The Cultural Week Places of Globalization, which begins this Wednesday and runs until May 19, starts at the end of the afternoon, at 18:30 pm, with the concert «Batuko Sta na Moda», outdoors and free of charge, at Praça do Infante, in Lagos. This is a tribute concert to the legacy of the musician Orlando Pantera, a comet that passed in the music of Cape Verde, leaving an indelible mark.
Cape Verde is, in fact, the Featured Place in this year's edition of the cultural week, which, until Sunday and in an intense program, will take many and diversified activities to the five Algarve councils that integrate the application for World Heritage: Lagos, Vila do Bispo, Monchique, Aljezur and Silves.
Orlando Pantera, who composed music 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 did the Vincentian association start preparing this Cultural Week, choosing Cape Verde as the highlight, spoke with Dino D'Santiago, the Algarve musician of Cape Verdean origin. «It was Dino who referred us to Orlando Pantera», explained Sónia Felicidade, from Vicentina, and it was from there, with the collaboration of the Algarve producer Sickonce, that the original work that will lead to this concert began.
In a tribute to Orlando Pantera, artist who reinvented traditional Cape Verdean music, and who transposed the rhythms of Batuko, Tabanka and Funaná to voice and guitar, Darlene and Arlindo Barreto, daughter and Orlando Pantera's brother, Portuguese musician Edgar Valente, Brazilian musician Luiz Gabriel Lopes, Algarve producer Sickonce, drummers Finka Pé and guest artist Dino D' Santiago.
Tomorrow, the 16th of May, the Cultural Week goes to Monchique, whose forest gave the wood to build the ships of this first globalization, the most politically correct name by which the Discoveries are known today.
The program starts at 15 pm, with the lecture «As Árvores é Património», with archaeologist Miguel Martins, who will speak about Monchique's contribution to shipbuilding in the 00th century, and Stephen Hugman, president of the environmental association «A Nossa Terra» , which will address the Route of Monumental Trees in this county. The lecture starts at 15 pm, at Restaurante Fonte dos Chorões, in the village of Monchique.
Then, at 17 pm, the inauguration of the sculpture “Árvore Monumental” will take place, a purpose made for this Cultural Week by the sculptor Rita Pereira, aka RoMP.
«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, who is making a public sculpture in stone, inspired by a Monchique landmark, which is its monumental araucaria, with 150 years», 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».
Cape Verdean Nancy Vieira will bring her 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, entry is free and free.
On the following day, Friday, May 17th, the Cultural Week returns to Sagres. «From the Algarve to the Azores, the trip of the Flavors» is the theme of the showcooking at the Fortaleza de Sagres, with chef André Magalhães, at 19:30.
Then, from 21:30 pm and until 23:00 pm, every half hour, there will be four performances of the show in videomapping purpose-built to be seen on the 80 meter wall of the Fortress of Sagres.
On Saturday, May 18th, it's Silves' turn and soon with an irrefutable proposal: Dino D'Santiago gives an intimate and almost exclusive concert for the 150 lucky ones who managed to sign up. It will be at 21 pm, at the small but very beautiful Teatro Mascarenhas Gregório…and it's already sold out.
This intense Cultural Week ends on Sunday, 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, who 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 of Globalization have free admission, although sometimes, for space reasons, prior registration is required, which must be done by clicking here. which must be done by clicking here. This is the case of the lecture «The Trees are Heritage» (16th of May) and they were also those of the showcooking «From the Algarve to the Azores, the Journey of Flavors» and the concert by Dino Santiago, but these activities are already sold out. To secure your place, sign up for free.sign up for free.
The Cultural Week is an initiative promoted by Vicentina – Association for the Development of the Southwest, in partnership with the Regional Directorate of Culture of the Algarve, Algarve Tourism Region, Municipalities of Aljezur, Monchique, Lagos, Silves and Vila do Bispo and the Association Cultural LAC – Creative Activities Laboratory, and co-financed by CRESC ALGARVE 2020 and the European Union, through FEEI.
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, included in the indicative list of UNESCO assets.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”.
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