“Oral History and Social Movements” is the theme of the conference by Luísa Tiago de Oliveira, from ISCTE-IUL., which is scheduled for Saturday, September 28, at 17 pm, at the Carlos do Carmo Auditorium, in Lagoa, within the scope of the project MuCid – Museum of Citizenship and Social Movements.
This conference is also part of the 6th International Guitar Festival of Lagoa, and people who attend the lecture will have free entry to the concerts on the 28th.
The first conference integrated in the project took place on the 12th of September, on the promontory of Nossa Senhora da Rocha, in Porches.
Entitled “A program of action: transmitting know-how, preserving memory and fighting the current”, the speaker was Filipe Themudo Barata, coordinator of the UNESCO Chair in Intangible Heritage at the University of Évora.
The session was opened by Cultural Councilor Ana Martins, who presented the MuCid project and integrated it into the cultural strategy being implemented in Lagoa, where citizenship issues are considered “structuring”.
The councilor also took the opportunity to, in brief, underline the importance of cultural heritage and, in particular, the sanctuary of Nossa Senhora da Rocha, for sustainable development.
Paulo Lima, anthropologist and project coordinator, briefly presented MuCid and the lecturer.
Filipe Themudo Barata, full professor at the University of Évora, developed and shared a reflection on the current references of global society and how these references create difficulties in the transmission of intangible cultural heritage, namely heritage linked to social practices.
The importance of safeguarding this heritage was also conveyed, giving some examples of paths to be followed and good practices, both national and carried out in other countries, particularly in Africa.
This conference was attended by the musical presence of La Mar de La Música Ensemble, which interpreted secular and religious themes transversal to Christian, Moorish and Sephardic cultures, found both in written sources of the time and in collections made by ethnomusicologists.
MuCid – Museum of Citizenship and Social Movements is an ongoing project and will be installed in the old Town Hall of Lagoa. Its opening is scheduled for 2021, after renovation works in the building that was a hermitage built in the last quarter of the century. XVIII, and which, in 1859, was acquired by the Municipality of Lagoa to install the Lagoon citizenship house there.
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