A documentary showcase, a piano recital, concerts, talks and exhibitions are some of the activities the Consulate General of Portugal in Macau, together with the Portuguese Oriental Institute and other local associations, has prepared to celebrate Portugal’s National Day, on June 10.
From June 6 to 21, different venues will hold a series of activities, aiming to present some of the best contemporary art Portugal has to offer.
“It´s a significant showcase of some of the major contemporary artistic expressions from Portugal,” says an official statement by the newly-arrived Portuguese consul-general, Vítor Sereno. “Quality was the tone defined by all the participants, so we could give to these celebrations a modern and dynamic image of our country.”
Portuguese Oriental Institute director, João Laurentino Neves, is the man responsible for bringing an extension of the DocLisboa International Film festival to Macau this year. This is the first time the festival has travelled here. Neves believes that only with top quality artists and art works will it be possible to “establish a dialogue between the Portuguese contemporaneity and Macau contemporaneity”, in terms of artistic expressions and cultural landscapes.
This year there will be a documentary showcase, but for 2014 Neves wants to create a documentary film festival in Macau, “a festival to bring to the people their anxieties, daily life worries, and which can also project the future, giving a contribution to the dialogue, to the multicultural relations existing in Macau”.
A concert by musician Luís Represas (June 7, Sands Theatre), an exhibition by Madalena Fonseca, and talks with writer Francisco José Viegas (June 11 and 12, both in Portuguese and English) are some of the other events scheduled.
Sequeira e Costa Piano Recital
June 15, 8pm I Macau Cultural Centre I MOP 100-150
Sequeira e Costa is coming to Macau for a two-hour concert at the Macau Cultural Centre where he will play pieces from masters such as Bach, Beethoven, Chopin, Vianna da Motta and Áureo de Castro. Sequeira e Costa is probably the most notable contemporary Portuguese pianist. Throughout his career, he has performed at the greatest halls around the world, including the Salle Gaveau and the Salle Pleyel in Paris, the Great Hall of the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow, Leningrad’s Philharmonic Hall, the Musikverein of Vienna, Tokyo’s Suntory Hall, New York’s Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. and the famous halls of London, among many others. He has worked with such orchestras as the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the London Symphony, all BBC Orchestras, the Prague Symphony, the Moscow Philharmonic, the Bamberg Symphony, the Tokyo Metropolitan, the Japan Philharmonic, the Sydney Symphony, and the Czech Philharmonic.
DocLisboa film screenings June 13 to 21, 6.15pm
Portuguese Oriental Institute and Casa Garden
Free Entry
DocLisboa International Film Festival is one of the major film showcases in Portugal. Amongst festivals devoted to documentaries, it has an important place in Europe’s cinema landscape. This is the first time DocLisboa has held an extension in Macau. The Portuguese Oriental Institute wants to make it an annual event and possibly create a local festival joining Portuguese-speaking and Chinese documentary productions. This time, they will showcase the winners and the most relevant documentaries from the festival’s 2012 Portuguese competition. All films will be subtitled.
JUNE 13
“Walking at Dawn” I Sílvia Firmino
at The Portuguese Oriental Institute
JUNE14 “Reconversão” I Thom Anderssen
“Backyard Stories” I Tiago Afonso
JUNE 15
“The Taste of Crème Brulée” I Hiroatsu Suzuki e Rossana Torres
JUNE20
“The Bread the Devil Knead” I José Vieira
JUNE 21
“Deported” I Nathalie Mansoux
JUNE22
“Captivity” I André Gil Mata
“Our Home” I João Rodrigues
