Brazil will provide one million euros in financial support for the third edition of the Community of Portuguese Speaking Countries (CPLP) audiovisual program, Brazil’s culture minister announced on Monday.
“I am very pleased to be here, resuming the effective actions of Brazil in the CPLP and our presence in the audiovisual initiatives with the “fetch”. [financiamento] on the same scale as Portugal, to finally declare the return of the country to the strengthening of this community of Portuguese-speaking countries and much more that we will do,” said Margaret Menezes during a trip to the headquarters of the organization.
The minister spoke to reporters after the opening of the “Paginário CPLP” installed in front of the headquarters of the international organization, in Largo do Correio Mor, and after a meeting with the executive secretary of the CPLP, Zacarias da Costa.
The CPLP Audiovisual Program aims to promote cultural exchange, increase mutual knowledge, and implement comprehensive government policies to encourage the production and broadcast of audiovisual content in CPLP countries.
Zacarias da Costa later explained to the Ministers of Culture of Portugal, Pedro Adão e Silva and Brazil, that this support from Brazil is “very important” for this program, for which Portugal has already allocated “one million euros, Angola has invested 250 euros.” thousand euros, and today Brazil announced another one million, as did Portugal.”
The Brazilian Minister of Culture is one of the members of the Brazilian government who are part of the ministerial delegation accompanying Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lulu da Silva on his four-day state visit to Portugal, which ends on Tuesday.
The Paginário, inaugurated this Monday by the Ministers of Culture of Portugal and Brazil, is the work of the Brazilian artist and explorer Leonardo Villa-Forte and is the result of an initiative by the Brazilian Mission to the CPLP.
The mural celebrates, in the words of the artist, “the plural meaning of the Portuguese language, its variety of expressions and nothing better than literature for that, as well as some texts and art,” explained the artist Luce.
Only 960 pages covering 25 meters “in honor of April 25,” he said. Thirty-five people from nine CPLP member states were invited to submit pages of literature well reflecting their linguistic differences.
Each country’s pages have the color of that state’s flag.
Author: Portuguese
Source: CM Jornal
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