Marvila Days

Topias Urbanas is an opportunity to see the parish of Marvila in an unexpected way. It consists of three days of performances, walks, games and video projections, designed by a group of artists, architects and social scientists who, for
a period of 10 months, spent time in the area and worked in close contact with some of its residents.

22 to 24 september
Biblioteca de Marvila
10am–10.30pm (friday)
10am–12pm (saturday)
10am–8.30 (sunday)
LS RECYCLE
LS Recycle is a challenge set by a Marvila-based artist. His first exhibition will show the work of this plastic and urban artist, based on recycled materials.

22 september
outside Biblioteca de Marvila
6.30pm
Gustavo Círiaco: Onde o horizonte se move
Performance
Duration: 45 min
Where the horizon moves. In front of the Biblioteca de Marvila, the audience, like the watchmen of the past, will search the horizon to make out figures which emerge blurred by the sun.

22 september
Biblioteca de Marvila
9pm
Quintais de Chelas
Ativação e Transmissão de uma Prática
Talk
Mandatory registration to lilianacoutinho@egeac.pt until 20 september (maximum: 20)
Chelas Vegetable Gardens: Activation and Transmission of a Practice. Topias Urbanas invites you to a meeting at the Quinta das Flores for a conversation on the diversity of Chelas’ vegetable gardens and their role in the lives of those who tend them.

22 september
Biblioteca de Marvila
9.30pm
Assembleia
Rui Catalão
Free admission, tickets must be picked up 1 hour before the show; Duration: 60 min; over 12s
A couple discuss “the problem with housing” and “cohabitation” in the area where they live. The problems they identify can only be solved collectively. A meeting is called – the public take the stage!

23 a 24 september
Biblioteca de Marvila
11am
Coleção de Poemas de Rita Taborda Duarte
com Crista Alfaiate
Free admission, tickets must be picked up 1 hour before the show; duration: 25 min; over 6s
Rita Taborda Duarte Poetry Collection. Following a successful presentation at the beginning of the year, Crista Alfaiate will once again bring to life the poems of Rita Taborda Duarte.

23 september
Biblioteca de Marvila
5pm
Muita tralha, Pouca tralha
A viagem de ida para a grande corrida
Catarina Requeijo
Free admission, tickets must be picked up 1 hour before the show; duration: 30 min; over 3s
Unused to travelling, the Querido couple decide to see their niece Manuela take part in a car race. But before they set off, they need to pack their bags. This is where the problems begin.

23 september
Biblioteca de Marvila
6pm to 8pm
Cartografia em movimento
Deriva pelo bairro e suas temporalidades
Guided Tour
Meeting Point: Biblioteca de Marvila
Cartography in motion: Derived from the neighbourhood and its temporalities. Topias Urbanas offers a walk through the Marquês de Abrantes neighbourhood to get to know some of the different historical periods that have marked
this area, and how they are experienced today. Delivered through sound and image installations positioned along a route marked on a map.

23 september
Biblioteca de Marvila
9.30pm
E Agora Nós
Rui Catalão
Free admission, tickets must be picked up 1 hour before the show; duration: 60 min; over 6s
And Now Us. E Agora Nós is a meeting space for the development of oral drama, with characters in transit from the African coast to the Lisbon suburbs, before their children disperse across the rest of Europe.

23 september
Biblioteca de Marvila
11pm
WPK e Distorção
imagens entre o real e a ficção
Vídeo-projeção / Video projection
Free admission, tickets must be picked up 1 hour before the show
WPK and Distortion: Images between reality and fiction. A video fiction will be presented, produced by a group of young residents, about how Marvila’s neighbourhoods are represented socially along with a videogame that simulates life in Chelas neighbourhoods.

24 september
Praça Raúl Lino, Marvila
4pm
Pantera cor-de-rosa
casa cidade, para lá da utopia e da distopia
Performative Game
Meeting Point: Praça Raúl Lino, Lóios, Marvila
Mandatory registration to lilianacoutinho@egeac.pt until 20 september (maximum: 10)
Pink Panther: hometown, beyond utopia and dystopia. In the 1960s the Pink Panther was built, a housing complex in the Bairro dos Lóios consisting of several buildings which make up a precinct. Topias Urbanas, together with residents, has designed a game.

24 september
Biblioteca de Marvila
5pm
Concerto a muitas Vozes
Free admission, tickets must be picked up 1 hour before the show; over 6s
Concert of many Voices. Children aged between 6 and 12 who want to sing accepted the challenge and rehearsed weekly with maestrina Catarina Braga. After two months of intense preparation, they will finally give their first public performance.

24 septermber
Biblioteca de Marvila
6pm
Humano
Yann Arthus – Bertrand
Free admission, tickets must be picked up 1 hour before the show; over 14s duration: 2h23
Humano is a documentary with stories and images of our world, immersing us in the depths of the human being.

22 to 24 september
Teatro Maria Matos
6pm to 2am
Miniaturas no Teatro
Final-year students at the Escola D. Dinis.
Inspired by artist Slinkachu’s Global Model Village, the final-year students of Escola D. Dinis have constructed stories using miniatures and photography.

22 to 24 september
Teatro Maria Matos
9.30 (wednesday to saturday)
6.30 (sunday)
Moçambique
Mala Voadora
duration: 75 min ; over 16s; 6€ to 12€
Jorge Andrade was born in Mozambique and came to Portugal when he was 4 years old, but in Moçambique (the show) a biography is constructed imagining he had stayed there.

24 september
Teatro Maria Matos
3.30pm–5.30pm
Biblioteca Humana
Free admission, tickets must be picked up 1 hour before the show
Human Library. At these half-hour human library sessions, a group of people with different points of view, values and life paths will be the “books” and are available for conversations with individuals or groups of “readers”.