15th anniversary of the Contemporary Art Center Graça Morais
The Municipality of Bragança marks the 15th anniversary of the Contemporary Art Center Graça Morais (CACGM) with a multifaceted program and diverse activities. Guided tours of exhibitions, musical notes, theatrical performances and graphic recordings are some of the proposed initiatives. The program also highlights the conversation about “The role of CACGM for the social and cultural cohesion of the territory”, moderated by journalist Fátima Campos Ferreira. The celebrations run until June 30th. On the occasion of the anniversary, during these days, entry to the CACGM will be free.
Until June 30th, the Contemporary Art Center Graça Morais opens doors to a program of activities that marks fifteen years since the installation of this cultural facility in Bragança, and which aims to continue promoting knowledge of contemporary art, particularly the work of the painter Graça Morais.
Hernâni Dias, president of the Municipality of Bragança, highlights: “The painter Graça Morais is an ambassador of Trás-os-Montes in Portugal and throughout the world and the Center for Contemporary Art Graça Morais It is a very important cultural facility for Bragança. Through a diverse and permanent set of initiatives organized at CACGM, Bragança focuses on raising awareness and promoting knowledge of contemporary art, with a special approach to the painter's work, among the local community and those who visit us”.
From the two exhibitions on display at CACGM – “Os Rituais do Silêncio” and “Linhas da Terra/Os Olhos Azuis do Mar”, public training sessions are scheduled. “The silences of noise – other ways of feeling an exhibition” is the motto for a reflection on how to enjoy the exhibition, with sensory measurements (incorporation of noises, fragrances and different points of view). The sessions take place from the 27th to the 29th of June, at 10:30 am, lasting one hour and with a limit of eight participants.
During these days the challenge “Discovering Graça Morais” which, through the two exhibitions on display, encourages the imaginary creation of the painter’s figure through drawing and painting. The initiative takes place at 10:30 am and 3:30 pm, from the 27th to the 29th of June.
Guided tours are also scheduled (by appointment) to the painter's exhibitions Graça Morais and Joana Baião and there will be space for musical notes, theatrical performances and graphic recordings, carried out by students from the Bragança Polytechnic Institute.
On the last day, June 30th, at 5:30 pm, Graça Morais presents an Installation and an unprecedented design. In the late afternoon, at 6pm, the Garden of the Contemporary Art Center Graça Morais will be the stage for the conversation “The Role of CACGM for the social and cultural cohesion of the territory” which features the participation of the painter Graça Morais, by Laura Castro, Regional Director and Culture of the North and by Raquel Henriques da Silva, retired Full Professor at the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa. Journalist Fátima Campos Ferreira moderates this conversation.
Closing the program celebrating fifteen years of CACGM takes place at 7pm, in the Garden of the Contemporary Art Center Graça Morais, the concert by the String Orchestra of the Bragança Conservatory of Music and Dance.
About the Contemporary Art Center Graça Morais (CACGM)
Opened in 2008, CACGM is a reference architectural project designed by the Architect Souto de Moura, Pritzker Prize 2011. The dynamics of this art center are based on a program of temporary exhibitions of the most renowned national and foreign artists of our time and large collections of Contemporary Art, resulting from co-productions and partnerships with other national and international institutions of reference.
The CACGM also has a nucleus of seven rooms dedicated to the painter's work Graça Morais, in a frequently renewed exhibition program, further reinforced by other multidisciplinary initiatives, namely educational programs, artistic practice workshops, concerts, performances and editorial activity.
SOURCE: Municipality of Bragança / CACGM