DiVaM with more money and less monuments supports more projects and associations in the Algarve

“Heritage, Community and Inclusion” are the motto of this year's projects

Chapel of Our Lady of Guadalupe received the opening of DiVaM – Photo: Elisabete Rodrigues | Sul Informação

Music, sometimes accompanied by theater, sound installation or even sand illustration, or mixing genres such as fado, tango and classics, plastic arts mixed with walks and conversations, screening of documentaries and short films, contemporary circus, multidisciplinary creation with word, illustration and music, photography with guided tour and “Mediterranean conviviality”, performative wandering, dance, amateur archeology, proverbs and popular knowledge, community theater, sensory visits, multimedia shows and others promoting inclusion, lectures on the Ancient World.

It is with all of this – and much more – that the programming for this will be the eighth edition of DiVaM is built, the program of Dissemination and Valorization of the monuments of the Algarve, promoted by the Regional Directorate of Culture, and which was presented this Sunday, the 23rd , in the Chapel of Nossa Senhora de Guadalupe, near Vila do Bispo.

This year there is good news and less good news: the first good news is that the budget of the Algarve Regional Directorate of Culture has been increased, which has made it possible to support more projects from more associations.

«There was a budget increase of 175 thousand euros for the Regional Directorate of Culture of the Algarve, which added to what we already had and so we were able to reinforce both the DiVaM and the Cultural Action Program. That's why we got 100 euros for this edition of DiVaM», explained the regional director Adriana Freire Nogueira, in an interview with Sul Informação.

«All the associations and entities that applied to DiVaM and that were able to be eligible were supported in at least one of their projects. In all, there were 36 associations and 38 projects», he added.

This also means that there are "eleven more associations that competed this year for DiVaM, who had never competed before." This is because "this crisis led the associations to realize that, since there is the possibility of competing with two projects for DiVaM and two for Ação Cultural, they should do so."

 

Adriana Freire Nogueira, Regional Director of Culture – Photo: Elisabete Rodrigues | Sul Informação

But the fact that there is more money, therefore more projects and more associations, also guarantees that the program, which runs from June 5th to December 5th, will have "a greater diversity of projects". There is a “diversity of associations, diversity of projects, all of them with this idea of ​​inclusion. We have a circus, we have theatre, we have an exhibition, we have music, a lot of connection to the communities, through performance works with inclusion», explained Adriana Nogueira.

But this year there are also fewer monuments – everything will take place only in the Fortress of Sagres and the Ermida de Guadalupe, in the municipality of Vila do Bispo, and also in the Roman Ruins of Milreu, in Estoi (Faro). The remaining monuments that used to be part of DiVaM, as they are under the responsibility of the Regional Directorate of Culture, have recently passed under the responsibility of the Municipal Councils: the castles of Aljezur, Paderne and Loulé, and also the Megalithic Monuments of Alcalar (Portimão).

“What we said to associations that were used to submitting projects to DiVaM, for example in Paderne or Alcalar, is that they should apply to Ação Cultural and they can even do so with the same project they used to compete with before. Thus, they will be able to continue to carry out their activities in their usual places», stressed the regional director of Culture, in her interview with Sul Informação.

This year, the program “is concentrated on three monuments, although the others never had many proposals either. Sometimes we had to be the ones to challenge the associations to make proposals for some of the monuments that are now no longer under our purview. Alezur, Paderne, Loulé and Alcalar always had fewer proposals».

However, warns Adriana Nogueira, «this year we have a new lease of life, in budgetary terms, but we will see how it will be in the coming years. This program is exceptional, after that there may not be so much money».

As for the pandemic, which, in 2020, did not allow most of the planned events to materialize, it continues to impose stricter rules. «The shows now have to be all by appointment. People have to book in advance, to book, to make sure they keep their distance». Despite this, the regional director considers that “Guadeloupe is perhaps the most difficult place or a show with a seating position”.

This year, the theme “Heritage, Community and Inclusion” was the motto for the creation of various artistic, cultural and educational projects. The programming is based on the basic principles of Convention of Faro, through cultural projects that promote the inclusion of communities in the heritage construction process, placing people and human values ​​at the heart of this process. DiVaM is coordinated by Raquel Roxo.

 

Intervention by Luciano Rafael, director of the Fortaleza de Sagres – Photo: Elisabete Rodrigues | Sul Informação

After the opening show, this Sunday, at the Ermida de Guadalupe, with a Women's Concert starring Ana Castanhito (harp) and Rute Gomes (transverse flute) and promoted by Artis XXI – Association of Artistic Education of Lagoa, the DiVaM program continues on June 5th, at 10:30 am, but in the Roman Ruins of Milreu.

This monument will be the stage for the “PA'mim, PA'ti… Heritage” project, which aims to provide new perspectives on Milreu's heritage, with a special focus on the inclusion of different groups.

The project will include other activities over the months, such as the «Archaeologist for a Day!» workshop, directed either at resident foreign art students and artists, or at people with hearing disabilities, or the sensory visit “Sentir Milreu”, directed at to the blind public. The promotion is in charge of Lais de Guia – Cultural Association of Maritime Heritage.

Also in June, on the 25th, at 17:30 pm, Milreu welcomes the ComClusion, an exhibition / sound installation, resulting from an artistic project that starts from a reflection on the concepts of “inclusion” and “exclusion”. The design and curatorship is by Nicole Lissy and the sound design by Miguel Neto, promoted by Amarelarte – Associação Cultural e Recreativa.

On June 29, at 17 pm, the doors of the Roman monument open to the «Heritage Spaces, Community Wisdom, Inclusion Strategies», dialogues around the proverbial expressions and knowledge, with Rui Soares and Marinela Soares, from the Association International of Paremiology.

Also in June, at the Fortaleza de Sagres, on the 13th, at 18 pm, the wind and percussion ensemble “Tradição Filarmónica”, by the Sociedade Filarmónica Silvense will be presented, which will propose a musical journey through the different sounds from medieval times to the present day.

This is just a first summary of DiVaM 2021, whose full schedule can be downloaded here (PDF). can still be seen by clicking here.

All activities are free entry, but subject to mandatory registration. For more information, please contact [email protected] or 282620140, as well as [email protected] or 289 997823.

 

Photos: Elisabete Rodrigues | Sul Informação

 

 



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