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Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation | City of London Festival celebrates Portuguese culture
Friday in the Guildhall Yard (2 July). Finally,
Brazil’s leading contemporary choreographer
Deborah Colker presents her new work Cruel at
the Barbican (29 June to 3 July).
The Festival’s Family Day: A Day of Discoveries
on Hampstead Heath on 27 June offers a funfilled
afternoon for all ages. Lisbon-based
musician and programmer Firmino Pascoal
introduces the best new bands from around the
Lusophone world including Tonecas (São Tomé),
Sons da Gente (Portugal) and Lindu Mona
(Angola). Also on the bandstand will be Alô
Irmão, uniting the solo talents of one of Guinea
Bissau’s most famous musician Manecas Costa
and award-winning Galician singer Fran Pérez.
Activities throughout the afternoon include Nu
Urban Gardeners, Willow Sculpture, capoeira
workshops and a traditional Portuguese dance
performance.
The Portuguese-speaking world is also
represented in this year’s series of spoken word
events and lectures. A portrait of Portugal’s
greatest poet Fernando Pessoa features Inês
Pedrosa, Director of Fernando Pessoa House in
Lisbon, Dr Seabra Pereira from Coimbra
University, Simon Jenner from Perdika Press and
Richard Zenith, the celebrated Penguin translator
of Pessoa’s poetry (22 June). A screening of
Mariza and the story of fado (7 July) marks the
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation’s new
publication of Saudade,
the first ever anthology
of Fado poetry in English. A recital by The
Contemporary Lusophone Poets (8 July) features
Corsino Fortes (Cape Verde), Ana Paula Tavares
(Angola) and Valter Hugo Mãe (Portugal). Owen
Rees’ lecture Adventures of Portuguese 'Ancient
Music' in Eighteenth Century London (25 June)
reveals how the music of a Portuguese composer
- Duarte Lobo - made its way into London’s
cultural life. Professor Thomas Earle, the King
John II Professor of Portuguese Studies at the
University of Oxford, speaks on Portugal and
England 1386-2010: a complex web of political,
economic and intellectual relations (2 July).
The Barbican has programmed a series of films
Music in Portuguese Cinema which includes
screenings of Fado, Story of a Singer (Fado,
História d’uma Cantadeira) , My Voice (Nha Fala) ,
Perpetual Movements: A Cine – Tribute to Carlos
Paredes (Movimentos Perpétuos – Homenagem a
Carlos Paredes) and The Cannibals (Os
Canibais) . (From 25 June).
Listings information for all events follows.
BNY Mellon is the lead sponsor of this year’s City
of London Festival.
http://www.gulbenkian.org.uk/news/press-releases/2010/colf-2010-portuguese-culture
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