Students of the 3rd cycle of Loulé and Beja will hear the experiences of those who make a living from art, in the scope of the project “Ser Artista em Portugal”, which will bring writers, filmmakers, musicians, plastic artists, dancers, choreographers, actors or directors to five schools across the country.
The first session of the project will take place on Thursday, the 30th, at Escola Secundária Diogo de Gouveia, in Beja, at 10:00 am, and will feature cartoonist Nuno Saraiva.
In the municipality of Loulé, the chosen location was Escola Basica Prof. Sebastião José Pires Teixeira, in Salir, who in March will welcome an artist yet to be named. In between, “Ser Artista em Portugal” will pass in Portalegre, Alfandega da Fé and Oliveira do Hospital.
This project, promoted by the National Culture Center, in partnership with the School Libraries Network and with the High Sponsorship of the President of the Republic and the support of the Egoísta magazine, «aimed at promoting a cycle of conversations about art in schools with third-cycle students , before the moment of choosing the areas of preference, in the Secondary».
The invited artists will «show their work, talk about their path, promote the idea that someone who chooses the artistic path has a possible path that can be successful», explains the Centro Nacional de Cultura.
All conversations will be filmed (in a single shot for the artist) and later promoted on the CNC and Egoísta social networks, «at the same time that they should constitute, at the end of a cycle, a film with the integrated lectures».
«We propose that the project we are now starting maintain the name of the colloquium organized in 1998 by the National Culture Center, in its facilities, because it has similar objectives at its root: to debate the conditions to be created so that society can enjoy the added value that artists can bring you. Our assumption remains: it is not only society's duty, but also its interest, to support its artists», adds the Centro Nacional de Cultura.
“Today there is still a conservative trend in many places, which consists in giving priority to the protection of heritage over the protection of living creation. However, we must not forget that today's artists are tomorrow's heritage. That's why this project can help to recognize in our education and cultural policy the fundamental role that contemporary artistic creation plays as a factor of cohesion and progress», concludes the same entity.
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