FeLiCidade Festival promotes accessibility in a language festival for all audiences
CCB | May 4th and 5th | Saturday and Sunday | 10h00-1h00 | multiple spaces | free entry
The Belém Cultural Center continues its mission of making programming more accessible to all audiences at FeLiCidade – Festival of Language and Freedom in the City, which takes place next weekend, May 4th and 5th, between 10.00 and 01.00.
“The Forbidden Language: The Impact of the Dictatorship and the 25th of April on Portuguese Sign Language and the Deaf Community” will be the topic of the conversation that will take place on the 5th, at 6 pm, with LGP specialists Helena Carmo and Paulo Vaz de Carvalho, moderated by journalist Cláudia Galhós. Thus, the third language recognized by our Constitution gains space for reflection in a conversation with Portuguese Sign Language to celebrate the plurality of our people.
With a varied program consisting of concerts, classes, conversations, staged readings, films, spoken word sessions, workshops, storytellers and a market, the initiative will occupy several rooms and the two CCB auditoriums, in addition to the Pedestrian Path, the Praça CCB, Jardim das Oliveiras and Fábrica das Artes, with accessibility to all of them guaranteed. Some sessions will feature translation into Portuguese Sign Language and at Praça CCB, audiences with reduced mobility will be able to enjoy the concerts scheduled for both days from an area marked for this purpose.
The accessibility map available on the CCB website as well as on the FeLiCidade website and APP (available for Android, iOS and Windows Phone) indicates the route of the 11 parking spaces reserved for vehicles with reduced mobility (4 in Park 1, 4 in Park 2 and 3 in the outdoor space in front of the main entrance of the building) to the 18 places where the Festival activities take place, as well as the main restaurant spaces (Único, Sauvage, Este Oeste and Almedina cafeteria) and also the CCB Ticket Office, to the MAC/CCB Museum of Contemporary Art, the Garagem Sul, all the toilets with reduced mobility and the ATM terminals. The map allows access to each of the spaces, indicating circulation between them and how to return to the parking lots.
With free entry, the FeLiCidade Festival is based on dialogue between countries that use the Portuguese language, exploring its different dispositions, its deconstruction and its possibilities, in literature, music, and cinema, on stage. Dozens of speakers and listeners from all geographies help us to reflect on a relationship spanning hundreds of years, to discuss the plurality of roots and identities, without erasing the complexity, violence and exclusion of History.
With artistic direction by Aida Tavares, the curatorial team consists of Anabela Mota Ribeiro, André e. Teodósio, Gonçalo Riscado, Nádia Yracema, Sara Carinhas, Tiago Bartolomeu Costa and Madalena Wallenstein, with the programming developed by: CTL/Musicbox – Gonçalo Riscado, Pedro Azevedo, Inês Henriques, with BANTUMEN – Eddie Pipocas, Vanessa Sanches, Rainner Brito & VALSA – Marina Ginde, Nika Serafim (music); Anabela Mota Ribeiro and André e. Theodosius (lectures, lessons, glossaries, performance); Aoaní Salvaterra, Carolina Parreira, Cláudia Jardim, Cláudia Semedo, Jota Mombaça, Keli Freitas, Nádia Yracema, Nuna, Raquel Lima, Sara Carinhas, Selma Uamusse, Tita Maravilha (staged readings) and Tiago Bartolomeu Costa (cinema).
The FeLiCidade Festival is consulted by Acess Lab, a Portuguese company that works on access for people with disabilities and Deaf people to culture and entertainment as a fundamental human right.