World Poetry Day, which is marked next Wednesday, March 21, will feature dozens of events across the country, from concerts to reading poems, including exhibitions and film screenings.
In Portimão, the Instituto de Cultura Ibero-Atlântica (ICIA) marks the day by inviting anyone who wants to appear at the D&N cafeteria, in Largo D. João II, to read aloud and listen to poems by Portuguese poets.
The idea is, as João Ventura said, to promote “a meeting between us and the words of the chosen poets so that we can challenge ourselves and the world with them, either through some videos of speakers summoned or through the voice of anyone who wants to read these poems. Since there is a day dedicated to poetry, let us take a moment of that day to read poems aloud, to celebrate poetry as sharing, sometimes serene and sometimes restless, in a community of local people who like us like to read and listen to the suspended words of the poets”.
Continuing with other initiatives, the ICIA has been looking for spaces for restoration that are consecrated or in the process of being asserted in the city of Teixeira Gomes, to celebrate authors or ephemeris.
This time, the brand new chosen space, the D&N Lifestyle Lounge, also aims to contribute to new dynamics in a prime commercial area of the city that deserves to be revitalized.
World Poetry Day was instituted at the 30th General Conference of UNESCO in 2000 and coincides with Arbor Day and the beginning of spring in the Northern Hemisphere.
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