From July 14th to 22nd, the international film festival will once again occupy the northern coastal city with a diversified program, intersecting cinema, music and visual arts. Films, exhibitions, debates, concerts, master classes, workshops, video and library. In July, Vila do Conde will be again a meeting point for several agents of the film industry, programmers, journalists, filmmakers, and, of course, a wide audience.

As usual, the festival presents an audacious program that aims to defy not only geographic boundaries, with films coming from Pakistan to Romania, United States or Iran, but also disciplinary boundaries, promoting an intersection between cinema and the other artistic practices. From July 14th to 22nd, the place where cinema doesn't hide, it's in the north, it's Vila do Conde.

Opening Session
The 26th edition of Curtas Vila do Conde opens on July 14th, at 6:00 p.m., with the national premiere of the latest film by Gabriel Abrantes and Daniel Schimdt, Diamantino. Awarded in the last edition of Cannes Festival, the film tells the tragi-comic history of a football player by the end of his carreer.

The Incredibles 2 opens Curtinhas
Curtinhas, the festival's section dedicated to children, opens with The Incredibles 2: Os Super-Heróis on Saturday, July 14th, 3:00 p.m., at Teatro Municipal de Vila do Conde. This mini-festival within the festival will also have a short-film competition, several workshops and the Espaço Infantil Brincar ao Cinema, a place where parents can drop their kids while they attend the film sessions.

Stereo: music and cinema
The section Stereo, where music meets cinema, will held concerts by Black Bombaim and João Pais Filipe (14 JUL), Joana Gama and Luís Fernandes (18 JUL), Moor Mother and Jonathan Uliel Saldanha (19 JUL), B Fachada (20 JUL) and Linda Martini (21 JUL). Tickets are at sale at Teatro Municipal de Vila do Conde and online.

In Focus: Nadav Lapid
Nadav Lapid is the director In Focus at the 26th edition of Curtas Vila do Conde. The director will be at Vila do Conde to present his films. In 2016, Nadav Lapid won the principal award of the festival with From the Diary of a Wedding Photographer

Competitions
The several competitions - Portuguese, International, Experimental, Curtinhas, Music Videos and Take One!, will be, once again, the core of the festival, introducing the best of the contemporary cinema in all its splendor and diversity.

From Shorts to Features
This section presents four awaited films: Le Monde est à Toi, by Romain Gavras; Un Couteau Dans le Coeur, by Yann Gonzalez; The Green Fog, by Guy Maddin, E. Johnson and G. Johnson and also Diamantino, by Gabriel Abrantes and Daniel Schmidt, that will open the festival.

Exhibition New Spain
Solar – Cinematic Art Gallery presents New Spain, a collective exhibition by the new generation of Spanish authors: Carla Andrade, Inés García, Laida Lertxundi, Lois Patiño, Natalia Marín e Samuel M. Delgado and Helena Girón. Opening: July 14th, 4pm.

Curtas Productions
The festival also presents a special session titled Curtas Productions that includes the films Rio Entre As Montanhas, by José Magro; Circo do Amor, by Miguel Clara Vasconcelos, e Náufragos, by Pedro Neves. All of them resulting from the work developed by Curtas Metragens CRL through the year.

Shorts for everyone!
Curtas presents Short-films for Everyone with several sessions for all audiences, with free entrance. From 16th to 20th of July, at 2:30 p.m., at the Auditório Municipal de Vila do Conde.

This is the first collective Portuguese art exhibition of the 21st century to be presented in the United States until July 31st.

"Second Nature" aims to be a portrait of the recent artistic production in Portugal and an exploration of the relationship between human culture and the environment. The result is a unique portrait of the country's artistic production over the past fifty years, a period in which the idea that nature has undergone profound change. In this context, artists are the first to understand nature as a subject that is essentially produced by humans, a subject to be captured, filtered and reinvented by technical means that include the tools of painting, sculpture and photography. The artist's gaze is itself the creator of a "second nature," one that no longer belongs to "natural nature," but which is in the realm of art.

The exhibition brings together works created over the past two decades by 19 artists from different generations, each employing modern technologies and materials to capture, filter and reinvent the natural world, generating a "second nature."
In the Kreeger Museum are represented a panoply of consecrated Portuguese artists among them, Alberto Carneiro, Gabriela Albergaria, Julião Sarmento, Vasco Araújo, Alexandre Estrela or Fernando Calhau, just to name a few. The exhibition, which includes 38 works, is the first to go on a tour from the Lisbon Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology (MAAT) to the world. The curator of this artistic estate was in charge of the art historian Luísa Especial and the director of the MAAT Pedro Gadanho, former curator of the Department of Architecture and Design of the Museum of Modern Art of New York. All artwork were taken from the EDP Foundation's art collection, a compilation of contemporary Portuguese works comprising the permanent collection of MAAT.

For Helen Chason, director of the Kreeger Museum, it was an honor to "collaborate in this important exhibition with the Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology, an innovative and interdisciplinary cultural center." "Second Nature" continues this museum's long tradition of presenting diverse currents in contemporary art to Washington's international community. The exploration of artists' treatment of nature is especially appropriate as we continue to integrate the exhibition space of the museum with its surrounding forests. "

The Kreeger Museum is located in the former residence of Carmen and David Kreeger, in Washington DC, USA. Designed by renowned architect Philip Johnson, it is a museum space that houses a permanent nineteenth century collection of 20th century painting, sculpture and notable examples of traditional African and Asian art.

https://www.kreegermuseum.org/exhibitions/event/Second-Nature-Portuguese-Contemporary-Art-from-the-EDP-Foundation-Collection-2018-06-05

After all the radio signals emitted from space may not be extraterrestrial, in a paper publish in the Physical Review Letters, from João Rosa's work from the Department of Physics of the University of Aveiro.

They are known among the astronomers by Rapid Radio Impulses (RRI) originating in the largest light explosions of deep space and detected on Earth in the form of very short radio signals, the nature of the impulses has been said a little bit, since they are emitted by alien beings until they are generated by neutron stars. But the mystery may be undone. João Rosa, a physicist at the University of Aveiro (UA), points out that, after all, the signals can be generated by the dark matter itself in the form of axions and black holes as old as the Universe itself.

Published this month in the prestigious Physical Review Letters with honors of "Editors' Suggestion," a distinction attributed to about one in six articles published in this journal, the work of the investigator of the Department of Physics and the Center for Research and Development in Mathematics and Applications from the UA point out a possible new solution to a mystery that has lasted since 2007, the year the first of those radio signals was detected. That year, more than thirty explosions followed by so many radio signals, many of them emitted more than a billion years ago in galaxies several hundred million light-years from Earth, were recorded.
"About thirty of such explosions, these RRI are known in the international scientific community as Fast Radio Bursts (FRB)] have been observed by telescopes in the last decade and, despite the many theories proposed to explain them, their origin remained unknown ", describes João Rosa whose work has now been published in collaboration with American researcher Thomas Kephart of Vanderbilt University.

Explosion of thousand million suns

The explanation for the phenomenon of the FRB came about by chance. João Rosa tried to show that, contrary to the postulate until today by the international scientific community, the instability of the black holes in rotation leads to the emission of electromagnetic radiation. Moreover, this instability, which gives rise to a cloud of axions in a curious donut shape around the black hole, not only emits radiation but this is the largest of which there is record in the Universe. "It's an explosion of electromagnetic radiation equivalent to a thousand million suns," says João Rosa.

In fact, according to João Rosa, "the combination of two of the most popular candidates to explain the mysterious dark matter that permeates the Universe, axons and primordial black holes can generate some of the brightest explosions in the Universe."
The primordial black holes were originally postulated by Hawking in 1971 and formed shortly after the Big Bang following the gravitational collapse of regions of extremely high density.

"These black holes may be much smaller and lighter than known black holes with mass above the Sun. If these black holes are produced in a large enough number in the primordial Universe, they may also explain a significant fraction of the dark matter, probably not explaining it in its entirety, "he describes.

When two of these black holes meet, the Physics Department investigator points out, "they form a binary system and eventually collide and form a new, heavier black hole and typically rotate quickly over itself." If axions exist and are light enough, they can cause this new rotating black hole to become unstable. "This super radiant instability, as it is known, forces the black hole to reduce its speed of rotation by producing axons in its vicinity, in the form of a dense cloud of axons around the black hole, approximately in the shape of a 'donut', "he says.

Doors open to study dark matter

"Although this instability had been predicted theoretically for over four decades, until now no one had considered the fact that the axons themselves are unstable particles, and may decay into pairs of photons, some elemental constituents of light. Although the probability of this decay occurring spontaneously is small, such that an axion has an average life above the age of the Universe, the decay of an axon can be stimulated by the passage of a photon, "the investigator describes.

Each of the photons resulting from this decay can thus find a new axion as it travels within the cloud of axons and stimulate its decay, producing two new photons that may in turn stimulate the decay of more axions, and so on. This 'domino effect', he compares, 'is very similar to what happens in a typical laser, leading to the production of a very large number of photons.'

João Rosa showed in this work that the clouds of axions formed around small primordial black holes may be so dense that a small number of photons will suffice to stimulate the decay of a very large number of axons, producing an extremely powerful and luminous laser.

"We called this new phenomenon a" BLAST "because of its explosive nature, since a cloud of axons can reach great luminosity in a very short time, at the end of which fails to withstand the very strong electromagnetic field generated by the laser in its interior and the laser 'off'.

"Our analysis has also revealed something quite surprising that BLASTs may have already been observed. For axions to naturally explain most of the dark matter in the Universe, its mass should be about fifty billion times less than that of the electron. In this case, we predicted that the BLASTs will correspond to electromagnetic explosions in the radio range, with frequencies of the order of GHz and duration of only a few milliseconds, shining in this short period as about one billion suns, "says the paper.

About thirty such explosions known as FRB have been observed by telescopes in the last decade, and despite the many theories proposed to explain them, their origin remains unknown.

"Our results thus suggest that these powerful celestial explosions may originate in dark matter itself, in the form of axions and primordial black holes," says João Rosa. This could thus "constitute a new astrophysical laboratory to test the nature of dark matter, its role in elementary particle physics, and also the extreme conditions in the Universe shortly after the Big Bang."

On June 20th, at 6 pm, the new temporary exhibition of the artist Manuel Barata, entitled "Cosmos and Beyond - Part One" curated by Cida Demarchi, will be inaugurated at the Henrique and Francisco Franco Museum, in Funchal

The exhibition will be open until October 31st and will be presented in three phases. The first phase is composed of 10 works of gestural abstractionism and will begin on June 20, being open to the public until July 20th, the second phase runs from August 30th to September 28 featuring 10 works of gestural abstractionism, both phases are part of a retrospective, and finally the third phase runs from October 4 and runs through November 31st, presenting 10 works of gestural abstraction referring to the current moment.

Fugitive, the revelation of Portuguese hip hop launches his album of debut "Cara & Coroa", having as single "Par" feat. Sofia Dutra and a video clip with the participation of the actress Dânia Neto and filming and edition of Cheezy Ramalho.

The album features the production of long-time partner Guesswho, who signs 14 tracks out of 16, with the remainder being in charge of Reis and EMS. Being that Fugitivo counts on one more participation besides Sofia Dutra, the DJ Sims.
Mixing and mastering will take place at Soundivision Studios, with Rodrigo Rodrigues at the helm.Fugitive is not new in these wanderings and with the themes "Meet you", "De Pé" and "Dead", I take you to the recognition of the national hip hop panorama.

The Salon Empress Sissy Orchestra is pleased to present several concerts that will be held outdoors in the magnificent garden of Quinta do Imperador, in the parish of Monte, in Funchal.

With the possibility of choosing, on the day that suits you best:
June 10th
June 24th
July 1st
Starting at 4:30 pm, come and enjoy a Sunday afternoon with your family under the fabulous view over Funchal.

Tickets for Residents:
CHILDREN do not pay until the age of 10
Family package - 4 adults for 30 € children do not pay until 10 years old.
Resident couple - for € 20
Individual resident - for 15 €

The book fair of Funchal, in the Arriaga Avenue, will be field with many words, music and lots of conversation over books and their authors.

"Faith & Wine", the song that is currently in the finals of the prestigious International Songwriting Competition and serves as a preview for their debut album "Hopes & Dreams", reached number 1 in the iTunes Singer-Songerwriter Table

The ISC competition has about 16,000 submissions each year, being only the first 10 to reach the finals and at the hands of judges such as Tom Waits, Keane, Lord and Grant Lee Phillips. The song "Faith & Wine" is in this first batch of 10 songs in 2 distinct categories (Folk / Singer-Songwriter and Unsigned Only). The final results of the competition will be announced and announced in April.

On June 8th, the Angrense Theater receives Cristóvam for a concert of presentation of Hopes & Dreams, with the support of the Municipality of Angra do Heroísmo. In the concert in question, the public will be entitled to the exclusive purchase of the disc, which is scheduled to be released on September 28 and will be accompanied by a solo tour.

Workshops on the art of stamp inserted in the celebrations of the International Day of Museums 2018, in Viseu. 

In this workshop will be explored materials and techniques of plastic expression common to the Postal Art as well as the important information of the regulation of postal delivery will be transmitted with regard to Postal Art. We will also have time for a brief conversation about some important plastic artists of this area with visualization and analysis of some works as well as a guided tour of the exhibition.
In this workshop, artistic objects will be created as a purpose to be sent to international artists.

Tools and materials will be available to trainees, however it is advisable to bring your own material to increase productivity. The tools and materials to be explored in the workshop are:
scissors, scalpels and x-acts
miscellaneous papers and cartons
glues and self-adhesive tapes
magazines, newspapers and books to cut
markers, ballpoint pens and pencils

19.05.2018 | 15.00
WORKSHOP
MailArt & ArtByMail
Quinta da Cruz, Viseu, Portugal
M.14 / 2h
postal art and mail art for young people and adults

20.05.2018 | 10.30
WORKSHOP
MailArt & ArtByMail
Quinta da Cruz, Viseu, Portugal
M.6 / 2h
postal art and mail art for children and families

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