18 projects, as many associations and four months to fill the Roman Ruins of Milreu, in Faro, and the Fortress of Sagres and the Ermida de Guadalupe, in Vila do Bispo. This is how the 2022 edition of DiVaM – Dynamization and Valorisation of the Monuments, by the Regional Directorate of Culture of the Algarve (DRCAlg), whose program was presented on Sunday in Sagres.
The presentation moment was also the launch of the event. The first show, organized by the Algarve Accordion Association, brought together in the auditorium of the Promontório de Sagres Gonçalo Pescada and the Quinteto Sull'a Corda”, which is, as it were, the accordion and some of its “cousins” to two violins, a viola, a cello and a double bass.
The composer chosen was Johann Sebastian Bach.
Gonçalo Pescada and the Algarve Accordion Association are “repeated” in DiVaM, but this year's edition of the DRCAlg program has several “new faces”.
"There are new associations and others that are not new, but that competed for the program for the first time", he revealed to the Sul Informação Adriana Nogueira, Regional Director of Culture in the Algarve, on the sidelines of the DiVaM 2022 presentation.
Artificial – Associação Artística e Cultural do Algarve, Avonde – Associação Cultural and Ria Inquieta are the new structures that saw applications accepted this year. Cinemalua, Gaveta – Associação Cultural e Pesquisa Teatral, Grupo Coral Ossonoba and Sociedade Recreativa Artística Farense participate for the first time.
«The associations that participate for the first time will bring news, because they will bring a different look», he illustrated.
These structures are added to those that have already seen applications accepted: Ao Luar Teatro – Ideias Culturais; ARCA – Recreational and Cultural Association of the Algarve; Artist XXI; Algarve Accordion Association; Film Club of Faro; JAT Collective – Janela Aberta Teatro; Today's Body; Flautistics – Algarve Bevel Flute Association; Music XXI; The Raven and the Fox; and Tertúlia- Associação Sócio-Cultural de Aljezur.
«DiVaM has been very important for its role in promoting monuments. Also very important is the action of the associations, which have not only worked with the monuments, but also with the local communities”, said Luciano Rafael, the director of the Fortaleza de Sagres.
«This year we have fewer activities, but also because there were fewer people and associations to compete. This happened, perhaps, because we announced later than usual, because we could not do it before the State Budget. In other words, it delayed everything a little bit», revealed Adriana Nogueira.
In all, “eight activities are planned in Milreu and ten here in Vila do Bispo, five in the Fortress of Sagres and as many in the Ermida de N. Sra. of Guadeloupe".
“The initiatives are very varied. For example, I found many jokes at the balls, which are initiatives that will involve the community, both here [in Vila do Bispo] and in Milreu”, he added.
There will also be “multidisciplinary activities. I find this intersection between music, dance and theater very interesting».
Another aspect of DiVaM that is «very important» for DRCAlg is that «associations get out of their seats. It is important that those of Faro come here to Vila do Bispo and let those from here go to Milreu. We were all enriched by it.”
The next DiVaM shows will take place between the 10th and 24th of September, at Ruínas de Milreu, where Cinemalua will present the initiative “Cinema nas Ruínas”.
The films “Oceans”, by Jacques Perrin, “A Cordillera dos Sonhos”, by Patricio Guzmán, and “A Viagem de Pedro”, by Laís Bodanzky, will be shown.
On the 18th of September, the “Baile da Rosa” will take place at the Fortress of Sagres, by the Tertúlia Associação Sócio Cultural de Aljezur, which will consist of a picnic followed by a popular dance, next to the “Rosa dos ventos”.
On the 23rd of September, the Cineclube de Faro presents “The Secret Museum of Mankind”, in Milreu, as part of the European Heritage Days. In this initiative, João Nicolau and Mariana Ricardo are, from time to time, «providing different multidisciplinary, performative expeditions, made from the encounter of photography, cinema and music», according to DRCAlg.
Also within the scope of the European Heritage Days, the Ensemble Gli Accenti works in the Ermida de Guadalupe within the scope of the project “Segredos do Barroco” by Flautística -Association of Bevel Flutes of the Algarve. On stage will be the Algarve flutist Ana Figueiras, the baroque violinist Romeu Madeira, the harpsichordist Catarina Melo and the gambist Ana Sousa.
Before September ends, on the 30th, the Artificial association presents “Occupação Contemporânea de Milreu”, «a multidisciplinary project that brings us a danced walk to present the space of this monument of Faro, a concert of classical and contemporary music and a conference that aims to raise awareness of the importance of the place, for the recovery of the built environment, and also for the importance of the use of color in the surrounding space».
In the month of October, on the 5th and 9th, Ermida de Guadalupe hosts the Artis XXI Concerts Cycle. The “Quinteto de Sopros Artis XXI” and the “Ensemble Armilar – Luzes e Sombras” will be the protagonists of the shows.
On October 8, another ball, this time “Inquieto”, promoted by Ria Inquieta in Ruínas de Milreu, which will be a ball «in a traditional sense, linked to dance and collective celebration, but seen in a broader perspective», where «poetry, dance, performance, music, installation, video projection and crafts».
Milreu will also host, on October 15th, the show “Vozes without borders”, by the Women's Choir Other Voices, a project of the Música XXI Cultural Association.
“random stages_random stages {or the urgency of (me) moving around}”, by Ananeto, is the show that Corpo de Hoje will take to the Ruínas de Milreu on October 16th.
At the Ermida de Guadalupe, on the 26th of October, Ao Luar Teatro – Ideias Culturais will present the play “Zé do Burrinho e Chico Ovelha – Unplugged Tour 2022”, where it intends to recover and enhance the “oral tradition of the Algarve’s intangible cultural heritage”, in a fun, comic and musical animation, around the traditional Algarve songbook, the lenga lenga and the tongue twisters.
On the 21st and 22nd of October, JAT- Coletivo Janela Aberta Teatro – Cultural Association presents the project “Neighbors without Borders”, which will promote two premieres at the Ruínas de Milreu.
The Neighborhood Theater – Faro will present a new creation related to the lack of water and “the consequences that this causes for the region and for the inhabitants of Faro in particular". The Quarteira Fora da Caixa Community Theater Group brings us “Aluga-se”, which addresses “the lack of housing caused by tourist and real estate pressure and the consequences that this causes for the inhabitants of the region”.
The Ermida de Guadalupe opens its doors again to DiVaM on October 30th, in this case to the association Gaveta – Associação Cultural e Pesquisa Teatral, which will present “A Catadupa”, a show of physical theater and music «which aims to be an anti- involuntary solitude and which is based on the sharing of knowledge».
On the 6th of November, ARCA – Associação Recreativa e Cultura do Algarve presents in Milreu the “Fábulas de Fedro – Yesterday, Today and Always”, «a multidisciplinary show that crosses music and sand animation, with the narratives of the fabulist Roman Febro and with traditional tales, told over different times and generations, by the Algarve population».
On the 13th of November, the Ermida de Guadalupe hosts the “Corus Fest – Em Canto por patrimony without borders”, a concert of polyphonic choral music by Grupo Coral Ossonoba, with artistic direction by Nuno Sequeira Rodrigues and staging by Fernando Jorge Cabral.
This is followed by the show “As Carpideiras”, a project in the areas of theater and dance that the Sociedade Recreativa Artística Farense will take to the Fortress of Sagres on the 26th of November, and which “has as its matrix the figure of the mourners, women present in different times and geographies”.
On the following day, 27 November, also in Sagres, Avonde presents the documentary “Gentes do Cabo, Faroworkers from Vila do Bispo and Cabo de São Vicente”, dedicated to the faroleiros of Cabo de São Vicente. This is a project by Patrícia Leal (artist, curator and filmmaker) and Vera Abreu (visual anthropologist and documentary filmmaker).
On the 2nd of December, the anniversary of the award of the European Heritage Label to the Sagres Promontory, the project “Coletivo Garbe: From Al-Andaluz tradition to oral tradition music” will be presented, promoted by O Corvo and Raposa Associação Cultural .
«This concert is a tribute to the mix of cultures that are felt in the Algarve, from Arab influences, through Christian music and the paganism of the ancestral peoples of the most rural areas, with traditional music passed down orally over time. », concluded the DRCAlg.
Download the full program from DiVaM 2022.
Photos: Hugo Rodrigues | Sul Informação
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