The schedule of the 15th edition of Palavras Andarilhas proposes different perspectives on the art of the spoken and printed word, in workshops, gatherings and conferences, supporting the training of reading mediators who come to Beja, between the 22nd and 26th of August.
Viale Moutinho, Eugénio Roda, Rita Taborda Duarte are some of the writers and other creators invited to share their universes. One of the focuses of this edition is the universe of youth – this Terra Incógnita that Ana Saldanha, Ana Pessoa, Miguel Fragata and Maurício Corrêa Leite will discuss.
It's been fifteen years the Wanderers Words and celebrate poetry with Ana Luísa Amaral, Roseana Murray, Alexis Pimienta and Thomas Back, return to the city of tales, with Ana Garcia Castelhano, and beginnings like the Big Bang Boom! of Margarida Botelho.
Mário Rainha, from the Educational Service of Casa da Cerca (Almada), Pablo Albo, narrator and writer of dreamed things, Miguel Horta, mediator of the 7 instruments, Pedro Giestas and the Ring of Fables, João Lizardo and his small-format books, bring their experience to share.
Rachel Caiano, Margarida Botelho, Gisela Cañamero, Helena Zália, Vanda Vilela, Virginia Imaz will challenge wanderers to experiment and enjoy, with diverse approaches to writing, oral narration, illustration and art education. The digital universe of reading has an appointment with Benita Prieto.
The Oral Narration Festival “I tell you so you dream” guarantees free access to storytelling sessions, shared readings and workshops aimed at audiences of all ages – at Jardim Público de Beja, in the parishes with “Contos d'ir ó fresco”, and in other significant spaces in the city, such as the Bairro da Mouraria or the Forno da Bia Gadelha, where José Craveiro's stories are like bread for the mouth of those who listen to them.
The organization also invites families to draw new paths in their approach to reading and artistic experience. Pedro Seromenho, Manuel Dias, Joaninha Duarte, Margarida Junça, Paula Cusati, Rita Salles will sow stories and readings in the garden's flowerbeds.
The exhibition “A sky that opens up in my head” anticipates the Festival, on the night of August 22, with the result of an artistic residency in Bairro da Mouraria, a project by the José Saramago Municipal Library, in Beja, promoted by Jorge Serafim and Luzia do Rosário, and “portraits” by Flávio Horta, Rui Eugénio and José Maria Barnabé.
Between the 23rd and 26th of August, every late afternoon, the “Encontros da Mouraria” brings specialists in the oral tradition, in its poetic and narrative aspects, for informal conversations on the doorstep. Adalberto Alves, Hugo Maia, Paulo Correia and Maria José Barriga will be some of the guests.
In the basement of the Municipal Library, the exhibition “Children that are born from paper” is on display, curated by Mafalda Milhões, serving as the basis for the work of mediation in reading with the municipality's audiences in the next year.
In the Public Garden, the evenings of stories invite you to listen to national and international narrators, suddenness and string. Ana Garcia Castellano, Virginia Imaz, Pablo Albo, Jorge Serafim, Tamara Bezerra, Carlos Marques, Alexis Diaz Pimienta and Thomas Bakk will pay for the nights. “We will certainly sing together and there will be Bálho with the Bule-Bule”, the organizers add.
Every day, the Mercadinho Andarilho hosts fifteen and a half booksellers and many creators, always with good pretexts to see, read and sell.
The party ends on Sunday, 26th, at 18:30 pm, with the presentation of “Christmas in August”, the long-awaited conversation between Ana Sofia Paiva and Mariana Lopes about the Trindade's Christmas carnival, “that village where the most beautiful Christmas in the world».
The entire program of Wanderers Words can be found by clicking here.
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