ARTS AND LEISURE IN THE CITY OF PORTO

The Department of Heritage Sciences and Techniques of the Faculty of Arts of the University of Porto and CITCEM – Transdisciplinary Research Center “Culture, Space and Memory” – are participating in the EUROPEAN HERITAGE DAYS 2019 – Arts, Heritage and LeisureThe event will take place on September 27 with the theme Arts and Leisure in the city of Porto. Taking the city of Porto – a World Heritage Site – as a case study, the scientific day was planned for UP students, the academic community and the general public and aims to reflect on the articulation between cultural habits of leisure and recreation, architecture and the construction of the city.

The program (attached) consists of two parts. The first will take place in the morning at FLUP’s Noble Amphitheatre, with the participation of teachers and alumni from FLUP’s Department of Heritage Sciences and Techniques and researchers from CITCEM. The morning ends with the public presentation of the virtual exhibition Art Portraying Extremism.

In the afternoon there will be a guided tour of some of the venues dedicated to showing movies in the city of Porto. Crossing the history of architecture, urban history and the history of cinema, the route will allow participants to take another look at some of the city’s most striking architectures, as well as disappeared spaces, using multiple records, highlighting their connection with the transformations of the city of Porto in the 21st century.

Google Arts & Cultural’s virtual exhibition, Art Portraying Extremism, promoted and carried out by the American Corners Portugal Program in collaboration with CITCEM, demonstrates how art and history have recorded horror. Visually subtle or intense, the works of art in the exhibition represent the side of humanity that we would prefer not to witness, but which does not cease to exist. The virtual exhibition aims to draw attention to the levels of cruelty present in human nature.

Photos of the event are available at:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/184517092@N03/albums/72157711146569957

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