quinta-feira, 22 de outubro de 2026
quarta-feira, 21 de outubro de 2026
PARA DIAS MAIORES | UMA VISITA AO SITE DA POETRY FOUNDATION ACRESCENTA |«It is easy to pretend the world stops careening forward in a place like this. The air smells like birch, oak, and pine.»
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«(...)The Paimio Lounger is bentwood and not metal for a number of reasons, or we can tell ourselves a number of stories. Bentwood was then a fairly new industrialized technology, pioneered in furniture by the German-Austrian maker Michael Thonet, but Aalto wanted something softer and more natural than metal. We are told this by labels at MoMA, for example, which in 1938 gave Aalto his first museum exhibition, just three years after its show of Le Corbusier’s recent work. We need to imagine the Finnish timber industry and the splayed wings of the Paimio Sanatorium sitting in the forest mean something—that they result in softness of form, bent wood instead of metal, but also in a national character. We tell ourselves that in the Finnish forest where Paimio Loungers are, whether you live or you die, there’s a sort of gentle modernity to it, something linked to Finnish design in the American imagination.
Bentwood warms to the touch. The patient’s back against the chair lets them rest and breathe. Tangere me, touch me, says the modern-yet-pliable chair back for the end of breathing. Noli me tangere, touch me not, says tuberculosis, says sanatorium, says Paimio, 148 kilometers from Helsinki. Plagues are historically a sign of the end of the world. We all remember 2020 and not breathing. I think of W.H. Auden, who writes about the dog days of the Roman Empire in his poem “Under Sirius,” which takes as its subject the sixth century Merovingian court poet Venantius Fortunatus, who was not especially fortunate. Here are the first two verses: (...)
Bertolt Brecht, you were right: we sing about the dark times, in at least two languages, sprawled on the white wood floors of the kind of planned, tidy little apartments for which this furniture of exquisite proportion was made. The neighborhood is half functionalist, bright apartment towers, half postcard-perfect wooden cottages initially built for laborers, nudged against housing thrown up for the 1952 Helsinki Olympics. It is easy to pretend the world stops careening forward in a place like this. The air smells like birch, oak, and pine. (...)».
sábado, 17 de outubro de 2026
quarta-feira, 14 de outubro de 2026
ERNEST HEMINGWAY|«O Velho e o mar»
Descrição: «
Santiago, um velho pescador cubano, está há quase três meses sem conseguir pescar um único peixe, quando o seu isco é finalmente mordido por um enorme espadarte. O peixe imponente resiste, arrasta a sua canoa cada vez mais para o alto mar, na corrente do Golfo, e obriga a uma luta agonizante de três dias que o velho Santiago acabará por vencer, para logo se ver derrotado. Com uma linguagem de grande simplicidade e força, Hemingway retrata nesta aventura poética a coragem humana perante as dificuldades e o triunfo alcançado apesar da perda. Comovente romance, obra-prima de maturidade de Hemingway, O Velho e o Mar recebeu o Prémio Pulitzer em 1952 e desempenhou um papel essencial na obtenção pelo seu autor, dois anos mais tarde, do Prémio Nobel de Literatura». Saiba mais.
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Hemingway posa com um Marlin em Havana Harbor, Cuba,
em julho de 1934 (John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum/Ernest Hemingway Collection)
Daquiexcerto:«(...) Para além dos aspectos biográficos e alegóricos, a obra ainda guarda uma grande atualidade, na opinião do escritor, jornalista e crítico literário José Castello. “O romance trata da solidão – e, apesar da alta tecnologia que nos conecta, nunca estivemos tão sozinhos. Trata de uma luta desesperada. Num tempo de guerras, êxodos forçados e ameaças atômicas, também o desespero exige de nós uma grande abnegação”, afirma. “Trata, enfim, da experiência da derrota, e num país que se desmonta, num mundo que parece prestes a explodir, poucas vezes nos sentimos tão vencidos.”».
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segunda-feira, 12 de outubro de 2026
HOJE NA GULBENKIAN | FILME |«Guardiões do Património Natural»
FILME
Guardiões do Património Natural
Seg, 12 out, 17:30, Estúdio – CAM, Entrada gratuita
Em antecipação da COP17, que decorre de 19 a 30 de outubro na Arménia, a Fundação Gulbenkian apresenta, em antestreia, Guardiões do Património Natural, documentário que dá a conhecer o trabalho de organizações que se dedicam à conservação da natureza e à proteção da biodiversidade em Portugal. Saiba mais.
domingo, 11 de outubro de 2026
«Rooted in Resilience – How Culture Shapes Climate Resilience in the UAE»
«In partnership with the Ministry of Culture UAE, the British Council has co-commissioned a first-of-its-kind baseline analysis of culture-based climate action in the UAE.
hrough a deeply participatory and place-based approach, the research captures diverse perspectives from almost 50 cultural organisations, as well as cultural and environmental practitioners, policymakers and stakeholders across the Emirates.
The research aims to mobilise collective, people-centred climate action for resilience, while also advocating for culture in all its forms to be embedded in existing climate policy mechanisms at a national level, such as National Adaptation Plans (NAPs) and Nationally-Determined Contributions (NDCs). It will also support the development of a national policy of culture and climate change that aligns with global integration of cultural activities into climate change policies at UNESCO and the UNFCCC.
The report provides inspiration for policymakers to embed culture into climate policies and climate into cultural policies, and explore creative solutions to the climate emergency. It builds on the efforts of the Group of Friends for Culture-Based Climate Action (GFCBCA), co-chaired by the Ministries of Culture of the UAE and Brazil, of which British Council is a proud knowledge partner.
The results will be highly valuable in encouraging a cross-sectoral and inclusive approach to policymaking related to climate through culture, arts and heritage, in the UAE and beyond.
The report has been featured at both MONDIACULT 2025 – the UNESCO World Conference on Cultural Policies and Sustainable Development – and the UNFCCC Conference of Parties (COP30) in Belem, Brazil. The report is due to be launched at a National Dialogue between the Ministries of Culture and Climate Change and Environment in the UAE, followed by a series of events in partnership with cultural, education and environmental partners in different Emirates including workshops, festivals, conferences, and interactive dialogues». Saiba mais.
hrough a deeply participatory and place-based approach, the research captures diverse perspectives from almost 50 cultural organisations, as well as cultural and environmental practitioners, policymakers and stakeholders across the Emirates.
The research aims to mobilise collective, people-centred climate action for resilience, while also advocating for culture in all its forms to be embedded in existing climate policy mechanisms at a national level, such as National Adaptation Plans (NAPs) and Nationally-Determined Contributions (NDCs). It will also support the development of a national policy of culture and climate change that aligns with global integration of cultural activities into climate change policies at UNESCO and the UNFCCC.
The report provides inspiration for policymakers to embed culture into climate policies and climate into cultural policies, and explore creative solutions to the climate emergency. It builds on the efforts of the Group of Friends for Culture-Based Climate Action (GFCBCA), co-chaired by the Ministries of Culture of the UAE and Brazil, of which British Council is a proud knowledge partner.
The results will be highly valuable in encouraging a cross-sectoral and inclusive approach to policymaking related to climate through culture, arts and heritage, in the UAE and beyond.
The report has been featured at both MONDIACULT 2025 – the UNESCO World Conference on Cultural Policies and Sustainable Development – and the UNFCCC Conference of Parties (COP30) in Belem, Brazil. The report is due to be launched at a National Dialogue between the Ministries of Culture and Climate Change and Environment in the UAE, followed by a series of events in partnership with cultural, education and environmental partners in different Emirates including workshops, festivals, conferences, and interactive dialogues». Saiba mais.
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