Portimão will celebrate cultural diversity and live a Week dedicated to Interculturality, from May 27th to June 4th, through a program of activities aimed at promoting the sharing of experiences and coexistence between the various migrant communities and stimulating dialogue between cultures, making all citizens aware of the importance of building a fairer, more egalitarian and intercultural society.
The Portimão Intercultural Week has a diversified program of activities from music, dance, gastronomy, handicraft, among others, involving the active participation of different audiences, various local immigrant associations, recreational and sports, restaurants and local businesses.
For the first time, on May 29, the Municipal Day of Immigrants and Cultural Diversity will be celebrated, a date that will become part of the local agenda, «as a clear sign of the municipality's commitment to transforming Portimão into an intercultural society. of a multicultural society, where there is a crossing of cultures that coexist peacefully and mutually respect each other in difference, and where one can learn and enrich through dialogue and coexistence with diversity», explains the municipality.
On that day, from 14:30 pm, there will be a “Party in the Park!”, in an invitation addressed to all local and migrant populations to celebrate diversity, through a picnic and an intercultural show that will feature the participation of the Association of Merchants and Industrialists Chinese Luso (Dragon Dance); Cape Verdean Association: Pé na Tchon; “Capela” Association (As Estrelinhas); Figueira Folklore Ranch and the District Association of Capoeira (Mestre Betão and Professor Chicote).
The Week starts on Friday, May 27th, with the “Festa da Boa Neighborhood”, an intercultural lunch to be held at the Cruz da Parteira Neighborhood Community Center, as part of the World Neighbors Day Celebration, which all the years take place in the last week of May, in various cities around the world, with a view to fostering spaces for meeting and interpersonal relationships between neighbors.
At the table for this shared lunch, residents of the municipal districts and users of the Senior Living Centers of Portimão and Aldeia das Sobreiras will be at the table, in a special moment of conviviality, friendship and meeting neighbors.
As part of the Theater Show “Schools on Stage”, taking place at TEMPO, the vocation class of Sociocultural Animation from the 10th year of Escola Secundária Poeta António Aleixo takes to the stage at 14:30 pm, on the 27th, “And now? Theater Forum for Raising Awareness of the Problems of Racism”, a show aimed at school audiences.
Because gastronomy promotes interculturality par excellence, the Municipal Market on Avenida S. João de Deus will host, on May 28th and 31st and June 1st, 2nd and 3rd, between 10:00 am and 12:00 pm, a “Showcooking with Delicacies of Divers Latitudes”, from the cuisine of Eastern European Countries, by Associação “Capela” (May 28), Asian Cuisine, by Sushi4Home (May 31), Portuguese Fusion Cuisine, by Casa da Tocha (June 1) , Cape Verdean Cuisine by Espaço À Cabo Verde (June 2nd) and Portuguese Fusion Cuisine by Chef Ameli (June 3rd).
On Saturday morning, from 10:00 am, it's time for “Trajes do Mundo” to parade between the Municipal Market and Rua do Comércio.
Cultural diversity will also mark the Children's Day Celebrations program, on June 1st, with traditional intercultural games for children of all nationalities, in the riverside area of Portimão, between 17 pm and 00 pm.
Through traditional games such as spinning top, marbles, knitting, rope in line, jumping rope, caricas, monkey, donkey and five stones games, mikado, bantum, among others, children will have contact with the history and culture of other countries and enjoy a different day.
During the morning, at the Manuel Teixeira Gomes Library, 1st cycle students will be invited to read “New Travel Tales” with “As Cores de Mateus”, the story of a colored boy, adopted and the difficulty in being accepted by their schoolmates, a tale that seeks to sensitize children to the issue of discrimination.
During the Intercultural Week, there is also the opportunity to discover other cultures, through dance, with different workshops in Latin, Oriental, Slavic, Cape Verdean, yoga and ranch dances at the Pavilhão Gimnosdesportivo de Portimão, every day. late afternoon.
Participation is free, and all interested parties must register via email: [email protected] or by telephone 282 470 862/282 470818 (from 9am to 13pm and from 14pm to 17pm) .
These days, Portimão will also be the capital of Civil Protection and the programming of this first exhibition of its kind in the region pays special attention to Multiculturality and Humanitarian Aid and International Assistance, with the promotion of some actions in several languages.
Thus, the “Basic Life Support Actions” (SBV) will be given by the Firefighters of Portimão, INEM and CVP in Portuguese, French, Romanian, Spanish, Ukrainian, German and English.
The "Action First Aid for Animals", by the Firefighters of Portimão and Firefighters of Albufeira, will be taught in Portuguese, English and Italian, while the "Actions for the Use of Fire Extinguishers by the Firefighters of Portimão" will be given in English, Portuguese, Russian and Ukrainian.
These actions are free of charge and entries should be sent to [email protected] or [email protected]
Since the beginning of May, interculturality has marked the decoration of one of the windows of the Balcão Único Municipal, immediately announcing the spirit of the Intercultural Week of Portimão, through flags of some of the nationalities existing in Portimão, decorated by children from the Camarário da Cruz district from the Midwife, as well as costumes and handicraft items, kindly provided by the “Capela” Association and immigrants in Portimão.
The Intercultural Week of Portimão comes within the scope of the Municipal Plan for the Integration of Immigrants, which since April 2015 the Municipality has been implementing, «advocating an inclusion policy to “welcome” and assume itself more and more as a tolerant and supportive city towards migrants of more than 60 different nationalities who live and work here».
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