10th Descampado Meeting in Coimbra
The ‘Cultural Policies for the Future’ initiative, part of the 10th Descampado Meeting, will take place on 30 January at 2 p.m. in the CCDR Centro auditorium in Coimbra.
We believe that art transforms life. The transformative effect that art can have on people and on society creates the hope that each one of us has the individual power to effect change. We strive to nurture this hope. In 2006, we formed a cultural association that is guided by artistic creation, cultural programming, training, and collaboration with local organisations in the form of community projects.
We are located in the Alentejo town of Montemor-o-Novo, in Portugal. We endeavour to intervene in outlying areas of major programming routes, promoting access to culture and the arts, thus increasing social accessibility..
We help promote the performing arts focusing on theatre, more specifically puppet theatre. Since 2008, we have hosted and produced the International Puppet Festival. In parallel, and every year, we début one or two of our own productions. The cultural projects, primarily by engaging with the school and senior’s community, are the ultimate pillar of our public intervention.
To enhance the heritage of the traditional and modern puppet and promote a culture with a shared language that ties tradition and modernity together. And to help empower people and the society they are a part of, fostering values of equality, justice, freedom, full citizenship, humanism and peace.
The ‘Cultural Policies for the Future’ initiative, part of the 10th Descampado Meeting, will take place on 30 January at 2 p.m. in the CCDR Centro auditorium in Coimbra.
On the 30th anniversary of the German dramaturg’s death, we decided to create a show-visit-blitzkrieg to the universe of Heiner Müller. Fragments of his poetry and theatre will enliven bodies, spaces, objects, masks and even puppets. Aristocrats and dictators, soldiers, lovers, the living and the dead will engage in a dialogue with major figures from European mythology and culture in a East-West tension that H.M. knew so well how to synthesise. Vidro Pantera is a show made up of shards, of pieces of text, and on this jagged and kaleidoscopic journey we end up discovering a Müller who is both author and actor in the dramas he wrote and lived.
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