Quintas de Leitura

Two friends, Daniel Maia-Pinto Rodrigues and João Gesta, meet again twenty years later in (almost) poetic fashion. Gesta believes it is possible to change the world; Daniel will settle for the world not changing him. The same feverish attitude unites them though: the relentless search — through words— for the path to freedom, love (read also humour) and knowledge, life’s sacred commandments. They learned together that beauty is always convulsive, they get emotional over the smile of mad people and the innocence of children, they know only imagination upsets, they let themselves be blinded by the light of the poem. The ten o’clock mass in the voices and gestures of many accomplices: Sandra Salomé and Isaque Ferreira (readings), Filipa Leal (stirring the discussion with the invited authors), Cláudia R. Sampaio (image), Mafalda Gonçalves (aerial dance), Birds Are Indie (music), Patrícia Costa (voice) and João Salcedo (piano).