The municipality of Vila do Bispo will participate in the 5th edition of the Festa do Japa, in Lisbon, on June 20, between 16 pm and 22 pm, at Jardim do Japan, in Belém, next to the Museum of Popular Art and Padrão dos Discoveries.
The event, which is intended to disseminate Japanese culture and deepen ties with Portugal, will bring together public and private entities, gastronomy, sporting and cultural activities in a large party that will take place in an outdoor space.
Vila do Bispo's participation follows an application submitted and approved by the Embassy of Japan, under the existing twinning agreement with the city of Nishinoomote, since 1993.
Thus, the municipality will be represented in tent No. 2, accompanied by the municipality of Sintra and the researcher Inês Carvalho Matos (specialist in Intangible Cultural Heritage). Here, Vila do Bispo will invest in the dissemination of its tourist potential, thus making itself known to all visitors to that area.
It is the 5th edition of this party in Lisbon and it is the first time that the Algarve municipality is represented at this event.
As part of the Festas da Cidade de Lisboa program, this initiative promoted by the Japanese embassy in Portugal and which has the support of the City of Lisbon, has free entry.
Adelino Soares gives a lecture at the Gulbenkian Foundation
Also within the scope of this partnership, Adelino Soares, Mayor of Vila do Bispo, will present, on the 22nd, at 10:30 am, the lecture “Vila do Bispo and Nishinoomote – a friendship with more than 20 years”, in Auditorium 3 of the Foundation Calouste Gulbenkian, in Lisbon.
This initiative comes within the scope of the 59th Meeting of the Discoveries, organized by the International Center of Culture, with the theme “Japan and the Western World”, which will take place from June 19th to 23rd, bringing together various cultural as well as business activities.
Also at the invitation of the organization, under the existing twinning agreement with the city of Nishinoomote, the municipality of Vila do Bispo will also present the communication “Cultural relations between Portugal and Japan and its reflection in Vila do Bispo through the eyes of the Children” where the presentation is in charge of the senior technician of History of the City Council, Artur de Jesus.
For more information about the meeting, please consult the International Culture Center website.
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