Portimão will have sport, theater and history, this Friday, in "four great moments", which begin with the free practice of the Power Boat World Championship, starting at 14:00.
The second moment of the day will be the conference “Bíblia, História e Filosofia”, by Frederico Lourenço, at the Museu de Portimão, at 18:00, the third will take place at the Municipal Theater of Portimão, at 21:30, with the presentation of the play “Portugal Não é Um Pais Pequeno”, and, finally, at 21 pm, there is a new conference, this time at Casa Manuel Teixeira Gomes, on “Free Elections and Constituent Assembly”.
Regarding the Power Boat World Championship, the Chamber says that it returns to Portimão «with the attraction of including two unmissable sports spectacles, as it joins the F4 modality to the “main course” of F1».
The race, which starts this afternoon, has nine participating teams from six different countries and 18 riders from 11 nationalities.
After the free practice, the city of Portimão “proposes” to listen to Frederico Lourenço, awarded with the Person Award 2016, at the Conference “Bíblia, História e Filosofia”.
The conference, organized by the Manuel Teixeira Gomes School Philosophy Group, will provide, according to the Portimonense local authority, «all those interested in Philosophy and in the critical debate of ideas an excellent opportunity to hear and question leading figures in Portuguese Philosophy and Culture» .
Frederico Lourenço is a fiction writer, essayist, poet and translator and is currently a professor at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Coimbra. He translated Homer's Iliad and Odyssey and is currently working on the complete translation of the Bible from the original Greek texts, two volumes of which have already been published.
In the evening, at 21 pm, the theater will take to the stage of the Grand Auditorium of TEMPO with the play “Portugal Não é um País Pequeno” by André Amálio, a documentary theater show «that reflects the Portuguese dictatorship and presence in Africa, in particular the life of the former Portuguese settlers through their royal testimonies», explains the Câmara dee Portimão.
At the same time, but at Casa Manuel Teixeira Gomes, the commemoration of the 43 years of the 25th of April «deserves that many stories are told and remembered», in the Conference Cycle “Histórias com História”. This month, with the theme "Free Elections and Constituent Assembly", deputy João Soares and journalist Horácio Vale César are invited, who "will tell essential episodes for the historical knowledge of the 25th of April 1975", when the country was voted on in the first free elections.
These initiatives are part of the celebrations of the 43 years of the Revolution in Portimão, with the motto “April Thousand Colors”. The program can be consulted here.
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