Princito, Soluna, Leo Middea, Umafrikana and Kimi Jabate are among the artists taking part in the free entry Jardim de Veran program, which takes place from today at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon.
This year’s Summer Garden “once again celebrates the sounds and rhythms of different cultures, presenting, in addition to music, stories and testimonies that are also expressed through images and words”, curated by singer Dino D’Santiago, in the music zone of artist Mayra Zenun in cinema and musician and writer Kalaf Epalangi in conversations.
According to information posted on the official website of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, this year the Summer Garden will also occupy indoor spaces.
Concerts and DJ performances will be distributed between Sitio da Oliveira, the Outdoor Amphitheater and the Great Hall. The conversation series takes place in Auditorium 2, and the film series takes place in the Open Air Amphitheater.
The Summer Garden, which will take place today, Sunday, June 29 and 30, and July 6 and 7, includes Kimi Jabate, Umafricana, Soluna, Jessica Pina, Indi Mateta, Japa System, Assa Matusse, Luis Caracol, Joao Caetano, Berlock, Princito, Dig, Cremilda Medina and Leo Middea.
Jardim de Veran’s film series “Africa and Their Human Landscapes” includes nine feature films that will be presented today, June 29 and July 6.
“This summer of 2024, in a year that celebrates such important dates as the 50th anniversary of April 25 and the 100th anniversary of the birth of Amílcar Cabral, we will discover these stories, listen to their versions of time and allow ourselves to be carried away by the poetics that make up this a black cinematography that is increasingly interesting, plural, powerful and powerful,” says Gulbenkian’s website.
Today’s session brings together five locally produced short films made over the past five years, “which show the diversity of black cinema produced in Portugal.”
The June 29 session includes “a brief retrospective of two films from the Cova International Film Festival – Africa and its Diaspora,” which in recent years have brought to the Cova da Moura area a huge variety of works created by black people from all over the world. parts of the world.”
The third session, on July 6, will screen two films made by members of the African diaspora in Europe, “offering reflections on cinema, power, poetics, black women, politics of attachment and colonial continuity.”
The series of conversations begins today with historian Ana Paula Tavares and writer Tatiana Salem Levy reflecting on “the art of telling complex stories.”
In the second session on Sunday, authors Nuna and Maria Leitan reflect on the importance of children’s literature in children’s education.
On June 29, writer Gisela Casimiro, translator Margarida Vale de Gato, actor, director and videographer DJ Huba, and poet and artist António Poppe will present a conversation/performance inspired by Lisbon and the poets who came before them.
On June 30, actors Carla Costa Gomes, Miguel Serman, Isabel Suaa and Marco Mendonça pay tribute to Angolan poetry by reading a collection of poems selected by Irene Guerra Marques and Carlos Ferreira.
On July 6, writer Bruno Vieira Amaral and rapper Thelma Twon talk about the forgotten places of Lisbon, and on July 7, actors Nadia Iracema, Joaozinho da Costa, Ana Valentim and Matamba Joaquim will star in a literary play inspired by letters. historical independence leader of Cape Verde and Guinea-Bissau, Amilcar Cabral, to his wife, written between the 1940s and 1960s.
The full Summer Garden program can be found online.
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
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