FORA – Algarve Orality Festival returns to Portimão and Alvor, for its second edition, between June 30th and July 4th.
Through performances, workshops, dances and debates, FORA will take the Algarve's oral tradition to various spaces in the city of Portimão and the town of Alvor. Singings, legends, spiels and tongue twisters, stories, knowledge and traditional practices, among other expressions of regional orality, will be present.
The organization is in charge of the associations Web of Impulses e Dawn, in partnership with the Portimão Municipal Museum, the association APEORality – Association for Research and Study of Orality and the producer JumpCut.
According to the organization, “the purpose of FORA is to disseminate these traditions and encourage inter-generational dialogue. After all, what is most genuine in the life of a community hardly fits on the shelves of a library. It escapes written expression and circulates by word of mouth, changes, distorts itself, adds a point (or more) to the tale, gains nuances dictated by time and space. And it fades to the rhythm of human life. The oral heritage is, finally, a dynamic reality and, therefore, in constant risk of decline. It only survives if communicated and memorized by subsequent generations, becoming a common thread in the history of a people”.
In this way, FORA intends to make a contribution to the enhancement and preservation of the Algarve's oral heritage.
The events that will be part of FORA are diversified, free of charge and aimed at different age groups. The festival opens on the night of June 30 (Tuesday), with the screening of the film Floripes by Miguel Gonçalves Mendes, at TEMPO – Teatro Municipal de Portimão, followed by a conversation about the production of the film and its impact on the appreciation of the legends of the enchanted Moorish woman of Olhão.
On July 1, FORA heads to the Municipal Museum of Portimão, for a guided tour by the voice of the former workers of the Feu factory and the men of the sea.
The night of July 2 it will be in Alvor, in a display of the rich oral tradition of this fishing village with Oficina das Mezinhas and Desfolhada.
The weekend brings more OUT. As early as Friday afternoon, day 3 July, the younger ones will be invited to know a little more about their grandparents' sayings and speeches, and then it's time to play with Traditional Games, as they were in other times.
The festival continues into the late afternoon and evening of Friday and Saturday, in the Old Lota area of Portimão, with round tables, arts and crafts (Oficinas de Biqueirão, Empreita and Doçaria Regional), various performances, including a pleasant cavaqueira with Môce Dum Cabréste and lots of music.
As expected, Friday and Saturday nights will be enlivened by FORA dances and will end at FORA d'Horas, inside the Antiga Lota building, with an invitation to discover alternative and more contemporary forms of orality.
The detailed program will be available soon.
The Algarve Orality Festival has the support of the Portimão City Council, the Portimão Parish Council, the Alvor Parish Council and the Regional Directorate of Culture.
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