May 2008

May Agenda

Highlights

Associação dos Amigos do Museu - Relaunch (Saturday 10th May)

The Amigos do Museu de São Brás de Alportel ("Friends of the Museum") are celebrating the re-launch of the Association on Saturday, May 10th, from 17:00 - 20:30 at the Museum. The Friends will soon enjoy full legal and charitable status with a new management team responsible for all legal and financial matters.

Special guests and all former and present Friends are invited to the re-launch where they can meet the new management committee and organisers of the many pastimes and disciplines which have so far attracted over 300 members. There will be performances by the Amigos´theatre group Aperitivo, by Canticorum and by Verédas de Memória.

The occasion is also the Opening Preview of the new Museum Gallery art exhibition Land & Sea, which will feature works byPeter Schilde, Teresa Vasconcellos e Sá and Natallia Yaskevich.

Entry is FREE, and wine and refreshments will be served.

Saturday 10th May, 17:00 - 20:30

Please see the agenda section below for a full timetable of the day´s activities.

Piano Concert: Around the 20's of the 20th - Ragtime and More! with Lutz Kettnaker (Saturday 3rd May)

Lovers of piano and jazz will not want to miss the Lutz Kettnaker “Ragtime” piano concert on Saturday, 3rd May. He will be playing a varied programme including music by Billy Mayerl, Irving Berlin, Erroll Garner, Count Basie, Scott Joplin and others, all in his very own style.

Lutz Kettnaker had his first piano lesson in Stuttgart at the early age of four and by the time he was 14 years old, he had started his own jazz band, “Battle Mount Seven”. He studied conducting and sound engineering in Berlin and later qualified as a piano teacher there at the Academy of Fine Arts. He then taught for many years at the music school in Charlottenburg.

In Portugal since 1990, he has accompanied well known singers such as Sylle Vie C, Gabrielle van der Linden (jazz), Birgit Wegemann (classic) and Gisela Reuter (cabaret). In Lisbon he played in the Tagus Jazz Group and in the Algarve he plays in the group Crossroads.

Click here to see:

Lutz Kettnaker´s CV | the concert programme

Advance tickets 14 € (Friends 10 €) or 15 € at the door (Friends 12 €).

Saturday 3rd May, 20:30

Film Club: Gregory´s Girl (Monday 5th May)

Gregory´s Girl is a coming-of-age film written and directed by Bill Forsyth. Like many of Forsyth's movies, it is set in his native Scotland and is notable for its slight touches of magic realism.

The film is set in and around a state secondary school in the Abronhill district of Cumbernauld. It features John Gordon Sinclair, Dee Hepburn, Clare Grogan, among others. Grogan's role helped promote her career, as she was in the band Altered Images at the time of film's release. Veteran comedian Chic Murray plays the school's laconic headmaster.

Gregory's Girl was ranked 30th in the British Film Institute's list of the top 100 British films and 29th on Entertainment Weekly's list of the 50 best high school movies.

Click here to find out more about Gregory´s Girl

Entry: 2 € (Friends free). Monday 5th May, 19:00

Opera Club - La Fille du Regiment (Sunday 11th May)

Video presentation by Helga Hampton of Donizetti's La Fille du Regiment with Patrizia Ciofi, Juan Diego Florez and Nicola Ulivieri, recorded at the Teatro Carlo Felice di Genova under the baton of Riccardo Frizza.

Read more about La Fille du Regiment in Wikipedia

Entry: 2 € (Friends free). Bar & Refreshments available.

Sunday 11th May, 18:00

Jazz @ The Museum: Be & Bop (Sunday 18th May)

A Duo of pure jazz. Two veterans of National Jazz, Manuela Lopes and Zé Eduardo, playing together in an unusual combination of contrabass and voice!

This is an exceptional project where some of the old jazz standards are revisited as well as themes from the great masters of Bebop, arranged in an uncomplicated mixture combining the language of the Portuguese National Poet, Camões and the music of 52nd Street!

Surely an interesting challenge to both interpreters and listeners and a Concert with unique characteristics.

Be & Bop is out on the streets and between the angular lines of Bebop melodies, lies the history of each and every one of us walking the streets of life.

As usual, there will be a Jam session after the concert.
Download a copy of the concert poster here (1.8 Mb)

Find out more about Manuela Lopes by clicking here

Entrance Fee: 7 € (Friends 5 €).

Sunday 18th May, 17:00 (Doors open 16:30)

Music Hall Revue (Wednesday 21st May)

Please note that the above event is a charity event and is not organised by Amigos do Museu

Good Vibes - The Universal Rhythm of the Vibraphone (Saturday 31st May)

The group Good Vibes presents a unique combination of musical and visual elements. Duncan Kinnell, unique master of the Vibraphone, and lead musician of the group, plays an instrument which is little known to Portuguese audiences. The group combine a wide range of eclectic, traditional styles of music from Latin and Swing to Modern Jazz. This mixture gives birth to original compositions, arrangements and improvisations.

Together, the four members of the group form a combination of experiences in traditional music from all over the American continent. The starting point of their highly entertaining concerts is the rhythm and soul inherent in Afro-American music.

The artists are: Duncan Kinnell on Vibraphone, German Heike Brockmann on Guitar, North-American David Gausden on Contrabass and Clive Pracy on Drums. A group full of vitality and rhythm in the spirit that each one of these styles demands.

Find out more about the Vibraphone on Wikipedia

Advance tickets 14 € (Friends 10 €) or 15 € at the door (Friends 12 €).

Saturday 31st May, 20:30

Agenda

Sat 3rd	Piano Concert: Around the 20's of the 20th - Ragtime and More, with Lutz Kettnaker Advance tickets 14 € (Friends 10 €) or 15 € at the door (Friends 12 €). Saturday 3rd May, 20:30
Mon 5th	Film club: Gregory´s Girl (1981) Bar available. Entry: 2 € (Friends free). Monday 5th May, 20:30
Fri 9th	Song, Tune and Story Night with David Littlewood ... is taking a break for the Summer - returns in September
Sat 10th	Nachtzug nach Lissabon ("Night Train to Lisbon") by Pascal Mercier. Book review and discussion in German, with Georg Franzky Cabral Entry: 2 € Saturday 10th May, 15:30 (São Brás Library)
	Associação dos Amigos do Museu Relaunch Amigos "Relaunch" event with displays of Amigos activities given by Members 18:00 Art Exhibition Opening: Land & Sea              Welcome Speeches by Padre Cunha, Emanuel Sancho              and Cliff Newton Concert Programme 18:30 Verédas da Memória + fadistas 19:00 Aperitivo - Return of the Mummers´Play 19:15 African Rhythms Djembe Drumming - Tom Lyndal + Group 19:30 Salsa Dancing Demonstration 19:40 Songbirds 19:50 Aperitivo - Masked Drama "Come & Go" 20:00 Canticorum conducted by Walter Sulzer 20:10 Jazz Saxes - Eveline Sakkers & friends 20:20 Rancho Folclórico - traditional Portuguese Dancing Wine & Refreshments provided Entry: FREE! Saturday 10th May, 17:00 - 20:30
Sun 11th	Opera Club - video presentation by Helga Hampton of Donizetti's La Fille du Regiment with Patrizia Ciofi, Juan Diego Florez and Nicola Ulivieri, recorded at the Teatro Carlo Felice di Genova under the baton of Riccardo Frizza. Entry: 2 € (Friends free). Bar & Refreshments available. Sunday 11th May, 18:00
Tues 13th & 27th	Needles & Crafts Group: Lending Library This will be an opportunity to share some of your own fabulous needlework and crafts books amongst the members and thus provide them with lots of new inspiration and tips.  Please bring along some three or four books, with your name written in the front of the book. All the books will be logged into the Lending Library Register, together with the name of the owner and the name of the person who borrows the book. Please return the books again on 17th June when the register will be adjusted accordingly and the books will be returned to their owners. Tea, coffee, soft drinks and biscuits served. Cost: 4€ (Friends 2 €) Tuesdays 13th & 27th May, 14:30 - 17:00
Fri 16th	German Film Club: Die fetten Jahre sind vorbei, (International title: The Edukators) - in German with Portuguese sub-titles. (Postponed from April) The title (literally "the fat years are over") was translated within the English-dubbed version of the film as "your days of plenty are numbered"). It is a German-Austrian film made by the Austrian director Hans Weingartner and released in 2003. It was nominated for the "Golden Palm Award" in 2004 Cannes Film Festival, it stars Daniel Brühl and Julia Jentsch. Click here for further details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Friday 16th May, 20:00 (Museum Gallery)
Sun 18th	Jazz Club: Be & Bop Entry 7 € (Friends 5 €). Bar & Refreshments available Sunday 18th May, 17:00
Tues 20th	Needles & Crafts Group: Visit to “Retrosarias” in FARO Some of you may remember the wonderful day we had when we visited the “retrosarias” (needlework shops) in Loulé in October last year. We will do a similar visit, but this time in Faro. We will meet for lunch at 12:30 in down-town Faro from where we will start our visit to the shops. A separate note with details of our visit to Faro and the walking route to the various shops that we will be visiting, will be distributed to you all nearer the time. Tuesday 20th May, 12:30
Sat 24th & Sun 25th	Contemporary Dance Workshop, with Rita Alves and live music from Luís Monteiro Cost: 30 € Saturday 24th & Sunday 25th May, 15:00 - 17:00
Sat 24th	Concert: A Choral Voyage Through Europe And Time, by the Coro dos Amigos e Canticorum conducted by Walter Sulzer; beautiful harmonious Acapella singing from Early Times to Modern. View / Download leaflet by clicking here (219 Kb) Advance tickets 7 € (Friends 5 €) or 10 € at the door (Friends 7 €). Saturday 24th May, 20:30
Sun 25th	Fado, with Vitor do Carmo e José Santana and guest fadistas. Bar and light refreshments from 20:30 Entry: 3 € Sunday 25th May, 21:00
Sat 31st	Concert by Good Vibes vibraphone quartet. Advance tickets 14 € (Friends 10 €) or 15 € at the door (Friends 12 €). Saturday 31st May, 20:30