Music, dance, circus, theater, cinema, exhibitions. Today is the second day in Port
Put up a foot inside the Serralves Museum and is difficult to contain the astonishment logo in the lobby:. A piano in an acrylic box, which protects the red ink is splashed from the ceiling, plays alone one Grândola version, Vila Morena. This is one of the amazing exhibition facilities Tecnoforma , Silvestre Pestana. Visitors can then explore the artist’s work Madeiran other rooms of the building designed by Alvaro Siza and then turn to the wing of the right to know the first major anthological exhibition of paintings and drawings from half a century of work turinense Giorgio Griffa painter.
outside, the Glade of Birches, attention focus at the outset on circus theater. A performance of gestural humor, that just is not silent because there are sounds that interact with the public, which returns the entertainment interspersed with applause laughter, Quique Mendez appears on stage as a postman on a bicycle, as if inspired by Jacques Tati. There are already a few hundred spectators sitting in the grass to see this comedy No Shipper.
However, just move away from a bit in the background, we can hear the Tennis Court (another park space) Eine Alpenjazzphonie, a concert by the Jazz Orchestra of Espinho Professional School in the company of the Bavarian trumpeter Matthias Schiefl.
those who prefer theater, you can continue along the “avenues” of oaks, yews and birches to discover a hundreds of meters ahead, a shed in the arboretum. That unusual meeting comes an interesting partnership with the International Festival of Iberian Expression Theatre. Here’s the part Perro Perdido, the Company Cal y Canto, is about to start.
250 events in 40 hours
We can stop this kind GPS by huge green lung which breathes culture. Ever notice that will be in “Serralves em Festa”. Welcome to the Port!
Still the day or go through and now there are dozens of activities to seethe in the 18 hectares of the park together with the house and the museum became one of the main poles of the country’s culture. from 8 am Saturday morning until midnight Sunday on “40 hours Non-Stop”, Serralves hosts 250 events and 400 artists from fifteen nationalities. With free entry.
In this 13th edition time not hexed and the sun helped the party atmosphere to attract, as always, a lot of people to this St. John the arts Port lives once a year.
If at night the electronic music concerts at the Prado predominately younger people, the day is particularly sought after by families; young couples such as Marcelo Paiva and Ines Castro, who live in Vila Nova de Gaia and brought the daughter of two and a half to walk in the park and museum. “Serralves em Festa has evolved in terms of programming and we have also evolved as spectators. Dantes were coming alone or with friends, in the evening, and now we have seen family and try to enjoy during the day a number of different activities. The daytime public . is completely distinct Just look around and see the number of children walking around here, “explains Marcelo, while Agnes adds:” the set of activities we can do in such a beautiful space is the main attraction of this initiative and we does come back every year “
Alfredo Carvalho, Porto, sexagenarian and frequent visitor, also explains why took the opportunity to take advantage of the early hours of this cultural marathon”. I come regularly to Serralves this time, I used the “festival. “to see the exhibits. I chose to come early in the morning as part of the most likely later that the park fills with people. you have come other issues and I think the flow of visitors is increasing.”
If there are those who usually come to Serralves there who also estreie these wanderings. Salvador Martinha, television presenter and comedian, knew the museum, but a had come to the park on a holiday. “I have a wedding, my wife went to the hairdresser and I thought,” What is the best site from Porto to spend a few hours “I’ve been at the museum and enjoyed the exhibits … I like to come here because my limits are always? overtaken by seeing things that did not imagine. Now, I stroll through the park and see what will happen in these scenes out there assembled. “
in addition to the Portuguese audience grow every year is visible the growing number of tourists to visit the Serralves em Festa. Some, like John Golding, English Cambridge who came to spend with his wife and a friend couple the end-of-week Porto end up being surprised to have chosen to make your visit on feast day: “I had heard anything about this initiative. We only had the idea to come to know the museum and the park and we caught this complete surprise … “
Marcelo, a distinguished visitor
today, among the thousands of visitors who will flock to the second day of the party, which competes on Sunday with the Mini in Primavera Sound, which will take place very close, in Park City, Serralves have an illustrious visit: the president Marcelo Republic Rebelo de Sousa is sponsoring the party with a visit to the late morning. – is scheduled to begin at 11 am
After that, the party will continue until midnight and was expected to hit the numbers of the year past. In 2015, they were in the 40 Hours Non-Stop 141,718 visitors, a record in one edition. In total the twelve previous editions has been hit the barrier of a million visitors. – More precisely a cumulative 1,053,691 visitors
Impressive figures that still surprise especially those who do not know this is the biggest of contemporary culture event in the country and one of the largest in Europe with Serralves to host exhibitions, music, dance, performance, circus, theater, cinema, photography and everything else there is the case.
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