Arte Institute

NY Portuguese Short Film Festival 2023 | Luanda
2023-12-05 18:00 - 20:00, 2023-12-05 15:00 - 17:00 UTC | Camões – Centro Cultural Português, Avenida de Portugal 50, Luanda, Angola
The NY Portuguese Short Film Festival, produced by the Arte Institute, was the first Portuguese short film festival in the United States. It showcases the most recent short film productions by Portuguese directors and writers, including fiction, animation and documentary. The festival has been a unique and unprecedented showcase for the Portugal brand, for contemporary Portuguese cinema, and has opened doors for new national directors. In the 12 previous editions, we have reached all the continents, 24 countries and 53 cities.
2023 Official Selection:
• ‘Ana Morphose’, by João Rodrigues
• ‘Mudflats’, by Luis Campos
• ‘Borderline’, by Leonor Oliveira
• ‘Kafka’s Doll’, by Bruno Simões
• ‘They Call It… Red Cemetery!’, by Francisco Lacerda
• ‘Chicago’, by João Pombeiro
• ‘Extinctions’, by Monica De Almeida
• ‘A Lisbon Affair’, by Hoji Fortuna
• ‘Nata of this life’, by Claúdia Gomes and Ricardo Soares
• ‘Rua do Caneiro’, by Leonor Henriques
For more information about the Festival, please visit nypsff.arteinstitute.org
Organization: Arte Institute
Support: RHI | Camões – Instituto da Cooperação e da Língua
Patrons – Arte Institute: Camões – Instituto da Cooperação e da Língua | Fundação Luso-Americana – Para o Desenvolvimento | Caixa Geral de Depósitos | Câmara Municipal de Cascais
Partner – Arte Institute: Pestana Hotel Group

Festa Literária Internacional de Niterói 2023
2023-12-01 13:00 - 2023-12-03 22:00 | Reserva Cultural, Avenida Visconde do Rio Branco 880, Niterói, Brazil
It’s time for Niterói to have a literary festival to call its own! Scheduled for December 1st, 2nd and 3rd, FLIN (Festa Literária Internacional de Niterói) opens a new chapter in the city’s literary circuit. Organized by the Prefeitura, through the Fundação de Arte de Niterói (FAN), the first edition of FLIN will have Martinho da Vila as the main honoree, as well as making room for renowned local writers and artists and international guests. The program for the event, which will take place at the Reserva Cultural and Sala Nelson Pereira do Santos, will include lots of literature, music, theater and cinema, on Friday from 1pm to 10pm, and Saturday and Sunday from 10.00 AM to 10.00 PM. The official opening takes place on Friday at 6.00 PM.
With the theme “Every way of reading is worthwhile” and celebrating the written word and cultural diversity, FLIN is here to reaffirm Niterói’s commitment to promoting literature and its cross-cutting aspects. The event, which also commemorates the city’s 450th anniversary, promises to strengthen Niterói’s reading market, including making stands available to all the city’s publishers who signed up to the public call process and including more than 70% of the local artists who took part in the mapping of authors carried out by FAN.
The program, divided into two stages, includes debates on the history of hip hop, ancestral knowledge, writing experiences, the history of Niterói, the literary relationship between Brazil and Portugal, oral literature, the academy of letters, biographies, comics and much more. In addition to discussions with local and national authors, FLIN has a variety of attractions ranging from presentations for children, plays and open-air cinema, as well as a large gathering of saraus.
For more information about the event´s program visit culturaniteroi.com.br/blog/cultura/5999
Organization: Prefeitura Municipal de Niterói | Fundação de Arte de Niterói | Cultura é um Direito
Support: Arte Institute
Patrons – Arte Institute: Camões – Instituto da Cooperação e da Língua | Fundação Luso-Americana – Para o Desenvolvimento | Caixa Geral de Depósitos | Câmara Municipal de Cascais
Partner – Arte Institute: Pestana Hotel Group

O Gajo Concert | Rio de Janeiro
2023-11-23 21:00 - 22:30 | Clube Manouche, Rua Jardim Botânico, 983 - Jardim Botânico, Rio de Janeiro, 22470-051, Brazil
O Gajo was born in Lisbon in the spring of 2016 at the hands of João Morais with the aim of linking his music to the land of his birth, Portugal. This is how the relationship with the Viola Campaniça came about, a traditional instrument that is part of Portugal’s centuries-old cultural history. Also known as Viola Alentejana, the Viola Campaniça was the musical instrument used to accompany the famous ‘cantares à desgarrada’, or ‘cantes a despique’, at Alentejo festivals and fairs. It is the largest of the Portuguese violas and has five orders of strings, traditionally played with the thumb.
João Morais has been a musician since 1988 and after almost 30 years of playing guitars from abroad, it was at a concert in Beja that he got to know the Viola Campaniça. The one he brings to Lisbon takes on new tones, moving away from the more traditional language but keeping its Portugueseness intact.
O Gajo’s compositions may sound like fado, but they are not fado, they may sound like traditional music, but they are not traditional music, they are a hybrid of all this and much more. O Gajo plays music from the world and for the world!
Get your ticket .
Organization: Arte Institute
Patrons – Arte Institute: Camões – Instituto da Cooperação e da Língua | Fundação Luso-Americana – Para o Desenvolvimento | Caixa Geral de Depósitos | Câmara Municipal de Cascais
Partner – Arte Institute: Pestana Hotel Group

‘Murmúrios de Pedro e Inês’ by Dança em Diálogos | Niterói
2023-11-19 18:00 - 20:00, 2023-11-18 18:00 - 20:00, 2023-11-17 20:00 - 22:00 | Theatro Municipal de Niterói, Rua Quinze de Novembro, 35, Rio de Janeiro, Niterói, 24020-125, Brazil
After its world premier in April of 2018 in Braga, the ballet ‘Murmúrios de Pedro e Inês’ arrives to Niterói, for a performance in collaboration between Dança em Diálogos and Companhia de Ballet da Cidade de Niterói, supported by the Arte Institute. The ballet was awarded with the ‘Anna Mascolo’ Dance Award attributed by the Mirpuri Foundation.
Artistic Director: Solange Melo and Fernando Duarte
Choreography: Fernando Duarte
Music: Bernardo Sassetti and Fernando Lopes-Graça
Text: Afonso Cruz
Voice-over: Solange Melo and Fernando Duarte
Costumes: José António Tenente
Light design:VP
Performance: Eloise Hazlewood and Joshua Feist
Production and rehearsal support: Maria Santos
Organization: Companhia de Ballet da Cidade de Niterói
Support: Arte Institute | RHI | Pestana Hotel Group
Patrons – Arte Institute: Camões – Instituto da Cooperação e da Língua | Fundação Luso-Americana – Para o Desenvolvimento | Caixa Geral de Depósitos | Câmara Municipal de Cascais
Partner – Arte Institute: Pestana Hotel Group

Dois a Dois Concert | Leiria
2023-11-17 21:30 - 23:00 | Centro de Diálogo Intercultural de Leiria, Rua Miguel Bombarda 15, Leiria, 2400-190, Portugal
The Dois a Dois concert in Leria is the fruitful outcome of a collaboration between the Câmara Municipal de Leiria, Arte Institute and RHI forming an integral part of the ‘XXVII Congresso Internacional de Antropologia Ibero-Americana: Etnografia, Cultura e Património’ program.
Dois a Dois is a show by the trio composed by Maria Clara Valle (cello), Diego Zangado (drums and percussion) and Luísa Lacerda (voice and guitar). The artists present a repertoire in which rhythms stand out and cadences representative of the great diversity of Brazilian popular music: modinhas, frevos, cocos, choros-canção, boi, among others. In their repertoire, the trio performs, in addition to their own compositions, works by different authors, highlighting a new crop of current composers, exploring the sonorities of the instruments, mixing popular and classical, sung and instrumental music, launching into an adventure of recreation and daring.
Organization: Câmara Municipal de Leiria | Leiria Cidade Criativa da Música | Leiria Cultura
Support: Arte Institute | RHI | Funarte | Ibermúsicas
Patrons – Arte Institute: Camões – Instituto da Cooperação e da Língua | Fundação Luso-Americana – Para o Desenvolvimento | Caixa Geral de Depósitos | Câmara Municipal de Cascais
Partner – Arte Institute: Pestana Hotel Group

Best of CPLP Festival | Newark
2023-11-15 13:00 - 14:20 | Rutgers University, 195 University Ave, Newark, NJ, United States
Explore some of the most remarkable short film productions from the 4 editions of the CPLP Festival, taking place on November 15th at Rutgers University Newark. The CPLP Festival showcases and promotes cinema from the Community of Portuguese Language Countries (CPLP), including Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, Guinea Bissau, Equatorial Guinea, Mozambique, Portugal, São Tomé and Príncipe, and East Timor.

Don’t miss this exclusive opportunity to immerse yourself in the vibrant cineastic culture and discover the visionary directors behind the diverse array of films originating from Portuguese-speaking nations. Join us for an enriching experience, exploring the captivating storytelling and artistic expressions within the CPLP, celebrating the cultural richness of Portuguese language cinema.
For more information about the Festival visit cplp.arteinstitute.org
Organization: Arte Institute
Support: Rutgers University Newark | Camões – Instituto da Cooperação e da Língua | Pestana Hotel Group
Patrons – Arte Institute: Camões – Instituto da Cooperação e da Língua | Fundação Luso-Americana – Para o Desenvolvimento | Caixa Geral de Depósitos | Câmara Municipal de Cascais
Partner – Arte Institute: Pestana Hotel Group

Workshop ‘Desdobramentos da Palavra Desenhada’ with Joana Raimundo | Rio de Janeiro
2023-11-09 09:30 - 11:00 | Colégio Estadual Pinto Lima, Rua São João, 127, Rio de Janeiro, Niterói, 24020-042, Brazil
Embark on a captivating artistic journey with your children as they delve into the world of illustration in our workshop led by the talented artist, Joana Raimundo. As a part of the Desdobramentos da Palavra project, this workshop aims to spark creativity and imagination in young minds through the fusion of art and language.
Organization: Arte Institute
Support: Consulado Geral de Portugal no Rio de Janeiro | Câmara Municipal de Alcobaça | Direção-Geral das Artes – República Portuguesa/Cultura | Pestana Hotel Group
Patrons – Arte Institute: Camões – Instituto da Cooperação e da Língua | Fundação Luso-Americana – Para o Desenvolvimento | Caixa Geral de Depósitos | Câmara Municipal de Cascais
Partner – Arte Institute: Pestana Hotel Group

Portuguese Music Workshop with Churky | Rio de Janeiro
2023-11-09 09:30 - 11:00 | Colégio Estadual Pinto Lima, Rua São João, 127, Rio de Janeiro, Niterói, 24020-042, Brazil
Embark on an immersive musical journey tailored for children, organized by Arte Institute and led by Churky, as part of the Desdobramentos da Palavra project. This engaging workshop offers young participants a hands-on experience delving into the vibrant world of Portuguese music, led by Churky’s expertise. An opportunity not just to learn and enjoy music, but to explore cultural rhythms and melodies in an interactive and fun setting.
Organization: Arte Institute
Support: Consulado Geral de Portugal no Rio de Janeiro | Câmara Municipal de Alcobaça | Direção-Geral das Artes – República Portuguesa/Cultura | Pestana Hotel Group
Patrons – Arte Institute: Camões – Instituto da Cooperação e da Língua | Fundação Luso-Americana – Para o Desenvolvimento | Caixa Geral de Depósitos | Câmara Municipal de Cascais
Partner – Arte Institute: Pestana Hotel Group

Churky Concert | Rio de Janeiro
2023-11-07 18:00 - 20:00 | Pestana Rio Atlântica, Avenida Atlântica, 2964, Rio de Janeiro, Copacabana, 22070-000, Brazil
Churky, an acclaimed Portuguese singer, songwriter, and instrumentalist, takes center stage in a mesmerizing concert held in Rio de Janeiro as part of the Desdobramentos da Palavra project.
Diogo Rico (Churky’s given name) is the author of all the songs that have a distinctive touch and that led him to win the EDP Live Bands competition, catapulting Churky to greater recognition, which has allowed him to take to the stages of national and international festivals such as performances at NOS Alive (Portugal) and Mad Cool (Spain).
In 2019 he released his debut album (‘É’), and in the same year he played at the EDP Cool Jazz festival.
At the beginning of 2021, he released ‘Mossas’ – an EP with a more Folk feel that led him to play in several Portuguese cities and also a very special concert at the São Tomé Literary Festival in São Tomé and Príncipe.
The year 2022 arrives with ‘Mariposa’, a new album recorded, written and produced entirely by him, showing a more mature, polished and honest songwriting that led him to be invited to be one of the authors and interpreters of the Festival da Canção 2023, where he competed and reached the final with the song ‘Encruzilhada’.
Reserve your seat for free at info@arteinstitute.org
Organization: Arte Institute
Support: Consulado Geral de Portugal no Rio de Janeiro | Câmara Municipal de Alcobaça | Direção-Geral das Artes – República Portuguesa/Cultura | Pestana Hotel Group
Patrons – Arte Institute: Camões – Instituto da Cooperação e da Língua | Fundação Luso-Americana – Para o Desenvolvimento | Caixa Geral de Depósitos | Câmara Municipal de Cascais
Partner – Arte Institute: Pestana Hotel Group

Surma Concert | New York
2023-10-08 19:00 - 21:00 | The Record Shop, 360 Van Brunt St, Brooklyn, NY, United States
The Arte Institute proudly supports Surma’s performance at The Record Shop in Brooklyn, New York, on October 8th. This marks Surma’s debut as a trio in the USA, accompanied by the talented Pedro Melo Alves and João Hasselberg.
Débora Umbelino is 24 years old and its known by its artistic name ‘Surma’. She was born in a small town near Leiria, Portugal and started having some musical adventures soon. While studying in the high school she won a band contest ZUS! with her first band ‘Backwater and the Screaming Fantasya’.
Lately she started her solo project and soon started touring and having attention from the national media. She attended a jazz course in Hot Club Lisbon, specialized in double bass and vocals. Later started an audio-visual post-production course in Restart.
The release of her first album ‘Antwerpena’ earned the immediate attention of the media and great national festivals. In the last two years she had 200 shows through 16 different cities around the world. From the North-American South By South West to the NYC Indie Week, from the Dutch Eurosonic Noorderslaag to the French MaMa Festival, from the Icelandic Iceland Airwaves to the Brazilian SIM São Paulo, from the Austrian Waves Vienna to the German Das Fest and from the Spanish ARN to the Slovenian Ment. Her album was edited in several European countries, nominated for best independent album by IMPALA (Independent Music Companies Association) and got featured in high reputation media companies such as BBC, Musikexpress or NPR.
Also, in this two years Surma played in small and large venues and festivals such as NOS Alive, Vodafone Paredes de Coura, Bons Sons, Super Bock Super Rock and NOS Primavera Sound. Collaborated with several artists and other musical projects such as ‘Concerts for Babies’ and wrote some songs for the soundtrack of a Portuguese movie a ‘SNU’.
In the end of 2019 Surma released an EP where she revisits her first songs written as a solo artist and prepares a second album with new songs.
Support: Arte Institute
Patrons – Arte Institute: Camões – Instituto da Cooperação e da Língua | Fundação Luso-Americana – Para o Desenvolvimento | Caixa Geral de Depósitos | Câmara Municipal de Cascais
Partner – Arte Institute: Pestana Hotel Group

‘Desassossego’ Exhibition | Leiria
2023-02-25 - 2023-05-24 | Centro Cívico de Leiria, Rua Barão de Viamonte, Leiria, 2414-006, Portugal
SYNOPSIS
Gianfranco, an independent photographer, has created projects all over the world, including subjects such as the reinterpretation of memory in Auschwitz, which was a 5-year documentary project from a contemporary perspective, covered refugees in Serbia, the reinterpretation of space through the highly culturally separated landscape of Beirut, etc.
Lucia focuses her research through painting on the body and the person, through the individual as well as the collective and their mutual relationship.
The present exhibition reveals a diverse approach creating a unity of their individual understanding of ‘Desassossego’ translated through our individual medium.
ARTE INSTITUTE – PATRONS
| Camões – Instituto da Cooperação e da Língua
| Fundação Luso-Americana para o Desenvolvimento
| Caixa Geral de Depósitos
| Câmara Municipal de Cascais
ARTE INSTITUTE – PARTNER
| Pestana Hotel Group

Movie ‘Portuguese from SoHo’ | Rio de Janeiro
2023-02-10 19:30 - 21:00 | Bar do Serginho, Rua Dias de Barros 2A, Rio de Janeiro, Santa Teresa, 20241-020, Brazil
SYNOPSIS
The documentary “Portuguese from Soho – A story that changed its geography” tells the story of the Portuguese emigrants that arrived to SoHo after the Second World War. Through their story we discover the history of this neighborhood and of the city of New York.
PARTNER
| Pestana Hotel Group
ARTE INSTITUTE – PATRONS
| Camões – Instituto da Cooperação e da Língua
| Fundação Luso-Americana para o Desenvolvimento
| Caixa Geral de Depósitos
| Câmara Municipal de Cascais
ARTE INSTITUTE – PARTNER
| Pestana Hotel Group

Choro da Esquina Show | Rio de Janeiro
2023-02-06 17:00 - 20:00 | Bar do Serginho, Rua Dias de Barros 2A, Rio de Janeiro, Santa Teresa, 20241-020, Brazil
SYNOPSIS
The quartet Choro da Esquina is formed by the portuguese Rui Alvim on clarinet, Fernando Leitzkie on piano, Luis Barcelos on mandolin and Pedro Aune on bass. The group unites a repertoire of classical and contemporary of choro to musical genres from other countries, such as Cuba, USA, Uruguay France, and others, in addition to their own compositions. The differential sound of its instrumental serves as the starting point of its conception and sonic identity. In addition to this, the diversity of musical experiences of its members provides interpretations and search for unique paths.
Choro da Esquina has been performing regularly since 2016, on Mondays at Bar do Serginho, an important cultural redoubt of the neighborhood of Sta Teresa and contributed significantly to the revitalization of the neighborhood.
PARTNER
| Pestana Hotel Group
ARTE INSTITUTE – PATRONS
| Camões – Instituto da Cooperação e da Língua
| Fundação Luso-Americana para o Desenvolvimento
| Caixa Geral de Depósitos
| Câmara Municipal de Cascais
ARTE INSTITUTE – PARTNER
| Pestana Hotel Group

Júlio Resende – Fado Jazz & ALMO | Havana International Jazz Festival
2023-01-28 | Teatro Martí, Calle Dragones # 58 entre Prado y Zulueta, La Habana, 10100, Cuba
SYNOPSIS
ALMO & Júlio Resende present at the 38th Edition of the Festival Jazz Plaza a unique and innovative concert, where the excellence of the creative and improvising ability of the pianist and composer Júlio Resende joins the interpretive talent of the singers Paulo Lapa (tenor) and Tiago Matos (baritone).
In a perfect symbiosis between jazz, improvisation and singing, they seek a differentiating sound that lives up to the essence of Fado and Portuguese Traditional Music without being exclusively and intrinsically linked to jazz and lyrical aesthetics.
ARTE INSTITUTE – PATRONS
| Camões – Instituto da Cooperação e da Língua
| Fundação Luso-Americana para o Desenvolvimento
| Caixa Geral de Depósitos
| Câmara Municipal de Cascais
ARTE INSTITUTE – PARTNER
| Pestana Hotel Group

Júlio Resende – Fado Jazz & ALMO | Havana International Jazz Festival
2023-01-26 | Fábrica de Arte Cubano, 4HGR+X2X, Calle 26, La Habana, Cuba

CPLP Festival – IV Edition | Rio de Janeiro
2023-01-11 15:00 - 17:00 | Real Gabinete Português de Leitura, R. Luís de Camões, 30 - Centro, Rio de Janeiro - RJ, 20051-020, Brazil, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
SYNOPSIS
The CPLP Festival showcases and promotes cinema from each of the Community of Portuguese Language Countries (Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, Guinea Bissau, Equatorial Guinea, Mozambique, Portugal, São Tomé and Príncipe, and East Timor). Don´t miss this chance to get to know more about the cineastic culture and the directors behind the various films of countries where Portuguese is the official language.
OFFICIAL SELECTION
• ‘Lucia In The Sky With Traffic Lights’ / “Lúcia no Céu com Semáforos”, by Ery Claver
• ‘Tradition And Imagination’ / “Tradição e imaginação”, by Vanessa Fernandes
• ‘Lemon Spell’ / “Simpatia do Limão”, by Miguel de Oliveira
• ‘The Flight Of The Manta Rays’ / “O Voo das Mantas”, by Bruno Carnide
• ‘Dona Mónica’, by Carlos Yuri Ceuninck
For more information about the movies visit cplp.arteinstitute.org
PARTNERS
| Real Gabinete Português de Leitura
| Pestana Hotel Group
ARTE INSTITUTE – PATRONS
| Camões – Instituto da Cooperação e da Língua
| Fundação Luso-Americana para o Desenvolvimento
| Caixa Geral de Depósitos
| Câmara Municipal de Cascais
ARTE INSTITUTE – PARTNER
| Pestana Hotel Group

‘Push it Online’ by Sublime Dance Company | France
2022-12-10 19:00 - 21:00 | Maison du Portugal – André Gouveia, 7 P, boulevard Jourdan, Paris, Paris, 75014, France
SYNOPSIS
This piece is a reflection on our digital presence in today’s world and how this presence impacts our identity. What responsibility entails creating this presence and what is the role of the body in the digital world. What is the role of the movement?
‘Push it Online’ investigates the search for meaning that haunts the human being. One meaning, a purpose, a goal – what binds us to this world that is constantly on? What kind of links? Will our identity be as volatile as a status in an online profile? What need is this to define ourselves in the eyes of a world in constant definition? A world that does not stop. We live in a reality that transcends the data stored in the same reality.
We live in the moment of diving, but we also live the photo, the video, the comment, sharing, opinions, of the dive. Diving wets our body and then floods our minds. A river of dice that doesn’t stop flowing, dice that combine to urge us to be a certain way, to think a certain way and to accept ourselves according to what is actually accepted online.
The truth matters less and the novelty matters more. What risks do we take in set goals about fleeting things, things that don’t stick, that easily they lose their meaning, they change course from one day to the next, from one second to the other. Are we needed as individuals? Or will we soon be expendable? One body, a relic, less efficient, more erroneous than a small computer, more likely to break, more emotional, less confident, a body! Just a body.
ARTE INSTITUTE – PATRONS
| Camões – Instituto da Cooperação e da Língua
| Fundação Luso-Americana para o Desenvolvimento
| Caixa Geral de Depósitos
| Câmara Municipal de Cascais
ARTE INSTITUTE – PARTNER
| Pestana Hotel Group

Workshop with Sublime Dance Company | France
2022-12-09 19:00 - 21:00 | Maison du Portugal – André Gouveia, 7 P, boulevard Jourdan, Paris, Paris, 75014, France
DESCRIPTION
This workshop guides the dancer into the working methodology of Sublime Dance Company. It begins with a continuous non-stop warm-up and it follows into a creative mode of research and interaction between dancers. The dancers will learn material created on the spot or repertoire material and then encouraged to perform it and explore it differently every time.
ARTE INSTITUTE – PATRONS
| Camões – Instituto da Cooperação e da Língua
| Fundação Luso-Americana para o Desenvolvimento
| Caixa Geral de Depósitos
| Câmara Municipal de Cascais
ARTE INSTITUTE – PARTNER
| Pestana Hotel Group

Movie ‘The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis’ by João Botelho | Boston
2022-12-06 14:00 - 16:00 | University of Massachusetts Boston, 100 Morrissey Blvd, Boston, MA, 02125, United States
SYNOPSIS
Fernando Pessoa, one of the greatest writers of the Portuguese language established a gigantic parallel universe creating a series of heteronyms to survive his loneliness of genius. José Saramago, Nobel laureate of literature in 1998, wrote this novel returning the heteronymous Ricardo Reis to Portugal, after 16 years of exile in Brazil.
1936 is the year of all danger, Mussolini’s fascism, Hitler’s Nazism, the terrible Spanish civil war and Salazar’s Estado Novo in Portugal. Two women, Lídia and Marcenda are Ricardo Reis’ carnal and impossible passions. Literature as well as cinema allows ‘Life and Death is all one’. Fantastic realism is the subject-matter of this movie.
PARTNERS
| Camões – Instituto da Cooperação e da Língua
| Embassy of Portugal in Washington D.C.
| University of Massachusetts Boston
ARTE INSTITUTE – PATRONS
| Camões – Instituto da Cooperação e da Língua
| Fundação Luso-Americana para o Desenvolvimento
| Caixa Geral de Depósitos
| Câmara Municipal de Cascais
ARTE INSTITUTE – PARTNER
| Pestana Hotel Group

Animated Short Films Screening | Boston
2022-12-05 - 2022-12-07 | Escola Portuguesa de Peabody, Boston, MA, United States
SYNOPSIS
An hour-long program of Portuguese animations aimed for children and families. The movies are a part of the official selection of the NY Portuguese Short Film Festival previous editions.
For more information about the movies visit nypsff.arteinstitute.org
PARTNERS
| Camões – Instituto da Cooperação e da Língua
| Embassy of Portugal in Washington D.C.
ARTE INSTITUTE – PATRONS
| Camões – Instituto da Cooperação e da Língua
| Fundação Luso-Americana para o Desenvolvimento
| Caixa Geral de Depósitos
| Câmara Municipal de Cascais
ARTE INSTITUTE – PARTNER
| Pestana Hotel Group

‘Push it Online’ by Sublime Dance Company | Funchal
2022-12-03 21:00 - 22:30 | Teatro Municipal Baltazar Dias, Avenida Arriaga, Funchal, Madeira, 9000-060, Portugal
SYNOPSIS
This piece is a reflection on our digital presence in today’s world and how this presence impacts our identity. What responsibility entails creating this presence and what is the role of the body in the digital world. What is the role of the movement?
‘Push it Online’ investigates the search for meaning that haunts the human being. One meaning, a purpose, a goal – what binds us to this world that is constantly on? What kind of links? Will our identity be as volatile as a status in an online profile? What need is this to define ourselves in the eyes of a world in constant definition? A world that does not stop.
We live in a reality that transcends the data stored in the same reality. We live in the moment of diving, but we also live the photo, the video, the comment, sharing, opinions, of the dive. Diving wets our body and then floods our minds. A river of dice that doesn’t stop flowing, dice that combine to urge us to be a certain way, to think a certain way and to accept ourselves according to what is actually accepted online.
The truth matters less and the novelty matters more. What risks do we take in set goals about fleeting things, things that don’t stick, that easily they lose their meaning, they change course from one day to the next, from one second to the other. Are we needed as individuals? Or will we soon be expendable? One body, a relic, less efficient, more erroneous than a small computer, more likely to break, more emotional, less confident, a body! Just a body.

Animated Short Films Screening | Boston
2022-12-03 | Escola Portuguesa de Cambridge e Somerville, Boston, MA, United States
SYNOPSIS
An hour-long program of Portuguese animations aimed for children and families. The movies are a part of the official selection of the NY Portuguese Short Film Festival previous editions.
For more information about the movies visit nypsff.arteinstitute.org
PARTNERS
| Camões – Instituto da Cooperação e da Língua
| Embassy of Portugal in Washington D.C.

Memorial do Convento Choreographed Reading and Workshop | São Tomé
2022-11-18 15:00 - 17:00 | CACAU, Avenida Marginal 12 Julho, São Tomé
SYNOPSIS
Based on the literary work Memorial do Convento by José Saramago, MEMORIAL DO CONVENTO _ CHOREOGRAPHED READING / WORKSHOP FOR CHILDREN (8 /12 YEARS OLDER) is part of and integrated into the educational program associated with the creation of the ballet Memorial do Convento. As a first contact with Saramago’s work, this choreographed reading and workshop for children unites the literary universe with the possibilities of dance as a narrative expression that starts with the body and movement.
The sonority of the word and the narration of the story find an echo in the performer’s body that chains itself in a narrative movement between the characters. Can a single choreographic body bring forth the narrative fluency of Baltasar, Blimunda, Friar Lawrence, and other characters in the novel? And where do the wills come from? And how does the construction of a convent emerge as the setting for a love story that is surrounded by the greatest complexities of human attitude? After the choreographic reading, a workshop follows where children are invited to explore the narrative basis of the movement and how it proposes to characterize the characters, the space and the time of the novel’s action.
PARTNERS
| Camões – Instituto da Cooperação e da Língua
| Banco Internacional de São Tomé e Príncipe
| Pestana Hotel Group
| CACAU
ARTE INSTITUTE – PATRONS
| Camões – Instituto da Cooperação e da Língua
| Fundação Luso-Americana para o Desenvolvimento
| Caixa Geral de Depósitos
| Câmara Municipal de Cascais
ARTE INSTITUTE – PARTNER
| Pestana Hotel Group

Performance ‘Uivo’ by Maria João Costa Espinho | New York
2022-11-17 - 2022-11-21 | New Dance Alliance, 182 Duane Street, New York, NY 10013, United States
SYNOPSIS
The project consists of a research and creation residency for the choreography ‘Uivo’ by Maria João Costa Espinho, during two weeks, with public presentation at the end of the residency, in the context of ‘3 du Trois’ at 3 CL – Center for Choreographic Creation in Luxembourg. During the residency there is a moment of meeting, discussion and transmission with high school students. Meeting and discussion with the public after the performance.
ARTE INSTITUTE – PATRONS
| Camões – Instituto da Cooperação e da Língua
| Fundação Luso-Americana para o Desenvolvimento
| Caixa Geral de Depósitos
| Câmara Municipal de Cascais
ARTE INSTITUTE – PARTNER
| Pestana Hotel Group

Puppet Show ‘Teatro Dom Roberto’ by S.A. Marionetas | São Tomé
2022-11-12 10:30 - 12:00 | Centro Cultural Português, Av. da Independência, São Tomé and Príncipe
SYNOPSIS
‘The Dom Roberto’ Theater certainly represents one of the oldest traditions of the performing arts, not only in its Portuguese and European aspects, but also in the popular heroes of the East. In fact, the origin of this popular art form of representation goes back, in the European tradition to the 16th century Italian Commedia dell ‘Arte and it does not seem unlikely that the Eastern traditions have had any influence on the evolution of this traditional type of representation.
José Gil (S.A.Marionetas), having had the privilege of direct contact with Mestre António Dias, one of the last popular Portuguese puppeteers, recreated, based on his testimony, two pieces – ‘O Barbeiro’ and ‘A Tourada’. More recently, and looking to preserve this traditional art form, the company has recovered three more pieces from the Robertos Theater repertoire – ‘A Rosa e os 3 Namorados’ and ‘O Castelo dos Fantasmas’ and Saloio de Alcobaça’.
PARTNERS
| Camões – Instituto da Cooperação e da Língua
| Banco Internacional de São Tomé e Príncipe
| Pestana Hotel Group
ARTE INSTITUTE – PATRONS
| Camões – Instituto da Cooperação e da Língua
| Fundação Luso-Americana para o Desenvolvimento
| Caixa Geral de Depósitos
| Câmara Municipal de Cascais
ARTE INSTITUTE – PARTNER
| Pestana Hotel Group

Puppet Show ‘Teatro Dom Roberto’ by S.A. Marionetas | São Tomé
2022-11-11 10:00 - 12:00 | Jardim das Flores, São Tomé and Príncipe

Theater and Workshop: ‘A Maior Flor do Mundo’ | Boston
2022-10-21 - 2022-10-22
The Arte Institute, in partnership with Coordenação do Ensino de Português nos EUA, presents on October 21st and 22nd the workshop and theater play, ‘A Maior Flor do Mundo’, with Gabriela Barros, from Palco Treze, in two schools of Boston.

Venue: Quinn Middle School
Address: 201 Manning Street, Hudson, MA
Date: October 21st, 2022 – 12.30 PM

Venue: Escola Portuguesa de Cambridge e Somerville
Address: 1046 Cambridge street, Cambridge, MA 02139
Date: October 22nd, 2022 – 10.00 AM

Description:
A Maior Flor do Mundo is a sensational story! In it, Saramago becomes a character and tells how he always wanted to write a children’s book about a boy who grows the biggest tree in the world. According to him, the story, if put on paper, “would be the most beautiful of all that have been written since the time of fairy tales and enchanted princesses.”

Partners ||
| Consulado Geral de Portugal em Boston
| Camões – Instituto da Cooperação e da Língua
