“A our concern to involve the people of the municipality in our festival led us to make an installation, in partnership with an international project, which will be on the outside wall of the library”, said the president of Associação A Eira.
Carlos Rodrigues explained to the Lusa agency that on the first day of PrimavEira Fest, on June 8, the installation on the wall will be carried out with “the placement of about 50 photographs of a very large size”.
“We’ve been collecting the photographs, because, in the end, it’s a huge mural of portraits of the older inhabitants, to give them the visibility they deserve, because, in some villages, they are the ones who still manage to bring the place to life”, he highlighted.
Carlos Rodrigues assumed that this mural “is also a form of thanks and homage to the people” of the municipality of Penalva do Castelo, in the district of Viseu.
“The installation will remain for as long as it takes, which also turns out to be metaphorical, because time also takes people, but we wanted to honor and thank our citizens who persist in maintaining life in places”, he defended.
This official added that “older people also convey the identity of places, through the stories they tell and the teachings they can give and, therefore, they are very important people”.
Carlos Rodrigues recalled that the creation of Associação A Eira had “a lot to do with older people, because they have many traditions to teach to younger people and also because everyone, everywhere, has the right to have access to culture” .
The PrimavEira Fest replaces the “Verão na Eira” festival, which lasted throughout the summer months with “dispersed activities” and, this year, the association decided to “anticipate the spring and concentrate activities in less than a week”.
In addition to this installation on the first day, PrimavEira Fest shows that night, inside the library, the documentary “Olhares, Lugares, 2017”, by Agnès Varda.
There will also be an exhibition of a painting by Carla Pinto, “Humble”, at the Old Market.
During the festival, there are ‘workshops’, conversations about the sustainability of life, performing arts, theater, with “A widow… but little”, by the Artola Group, and music with the presence of the Girafoles group, the DJ Cheganahora and the musician and composer M-Pex.
“Our activities are more alternative, non-commercial, because they also use a language that our older citizens use, so that we can also attract them and introduce new languages and cultures, also to make them aware of other manifestations of art”, clarified Carlos Rodrigues.
The various events “are free, because the idea is to democratize access to culture, despite the fact that this causes budgetary damage”, but to fill this gap, he explained, the association has “the Penalva do Castelo Chamber, which has always supported initiatives d’A Eira”.
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