Three days in which Braga becomes a pleasure – publico

 
         

                 

                         
                     

                         
                     

                 

 
 

Many adults stop to get selfies and there are children playing hide in front of the Theatro Circo. The reason for such an installation animation is made with fruit boxes, plastic resembling an oriental maze. “This is a playground for the city,” explains the author, Thomas Hood. The young architect talks about his play, Mahjong , created within the White Night of Braga but could be talking about the festival that, since the end of Friday afternoon, is carrying hundreds of thousands of people to the city. There are other creations of artists scattered in the streets, museums open out of hours, lots of music and a certain festival environment that makes it sometimes difficult to find the cultural proposals of confusion.

The boxes fruit, white, are “authentic legos” that Capa could experience the construction of this facility, which has both place and play against. The author explains that wanted to build a place where they could “turn the space and people,” inspired by the use as an oracle that is made of parts of the Chinese board game that gives its name to its creation. This was the proposal made to the White Night under the artistic tenders launched by the organization in recent months has been one of the chosen.

It is not the first time that Thomas Hood participates in Braga arts festival. Last year, with Antonio Faria and Maria Ribeiro Bethany, created the installation Do not leave blank . And still this year is not finished, is already imagine what may have in 2017.

cover is not the only young creator excited about the opportunity that Braga festival gives it to submit your ideas. In Gnration space, Marta Pombeiro rode Sensory City , a facility that crosses photographs, memories and soundscapes from city places like the municipal market or station road to rail. The idea of ​​this piece was born at the Faculty of Fine Arts of Porto, but has the support of the White Night that made it possible. “I’m able to put my project master running at the same time I can reach a large number of people”, values ​​the student editorial design.

The White Night Braga is not done only creators youth projects – although the artistic competitions and summer Laboratories Gnration have allowed support ten and half creations. For example, the artist Pedro Tudela was made an order to think the city of decoration in the three days that lasts the initiative and the result is a set of illuminated pieces suspended in the main streets of the historic center.

But an assembled mass event ends, often to escape the control of the organization itself. A little throughout the city multiply overnight, several “white party” organized by different bars and clubs in the city, which deducts music with little discretion to high decibels for large groups. It is not uncommon that the sound collides with the initiatives of the program itself – is what is happening when the route of The dance of death a dancing skeleton five meters, crossing several streets and squares of the city.

The organization – shared by the House of Braga and two other municipalities, the Theatro Circo and Bracara Foundation Augusta, which manages the Gnration – is aware of this tension and put this year rules the parallel programming. But did not completely solve the problem. “The White Night is compelling for its size,” says the director of Gnration, Luis Fernandes, responsible for part of the event program. “What we want is to take advantage of this ability to mobilize to expose people to things they might not be see otherwise,” says.

The bells Braga

In the last three years, Braga took the concept of the White night – born in this century in Paris as a cultural enjoyment event one night – and turned it into something else, something closer to a city festival. Its duration has been extended and are now two nights instead of one and more than 48 hours of programming between Friday and Sunday, with activities ranging from installations to performance, through music, gastronomy and even parkour. The museums are open out of hours and have activities for visitors, but it is in the streets that focus attention, especially in concerts in Town Hall Square.