For four days, Festival Silêncio is back to take over the streets and the commercial and cultural spaces of ​​Cais do Sodré area (and along Rua de S. Paulo) with more than a hundred multidisciplinary activities like music, performances, conferences, debates, films and visual arts. Festival Silêncio aims to celebrate the Word – spoken, written, designed, staged, sung, filmed and illustrated.

Rua das Gaivotas 6 will be hosting part of this year’s program.

FESTIVAL SILÊNCIO
AT RUA DAS GAIVOTAS 6

PROGRAMME 

ANA

JULY 2 | 15PM | [DUR: 40MIN]

Rua das Gaivotas 6 hosts Ana in the context of this year’s edition of Festival do Silêncio. This performance is based on personal items that Ana Hatherly offered Susana Mendes Silva. These items are not just “things” – they are vehicles that establish unlikely connections around Hetherly’s work and fascinating and mysterious personality.

ACTO DE ESCREVER

JULY 2 | 5.45PM | DURATION: 40MIN

Performed by André Gomes, Acto de Escrever has its origins in the written work of Ana Hatherly.

COMPOTA FRONTEIRAS

JULY 2 | 9PM | [DUR: 90MIN]

Sentidos Ilimitados, through the Compota project, invited artists and creators registered in the OPEN CALL 2016 to attend a hearing/thematic performance open to the public, within this year’s edition of Festival Silêncio. Candidates participated with an informal “scene”/”set” (max. 3 minutes long) focused on the word BORDERS. The result will now be presented to the public at Rua das Gaivotas 6.

/ Compota project

The Compota project is a multidisciplinary improvisation project which has as main objectives the continuous intersection of different artistic disciplines, the collaborative work and the multi-sensory stimulation of all its all participants.

/ Sentidos Ilimitados Association

The Sentidos Ilimitados association designs, produces and promotes initiatives to stimulate creativity and personal development. It is a non-profit association and it has been active for eight years within the Portuguese cultural sector. Its artistic director is Paula Pinto, former prima ballerina of the now extinct Ballet Gulbenkian, and aims to value the individual through artistic expression, stimulating creativity and personal development.

BRUTA

JULY 3 | 8PM | [DUR: 60MIN]

Bruta is a project that results from the collaborative effort between Ana Deus (Osso Vaidoso and Três Tristes Tigres) and Nicolas Tricot . Bruta was born from the fascination of Ana Deus for Ângelo Lima, a poet from Porto who spent his last years in Miguel Bombarda psychiatric hospital with paranoid schizophrenia. The album, released last year and a collaboration between Festival Silêncio and Mia Soave, is a journey through ten written works by poets admitted to psychiatric hospitals. Among the chosen ones are Ângelo de Lima, Stela do Patrocínio, António Gancho, Mário de Sá Carneiro, Sylvia Plath, António Joaquim Lança and António Maria Lisboa.