Monchique will dedicate a week to youth between 12 and 19 August. Theater, music, performances, or video game tournaments are some of the City Council's proposals for young people in Monchiquenses.
The Youth Week kicks off on August 12, with “Thô Xaringade e Mal Pague”, the Portuguese-style magazine of Boa Esperança, at 21 pm, which promises to attract young people of all ages to São Sebastião Park.
“Entremundos” is the proposal for the 13th of August, at 21 pm, at Largo dos Chorões. The show addresses «the traditional cultures of the Giants of Animated Forms», in a «walking performance of large-scale puppets, which, crossing contemporary construction and manipulation techniques, invites you to rediscover and recall the perspectives, forms and dimensions of a child's vision. », explains the City Council of Monchique.
On the 14th of August, there will be a Creative Jewelery Workshop with Natural Materials, in the square in front of the Espaço Jovem de Monchique, at 15:30. This activity requires prior registration until August 10th.
The following day, the Youth Week invites you to take a trip “By Sounds Never Before Navegados”, at Galeria de Santo António, at 18 pm. This initiative invites you to “discover and rediscover the sounds of the planet blindfolded and embark on a “ship” where the itinerary can be delineated by the pounding of a Senegalese drum or by the strumming of an Indian tampura”.
On Tuesday, August 15, at 21 pm, at São Sebastião Park, there will be a concert with Terrakota, in a “surprising fusion of music from Africa, Latin America, Brazil, the Arab world, India and beyond. A powerful discharge of grooves fervent, a transcontinental musical expression, a cry for the world to change course, a celebration of Freedom!” according to the municipality.
The band will have special guests on stage, since, on the same day, but at 11:00 am, in Parque da Vila, there will be a dance and percussion workshop from the West African coast, whose participants will participate in the Terrakota show.
The 16th is dedicated to sport, more specifically to mountain biking, with the tour “Monchique ao Luar”. The Monchique Town Council says that this is an “opportunity to walk along the paths and trails on the outskirts of the town in the moonlight and participate in an excellent get-together”. The departure is scheduled for Largo dos Chorões, at 21 pm, and the route is 00 kilometers long.
«Stimulate creativity and imagination through the construction of a story and its characters» is the objective of the Atelier de Teatro de Sombras, scheduled for August 17, at 15 pm, at Galeria de Santo António. This activity is aimed at children and young people from 30 to 5 years old and requires registration by 14 August.
For the same day, at 16 pm, a «Youth Week classic» is scheduled for the Municipal Swimming Pools: the BMX Water Jump Summer Session 00, in a «night full of adrenaline and emotion». There will be acrobatic jumps on a BMX bike, ending with a dip in the pool.
One of the highlights of the Youth Week happens on the 18th, at 22 pm, with a concert by the band from drunk Portuguese HMB, in São Sebastião Park.
On the last day of Youth Week, August 19, there will be a Noveloteca, where the public is invited to choose a skein and a person to fold it with. According to the municipality, the intention of the activity is "to bring together different generations".
In each skein, there is a paper with the 'instructions' and, "from the meeting between the two people, ideas should emerge for a story that each one (in pairs or individually) will write and draw in a small blank book".
This activity is scheduled for 10:00 am, at Galeria de Santo António, and registration is not required until 10 August.
At 17:00 on the same day, Lav Lur presents, in Rua do Porto Fundo, "a concert for any space and for any audience, friendly for children, perceptible for foreigners, spectacular for old people, funny for bankers".
Monchique City Council explains that "Lav Lur means Good News in Armenian" and that the show "was born from the meeting between a Portuguese actress and illustrator and a Parisian musician of Armenian and American origins, who share the dream of being troubadours and traveling the world out, bringing good news to all audiences».
Closing the Youth Week program, at 19 pm, at Largo dos Chorões, there will be Batik, a dance and percussion show with «contagious rhythms transmitted by the intense beats of dunduns and djambés», which «promises to infect all spectators with rhythm , color and melody».
Between 16 and 18, a WRC videogame tournament will take place at the Monchique Internet Space, which requires prior registration by 10 August.
Registration for the activities of the Youth Week must be made by email [email protected] or by phone 282 910 205.
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