At a time when various forms of political violence are on the rise, the Hotel Europa theatre company investigates Portugal's recent past in Luta Armada, analysing political projects, before and after the revolution, that resorted to violent actions as a form of struggle. A documentary theatre show based on an extensive collection of testimonies from people who were active in these organisations.
Taking the text from the 1990s, The Secretaries, by the feminist collective The Five Lesbian Brothers, Maria Inês Marques has created a claustrophobic show that recovers the aesthetics of slashers and television fiction from the 1980s and 1990s, proposing a rigorous and uncomfortable study of the insidious infiltration of patriarchy into the professional, political and interpersonal universe of women.
How can we practise hospitality in times of climate crisis? Itinerário, by Rogério Nuno Costa, addresses this question through a process of epistolary writing between Helsinki (where the artist lives) and Lisbon (where the artist no longer lives), assuming circularity and impermanence as a condominium. A show resulting from an experimental laboratory at the intersections between art, science and technology, carried out in the context of the STAGES project.
As part of the Boca Aberta programme, dedicated to childhood, the Oficina Boca Aberta is taking place in Lagos, Ponte de Lima and Ourém, inviting early childhood educators, teachers and teaching assistants to challenge their creativity and enrich their work through the performing arts; and the shows Cabe mais um? and Não se pode! Não se pode! will be performed in Lagos and Ponte de Lima, Tavira and Ourém, respectively.
The D. Maria II programme for this period also includes an inclusive training course as well as a workshop for prompters. The first, Práticas de encontro: encontro como prática artística, a training cycle led by artist Raquel André, is aimed at artists with and without disabilities and deaf people, and especially blind people, a space for meeting, listening and experimenting to think about artistic practices, sharing working methodologies based on encounters with and between people. The second, A Voz Invisível: o regresso do Ponto de Teatro, invites actresses/actors, directors, assistant directors and those curious about the performing arts to discover (or rediscover) a profession that is almost extinct, but invaluable.
Within the context of ATOS, a programme that seeks to promote civic and artistic participation in communities, it will take place the course Criação de projetos artísticos participativos, aimed at professionals in the field of culture who wish to specialise in the creation and implementation of participatory processes.
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