Dino D'Santiago, Nancy Vieira, the debut of the original project Batuko Sta in Moda, the cine-musical performance «Who is in charge here is me!», by Tiago Pereira and his project Portuguese Music to Like Its Own, videomapping, a lecture, a showcooking and the inauguration of a sculpture. This is the summary of the program of the Cultural Week Places of Globalization, which will take place from the 5th to the 19th of May, in the five municipalities that integrate the application for World Heritage: Lagos, Vila do Bispo, Monchique, Aljezur and Silves.
«This year, the big bet is on music and on the word, with some charms of the heritage associated with gastronomy», explained Sónia Felicidade, from Vicentina – Association for the Development of the Southwest, which organizes this Cultural Week…which actually lasts for fifteen days . There is also, he added, "a place associated with the candidacy, which in 2019 is Cape Verde".
And it was this African country that was in force on Friday, the 12th, during the Seminar Places of Globalization, which took place throughout the day at the Cultural Center of Vila do Bispo. The Portuguese expansion started in the XNUMXth century, with Infante D. Henrique, was mentioned, in particular the links between the Algarve and this maritime epic, and also Cape Verde, its history, its heritage, its music.
At the end of a day of intense work, a part of the Orchestra of Batukadeiras of Portugal of the Association of Cape Verdean Women in the Diaspora in Portugal, which still just recorded with Madonna. And also Darlene Barreto, daughter of Cape Verdean musician Orlando Panther, who died very young, at the age of 33, and who will be one of the featured figures at the Cultural Week.
Amidst a lot of music, a lot of drumming, a lot of emotion, which were joined by two young women from the Cape Verdean community of Vila do Bispo, was the invitation to those almost fifteen days of cultural diving in Places of Globalization.
Performance of the Orchestra of Batukadeiras de Portugal in Vila do Bispo:
The 5th of May, Sunday, marks the start, in Lagos, of the strong program, with the exhibition of the show in videomapping «Mar Global» on the wall, next to the old river wharf. This is also the last day of the 2019 edition of Festival dos Descobrimentos, so that, through the “Global Sea”, the two events are interconnected. Produced on purpose last year, for the first edition of the Cultural Week Places of Globalization, this time, the videomapping it will be shown in four sessions, every half hour, from 21:00 pm to 22:30 pm.
The Algarve Tourism Region, explained Sónia Felicidade, finances the replacement of these films which, in the case of Lagos, are based on «a phrase by the philosopher Agostinho da Silva, who saw Lagos as a departure pier, which he compared to Cape Canaveral». The exhibitions on the city wall are open-air, with free entry.
Ten days later, on the 15th of May, at 18:30 pm, the Cultural Week truly begins. «We return to Lagos, for a concert that may lead to questioning the legacy of Orlando Pantera», a comet that passes
u in Cape Verdean music, leaving an indelible mark.
Orlando Panther, who composed songs for groups such as “Os Tubarões” and influenced a whole new generation of Cape Verdean musicians and singers (such as Mayra Andrade or Lura), managed to “join tradition with contemporaneity”.
When the Vicentina association started to prepare this Cultural Week, choosing Cape Verde as the highlight, it spoke with Dino D'Santiago, the Algarvian musician of Cape Verdean origin who has only a few days ago. won almost everything there was to win in the first edition of the Play Awards. «It was Dino who referred us to Orlando Pantera», and it was from there, with the collaboration of the Algarve producer Sickonce, who began the original work that will lead to this concert, also open-air and with free admission, on May 15, at Praça do Infante, in Lagos.
The musician's daughter, Darlene Barreto, who also participates in the concert, was with her uncle at the final session of the seminar in Vila do Bispo, to reveal that there is an entire project in progress to remember and recover the legacy of Orlando Pantera, who died unexpectedly at 33 years old. Darlene spoke for the first time, in public and with great emotion, about her father and even sang some of his best-known songs.
«Orlando Pantera is almost a myth today. He unearthed musical genres from Santiago Island that were little known, such as batuku. Eighteen years after the disappearance of this great artist, we will have this fusion concert, where the artists are putting a lot of themselves», explained Sónia Felicidade.
On May 16, with no time to breathe, the Cultural Week goes to Monchique, whose forest gave the wood to build the ships of this first globalization. The program starts at 15:00 pm, with the lecture «The Trees are Heritage», with the archaeologist Miguel Martins, who has been investigating, for his doctoral thesis, the connection between shipbuilding and forests in the recognition of the South Atlantic .
Then, at 17 pm, in the town of Monchique, the inauguration of the sculpture “Árvore Monumental” will take place, a commission made on purpose for this Cultural Week.
«In each edition, we want to leave a public artistic work in one of the councils. Last year, it was a mural by Kruella d'Enfer in Vila do Bispo, this year we invited the young sculptor Rita Pereira, which is making a public sculpture in stone, inspired by a Monchique landmark, which is its monumental araucaria, 150 years old», revealed Sónia Felicidade.
At night, the program descends a little up the mountain, to settle in Villa Termal das Caldas de Monchique, which has joined and will even present, in its restaurant, «a Cape Verdean dish to eat before the show».
And what spectacle will this be? Nancy Vieira will bring his mornas (a musical genre that is also a candidate for Intangible Heritage of Humanity) for a concert at 21 pm, in the forest of Caldas de Monchique. Again, admission is free and free.
The very next day, May 17, the Cultural Week returns to Sagres. «From the Algarve to the Azores, the trip of the Flavors» is the theme of the showcooking in the fortress of Sagres, with the chief André Magalhãesat 19 pm.
Then, from 21:30 pm and until 23:00 pm, every half hour, there will be four performances of the show in videomapping purpose made to be seen on the 80 meter wall of the Fortress of Sagres.
On the 18th of May, it's Silves' turn and soon with an irrefutable proposal: Dino D'Santiago will give an intimate and almost exclusive concert for the 150 lucky ones who manage to sign up. It will be at 21 pm, in the small but very beautiful Teatro Mascarenhas Gregório.
This intense Cultural Week ends on May 19, at Aljezur Castle. At 19 pm, the cine-musical performance "Quem Manda Aqui é Eu" by Tiago Pereira and his project will take place Portuguese Music to Like Its Own.
"We asked him the question: if the people of the Algarve were so important in the settlement of the Atlantic islands, is there any connection between traditional Algarve music and Azorean music?" And the answer from Tiago Pereira, whose project has already allowed us to gather more than 4000 music videos from all over the country, was: yes! «The dances sent by the Algarve gave rise to the Azores' Chama-rita».
Based on this connection, an original show will then be presented, which will feature the participation of the Algarve group OrBlua, which has one of its musicians living nearby, in the Serra de Monchique.
And at the end of the week, the walls of the Castle of Aljezur, up there, will be the screen to show the videomapping purpose-produced for this location. As in the other presentations, the four screenings of this multimedia show start at 21:30 pm and last until 23:00 pm, every half hour.
All concerts, lectures and other initiatives of the Cultural Week Places for Globalization are free, although sometimes, for reasons of space, prior registration is required, which must be done by clicking here (but only when registration starts). This is the case of the lecture «Trees are Heritage» (16th of May), of the showcooking «From the Algarve to the Azores, the Viagem dos Sabores (17) and the concert by Dino D'Santiago (18). To secure your place, sign up for free.
The Cultural Week Lugares de Globalização is the result of a partnership formed by Vicentina – Association for the Development of the Southwest, Regional Directorate for Culture of the Algarve, the Municipalities of Lagos, Vila do Bispo, Aljezur, Monchique, Silves and the Algarve Tourism Region and the LAC Cultural Association.
This will be the second edition of an event that will once again present a cultural program that will pass through Lagos, Vila do Bispo, Aljezur, Silves and Monchique, the five municipalities in the Algarve that are part of the «Places of Globalization» application. inscribed in the indicative list of UNESCO properties.
An edition that will have Cape Verde as the Spotlight, as this is one of the countries that are part of the “places divided into five countries – Portugal, Spain, Cape Verde, Morocco and Mauritania” that “are part of the associated universal memory to the imagination of important historical changes”, and which “as a whole represent a unique heritage in the world context as milestones of the beginning of what would become a new era for Humanity”.
Photos: Elisabete Rodrigues | Sul Informação and Vincentian Association
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