The Municipality of Faro will receive the “Best Local Cultural Programming Award”, given at the gala “Prémio Autores”, by the Portuguese Authors Society (SPA), on March 27, to be held at Centro Cultural de Belém, in Lisbon.
The annual SPA television gala will be attended by the president of the Chamber Rogério Bacalhau and will be broadcast live on RTP 2, from 22 pm.
This award, awarded annually by SPA, is given «following the great investment in cultural events marked by quality and diversity, involving the community and the various collectivities and associations in the municipality, and is therefore also an even more mobilizing sign for the bet of Faro in its aim of being the European Capital of Culture 2027», stresses the municipality in a press release.
The year 2018 was "full of initiatives and good news with regard to culture, such as: the attribution of the classification of "national treasure" to the Roman mosaic of the God Ocean, the consolidation of Festival F as an event of excellence, the growth of the Alameda Beer Fest, the Baixa Street Fest, the Surrealism Exhibition with the Millennium BCP Foundation, the exhibition of the Ramalho Ortigão tile collection, the restoration of the D. Afonso III statue and the Renaissance portal of the former Nossa Senhora da Convent Assunção, or the restoration of the Ermida de Santo António do Alto among many other achievements», adds the Câmara de Faro.
The “Prémio Autores” was awarded for the first time, in 2010, by the Sociedade Portuguesa de Autores. SPA has already distinguished several Municipal Councils in the country, such as Lisbon, Porto, Évora, Coimbra, Penafiel and Guimarães.
In addition to the distinction the Faro, with the Prize for Best Local Cultural Programming, SPA will award prizes in the creative categories of television, dance, radio, visual arts, literature, theater, cinema and music, as well as a “Life and Work Prize”.
In this context, there is at least one named Algarvian, the photographer João Mariano, with its exhibition “Three hundred and Sixty and Six”, which was on display at the Centro Cultural de Lagos.
The ceremony will also celebrate the lives and careers of several personalities such as Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen, Jorge de Sena, José Carlos Ary dos Santos and, also, the band Xutos & Pontapés celebrating 40 years of activity.
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