makes available, every day from 23 March at 19:00, a concert recorded in one of its rooms - the best in Europe. A member of ECHO, Casa da Música broadcasts this luxurious programme through its website, with groups, conductors, soloists and works of worldwide prestige, so that, even without leaving home, you can access some of the most beautiful places that human talent and creativity have managed to conceive throughout history.
Sometimes a thing is not what it is. Sometimes things like being other things, for instance, they like being similar to people. They like to move, laugh, like and dislike. People / things and things / people are good for storytelling. In the Fragile world, there are small and big stories. Things want to be taken to places they don't know, and they make small and big trips. In the Fragile world, there are people / things that look for things / people. There are secrets left untold, there are secrets to be told, there is an open and closed universe. There are things that come out of other things. In the Fragile world, rules are not ordinary, they are imaginary!
In times of social isolation the importance of music is doubled, which perhaps like no other art allows us to travel without leaving the place. Aware of this, the European Concert Hall Organization (ECHO) makes available, every day from 23 March at 19:00, a concert recorded in one of its rooms - the best in Europe. A member of ECHO, Casa da Música broadcasts this luxurious programme through its website, with groups, conductors, soloists and works of worldwide prestige, so that, even without leaving home, you can access some of the most beautiful places that human talent and creativity have managed to conceive throughout history.
This year's Virtual Regeneron ISEF 2020 - International Science and Engineering Fair takes place between 18 and 22 May. With an ambitious programme dedicated to science and a number of renowned participants, including several nobel prizes, the event will put the scientific community under debate on various current topics ranging from COVID-19 to STEM female entrepreneurship. This year's edition has enormous relevance because it allows free access to all young people in this great science event. The Youth Foundation invites you to register for the event at https://isef.6connex.com/event/virtual/login. This year we will take to this great international competition two projects: "Gravitational Waves: Application of Multiple Statistical Methods and Fourier Transform" by the young students João Dinis Álvares; Ana Raquel Moreira from "Dona Maria" School (Braga) and the "Firebot" project of the young students Nelson Salgado, Maria de Fátima Guimarães and Carla Cunha from Felgueiras Professional School. This participation is also virtual. Throughout the week we will follow the ISEF program and make two talks with the participants in the two projects to make known the talent of these young Portuguese scientists. We take this opportunity to inform that the applications for the 28th edition of the National Contest for Young Scientists and the 3rd edition of the National Contest for Young Entrepreneurs are still running until June 5. The entire Scientific Community, Students, Teachers and Schools are invited to join us and take advantage of these initiatives. Follow us in our social networks and participate in this great meeting of science that is the Virtual Regeneron ISFE 2020 Fair.
Macbeth was written by William Shakespeare probably in 1606, in a specific period of his life when he wrote his greatest tragedies - Julius Caesar, Hamlet, Lear, Othello, Timon of Athens. For MACBETH's drama plot, Shakespeare finds inspiration in Holinshed's chronicles about events in Scotland in the 10th and 11th centuries. And, in a brilliantly way, entwines two historical facts in the action: the murder of King Duff by Donwald (967) and the murder of Duncan by Macbeth, followed by his subsequent reign (1040/1057). About two and a half millennia later in the history of theatre and, with all due respect for the great Greek tragedies, Macbeth is still the great tragic and universal work that, in an essential way, from the narrative point of view, exposes us and makes us ponder about love and power as boosters of the destiny of Man. The relentless saga of the tragic hero Macbeth has disturbing similarities with the present time. It is this political dimension of the piece that makes it even more timeless. Macbeth kills for love, lust for power and belief in the supernatural. And so, Shakespeare celebrates in this piece a poetics of death and love, leading us inexorably through the inner labyrinths of the human being, using an intensely poetic language.
During times of social isolation, the importance of music is increased, which, perhaps like no other art, enables us to travel while staying put. Aware of this, the European Concert Hall Organisation (ECHO) makes available, every day, from March 23rd, at 7 pm, a concert recorded in one of the concert halls that are a part of it - the best ones in Europe. A member of ECHO, Casa da Música streams, via its website, this luxurious programme, with ensembles, conductors, soloists and pieces of world prestige, so that, even without leaving your home, you can access some of most beautiful places that human creativity and talent have managed to conceive throughout history.
Three times Shall the moon Wax and wane And a child shall be born As strong as a giant As brave as a lion He shall be And although he will not be Bigger than a thumb He shall be remembered Until the end of time
As part of Leituras do Centro Educativo, our actors will read to us, in three sessions, The Death of Ivan Ilyich (1886). Leo Tolstoy wrote this novel at the age of 58, after his conversion to Christianity and after the masterpieces War and Peace and Anna Karenina. In its brevity, this work rivals the previous ones, by giving us a concise and intimate portrait about the human condition. In the story of Judge Ivan Ilitch and in the retrospective look of a life in view of the imminence of its end, where all of our fears, doubts and questions fit. In this book of Apollonian and plain writing, life is revealed (too late) to Ivan Ilyich, “to be completely detached from everyone else”, as a lie if lived as an appearance, “a resemblance of human relationships”. And if redemption comes to him, in the end we are left with a powerful life lesson in our hands. ONLINE ACCESS FROM ZOOM 26-28 May 2020 Tue-Thu 10 pm mandatory registration, until the beginning of the session, here https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_e2hfs--sQj6YAX1j7XgyDA