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March 2012 |
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Tues 6th
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Talk by Magdalena Gorrell Guimaraens: 'Henry Edward Willard´s Incredible Voyage’ – a seafarer’s voyage from Oporto to South America and California at the time of the gold-rush.
This presentation is a brief window into the story of Henry Edward Wilby, the son of a prominent 19th century British Merchant of Porto, who with two friends, John Searle and Joseph Clark, purchased a sailing vessel in 1849 and set off on an intrepid voyage around the tip of South America to supply Californian gold miners with staple goods. Trading under the name of Searle, Wilby and Clark, the three young men purchased a three-masted barque, the Bella Pernambucana, filled it with goods for sale and on consignment, sailed for California under the Portuguese flag. The story of their preparations and the voyage itself is based on Henry’s personal diary. Included in this illustrated presentation is a short film of a similar ship as it endures one of several gales around the Horn.
Magdalena was born in Quito, Ecuador, the daughter of an American Foreign Service Officer and a Spanish mother. She arrived in Porto in 1963 and soon afterwards married Bruce Duncan Guimaraens, a British Port Wine shipper (now deceased). A linguist and historian, Magdalena is an International Conference Interpreter and Translator by profession. She is currently on the board of AIIC, the Association of International Conference Interpreters – Geneva, as Member of Council for Portugal. And on the National board of Governors of the Sindicato Nacional da Actividade Turística Tradutores e Intérpretes. She graduated Magna Cum Laude in Humanities and History from the Uni.of Maryland and is a member of the Anglo-Portuguese Historical Society as well as list Administrator for the Yorkshire Surnames List, a database with over 24.000 submissions from online researchers in Yorkshire genealogy. At the present time she is attempting to complete a book on the Guimaraens family’s Anglo-Portuguese roots.
Org. Associação Arqueológica do Algarve, in English.
Entry: 5€ (Non-members of AAA)
Tuesday 6th March 2012, 15:00 |
Thu 8th |
Presentation...
.... by British Consul, Angela Morado (British Vice Consul), David Thomas (Safe Communities Algarve) who will talk about crime prevention in the Algarve and Geoffrey Graham, a director of the British/Portuguese law firm Neville de Rougement, who will talk about the importance of making a will as a British resident in Portugal.
Thursday 8th March, 16:30 |
Sat 10th |
Concert: Memórias em Tempo Novo - piano Lutz Kettnaker, vocals Vera Keel
American jazz standards, chanson francese, Portuguese & Brazilian songs
Entry: @10€ (Amigos 8€)
Saturday 10th March, 19:00 |
Fri 16th/
Sat 17th |
Aperitivo Performance Group presents Hamletarama
Beautifully dressed, the extremely idiosyncratic version of Shakespeare’s Hamlet performed by Aperitivo Performance Group has everything - the ghost, the graveyard, the famous speeches, the duel and death of just about everyone on stage - and it also has what no other version of Hamlet has ever had: 5 Hamlets, 3 Ophelias (one male), 2 cleaning ladies and a cat.
Horatio and Marcellus (aka cleaning ladies Gert and Edie) face the ghost of Hamlet’s father - with the help of a partisan (What’s a partisan? I dunno - some sort of bird? - and a partisan in a pear tree?). The two cleaning ladies substitute for missing actors in this brilliant, funny and thought-provoking version of the classic tale. Shakespeare buffs will like it because there has been little tampering with the famous speeches; non-Shakespeare fans will like it because it is a ripping yarn, with ghosts, girls and murders galore. Everything that to modern audiences could be a little slow has been ruthlessly stripped out (Politics! - I hate Politics, leave it out!).
In one scene, the King and Queen watch Hamlet’s famous “Mousetrap” play, performed by puppets. Will the King’s reaction prove him to be the murderer of Hamlet’s father? Will Hamlet finally have enough proof to be revenged on the King? Will Hamlet finally stop talking and do something? With five Hamlets sharing the rôle (including a Pantomime Boy Hamlet and his Cat), all options are possible.
The piece is staged “in the round” to ensure that all the audience gets not only a good view, but also feels as if they are part of the Hamletarama Experience.
Hamletarama! will be performed at the Museum, São Brás on Friday March 16th at 13.30 and 19.30, Saturday March 17th at 19.30.
Tickets: 10€ (Amigos 8€)
For more information contact 967227473, or email aperitivoperformancegroup@gmail.com
Friday 16th (13:30 & 19:30) & Saturday 17th (19:30) |
Sat 17th |
Art Exhibition Opening: featuring Artistas Mundial
Artistas Mundial is a group of nine artists including Ines Da Gama, Ben Helmink, Else Van Der Laan,Elly Maessen, Birgit Mende, Claus Von Oertzen, Paulo Ruben, Udo Ulrich and Elsa Eliza Zorkow.
Saturday 17th March, 18:00 |
Sun 18th
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Jazz @ The Museum: Blue Dot Quartet
This quartet was formed in 2010 by 4 musicians who got together after taking part in various musical projects. At the same time, they worked on similar, parallel projects using their experience to add sonority to the versions played by this Blues Roots project.
The Blue Dot Quartet make us relive the great classics of this genre where guitars mark their presence and are in constant dialogue and where sometimes the themes recompose themselves yet never undermine the sacred basic material of the great Blues classics.
Crossroads Blues, Third Degree and the Willie Dixon classic, Hoochie Coochie Man, are some of the themes recreated by Blue Dot. Blues in their purest form, recreated, improvised and combined into a passionate musical genre for the musicians as well as for the audience.
Entry 10 € (Amigos 8 €)
Sunday 18th March, 17:00 |
Mon 19th &
Mon 26th |
Workshops: Conscious Communication and You Are Powerful
By ‘communicating’ most people mean ‘verbal talking’, but the verbal part is only 10% of the dialogue. The truth is that the other 90% of the communication, which is nonverbal, has a huge impact on any situation. This 90% is not being used with deliberate intent. In daily life you are not conscious about this powerful force in communication at all.
Are you ready to access the natural source within you where there is strength and power?
Learn how simple it can be to find yourself and be yourself only by… having presence! You will learn step by step how to build up your strength.
To build it up more easily, you can first learn the ground rules in the workshop Conscious Communication.
- Step 1 - Conscious Communication - Become aware what you communicate and learn to be present with it. (Monday 19th)
- Step 2 - You are powerful - Use this untapped force deliberately to craft any situation in your life. (Monday 26th)
When you participate in 2 workshops you only pay 35€ and save 5€!
Monday 19th March & Monday 26th March (14:00-16:30) |
Fri 23rd |
Ignite Event
http://facebook.com/ignitealgarve
Friday 23rd March, 19:00-22:30 |
Sat 24th |
Didgeridoo Workshop
Tickets: 15€ (Reservations Required)
Saturday 24th March, 15:00-17:00 |
Sun 25th
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Fado Night with guest fadistas, plusVítor do Carmo (Guitar), José Santana (Portuguese Guitar) and Tó Correia (Bass)
Entry: 4 € (Amigos 3 €)
Sunday 25th March, 21:00 |
Fri 30th |
Photography Exhibition Opening Preview: Macro Photography
Amigos do Museu Photo Club
Free entry
Friday 30th March, 19:00 |
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