MINAR TOUR

To kick off the Festival’s activities, we propose occupying different spaces in the city of Coimbra through various artistic activities. The starting point will be Casa da Esquina, with a screening of documentaries about lithium mining in Portugal and Chile and a Q&A with the directors. Afterwards, we will walk to Escadas Monumentais for a performance by the artist Kácio Santo. The evening of the first day of the Festival will end at Liquidâmbar, with a poetry soiree and an exhibition depicting the changes to landscapes, rhythms, and ways of life caused by mining, seen from the sensitive perspective of the artists.

18:30 | Paradocma session: MINAR mini docs
Venue: Casa da Esquina

Black Mountain Argemela | 5 min
Acampamento em Defesa do Barroso [Camp in Defence of Barroso] | 5min
Maricunga: Ecosistema Amenazado por la Minería del Litio [Maricunga: Ecosystem Damaged by Lithium Mining] | 29 min
Processados [Processed] | 51 min
Q&A | 30 min

20:30 | Performance Braceada
Venue: Escadas Monumentais

Synopsis: Braceada is a performance about making way with your arms. It is a way of thinking about the structural racism that captures black labour power. It is a denunciation of the black intellectual epistemicide that pushes our bodies downhill. Braceada is a dance: when you fall, you patiently slip to avoid intellectual extractivism. Braceada is escape. It is a struggle. It seems solitary, but it carries an entire community of ancestors on its back. They are intense arms that dig into the ground to make hopes and revolutions spring up. It opens cracks. It cracks poetry. It fights the evil eye. Braceada is a performance made with faith and fire. Braceada is the black body rising up against reinforced concrete. Standing up. Caring to continue making future dances. Creation and performance: Kácio Santos, Artista investigartigador (dance artist, PhD candidate in Education UFPI/CES)

21:30 | Opening Sarau
Venue: Liquidâmbar Bar
Poetic, Musical and Artistic Open Mic

Venue: TAGV | Gil Vicente Academic Theatre

This activity is part of the ParaDocma  film festival (5th edition)  and the Cinema and Documentary Show  MINAR - Machinations of the World: Mining, Affections and Resistances