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I Meeting of Lusophone Writers

Casa-das-Artes/Palácio da Brejoeira (House-of-the Arts/ Brejoeira Palace) and the Arte Institute have the pleasure to present the I Meeting of Lusophone Writers, from 29 to 31 July, at Palácio da Brejoeira.

Novelists, musicians, poets, actors, directors, researchers, creators... people from different cultural and artistic clusters will reflect upon the Lusophone reality; upon new technologies and their relationship with literature and the Arts, as well as upon the alter mundi movements (environmentalism, entrepreneurship, antiwar, feminism, etc.), and the situation of the Arts in the contemporary world.

This project relies on the attendance of European, African and American noteworthy writers who express themselves through the Portuguese language.

Portugal, Galiza, Brazil, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, Cape Verde, São Tomé and Timor-Leste will be the dominions of our human and literary experience, while we aim at thinking about Lusophony in the anthropological sense of the word. This approach seems to be fundamental for the purpose of engendering rapprochement policies among the Portuguese speaking people and the all the peoples of the world, in light of the Lusophone countries' relatively narrow endeavour in exploring their rich linguistic and cultural differences.

The purpose of this Meeting is to have a celebration of culture, music and literature, through the gathering of writers and visual artists at the lunch of literary pieces, presentation of artistic projects, poetry recitals, screening of movies about writers and several interventions of Performative Art, as well as hiking and a pic-nic. These activities will give the public the opportunity to connect closely with the participants of this Meeting.

This initiative is supported by CPLP (Community of Portuguese Speaking Countries).