Associated Events | Conference

DINNER / PERFORMANCE

The final dinner of our conference will be a performance by Portuguese artist Marise Francisco:

Conquistar pelo Estômago

Thursday 26 September 2019 - 20:45

Booking until 20 September (limited seating capacity) via breakingboundaries@letras.ulisboa.pt

Price: € 35 (to be paid in cash at the dinner venue)

On this performance dinner, first of the «Not so wiki life» project, Marise F. shares some of her stories, personal and not at all, intertwined with other tales that add texture and significance to the different palates and where affection is the common thread. Music, poetry and recipes (culinary and otherwise) are connected through confessions and revelations of love affairs and falling outs, presented and brought to the table by our host, throughout this performance dinner. Everyone is a guest of honour and no one is required to do a thing.

The event will be in English.

POETRY AFTERNOON

“Meu útero è UMA BOMBA!”

Ecofeminist Poetry for the Global Climate Strike

27 September 2019 - 18:00 - Crew Hassan (metro Intendente / Anjos)

Free Entry

Activity realised with the collaboration of the research clusters P’ARTE and Poesia de Agora: Práticas e Passagens of the Centre for Comparative Studies.

We all reads the news. Just in the last few days we heard of the melting of glaciers in Greenland and the Alps, of Siberia burning and releasing green-house gases, or the increasing pace of deforestation in the Amazon forest, of lack of water in many countries, of how climate change will have an impact on geopolitics and leave densely populated areas of the planet in conditions adverse to life. Maths is simple and frightening. What to do in the face of raw facts?

In 1974, François d’Eaubonne was writing “Le Feminisme ou la Mort” and coining the term ecofeminism. Ecofeminism, in a simple and maybe simplistic definition, is the recognition of how violence against women and nature derives from the same patriarchal system which produces the Other and objectifies it, deriving from this process its right to oppress and exploit it. To recognise how elements of gender, race, sexuality, socio-economic status and health are intersectionally affected by the environment and affect it is but the first step towards shaping alternative practices and communities. Nowadays, youths from all over the world are coming together in the protest against the continuous and irresponsible exploitation of natural resources and raise their voices to defend their future. Throughout history, women (and not only women) have raised their voices through poems, representing nature as a locus of escape from violence or of empowerment and awareness of social injustice.

In a day that closes the Global Environmental Strike (20-27 of September) we want to gather in celebration and give new voice to these words, feel them resonate in our bodies and take them home with us. Everyone is welcome. We are going to read poems, listen to music, talk and meet people, we are going to have fun with seriousness and think with levity. Because poetry is to see beauty in the abyss, and to face it. In the hope that this meeting would encourage other activities linked to the Global Climate Strike in Lisbon and that it will offer a platform of true exchange, we shout: Ecofeminism or Death!

The reading of poems and short-stories will be alternated to moments of music, with records played by Jonas Pelle. Everyone can read and all languages are accepted although of course it would be preferable to stick to Portuguese and English or provide a Portuguese translation.

Vanessa Montesi