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Mornas, cachupa, tabanca, pano di terra, grogue, funan\u00e1\u2019 and much more: the sounds, colours and flavours of the Cape Verde Archipelago will be making their mark in Loul\u00e9's Historic Zone from 26th to 29th June at the 21st Edition of the MED Festival.<\/p>\n

Cape Verde will be the next \u2018Guest Country\u2019, a MED initiative that took place for the first time in 2024, with a celebration of Moroccan culture. This year, it's Cape Verde's turn to showcase its musical, cultural and gastronomic diversity, and how it also relates to the diaspora, and in particular to the community living in Portugal.<\/p>\n

\"Multim\u00e9dia0\"<\/p>\n

This Tuesday, 6th May, the programme was presented at the Cape Verde Cultural Centre in Lisbon, before representatives of the Embassy, artists and the Cape Verdean community. The event's director and City Councillor, Carlos Carmo, announced the planned initiatives.<\/p>\n

\u2018We are delighted to have Cape Verde as the \u2018Guest Country\u2019 for the 2025 edition of the MED Festival. Cape Verde presents its musical, cultural and gastronomic diversity at MED, through various events throughout the days of the festival. This initiative allows us to create an even more diverse and global programme, bringing the excellence and richness of this country's culture to Loul\u00e9\u2019<\/strong><\/em>, he explained.<\/p>\n

\"Multim\u00e9dia1\"<\/p>\n

It is in the \u2018Patio\u2019, to be housed in the Cloister of the Esp\u00edrito Santo Convent in the heart of Loul\u00e9 at the end of June, that all the artistic events will converge. This space will be the epicentre of an immersive experience that will transport visitors to the essence of Cape Verde, celebrating the culture, traditions, contemporary vitality of the archipelago, its daily experiences and the landscape itself. This area will integrate art, sound, movement, gastronomy and the direct participation of the community, thus creating a sensory narrative for visitors.<\/p>\n

Weaving, baking, pottery and basketry will be produced in real time, enriching this craft experience and strengthening the link with the islands' ancestral knowledge.<\/p>\n

In the field of gastronomy, it will be possible to savour typical Cape Verdean food and drink, creating a direct connection between tradition, art and taste experience. The Cape Verdean community living in the Algarve is expected to make a community cachupa.<\/p>\n

There will also be live musicians playing \u2018batuque\u2019 and\/or \u2018cavaquinho\u2019, bringing the vibrant energy and melodic richness of Cape Verde to the heart of the P\u00e1tio.<\/p>\n

It should be highlighted that 2025 marks the 50th anniversary of Cape Verde's independence (5 July 1975), which is yet another reason to celebrate the country's culture and history. The MED Festival is honouring this anniversary.<\/p>\n

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MUSIC<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

The warm sounds of the archipelago will be present in Loul\u00e9, through artists who crossed the borders of Cape Verde many years ago, but also through the new wave of musicians.<\/p>\n

Next Saturday, 10th May, at 21h00,\u00a0Carmen Souza<\/strong>\u00a0Carmen Souza will take to the stage of the Cineteatro Louletano for a concert during the final presentation session of the 21st MED Festival. The Luso-Caboverdian singer, baptised by the international press as the \u2018Ella Fitzgerald of Cape Verde\u2019 or the \u2018new Ces\u00e1ria \u00c9vora\u2019, combines a virtuoso jazz vocal technique with a series of Lusophone influences, ranging from fado to samba, from morna to bossa nova, including bittersweet ballads or the \u2018Cape Verdean blues\u2019. Today she is a strong\u00a0world music<\/em>\u00a0personality and one of the most successful jazz singers. \u2018Port Ingl\u00eas\u2019, released in 2024, is nominated for the\u00a0German Record Critics Awards<\/em>in the category of\u00a0Best World Music Album<\/em>.<\/p>\n

On the evening of 25th June, on the Castelo Stage,\u00a0Ceuzany<\/strong>\u00a0will perform the event's inaugural concert, even before the festival officially opens its doors. Born in Senegal to Cape Verdean parents, she moved to Mindelo at the age of two. She was the lead singer of Cordas do Sol, a group she left in 2013 to start her solo career. Her success has earned her numerous nominations at the\u00a0Cabo Verde Music Awards<\/em>\u00a0and she won the prizes for best traditional song and best female performer in 2017.<\/p>\n

Os\u00a0Ferro Gaita<\/strong>\u00a0are returning to MED this year for a performance on the 26th June. Ambassadors of funan\u00e1, they are one of Cape Verde's greatest musical institutions. They carry their land in their souls and rhythm in their hearts and, once more, they are bringing all the festivity and musical richness of Africa to Loul\u00e9's Historic Centre.<\/p>\n

For the 27th June, the proposal is\u00a0Ces\u00e1ria \u00c9vora Orquestra<\/strong>the project that celebrates and keeps alive the work of the legendary \u2018Barefoot Diva\u2019. It brings together talented musicians and performers who take to the stage the repertoire that marked Ces\u00e1ria \u00c9vora's career, bringing her music to new audiences and reinforcing her cultural legacy.<\/p>\n

On the 28th, in a special concert, musician\u00a0Dino D\u00b4Santiago<\/strong>\u00a0joins the iconic\u00a0Os Tubar\u00f5es<\/strong>undoubtedly one of Cape Verde's greatest musical emblems and one of the most representative groups in the country's music during the transition to independence and democracy. Authentic legends, they have spread some of the most important pieces in the songbook of a country that continues to inspire the world with its \u2018mornas, coladeiras\u2019 and \u2018funan\u00e1\u2019. Dino, a son of the municipality of Loul\u00e9, needs no introduction for what he is today, not only in musical terms, but also as an activist for social causes, being involved in various projects linked to social equity and equality.<\/p>\n

On the 29th \u2018Open Day\u2019, there will be a concert\u00a0in honour of Cape Verdean singer Sara Tavares.<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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\"Multim\u00e9dia2\"<\/p>\n

CINEMA<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Cinema MED will include three films with a connection to this country. The highlight is\u00a0'Sodade'<\/strong>directed by Cape Verdean Sarah Grace, presented on the 22nd June, days before the official opening of MED'25, at 6pm, at the Solar da M\u00fasica Nova. The internationally acclaimed film explores profound themes such as love, betrayal and hatred through the story of characters who experience the challenges and dilemmas of the diaspora. Filmed in the beautiful and striking volcanic landscapes of Fogo Island, \u2018Sodade\u2019 stands out for its impressive cinematography and for capturing the essence of Cape Verdean culture and spirit. It is the first Cape Verdean film to be commercially distributed in cinemas in Portugal and other international territories.<\/p>\n

Released in 2022 by director Ana Sofia Fonseca,\u00a0'Ces\u00e1ria \u00c9vora'<\/strong>\u00a0is an intimate documentary about the life and career of Cape Verde's greatest voice, with never-before-seen footage. A work that already has a cult aura. It can be seen at Cinema MED on the evening of 26th June.<\/p>\n

Completing the Cinema MED\u201825 programme, again curated by Rui Tendinha, is another documentary,\u00a0'Km\u00eadeus'<\/strong>\u00a0(\u2019Eat God'), by Nuno Boaventura Miranda. It portrays the intriguing story of an eccentric homeless man from the island of S\u00e3o Vicente, known by many as a madman and by others as a great artist. It will be screened on the 27th June. Also on this evening, the first images from \u2018Terra Longe\u2019, a documentary by Bernardo Lopes about Mindelo musician Jon Luz, will be launched.<\/p>\n

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ART<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

In the visual arts,\u00a0\u2018Transatlantic Cartographies\u2019<\/strong>by the artists Fidel \u00c9vora, Jacira da Concei\u00e7\u00e3o, Amadeu Carvalho and Carlos Noronha Feio will be open to the public during the Festival.<\/p>\n

\u2018Transatlantic Cartographies\u2019 brings together, at the Esp\u00edrito Santo Gallery in Loul\u00e9, four artists whose connection to Cape Verde is both intimate and displaced. They live outside the archipelago, but build a continuous dialogue with it - sometimes silent, but always present. Their works do not seek to represent the territory, but to map its traces, reverberations and reunions through image, sound, body and matter.<\/p>\n

Each artistic gesture traces an Atlantic line of return and re-imagination. An emotional and political map drawn from mobile margins, where belonging is made up of fragments, eavesdropping and survival. In this exhibition, the \u2018outside\u2019 is not an absence, but an extension - a space where senses of origin, community and future continue to be constructed.<\/p>\n

Fidel \u00c9vora<\/strong>\u00a0With the series \u2018Fake Self-Portraits\u2019, Fidel \u00c9vora proposes a game between identity and fiction, presence and construction. The faces that question us do not seek to define the self, but rather to question the mechanisms by which it becomes visible. The practice affirms multiplicity as a natural condition of those who inhabit the in-between place - where origin is memory, but also choice.<\/p>\n

Jacira da Concei\u00e7\u00e3o<\/strong>\u00a0Through ceramics, iron, fabric and video, Jacira da Concei\u00e7\u00e3o invokes the strength of the African female lineage. Her pieces - such as Or\u00e1culo dos B\u00fazios, Aruanda and Abra\u00e7o II - turn the exhibition space into ritual territory. The material is memory that resists oblivion, a gesture that crosses time. Ancestry is here a living force, current, in continuous transmutation.<\/p>\n

Amadeu Carvalho<\/strong>\u00a0Amadeu Carvalho presents \u201850 Incognito Faces - Portraits of Absence\u2019, a series of nameless portraits marking the 50th anniversary of Cape Verde's independence. Created with pigments from the Fogo volcano, the faces inhabit the border between presence and disappearance. It is in their anonymity that the power of a plural history is inscribed, made up of silences, absences and untold lives.<\/p>\n

Carlos Noronha Feio<\/strong>\u00a0Carlos Noronha Feio closes this tour with a sound and visual installation in which Cape Verde and the Atlantic listen to each other. \u2018A building is made of more than memories of ancestors...\u2019 proposes an immersive experience through sound and image. The sea, the echoes, the noises become the subject of sensitive listening - between islands, journeys and imagined returns.<\/p>\n

\u2018Transatlantic Cartographies\u2019 reveals how the archipelago extends beyond its physical borders, expanding in the voices and practices of those who, from the outside, continue to inhabit it affectively. These artists draw alternative maps, where the territory is experienced as a pulse, language and gesture - in a geography where distance does not diminish belonging, but expands it.<\/p>\n

It can be visited from 20th June to 19th July. It is curated by Ricardo Barbosa Vicente (technical and cultural advisor at the Embassy of Cape Verde in Portugal) and Jo\u00e3o Serr\u00e3o (director and programmer of the Loul\u00e9 City Council Municipal Art Galleries).<\/p>\n

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LITERATURE<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Cape Verdean writers\u00a0Jos\u00e9 Luiz Tavares<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0Dina Sal\u00fastio<\/strong>\u00a0are the guests at this event and will present a conference about the country's literature. This initiative will take place at Loul\u00e9's Casa da Cultura - Edif\u00edcio Atl\u00e9tico, on the 21st of June, starting at 17h30, as part of the programme that precedes the days of the Festival.<\/p>\n

Jos\u00e9 Luiz Tavares was born on 10th June, 1967, in Tarrafal, Santiago Island. He studied literature and philosophy, and has collaborated with newspapers and magazines in Cape Verde, Portugal and Brazil.<\/p>\n

Among the various awards he has received, the most notable is the M\u00e1rio Ant\u00f3nio Poetry Prize 2004, awarded by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation to the best work by an African author in Portuguese and from East Timor published in the three-year period 2001-2003, for his first published book, \u2018Para\u00edso Apagado por um Trov\u00e3o\u2019.<\/p>\n

Poet and writer Dina Sal\u00fastio was born on the island of Santo Ant\u00e3o (1941). A founding partner of the Association of Cape Verdean Writers, the Cape Verdean Society of Authors, a founding member of the Cape Verdean Academy of Letters and the Cape Verde PEN Club, she is also a member of the Sergipana Academy of Letters (Brazil) and Vice-President of the Brazilian Society of Latin Culture for Cape Verde. Among others, she was awarded the 1st Prize for Children's Literature in Cape Verde (1994), the Prize for Children's Literature in Portuguese-speaking African Countries (2000), the Rosalia de Castro Prize for Literature in Portuguese - PEN Galicia, Spain (2016), and the RDP Africa Prize for Literature for Lusophony (2021). The PEN Award England (2018) was awarded for the translation of her novel \u2018A Louca de Serrano\u2019.<\/p>\n

As part of \u2018Falas Afrikanas\u2019, a publishing project for African works and authors, a catalogue of the country's literary production will be presented.<\/p>\n

The \u2018Poetry of the World\u2019 initiative, coordinated by Jo\u00e3o Pedro Cali\u00e7o \u2018Tap\u00e9\u2019, is back and this time the focus will be on Cape Verde. In the MED Cinema space, poems and prose by Cape Verdean authors will be recited, both in Portuguese and in Creole, as well as from other nationalities.<\/p>\n

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STREET ARTS, CRAFTS, GASTRONOMY<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

The streets and alleys of Loul\u00e9's Historic Centre will be lined with entertainment groups performing traditional artistic expressions and rhythms such as tabanca, s\u00e3o djon, batuque and txabeta, mixing dances and drums. The performers will interact with the public, inviting them to take part in their own choreographies<\/p>\n

At MED Kids, the space next to Largo da Matriz dedicated to the youngest, storyteller Adriano Reis will present the initiative \u2018Stera - Na Boka Noti\u2019, in which he will share Cape Verdean children's stories and games with the junior audience.<\/p>\n

Potters Isabel Sanches and Edna Sanches Cabral will be at the Cabo Verde \u2018P\u00e1tio\u2019 every day to bring unique pieces to life and show a little of this ancestral art. The pieces will also be created during children's pottery workshops, allowing for connections with traditions and new audiences.<\/p>\n

As far as gastronomy is concerned, on the \u2018Open Day\u2019 (free admission), Sunday 29th June, the Alcaidaria do Castelo will host a show-cooking event with\u00a0show-cooking<\/em>Cape Verdean\u00a0chefs Milocas and F\u00e1tima Moreno<\/strong>\u00a0, who will show how to cook some typical dishes.<\/p>\n

Some of the city's restaurants, including the historic Caf\u00e9 Calcinha, will include dishes with Cape Verdean flavours on their menus.<\/p>\n

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During the presentation, the Mayor of Loul\u00e9, V\u00edtor Aleixo, emphasised the involvement of the Cape Verdean community that has lived in the municipality for around 50 years.\u00a0\u2018We are fortunate to have in Loul\u00e9 a community that came here, that fought, that helped the prosperity of the municipality of Loul\u00e9, that integrated marvellously. The fact that we are dedicating this edition of MED to Cape Verdean culture, in which the citizens of Cape Verde are also honoured, is something very beautiful,\u2019<\/em><\/strong>he said.<\/p>\n

Ana Pires, the Embassy's Foreign Affairs Officer, spoke about the importance of this initiative, which was welcomed from the very beginning by the former ambassador, now minister, Eurico Monteiro: \u2018\u00a0\u2018MED is a festival without borders and Cape Verde couldn't be left out. A team was set up at the Embassy, formed by Ricardo Barbosa and Zaida Sanches, who believed in this project. We found this event to be a \u2018stage\u2019 for us to promote Cape Verde in different cultural areas, because we don't just have well-known singers like Ces\u00e1ria \u00c9vora, but also other artists from other areas who should be known for their practice and the role they play in our society.\u2019<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Singer Carmen Souza was also at the event. The Cape Verdean singer will be at the Cineteatro Louletano next Saturday for a concert as part of the final presentation of the MED programme.\u00a0\u2018As a Cape Verdean artist and as a woman who carries a mestizo and global heritage in her voice and body, I feel deeply honoured to be part of this moment. Seeing Cape Verde as a guest country at a festival like MED - which values diversity, authenticity and the encounter between worlds - is a beautiful recognition of the cultural richness of our islands,\u2019<\/em><\/strong>she said.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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