Exhibition “Alcoutim Children’s Summer Camp (1959-1962)”

CCDR Algarve headquarters, Praça da Liberdade 2, in Faro

Exhibition based on research and publication by Dr. Celina Moura Arroz, which reconstructs a social event in the history of the community in the municipality of Alcoutim, which was the founding of a bathing colony for school-age children on Monte Gordo beach, between 1959 and 1962. It is the exhibition with which the Alcoutim Municipal Museum participated in the regional project entitled “The Sea”, by the Algarve Museum Network.

With the main objective of integrating a strategy of decentralization of the Municipal Museum’s cultural actions, this traveling exhibition will be on display at the CCDR Algarve Headquarters, Praça da Liberdade 2, in Faro, from the 3rd to the 27th of November and its official opening will be at 4.00 p.m., on November 3th.

Photo exhibition “Cerro dos Noivos”

de Paulo Martins

Casa dos Condes – Carlos Brito Municipal Library, Rua 1º de maio, Alcoutim

The project “Cerro dos Noivos” is made up of 13 photographs, collected by the author in November 2021 when he accompanied his parents “to the land”, place of Balurcos (Cercado), to help them pick olives, on a small plot of land located on a hill with the same name.

Due to his paternal family connection, trips to Alcoutim, more precisely to the place of Balurcos (Cercado), where his father is from, are frequent and with photography as his passion, the author recorded the moment with the intention of creating memories that he did not have.

From the experience, the author explains that “at the same time as I helped with the olive picking, I was recording the manual work involved in the entire process and my mother’s delivery at that moment, as if it were a ceremony. Strangely enough, or not, coincidence, the land is known as “Cerro dos Noivos”, at times I found myself looking at my mother arranging the white blankets under the olive trees, as if it were a wedding veil. The photographs are the testimonies that record my mother and her inner strength, which, despite her 76 years of age, contrasted with the fragility of my father (the “groom”), shown in the last photograph of the project”.

Exhibition “Cerâmicas de Alcoutim, a quarter of a century: 1997 – 2022”

A Venda de Alcoutim, on Av.ª Duarte Pacheco, Alcoutim

The Cerâmicas de Alcoutim studio was established in Monte de Cortes Pereiras in 1997, a family project, founded by the couple António Teixeira and Isabel Ferreira and dedicated to the production of ceramics, including decorative and utilitarian pottery, artistic and sculptural ceramics and tile-making.

To celebrate the quarter of a century of this very special atelier, the Museu Municipal/Municipality of Alcoutim presents the exhibition “Ceramics of Alcoutim, a quarter of a century: 1997 – 2022” in a new space dedicated to the promotion of endogenous resources, “A Venda de Alcoutim”, located on Avenida Duarte Pacheco, in Alcoutim (37°28’15.6″N 7°28’16.5″W).

All the texts in this exhibition are a dialogue between the narrator and Isabel Ferreira, who tells us the most important things about “Cerâmicas de Alcoutim” in the first person.

It will be inaugurated on September 8th, at 12 pm, together with the new space “A Venda de Alcoutim“, integrated into the program of the official celebrations of Municipality Day.

Photo exhibition “Viagem ao Algarve”

Casa dos Condes – Carlos Brito Municipal Library, Rua 1º de maio, Alcoutim

The Regional Directorate of Culture of the Algarve (DRCAlg, presents, on September 8th, at 2:45 pm, at the Casa dos Condes – Carlos Brito Municipal Library – , in Alcoutim, the literary itinerary of Alcoutim, from the “Saramago Literary Route in the Algarve”. This moment will also be marked by the inauguration of the photographic exhibition “Viagem ao Algarve”, a project by the association 1/4 Escuro, Association of Amateur Photographers of Vila Real de Santo António (VRSA), supported by DRCAlg, and carried out in collaboration with the Fundação José Saramago, and the Algarve Tourism Board, which is now hosted by the Alcoutim City Council, as part of the Alcoutim Municipal Festivities celebrations.

The “Viagem ao Algarve” exhibition has already toured Vila Real de Santo António, Castro Marim, Lepe (Huelva), Olhão and Tavira, and will cover all the municipalities that make up the “Saramago Literary Route in the Algarve”.

These projects are an opportunity to make known a territory that has inspired several writers, namely the places, monuments, landscapes, flavors and people, but also to promote the Algarve as a destination for literary tourism.

The motto for creating the itineraries, the so-called “Saramago Literary Route in the Algarve”, was the desire to reflect on the territory: if that was the Algarve seen, in 1980, by José Saramago, what will the Algarve look like now? Seen through the eyes of author Diego Mesa. The challenge for the photographers participating in the project was to visit the aforementioned Algarve municipalities and be inspired, photographically, by the texts written by José Saramago during his visit to the Algarve. The photographer from the Algarve, André Boto, distinguished by the FEP – Federation of Professional European Photographers as “European Photographer of the Year” in 2023, participates in the project with Silves’ photography and with the editing of the remaining photographs selected for the exhibition.

Rogério Neves painting exhibition

Casa dos Condes, Alcoutim

Monday to Friday, except holidays

9.30 a.m — 1.00 p.m. | 2.p.m. — 5.00 p.m.

Exhibition “Aqueducts of Portugal: Water and Heritage”, by Pedro Inácio

Casa dos Condes, Alcoutim

Monday to Friday, except holidays

9:30 am — 1:00 pm | 2:00 pm — 5:00 pm

The exhibition includes photographs that result from the photographic survey, started in 2007, by the museologist Pedro Inácio, within the scope of the research work that culminated in the publication of the book “Patrimóvel Cultural da Água-Roteiro de Aquedutos” edited, in 2021, by the City Council de Mafra and institutionally supported by the National Commission of UNESCO and by the Water Museum of EPAL.

Through this exhibition, we travel through one of the most relevant testimonies of our historical and cultural heritage, highlighting the importance of these ancient gravity water supply systems, of which the Conímbriga aqueduct, built during the Roman Empire, in the 1st century AD, stands out, as well as as some hydraulic works classified as World Heritage (namely in Elvas, Évora, Mafra and Tomar).

Pedro Inácio was born in Lisbon, has a degree in Historical Sciences and a Master’s Degree in Museology and Heritage and is currently a Museologist and Conservator of the EPAL Water Museum.

From May 3 to 10, the Religious Art Museum is closed to the public.

We thank you for your understanding and invite you to visit the other museums of the Alcoutim Municipal Museum.

On April 24th, the Commemoration of April 25th, 2023 continues, with a more pedagogical action; guided tours to the “Carlos Brito – life and work” exhibition for primary school students.

We recall that the aforementioned exhibition is open to the public at Praça da República, in Alcoutim, to commemorate the life and work of Carlos Alfredo de Brito, in its political, social and literary facets, and was inaugurated on February 11th, by his 90th anniversary.

The Municipality of Alcoutim starts next Saturday, April 22nd, the commemoration program for the 49th anniversary of the Revolução dos Cravos. To mark this event, the municipality has prepared several initiatives:

• April 22nd, 21:30 – Theater and Music Show “Café Boate Chiado 74”, which aims to portray the dawn of April 25, 1974 in Lisbon, in the Chiado district. The show is free to enter, at Espaço Guadiana in Alcoutim.
• April 24th, 10:00 am – Guided Tours by Basic Education Students to the Exhibition “Carlos Brito – Life and Work”, at Praça da República.
• April 25th , 10:00 am – Official celebrations of the 49th anniversary of the 25th of April with its own program that can be consulted here.

The date in question also marks the start of the celebrations of the 50th anniversary of the 25th of April, for which the municipality is developing a project on the theme “Freedom”, consisting of various actions to be developed in the 2023-2024 biennium.

The Commemoration of April 25, 2023, begins on April 22 with the show Café Boate Chiado 74, on stage at 9.30 pm, at Espaço Guadiana, in Alcoutim.

This show aims to portray the dawn of April 25, 1974 in Lisbon in the Chiado district. At the Boate Chiado 74 café, with live music and dancers, news of MFA movements can be heard on the radios, as well as news brought by local people who enter the café.

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