It starts with a meal to remember, based on Forgotten Food and typical ingredients from the region, and ends with shows by two Novo Circo companies that «promise to amaze the public». These are two of the suggestions of the “365Algarve” program to culturally animate the Algarve, in the last month of 2019.
On the 8th of December, a Sunday, the village of Tôr, in Loulé, hosts the initiative “Routes for Harvesting and Cooking – Forgotten Food Festival”, during which participants will “collect traditional ingredients, some little known to the public, which they will then be used in a cooking class'.
«The local hosts guide the participants on an interpretive tour throughout the surrounding territory, focusing on the ways of life and the history of the garden and its products», according to “365Algarve”.
In the last days of December and the first of January, already in 2020, as has been the habit, attention is focused on Monchique, which will have a new circus with the seal of the till the sea, this time in double dose, guaranteed by the companies Collectif Malunés and Le P'tit Cirk.
Between December 27th and January 5th, always starting at 21 pm, the company Collectif Malunés is based at the Heliport of Monchique and, together with the seven Snow White dwarfs, will gather all the princesses in their circus tent, in Forever Happily.
«From an enchanted forest, to the Little Mermaid, to Hänsel and Gretel (or Hansel and Gretel), the entire universe of fairy tales will fit in this show… From poisoned apples to poorly placed slippers, to acrobats tripping over their red hood, to at the same time they tell us what precedes the story known to all. Here, not everything is wonderful, and human relationships are as fragile as they are comic», according to those responsible for the cultural animation program in the Algarve, during the low tourist season.
On the same dates and location, but at 18 pm, it will be Le P'tit Cirk's turn to present the contemporary circus show Les Dodos.
“Dodos were a species of bird that became extinct because it was too clumsy to survive: it didn't know how to fly, it didn't know how to swim and it was too naive to face the harshness of life. This bird represented, physically, the opposite of the acrobat; however, they are both unconscious. They travel between fear and ingenuity, life and survival», according to “365Algarve”.
In this show, «five acrobat musicians elaborate models of micro-society, expressed through games of sensitive relationships of fragility, power and benevolence. The hostility of the world condemns them to invent frantically derisory survival mechanisms, such as the improbable attempts to escape gravity through a limitless imagination».
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