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The city of Braga made official this Friday its intention to apply as European Capital of Culture 2027.
Ricardo Rio, mayor, received as guests a set of personalities who spoke about their experience in different application processes for European Capital of Culture, national and international.
The invited panel included Rui Moreira (Mayor of Porto), Alberto Núñez Feijóo (President of the Xunta de Galicia) and Cristina Farinha (Member of the International Jury for Selection and Monitoring of the European Capital of Culture), who met in the Grande Auditorium of Altice Forum Braga.
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To contribute to the thinking and debate of this official start of the Braga candidacy, the guests made an intervention according to their experience and that of their territories.
The mayor of Porto, Rui Moreira, took the floor to reflect on the legacy of Porto 2001, not only in the city but throughout the North Region.
Alberto Núñez Feijóo, president of the Xunta de Galicia, analyzed Santiago de Compostela 2000 and the impact of a city title in the region of Galicia.
Finally, Cristina Farinha, member of the International Jury for Selection and Monitoring of the European Capital of Culture, contributes to the debate from the point of view of who is involved in the selection processes of the Cities that receive the title of European Capital of Culture. Culture.
Feijóo, Ricardo Rio, Cristina Farinha and Rui Moreira. Photo: CM Braga
Concert for Plants 2027
In addition to the interventions of the guests, Braga’s candidacy for European Capital of Culture 2027 presented the artistic installation “Concert for 2027 floors”, by the sound artist Cláudia Martinho.
In the artistic installation the plants are connected to sensors that capture the electromagnetic impulses of the plants, converting them into sound and thus creating a polyphony of plant voices, as if it were a choir.
“These plants, largely strawberry trees, one of the native species of this region, seek to symbolize and evoke the vital energy of this territory and its citizens who, in the current pandemic context, could not be present in the Altice Forum warehouse Braga ”, explains the autarky, in a statement.
The strawberry trees were donated to the candidature of Braga by the Terra de Esperança Project of ANEFA – National Association of Forestry, Agricultural and Environmental Companies in alliance with the GALP Foundation. As a result of this collaboration and as a legacy of this moment, the Candidacy will plant these fruit trees in the municipality of Braga, with the collaboration of the Parish Councils.
The average time for this species to produce the characteristic red berry is 6 years: “It means that hopefully in 2027 we will be harvesting the first fruits of some of the plants that are seen in the images of this symbolic moment,” says the same note.
Cláudia Martinho is an architect, sound artist and researcher at the University of Minho. It develops sound installations, performances and workshops, which promote active listening and the development of the human being in contact with nature.
She is the co-founder of Rural Vivo, a cultural association dedicated to artistic, educational and ecological activities in the Serra do Gerês, a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve.
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