The second «RESTLESS TALK: can care be subversive?», a proposal curated by the Popular University Commitment and Art – Centre for Social Studies of the University of Coimbra (UPEA-CES) and the Mundus collective, has as theme «Caring for Memory». Bruno Sena Martins (anthropologist/CES researcher), Inês Rodrigues (researcher/CES), Cátia Soares (Faz de Conto), João Santos (Teatrão - "De portas Abertas") and Há Baixa (Saco da Baixa) are the participants of a talk that will be moderated by Catarina Silva (Mundus Collective).

Open access. You can attend in person at Rádio Baixa or follow it live in Linha de Fuga's facebook.
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In a social and economic system based on individualism, how can we think and recreate communities? What connection exists between memory and the construction of collective identities? What is the importance of caring for the past? In the public space, while certain personalities are officially commemorated, others remain invisible, relegated to a marginal existence. What narratives do we reproduce and how do these impact our way of being in the world and the way we project ourselves over time? What fields of possibilities and limits are presented to us by the stories we choose to tell?
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About the initiative
RESTLESS TALKS: can care be subversive?
After a year in which the most heard words were Covid-19 and pandemic, we considered it important to focus the 2022 edition on the Ethics of Care. By wanting to put this issue under discussion, we intend to draw attention to the situations of vulnerability that exist in the world and the inequalities they may cause in terms of inter-social relationships. This is how the first activity of the festival emerges, the Restless Talks, which will take place every month at Radio Baixa. In a joint work between activism and theory, in a place where music becomes an act of occupation of public space, we launched the challenge of collaboration with the Centre for Social Studies of the University of Coimbra, the Mundus collective and Rádio Baixa to promote a set of conversations about «care» in a relationship with the living agents of the city and the festival’s programme.