We’re counting down to welcoming another month, so in the meantime the program for the usual April Festivities, celebrating Freedom and much more, has been released.
In a press release from Empresa de Gestão de Equipamentos e Animação Cultural (EGEAC), you can see that the cultural program promises to be intense and multifaceted.
To celebrate freedom, the April Festivities offer exhibitions, concerts, theater, dance, workshops, a political festival and much more throughout the month. Shall we take a look at the program?
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Celebrating and remembering Carlos Paredes
As part of the centenary of the birth of Carlos Paredes, one of the great moments of the April Festivities will be a tribute to the master of the Portuguese guitar.
The concert “Variações sobre Paredes” (Variations on Paredes ) is scheduled for April 27 at 7pm in Lisbon’s Praça do Município.
Aljube Museum
This is one of the (almost) obligatory stops during the April Festivities, with a busy agenda:
- “Architects of Freedom” exhibition, open until the end of the month
- Exhibition “Before Independence Was Struggle & Liberation”, open until the end of the year
- Talk “Anonymous of April”, by Rogério Charraz and José Fialho Gouveia with the participation of João Afonso and Joana Alegre
- Documentaries “Women and Resistance” and “Those who stayed (everywhere in the world)”
- Free visit to the Aljube Museum on April 25, a national holiday, among other activities.
Politics Festival
Between April 24 and 26, the Politics Festival ‘invades’ Cinema São Jorge with performances, talks, exhibitions, humor and more… all centered on the 50th anniversary of the Revolutionary Process in Progress (PREC).
Other April Festivities activities
We would also like to take this opportunity to mention other activities, such as:
- Workshops for the youngest at the Bordalo Pinheiro Museum
- Dance show “Cooperativa”, from April 24 to 27, at Teatro do Bairro
- A photographic exhibition by Kenton Thatcher, who has lived in Portugal for 30 years, at the Sociedade Nacional de Belas Artes, from March 29 to April 26, among others.
Most of these activities are free, but if you want to know the full program of the April Festivities, you can check the EGEACwebsite.