Miguel Honoured is the new Secretary of State for Culture – TSF Online

He is currently president of the National Theatre board of directors D. Maria II.

the nomination of Miguel Honoured was accepted by the President, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, and the new secretary of state will take office on Thursday, along with the new culture minister, ambassador Luis Filipe Castro Mendes.

Miguel Honoured, graduated in History from the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences, New University of Lisbon and a post-graduate degree in Curatorship and organization of exhibitions by ESBAL / Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation works since 1989 in the production and cultural management.

intervened in cultural projects as the Europalia Festival and the cultural programs of the Universal Exhibition of Seville 92, the World Exhibition in Lisbon 98 and Lisbon European Capital 94.

joined and then coordinated the team of the Department of Dance of the Portuguese Institute of Performing Arts (EPI) between 1999 and 2002; was between 2003 and 2006, artistic director of the Teatro Viriato in Viseu; in 2007, he became president of EGEAC, the company that manages the cultural facilities of Lisbon; and occupied, since January 1, 2015, the post of president of the National Theatre board of directors D. Maria II.

It is, since 2003, visiting professor of Lusophone University, responsible for the seminar on Cultural Policy , part of the Master in Cultural Management, and was, from 2006 to 2012, assistant professor at the Lisbon Theatre and Film School

between 2005 and 2007, presided over the IRIS -. European Southern Association for Contemporary Creation and it is, since 2012, member of the Advisory Council of the Gulbenkian Programme of Education for Culture and Science -. Discover

Miguel Honoured succeeds Elizabeth Botelho Leal. The Prime Minister, António Costa, accepted on Friday the resignation of the Minister of Culture, João Soares, following official declarations on Facebook that promised “salutary slaps” the columnist Augusto M. Seabra – due to criticism this lack of political action line and “crony style, arrogance and rudeness.” – and also the columnist Vasco Pulido Valente

on Thursday evening, António Costa apologized to newspaper columnists public threatened to “clicked” by the then Minister of Culture and asked the members of the Government that are “contained in way express emotions.”