Starting this Monday, May 8, and until Sunday, May 14, the Florbela Espanca Library hosts another edition of the LeV
Literatura em Viagem takes Gonçalo M. Tavares, João Tordo, Dulce Maria Cardoso, José Eduardo Agualusa, José Milhazes and Kalaf Epalanga to Matosinhos. The initiatives with free entrance also include a gastronomic meeting with chefs Marlene Vieira and Rui Paula.
It has already started with initiatives in schools and with two exhibitions, but as of today the programme of LeV - the Travelling Literature festival, taking place in Matosinhos - intensifies. Once again, the auditorium of the Florbela Espanca Library will host meetings with writers, debates, book presentations and initiatives for children.
This Friday, at 6 p.m., the debate sessions start with a conversation about the "State of the World", which will bring to Matosinhos the geographer Álvaro Domingues, the journalist Carlos Magno and the ambassador Francisco Seixas da Costa.
On Saturday, the trip continues with literature in a meeting with the writer Gonçalo M. Tavares, who will talk with the Councillor for Culture, Fernando Rocha, about the community project promoted by the Matosinhos library with the students of the municipality and which originated the exhibition "100 Textos em Viagem".
"Portugal and the Portuguese" is the theme of the conversation that will bring together the poet António Carlos Cortez and the writer Susana Moreira Marques at 15h30. Later, at 4.30 p.m., there will be a debate on "Days that change the world" in a session with journalist José Milhazes, academic José Pedro Teixeira Fernandes and writer Paulo Moura.
Saturday ends with a conversation to whet the appetite. "A Ferver: Entre pots e tachos uma viagem sentida com sabor" is the motto for the conversation that will bring together writer Francisco José Viegas and chefs Marlene Vieira and Rui Paula.
On Sunday, Minês Castanheira will launch the Literary Guide of Matosinhos, before a meeting that will bring together, from 3:30 pm onwards, writers Dulce Maria Cardoso, Karina Sainz Borgo and José Eduardo Agualusa around the theme of autobiography. Music enters the conversation on Sunday afternoon in a session with the musicians Rita Redshoes and Kalaf Epalanga joined by the writer João Tordo on the theme "But it's beautiful: literature made of music, music that gives rhythm to words".
The festival closes with a panel on "Sentimental and literary geographies", which will bring together writers Ana Bárbara Pedrosa, Sónia Hernandéz and Teolinda Gersão in the auditorium. Besides the talks, the Florbela Espanca Library is hosting the documentary exhibition "The Matosinhos Fishermen's Fight during Fascism", about the 71-day strike that took place in 1959.
Throughout the days of LeV, there are also initiatives in schools. The LeVziho programme foresees, for example, this Friday, a meeting of Mariana Rio and Marta Bernardes with the students of the municipality whose council organises the festival every year.