Melo, Gouveia
Wed, 02 oct '24 - 21:00
Sun, 06 oct '24 - 19:00
From the mountain village of Melo, located on the northern slope of Serra da Estrela, which has always been the ‘home’ and ‘eternal village’ of Vergílio Ferreira, the municipality of Gouveia, in partnership with the Mountain Village Network, is promoting the 1st literary festival of Serra da Estrela, which takes in some of the emblematic spaces of Vergílio Ferreira's work.
The ‘In the Name of the Earth’ Literary Festival is an event celebrating the word and literature, which debuts with an edition full of words in the mouths of those who write, dedicated to all those who read and listen to them, taking books everywhere.
This Festival is part of the Animation Plan of the Mountain Villages Network, within the scope of the PROVERE Mountain Villages 2030 Collective Efficiency Strategy.
For more information, visit the event's website
21h15 - Inauguration of the exhibition ‘Love is a fire that burns without being seen’
VENUE: MELO VOLUNTEER FIRE STATION
21h30 - 22h30 - Conversations Forever
With: Lídia Jorge and Valter Hugo Mãe/ Special participation: Orfeão da Santa da Misericórdia de Gouveia
‘I'm going to lay you down in eternity, that's your place, that's it, that's it. And now I just have to love all of you, leave nothing out.’ Vergílio Ferreira in Conta-Corrente (1969-92)
LOCATION: MISERICÓRDIA CHAPEL
15h00 - 17h30 - Inauguration of Casa Vergílio Ferreira - Forever
- ‘By your side forever’
Naming of a street in Aldeia de Melo after Lídia Jorge
LOCATION: RUA DE SÃO CAETANO
- Inauguration of the Vergílio Ferreira House ‘Forever’
With the presence of the writer Lídia Jorge and the Curators of Casa Vergílio Ferreira ‘Para Sempre’, Valter Hugo Mãe and Adélia Carvalho.
VENUE: CASA VERGÍLIO FERREIRA - PARA SEMPRE / PRAÇA VERGÍLIO FERREIRA
21h30 - 22h30 - Book presentation
- ‘Vergílio Ferreira: the Celebration of the Word’ / Fernanda Irene Fonseca
- ‘For Love of Leonor’ / António Garcia Barreto / Vergílio Ferreira Prize 2024
Moderator: Jorge Costa Lopes
VENUE: CASA VERGÍLIO FERREIRA - FOREVER
Sessions in schools (all day)
Target audience: from 3 years old
-Secondary / Afonso Cruz, Valter Hugo Mãe, Ricardo Fonseca da Mota, Teolinda Gersão
-3rd Cycle / Lúcia Vicente, Vânia Calado, Adélia Carvalho
- 2nd Cycle / Nuno Caravela
-1st cycle and pre-school / Alda Casqueira; Raquel Patriarca; Rita Sineiro; Olinda Beja; Evelina Oliveira; Cátia Vidinhas
15h30 - 16h15 - Generations in conversation
‘...a man is richer in humanity the more he can enshrine simple things.’ Vergílio Ferreira in Vagão ‘J’
With Raquel Patriarca, Rita Sineiro and Olinda Beja
Target audience: senior citizens
VENUE: VERGÍLIO FERREIRA MUNICIPAL LIBRARY
22h00 - 23h00 - Conversations Forever - Table 1
‘May your freedom begin in the bread that awaits you at the table and persist in the unknown that awaits you in the street...’ Vergílio Ferreira in Conta-Corrente (1969-92)
With Alfredo Cunha and Rui Ochôa
Moderator: Marta Bernardes
Theme: ‘May your freedom begin in the bread that awaits you at the table and persist in the unknown that awaits you in the street...’ In Vergílio Ferreira, Contra-Corrente (1969-76)
LOCATION: MISERICÓRDIA CHAPEL
23h15 - 00h00 - ‘Vergília Noturna’ with Renato Filipe Cardoso
‘Don't let anyone be free for you, but assume this difficult dignity yourself.
In Vergílio Ferreira, Contra-Corrente (1969-92)
Reading of texts by Vergílio Ferreira / Creation and interpretation: Renato Filipe Cardoso
VENUE: MISERICÓRDIA CHAPEL
10.15 - 11.15 - Conversations Forever - Event 2
‘It's harder to be free than to pull a cart. This is so obvious that I'm afraid I'll offend you.
Vergílio Ferreira in Conta-Corrente (1969-92)
With: Álvaro Laborinho Lúcio, Marta Bernardes and Teolinda Gersão /Moderated by: Renato Filipe Cardoso
VENUE: MISERICÓRDIA CHAPEL
11h30 -12h30 - Story and Song Time
With: Olinda Beja
Target audience: families
LOCATION: MELO SCHOOL
14h08 - 14h58 - Direct - Antena 1 - Variable Geometry Programme
‘Say no to the freedom you are offered, if it is only the freedom of those who want to offer it to you. Because the freedom that is yours does not come by the arbitrary decree of others.
Vergílio Ferreira in Conta-Corrente (1969-92)
With: Maria Flor Pedroso, Carlos Coelho and Nuno Severiano Teixeira
VENUE: MISERICÓRDIA CHAPEL
15h30 - 18h30 - Manifesto to Freedom / Illustration Workshop
‘... do not accept that they invent freedom for you, but only that they help you in your liberation.’
Vergílio Ferreira in Contra-Corrente (1969-92)
With: Cátia Vidinhas, Evelina Oliveira and Henrique Cayatte
Participation open to the community
LOCATION: VERGÍLIO FERREIRA SQUARE
15h15 - 16h15 - Conversations Forever - Event 3
With José Gardeazabal, Maria Francisca Gama and Ricardo Fonseca da Mota
Moderator: Lúcia Vicente
Theme: Nobody is free on their own, because they are only free with others. So you can only be free with others. But to be free with others is not to be free for others.
In Vergílio Ferreira, Contra-Corrente
LOCATION: CHAPEL OF MERCY
16h30 - 17h30 - Conversations Forever - Table 4
With Afonso Cruz, Madalena Sá Fernandes and Raquel Patriarca
Moderator: Maria Flor Pedroso
Theme: Only absolute freedom is a perpetual horizon, beyond all horizons, which is the horizon of the impossible.
In Vergílio Ferreira in Contra-Corrente 5
VENUE: MISERICÓRDIA CHAPEL
17h45 - 18h45 - Conversations Forever - Event 5
With Maíra Zenun, Tatiana Salem Levy and Valter Hugo Mãe
Moderator: Tito Couto
Theme: ‘As much as I've read and learnt and saved. And none of it serves me to look at a simple flower.’
Vergílio Ferreira in Contra-Corrente 5
VENUE: MISERICÓRDIA CHAPEL
7.30pm - Arraial do Futuro
LOCATION: RUA DO PELOURINHO
7.30 - 9.30pm / 10.30-00.00 - Radio of the Future
With actor João Patrício
Celebration of literature through the reading of texts from Portuguese and world literature linked to the literary universe of Vergílio Ferreira. Interviews with guests and popular Portuguese music.
9.30pm - Show - Concert by Teresa Salgueiro
‘Look at the light. Listen to the joy of the birds. Don't think it's sacrilege.’ Vergílio Ferreira in Contra-Corrente 2″
LOCATION: VERGÍLIO FERREIRA SQUARE
10.30am - 12h00pm - Conversations Forever - Event 6 / Screening of the documentary ‘Casa para Sempre’ (Forever Home)
With Evelina Oliveira and Frederico Corado
Moderator: Jorge Costa Lopes
Theme: ‘As much as I've read and learnt and saved. And none of it serves me to look at a simple flower.’
Vergílio Ferreira in Contra-Corrente 5
VENUE: MISERICÓRDIA CHAPEL
12.00pm - Serrano lunch
LOCATION: ERMIDA DE SANTA EUFÉMIA
2.00 - 3.00pm - Conversations Forever - Table 7
With Gonçalo M. Tavares, Luís Osório, Rui Couceiro
Moderator: Tito Couto
Theme: ‘May the frontier of your freedom not be the door to your house so that you may be free inside and outside it.’
Vergílio Ferreira in Contra-Corrente 1
VENUE: CHAPEL OF MERCY
3.00pm - 7.00pm - Course - Writing and imagination - based on excerpts from the work of Vergílio Ferreira
With Gonçalo M. Tavares
Development of practical exercises to apply some concepts around language and imagination, based on extracts from Vergílio Ferreira's work.
Concept of error. Error and creativity. Exercises. / Exercises on Objectivity and subjectivity / Rationality and irrationality. / Exercises on Chance. / Language as the basis of art. / The abstract and the concrete. / Thought and language. / Private language. Notions of language - Wittgenstein. / Language games. Exercises. / Observation and art. / Description - objects and actions. / Repairing - the act of repairing and art. The speed of observation. / Point of view, drawing exercises. / Writing and identity
VENUE: TO BE CONFIRMED
THERE'S LIFE IN THE MOUNTAINS
At the Em Nome da Terra literary festival in Melo, you'll have the chance to experience life in a Serrana village.
- Loja da Aldeia: a space with books and typical Serrana village products.
LOCATION: FORMER CTT POST OFFICE
- Taberna da Aldeia: a recreation of a tavern, a typical establishment from the early 20th century, a meeting place open to socialising and where you can listen to traditional music.
LOCATION: OLD VILLAGE TAVERN
- Melo Ethnological Museum: the Melo Ethnological Museum has been open to the public since 1 May 1999, under the supervision of Luís Filipe Almeida Gonçalves. It is a museum that is also the home of its guardian, where you can see a wide range of tools used by traditional carpenters, from cutting trees to ripping and preparing them.
LOCATION: ALDEIA DE MELO
- ‘Love is a fire that burns without being seen’ - Photography exhibition by Rita Cortesão
Black and white photographs, 29.7x21cm / Photography: Rita Cortesão / Curated by: Adélia Carvalho and Rita Cortesão Special collaboration with the Melo Volunteer Fire Brigade.
SYNOPSIS: An exhibition that pays tribute to the community of the village of Melo and to the bravery of dozens of men and women who take on the daily mission of protecting their village, their mountains and their people! Photographed with the books of the authors who are taking part in this year's 3rd edition of the ‘In the Name of the Earth’ festival, the Melo Volunteer Firefighters are the protagonists of a series of images that highlight the spirit of mission, community and love of neighbour that drives them every day, and exalt the unique connection between the village of Melo and literature... making visible how much of the daily life of this village burns without being seen...
The exhibition will result in a literary calendar, the sales of which will be donated to the fire brigade.
VENUE: MELO VOLUNTEER FIRE STATION
- ‘In the Name of the Earth - Diary of the 2023 Festival’ - Photography exhibition by Lauren Maganete
Black and white photographs, 29.7x21cm / Photography: Lauren Maganete / Curated by: Adélia Carvalho and Rita Cortesão
SYNOPSIS: the 2nd edition of the ‘In the Name of the Earth’ festival through the eyes and lens of Lauren Maganete. ‘Rhythms of Writing’ was the theme of the 2023 edition, which was attended by more than two dozen renowned guests who, together with the many readers who attended, filled the village of Melo with new memories that are now part of its history, as this exhibition now tells us.
VENUE: CHAPEL OF MERCY
- ‘By your side forever’ - exhibition of posters in the street with extracts from the literary work of Lídia Jorge
SYNOPSIS: Lídia Jorge has a remarkable career as a writer, novelist, poet, author of remarkable works in the fields of short stories and chronicles, with numerous and acclaimed translations into several languages. Her texts have been adapted for theatre, television and cinema, and have been awarded the main national literary prizes. In this exhibition, they will be displayed in the street which, from 3 October, will be called ‘Lídia Jorge’ and will become an integral part of the history of Portugal's most literary village. Alongside Vergílio Ferreira... forever!
LOCATION: RUA LÍDIA JORGE (FORMER RUA DE SÃO CAETANO)
- ‘In the name of the land: the time of writing’ - Training course
Training in the form of a Training Course - Colloquia; congresses; symposia; conferences or similar initiatives
Dates: 4 and 5 October 2024
Target audience: Kindergarten teachers, primary and secondary school teachers and special education teachers
Duration: 15 hours in person
Information and Registration - until 24:00 on 30 September 2024: http://www.cfae-guarda1.pt/
VENUES: VERGÍLIO FERREIRA MUNICIPAL LIBRARY / ALDEIA DE MELO / GOUVEIA
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