Maria Lamas and her work, Natália Correia and the 49th anniversary of the 25th of April in the 3rd Edition “Abril no Feminino”

April for Women 5th to 27th April 2023 Coimbra

From cloves to the breast, with a hint of rosemary!

The 3rd Edition of “April no Feminino” will take place between the 5th and 27th of April, in the city of Coimbra, in 5 emblematic spaces: Convent of São Francisco, Major Seminary of Coimbra, Casa da Escrita, National Museum of Machado de Castro and the Science Museum of the University of Coimbra.

The event will continue to promote a plural and inclusive program focused essentially on women, through Theatre, Cinema, Art, Literature, Poetry, Photography, and Gastronomy.

According to Margarida Mendes Silva, producer, and author of the project, “today’s time, for many women, in this violent and troubled world, is still one of “open-air seclusion”. as this edition recalls. But there is still much to be done. Let’s not leave the future aside.”

HIGHLIGHTS 3RD EDITION

In a total of 9 activities to run through April, the highlights are the evocation of Maria Lamas and her work, “As Mulheres do meu País”; the centenary of Natália Correia, and the 49th anniversary of the 25th of April.

The work of Maria Lamas, a leading figure in political activism, will be revisited, seventy-five years after its publication, by writer and journalist Susana Moreira Marques and filmmaker Marta Pessoa.

On the centenary of Natália Correia, the scheduled session will recall her outstanding and unique personality in contemporary Portuguese society, through the recital conducted by actresses Helena Faria and Teresa Faria.

The 49th anniversary of the 25th of April will be the reason to give voice to the women who fought for freedom in times of dictatorship, with Joana Brandão.

The installation “As Penélopes”, by the Bairro dos Livros team, photographs by Bárbara Marques, a conversation with Olga Cavaleiro, and a lecture by Pedro Miguel Ferrão, complete the program.

Exhibition
Does a cabbage have beauty? by Barbara Marque
From April 5th to May 28th
Machado de Castro National Museum

.Inauguration at 6 pm
.Free entry

Bárbara Marques discovered the brave new world of vegetables. Through photographic art, she wanted to enhance its beauty and enhance the importance of the place of vegetables in our lives, beyond food. A way of praising mother nature’s products, which come to us from the hand of farmers, but also of promoting the importance of careful and healthy food in an accessible language.

“After all, what are vegetables to us? Are they just fiber-rich foods, essential for digestion and providing us with vitamins and minerals? Or beings nourished by unique and singular colors and shapes with their own space in our daily lives?”, asks the photographer. The images she presents to us offer the answer, through her thoughts and her gaze.

Educational Service/Lecture
From the life of vegetables.
A still-life story with Pedro Miguel Ferrão
April 13th at 5 pm
Machado de Castro National Museum

.Repeat on April 16th at 11 am
.Free entry subject to room capacity
.Prior registration required

Considered a minor genre by the 19th-century painting academy. In the 17th century – curiously at the same time as it reached its greatest splendor – still, life sometimes reached a complex and multifaceted dimension. This type of painting deals with very diverse themes, choosing objects produced by human ingenuity, combined or not with inanimate models of the animal, mineral, and vegetable world – from this last group the motifs that reproduce flowers, fruits, and vegetables stand out. This communication was thought in articulation with the photography exhibition of Bárbara Marques.

Painting
Giuseppe Arcimboldo, Portrait with Vegetables. The Vegetable Seller, 1587
Civic Museum Ala Ponzone
two versions

Conversation
Black scarves, straw hats, and gold earrings by Susana Moreira Marques
April 14th at 6:30 pm
Major Seminary of Coimbra

.Moderation by João Gobern
.Free entry subject to room capacity

Black Scarves, Straw Hats, and Gold Earrings are multiple books: A travel report based on As Mulheres do meu País, written in the late 1940s by Maria Lamas, a leading figure of political activism in Portugal.
An essay about the texts that women didn’t write and the lives they didn’t live could have changed the vision of History.
The autobiographical narrative of a writer who tries to find and unveil her own story in the stories of anonymous women who populate our imagination.
Susana Moreira Marques travels through the noisy villages of the past and the museum villages of the present; she passes by modern hotels where the progress of having a room of her own has already arrived; she meets women who still live in the silence of yesteryear; she seeks to record old memories and ask questions that are useful today: she begins to design the women of the country of the future.

3 images – Porto Estação. Credits Maria Lamas
Susana Moreira Marques photo credits: Fondation Jan Michalski © Wiktoria Bosc

Movie theater
A name for what I am by Marta Pessoa
April 15th at 3 pm
Major Seminary of Coimbra

.At the end of the session, talk to the audience in the presence of the director and the author of the text, and narrator
.Free entry subject to room capacity

Marta Pessoa

Entre 1947 e 1949, a escritora Maria Lamas percorreu o país para dar a conhecer a realidade em que viviam as mulheres portuguesas. O resultado deste périplo foi o livro “As Mulheres do Meu País”. Passados mais de 70 anos, a realizadora Marta Pessoa e a escritora Susana Moreira Marques procuram compreender que livro é este e o que nos pode dizer hoje. “Um nome para o que sou” é um filme sobre um livro e sobre o movimento que ele opera em nós quando o lemos.

Susana Moreira Marques

Maria Lamas

Conversation
The Tale of the Cabbage, Threads of Light and Shadow with Olga Cavaleiro
April 20th at 6 pm
Machado de Castro National Museum

.Free entry subject to room capacity

Pelas viagens que realiza, Olga Cavaleiro descobriu um Portugal Gastronómico pleno de pronúncias alimentares onde a mesa tem as marcas da geografia e é ponto de chegada de uma história da fome e da abundância. Fascinada pelas diferenças das cozinhas regionais, vai ao encontro das singularidades que constroem linhas invisíveis que atravessam o território do nosso Portugal.
A criatividade e a inovação na cozinha apresentam-se como momentos naturais na longa aventura alimentar das comunidades. Investigar dá-nos as respostas e ajuda-nos a preparar o futuro.
Uma conversa, uma viagem e, no fim do destino, um conto que se come e se saboreia.

Olga Cavaleiro

Installation/Conversation
The Penelopes
From April 21st to May 28th
science museum

.Start at 6pm
.Free entry

The book As Penélopes brings together original literary texts by a group of twelve authors challenged to write from the figure of Penélope and the heritage of the fishing community of Póvoa de Varzim, to pay homage to the Feminine. The collaborative art project of Bairro dos Livros establishes a dialogue between Literature and the art of Embroidery, in a contemporary installation created with Póvoa’s sweaters that interpret the various stories published in this edition. The embroidery used in the installation As Penélopes, executed by knitters from the Group of Friends of the Museum of Ethnography and History of Póvoa do Varzim, combines the traditional symbols of the typical pattern of Póvoa de Varzim with images taken from the original texts written for this work.
The project earned the European Heritage Days international distinction, having been selected in 2022 as one of the twenty best European stories.

Bairro dos Livros

Recital
Natália, Courageous Woman with Helena and Teresa Faria
April 22nd at 6 pm
House of Writing

.Free entry subject to room capacity

“My real-life heroes are those who defy the law in the name of an ideal.”

Natália Correia por José António Correia

In the centenary year, the event remembers Natália Correia. A unique personality in contemporary history, she stood out in Portuguese society for her intelligence, creative brilliance, and combative attitude. Fearless, indomitable, dramatic, restless (and disturbing!), seductive, courageous, subversive. It was evident in literature, poetry, and political action. In this recital, through the voices of actresses Helena Faria and Teresa Faria, her words, her prose, and her poetry will be staged. Thirty years after her disappearance, the memory of Natália Correia, for whom death “is just invisibility”. Long live Natália!

Teresa e Helena Faria

Theater
“Courage Today, Hugs Tomorrow” with Joana Brandã
April 27th at 6 pm
Black Box – San Francisco Convent

.Tickets are on sale at Bol.pt and at the Convento São Francisco ticket office.
.Single price: €10.00

“Courage Today, Hugs Tomorrow” is based on real testimonies, letters and memories of women who were imprisoned by the PIDE during the Estado Novo period, exposing the personal side of the inhuman experiences experienced by those women. So that the memory remains.

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