From June 15 to 18 – 2023
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Alvaiázere
Sessões com o autor Maurício Vieira e com o autor Wagner Merije
Palestra por António Pedro Pita “Urbano Tavares Rodrigues: Escreviver”. Performance de poesia “Floresta Vermelha” com Marina Kazakova e Sara Maino
Encontro com o autor José Vaz
Góis
Os alunos do Jardim de Infância, dos 1⁰, 2⁰, 3⁰ e 4⁰ anos da Escola Básica de Góis e do Centro Social Rocha Barros receberam o Mestre José Vaz, que dinamizou “Conversas para Miúdos”, no âmbito do Festival Internacional do Interior “Palavras de Fogo”, uma organização da Arte-Via Cooperativa.
A Capela da Casa da Costeira, em Vila Nova do Ceira, foi o cenário para a apresentação do livro “O Interior é fonte de vida – Distrito da Guarda”, de Álvaro Amaro, antecedido por um momento musical protagonizado por Gonçalo Barata.
Com este livro Álvaro Amaro reforça a importância da promoção de estratégias claras de apoio ao “interior” de modo a contrariar as tendências demográficas e sociais a médio e longo prazo.
O Auditório da Casa da Cultura foi o palco do Concerto Acústico “Mantas de Retalhos”, de Ana Leão, com o músico Miguel Duarte e convidados: Rancho Folclórico Serra do Ceira (de Colmeal, Góis) e da flautista Ana Catarina Lopes.
No Jardim do Castelo, espaço aprazível da Vila de Góis, fomos ao encontro de Marina Kazacova e Sara Maino, com uma Performance de Poesia.
Seguiu-se um fim de tarde dedicado a Natália Correia, protagonista da preleção do Professor Doutor Seabra Pereira, Universidade de Coimbra, moderada por José Machado Lopes sobre “Os meus mestres foram todos os homens e mulheres que me deslumbraram em leitura e não só: em exemplos de Vida”, da autoria de Natália Correia.
Uma tarde agradável com muita animação, poesia e momentos musicais tendo como destaque as paisagens da serra de Góis.
Villa Isaura / Museu da Republica em Troviscais.
Com a presença de Ana Filomena Amaral, da Direcção da Arte-Via da Lousã, e do Prof. António Apolinário Lourenço, da Universidade do Coimbra.
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The Arte-Via Cooperative, based in Lousã, Portugal and its founder the Portuguese writer Ana Filomena Amaral, launches the 6th edition of the International Literary Festival of the Interior (FLII) – Words of Fire, in honour of the victims of forest fires, under the slogan of “Art and culture as resuscitators of a region and a people”.
This festival is sponsored by His Excellency the President of the Republic.
Associated partners are the Regional Centre of Coordination and Development Commission (CCDRC), the Centro Cultural Regional Delegation, the University of Coimbra, the Directorate-General for Books, Archives and Libraries (DGLAB), the Libraries Network School (RBE) and the National Reading Plan (PNL).
This is an intermunicipal event, hence its innovative character, which will take place in eleven counties in the region affected by the fires, with the aim of taking books and writers to the most unusual and unpredictable places, such as factories, fields, beaches, churches. markets, places where people work and live.
In other words, the books go out to the public because they, too, miss them.
This edition is dedicated to the centenaries of Eduardo Lourenço, Eugénio de Andrade, Mário Cesariny, Natália Correia e Urbano Tavares Rodrigues, with the theme “Thought, words, poetry, Tongue of fire in the immense mouth of this anguish” And because this is a festival of causes, we intend to address important issues for the future of the world, right from the start the environmental emergency.
This festival brings together municipalities and institutions from the counties of Alvaiázere, Ansião, Castanheira de Pera, Miranda do Corvo, Lousã, Pampilhosa da Serra, Arganil, Tábua, Condeixa-a-Nova, Pedrógão Grande, Penela.
Municipal libraries and school library networks are crucial in the organization of Words of Fire.
From June 15 to 18, in eleven municipalities in the districts of Coimbra and Leiria, FLII – Words of Fire., intends to involve all development agents, from all participating counties and all local talents, in all activities to be carried out simultaneously: training actions, competitions, lectures, workshops, readings, book fairs, shows, multimedia, performances, installations, exhibitions, for and with all audiences of all age groups.
The concept underlying this festival is that of synergistic realization, catalysing the resources of the municipalities and other institutions that are part of the consortium, making the most of and leveraging the best that each has, in a joint effort to overcome adversity. And in the name of the regenerating word, where there are people, there will be books.
They will be in the most unexpected places, at the hands of whoever wants to read them, Portuguese and foreign writers will go to the most surprising places, the books and the words will make the color revive again through the blackness.
During the month of June there will again be a literary residency, whose guests will visit the councils of the consortium.
For this year, the festival already has the partnership of several international counterparts: Fraktura (Croatia), FLIPoços (Brazil), Galway Literary Festival (Ireland), Vilenica International Literary Festival (Slovenia), and Poetry Festival Chepén Chepén (Peru), Jaipur Literature Festival, among others.
The founder and director of FLII – Words of Fire
Ana Filomena Amaral/Writer