“Os Memoráveis”, by Lídia Jorge, will set the tone for the starting session of the 25th of April celebrations in Loulé. It will be on the night of the 24th, the eve of the Revolution, from 21pm, at Cineteatro Louletano.
The session – entitled “The Decisive Night” – will revisit this revolutionary period through the participation of António Laginha, architect and dancer, José Mendes Bota, former mayor of Loulé, and Manuel Costa Guerreiro, psychiatrist, who on the 25th April 1974, they made recordings of Rádio Clube Português broadcasts.
These illustrious Louléans, at the time university students in Lisbon, in addition to their comments that reveal surprise and adherence to the “captains movement”, recorded statements, practically unknown, from Mário Soares in exile in Paris, about the events that were taking place in Portugal. To listen to in “Dia Distante Aqui So Perto”.
The program will continue with “Vidas Surpridas, Lá Fora”. The floor will be given to soldiers who were on duty in the former colonies when they were surprised by the revolution.
“Romance as Memory” will be the theme of the conference by Carlos Reis, professor at the University of Coimbra, where he will talk about the meaning and importance of memory in Lídia Jorge’s work. At the end of the conference, the author, recently awarded the Médicis Étranger prize for her novel “Misericórdia”, will make a brief intervention.
The companies, based in the municipality, Ao Luar Teatro and Mákina de Cena, will have a notable participation in the session. He will be responsible for the first theatricalization of Lídia Jorge's novel. “Two of the Memorables” will focus on the transfigured figures of Othello, “El Campeador”, and Vasco Lourenço, “Bronze Officer”.
The session will open with Carlos Albino, president of the Municipal Commemorations Commission for the 50th anniversary of the 25th of April, and Vítor Aleixo, president of the Loulé Chamber, will give the final words.
To close the session, the Quarteto Sul Arte, composed of musicians from the Orquestra do Algarve, will play “Grândola Vila Morena”, a song chosen as the symbol of the Revolution. It was aired on the program “Limite”, broadcast on Rádio Renascença, 19 seconds after 00:20 on the 25th.
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