A Brazil Week, which starts this Monday and continues until September 17th, in Faro, there will be literature canarinha as a focus: from exhibitions on Brazilian writers, to round tables on poetry, through films about the lives of authors.
In an interview with RUA FM, the vice-consul Cláudio Guimarães dos Santos said that literature was chosen as the central theme of the Week in Brazil because it is "the best vehicle to convey their culture." «We are in Portugal and the Brazilian and Portuguese languages are so similar. They have so many similarities,” he added.
To this fact is added, in the vice-consul's opinion, another point: the fact that Brazilian literature is not as well known by the Portuguese public as, for example, popular music, «which promotes itself».
This Week in Brazil has its first edition this year. «The initiative arose from the consul-general's desire to disseminate Brazilian culture in the best possible way in our areas of jurisdiction: the Algarve and the Alentejo», explained Cláudio Guimarães dos Santos, to the RUA FM microphones.
The Week, in addition to being “rich in events”, also has another “concern”. The activities "were being tailored and built in order to make reflections between various areas," said the vice-consul. For example, the Cinema Cycle will show films that are either about the work and life of the highlighted Brazilian writers – Clarice Lispector, Erico Veríssimo and João Cabral de Melo Neto -, sometimes based on books by these authors, adapted to the big screen.
In addition to being vice-consul, Cláudio Guimarães dos Santos is also head of the cultural sector and educational cooperation at the Consulate of Brazil in Faro. In this area that he supervises, he has been dealing with a reality: the increase in Brazilian students at the University of Algarve.
«UAlg is fundamental to establish any type of partnership in the region. The two events that will be held there are aimed at the general public, but they also want to target the academic world. We had this concern to make some events a little more specific, although open to the whole community», he explained.
This Week in Brazil also counts on the partnership of other institutions such as the Cineclube de Faro, the António Ramos Rosa Municipal Library or the Portuguese Sports and Youth Institute. “Without the collaboration of our partners this event would not have happened. They joined our idea of the moment and allowed this week rich in events», confessed Cláudio Guimarães dos Santos.
And he concluded: “we invite everyone to come and share this moment of dissemination around Brazilian culture”.
listen here the interview in full.
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