The Crise Adentro debate cycle returns to Zem Arte, in S. Brás de Alportel, this time under the theme Culture in the region, on Friday, September 7, at 21 pm.
The organization intends to have another lively and participative debate, to which all interested people are invited. The main speakers will be Anabela Moutinho, António Rosa Mendes, Dália Paulo and José Carlos Barros, moderated by Paulo Penisga.
Will the Algarve be part of the main cultural itineraries in the country? What most significant achievements and events can be linked to the cultural experience of the region? What has changed culturally in the last decade and how do you live in the present?
«It is true that in recent years, more precisely for about 15 years now, the Algarve has seen a significant increase in cultural offer at all levels and genres, from the erudite to the popular, in theater, music, dance, the arts plastics, in the literature; saw its network of libraries and theaters/municipal auditoriums expanded, new spaces and productive structures emerged, new audiences were formed and daring artistic creations were seen, all of which was the result of the work of many, especially creators, mediators, associations and chambers municipal authorities. We created more world and we had more world here», stresses Paulo Penisga, organizer of the debate cycle.
“But the question remains pertinent: what was it that settled in our daily collective experience and in the identity of each one of us? What image do we have of ourselves and what image and place does the Algarve occupy in the contemporary country?”
«Gone are the days when we had to head to Lisbon to see a dance show or a concert. We weren't so bad about cinema, thanks to the film club from Faro, one of the oldest in the country. But after the peak of the programming of the Faro – Capital of Culture, in 2005, will the capital of the region have an experience and programming worthy of a city?”, he also asks.
«A simple exercise in memory, starting in 1999, with the realization of the Bienal de Artes Algarve-Andalusia, a good project without continuity, passing through Danças a Sul, a good memory for lovers of contemporary dance, to the inconsequential film festivals (Mediterranean, etc), great in their sudden death, to the old man FICA who ran out and died, also going through four good cultural magazines (Em Cena, Sul, Sulstício, Atlântica), however missing, to the sadness of the few who read them , the aforementioned Faro – Capital of Culture, more recently Allgarve, a pilgrim and self-interested idea of a minister and some luminaries of the country's capital, to instil in us cosmopolitanism and culture; to finish with the opening question, asked in another way: does the Algarve have a strong cultural presence in the country as a whole?…»
All these issues and many others will be debated at Zem Arte, on September 7, with Anabela Moutinho, António Rosa Mendes, Dália Paulo and José Carlos Barros.
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