The program includes concerts, exhibitions, films, reading sessions and workshops and take care of several spaces of the Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon, especially in the garden. The idea is to open it to the summer with a series of proposals that is not limited to combine various artistic languages. – Also comes in the areas of education and social development
Summer Garden is the generic name of the program the Gulbenkian presented Tuesday at a press conference and was designed to celebrate the 60th anniversary of foundation. The model explained Teresa Gouveia, Administrator, is completely new because it involves the participation of “virtually all of the foundation services” is not confined to the cultural area.
In the “plural offer” this Garden summer presents 23 June to 3 July noteworthy, as a reflection of this “new model”, the show Opera Prison (June 30), with artistic direction of Paul Lameiro. In it the Gulbenkian Orchestra joins 30 prisoners of Leiria Prison to take the stage Don Giovanni , Mozart, always thinking in their reintegration after completing sentences that have been sentenced. The project, which results from the Gulbenkian Human Development Programme and also involves family and friends of prisoners and even guards and the director of the prison, began in 2014 and works autonomy and social skills through artistic practice.
the prisoners, who have had the opera in prison Leiria and were far from imagining that she estrearia the Grand Gulbenkian Auditorium, will do little more than work half said the artistic director, but it had to decorate the text in Italian, follow rules that are not used to and live with “a powerful song,” quite different from rap and african-beat they hear every day
the crossing of languages and universes -. not only the East and West, but also of high culture and popular culture – is a mark of the summer garden, defends his general commission, Rui Vieira Nery, which defines it as a great interactive program (participatory concerts, workshops and readings), deeply contemporary – “we are aware of the heritage but with a look of today,” he says – and multicultural. It could, indeed, be otherwise: after all the Gulbenkian exists thanks to an Armenian founder, an English education, who lived first in Paris and then in London, Lisbon …
This heritage will also be in focus on conference through carpets, conversations around the history and Armenian culture, workshops storytellers and poetry sessions. But the ballerina dancing shakeh Major Tchilingirian (24 June) and music Tigram Hamasyan (1 July) that Nery says is “a great pianist who crosses genres from their Armenian roots.” Hamasyan, who was born in 1987 and grew up listening to his father’s records (Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Queen, Nazareth), combines folk, electronic and rock, and will have the fourth album, getting historical praise as Chick Corea and Herbie Hancock.
the musical creation is, of course, one of the focuses of the summer garden, with some of the proposals to go through “strong women of different cultures,” says the director of music service, Risto Nieminen, drawing attention for the inaugural concert of Les Amazones d’Afrique, headed by Mariam Doumbia (the female half of the Malian duo Amadou & amp; Mariam, who has previously performed at the Gulbenkian with great success), the “first female super-group of West Africa, founded in 2015 with a very strong speech in combating violence against women “
the Angolan Waldemar Bastos (June 24).; Brazilian Ivan Lins, who will be guest singer Carlos do Carmo and the Gulbenkian Orchestra (June 25); and Indian Anoushka Shankar (July 3, closing concert), sitar performer that leads to the outdoor amphitheater your disk Land of Gold , loaded all his inheritance (the daughter of history musician and composer Ravi Shankar) and a spiritual atmosphere that marks their creations, are other highlights.
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