Theatre, dance, writing, photography, cinema and illustration. The 9th edition of DeVIR meetings begins on September 20th and will take place Faro, Loulé, Lagoa, Lagos, Quarteira and Bragança.
There will be 13 works created specifically for this festival that address climate change and the ecological emergency.
The programming is divided into two phases (between September and November this year and January and February 2024). Between Bragança, Faro, Lagoa, Lagos, Loulé and Quarteira, DeVIR meetings invite Portuguese and Ukrainian creators, and Iberian scientists to share their reflections, misunderstandings and possibilities, based on the motto of this 9th edition:
The first show takes place on the 12th and 13th of October, at Cineteatro Louletano, where it will be possible to watch “Aquilo que ha-de vir”, commissioned for creation in the area of theater by actress, performer and director Paula Diogo.
This show also includes the reading of “What will remain after the war?” by its creator, the Ukrainian poet and journalist Yuliia Iliuka and which will be illustrated by digital designer Oksana Drachkovska, a refugee in Barcelona.
The first part of the documentaries “Playa Futura” (Spain) and “Futuro das Praias” (Portugal) will also be shown, which draw parallels and question the problems and evolution of the Cádiz Coast and the Algarve Coast. These documentaries will be shown in stages and are part of some of the festival's shows.
Between October 19th and 21st, it is presented at CAPa, Algarve Performing Arts Center (Faro), a second show that is part of a set of creative commissions.
“Caravela”, by actress Leonor Cabral, “The eternal age (where did I come from? where are we going?)” text by André and Teodósio, illustrated by graphic designer Afonso Martins, and also the second part of the documentaries “Playa Futura” and the “Future of Beaches”.
The third show will have performances at Cineteatro Louletano on the 24th and 25th. It consists of “(Dis)connect”, by Ukrainian dancer and performer Dmytro Grynov, a refugee in Berlin, “where do we come from?”, “where are we going?” , “for love is that we go”, text written by Cátia Oliveira/A Garota Não, which will be read by herself, with illustration by A Cristina Faz, artistic name of Cristina Viana, and also the third part of the documentaries that address the future of the beaches in the south of the Iberian peninsula.
The fourth and final show of this first phase of the Festival is part of the program of CAPa, Centro de Artes Performativas do Algarve, between the 2nd and 4th of November, and presents the play 1998 – element 1 – water written by Patrícia Portela, the text Guerra and nature, by award-winning Ukrainian novelist, journalist and activist Stanislav Aseyev with illustrations by Mari Kinovych.
It also includes the screening of the fourth and final part of Playa Futura and the Future of Beaches, thus completing the full presentation of these two documentaries.
They are part of the unique moments of presentation, the e(u)co(m)logic performance – the future is our modified present, by dancer, choreographer José Laginha, on September 20th, at the Teatro Municipal de Bragança. The performance is aimed at secondary school students and proposes a reflection that intersects the Climate Crisis and the functioning of the Human Brain.
Returning to the Algarve, a month later, on October 20th, at CAPa, Centro de Artes Performativas do Algarve, and aimed at the entire public, there will be a “UNIQUE” act, the photographers’ night. In this case, five Ukrainian war reporters and one Portuguese.
On October 28th, (em)RISCO proposes a day in Culatra, a journey through the landscape of this island of the Ria Formosa, which highlights its evolution and presents the future perspectives of that territory based on scientific research and predictions.
The route is accompanied by Óscar Ferreira, Ana Matias and Rita Carrasco, from the Center for Marine and Environmental Research (CIMA), at the University of Algarve, photographers Vasco Célio and Luís da Cruz and Silvia Padinha, from AMIC – Association of Residents of Culatra Island.
On that same day, but in the evening, (a)RISCO will take place at CAPa, the Algarve Performing Arts Center, with informed conversations, a moment of shared reflection on the reality of the beaches, the coasts of the Algarve and Cádiz.
In this conversation, mediated by Jorge Gallardo, from Párpado (Spain), Óscar Ferreira, from CIMA, Fernando Perna, from the Higher School of Management, Hotel Management and Tourism, University of Algarve, Gonçalo Duarte Gomes, from the Portuguese Association of Landscape Architects ( APAP), Javier Benavente and Manuel Arcila, from the University of Cádiz, and Joanna Crowson, from Párpado/Bee. Team.
Furthermore, there will also be the presentation of the digital platform “ARTEPENSAMENTO&information” in several secondary schools, the photography exhibition 24.02.2022, the longest day that never ended, by journalist David Araújo, and the film by Jorge Jácome “Super Natural".
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