The Traditional Knowledge Workshops are designed to stimulate interest in issues related to agricultural and pastoral life, biodiversity and the relationship between man and landscape.

These workshops go beyond mere contemplation, offering a practical and multidisciplinary approach to various themes.

The flora of the Gralheira Mountains is an immense and complex world, details of which often go unnoticed to most people.

The deep knowledge of local flora is shared on the one hand, by local connoisseurs, who can talk about the names and popular uses of plants, stories and myths around it and, secondly, by experts who systematize, catalog and discover species and can speak of their morphological and bio-chemical properties.

It is precisely this encounter between traditional and scientific knowledge that will be the key point of this workshop. Mr. Domingos’ deep knowledge of the flora around Manhouce (and his village of Gamoal), along with Dr. João Almeida, a university specialist in the flora of this region and Mr. Arménio Matos, gardener and collector of the Botanical Garden of Coimbra, will share with participants as much information about the plants of this unique area of our country.

Program:
10:00 h – 13:00 h – Background on the Gralheira mountains flora (Science and Popular Tradition Visions).
13:00 pm – Typical lunch
14:30 am – 17:30 pm – Analysis and sharing of information and knowledge from the collection of specimens identified in a brief course
17:30 – Lunch

Summary:
Lunch:
Entries – Pastels w / herbs
Pork Meat w / rice and beans or coot rice
Dessert -  Honey Cake and Mint Mousse

Snack:
Several varieties of Tea
Herb cookies and biscuits

Will be granted a certificate of participation

We will undertake a journey that will follow the river Paiva.

To guide the walk, we will have the presence of Luis Costa, head of Binaural/Nodar, the the cultural organization, who will tell us the story of Nodar, the relationship of people with the river and particularly with fish, especially trout and bogas. Men and women from Boaças (a village on the banks of the river Douro) who climbed the Montemuro mountain with baskets on their heads to sell sardines and mule drivers who use Nodar’s bridge to pass the goods …

Market Village

May 2, 2010

Venue: Manhouce Fair Square

Farmers Market

9:00 / 18:00

Sale of Land Products, handicrafts, regional sweets and more; Live Crafts

Cuisine:

Lafões roast veal, milk-cream, sponge cake and other delights

Lunch: 12.30/15.00, Snacks: 15:00 / 18:00 – Come to lunch in Manhouce on May 2

Animation:

14:30 / 18:00: Traditional Singing Group of Manhouce, Concertinas of Lafões, Juvenile Group of Manhouce

Parallel activities:

Pedestrian walk, “By Way of theLafões Veal”

Orientation Activity “Discovering Manhouce”

Registration and information: http://www.criaraizes spedrosul.com; criaraizes@gmail.com; Tel. +351961548791/+351232728330

Organization: Criar Raízes Project / City of São Pedro do Sul

Support: Parish of Manhouce; Ditoso Saber-Cultural Association; Traditional SInging Group of Manhouce; Concertinas of Lafões; Profisisional School of Carvalhais, Juvenile Group of Manhouce.

24 – 25 APRIL 2010

“Honey Workshop”

The Traditional Knowledge Workshops are designed to stimulate interest in issues related to agricultural and pastoral life, biodiversity and the relationship between man and landscape. These workshops go beyond mere contemplation, offering a practical and multidisciplinary approach to various themes.

April 24 – Honey Workshop

April 25 – Pedestrian Walk in Covas do Monte and Pena

This month the market will be held in the context of  the World Forest Day commemoration, joining this year the three municipalities of Lafões (São Pedro do Sul, Vouzela e Oliveira de Frades).

On Saturday 20th, the Market will feature traditional music with a typical all-women voice ensemble (Cantadeiras), live crafts, a local gastronomy live show dedicated to the veal of Lafões, street entertainment, children entertainment and a special emphasis on forest issues.

Pesa #1 is part of a video installation conceived in the context of Manuela Barile’s art project “Locus in Quo” mainly developed at Nodar Artist Residency Center in October and November 2009 and obtained the maximum score in the Ministry of Culture’s funding call this year.

“Aldeias Sonoras” (“Sound Villages”), an educational project directed by Binaural which consists in the a sound gathering and mapping of Portuguese rural areas, will end its first cycle with a public event at São Pedro do Sul’s municipal auditorium, the head of municipality of the region where the project was developed  during the last 9 months and which involved the participation of circa 20 students from the local secondary school.

Event’s Program:

4.00 p.m. – 5.00 p.m.: Talk with the authors and participants in the “Aldeias Sonoras” project.
5.30 p.m.: Screening of a documentary film directed by Luis Costa from footage shot throughout the field recording sessions in rural villages around S. Pedro do Sul
6.30 p.m.: Opening of a sound and photo exhibition.

Organization: Binaural/Associação Cultural de Nodar in a partnership with the S. Pedro do Sul Secondary School
Funding: São Pedro do Sul Municipality and Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian

Project’s website: http://www.aldeias-sonoras.org

Paivascapes #1
Nodar Artist Residency Center for 2010

Binaural/Nodar has chosen the artists who will take part on the several residency modules dedicated to the interaction with the Paiva River, to happen between February and October 2010, from the river’s spring to its mouth:

Manuela Barile (IT)
Marc Behrens (DE)
Rui Costa (PT)
Craig Dogonski (US)
Jez riley French (UK)
Anna Hints (EE)
William Lamson (US)
Patrick McGinley & Others (US/EE)
Yasuno Miyauchi (JP) & Masayo Kajimura (JP)
Phill Niblock (US) & Katherine Liberovskaya (CA)
o.blaat (JP)
Cédric Peyronnet (FR)
Lasse-Marc Riek (DE)
Ignaz Schick (DE)
Charles Stankievech (US)
Stefano Zorzanello (IT), João Grosso (PT), Riccardo Mantelli (IT) & Rute Pimenta (PT)

To the more than 200 artists who submitted proposals, our sincere gratitude for the interest in Paivascapes #1 and we feel sorry for not being able to select so many incredible projects.

For additional infomation on Paivascapes #1, click here.