Well-Read-Well-Told: Narrative Tasting à la Carte - Under the guidance of Joaninha Duarte
On the 25th of January 2025, the Library will be 24 years old. To mark this anniversary, it is offering its users an à la carte narrative tasting evening, based on authorial and traditional stories.
A little bit of wine to taste - ‘When the wine goes down, the words go up.’
A bit of Cheese - ‘Cheese is on top.’
A bit of Bread - ‘Good grain will make good Bread’
The table is set. I'm serving you from a time when there were mondadeiras, charcoal burners, harvesters, cork cutters and even a few Maltese. A few more come to mind: tavern keepers, seamstresses, market traders, embroiderers, almocreves and even those who walked the streets. I'm a little bit of each one. I'm just as ‘plump’ as the olives. I'm only comforted by a small grape. It's the wandering of this time that I'm made of. I am the trough of all the fountains, where my father would stop and quench his thirst. I am my grandmother Ludovina's little song to rid me of soft water. I am the cambric fold on my mother's lap. I am the broth with starch, piping hot, served in my grandfather Pina's pot. I am the twist of the oil lamp, short and with a weak flame, capable of lighting up the stories I carry in my chest. ‘Once upon a time there was a boy who ran around the world...’, Ti Tóda used to say, and I was served the most beautiful stories. That's how I was brought up by the fire. Sitting at the owl's nest listening to stories. I go back to that time again and again. I'm the table's lame leg. I lift the lace and linen napkin. I open the drawer of the little knife, the crochet hook, the matchbox... and the stories stored there are served to me again. Cheers... are you served?
Joaninha Duarte
Joaninha Duarte is a writer, researcher and, above all, a storyteller. She is a PhD candidate in Adult Education and Training Sciences - research into the experiential training of storytellers, at the Institute of Education of the University of Lisbon; mentor and coordinator of the first ‘Art of Storytelling’ postgraduate course at the Higher Institute of Education and Sciences and a teacher in higher education. Throughout her career she has carried out various activities, always with an anchor in culture and art. In the field of publications, she has published articles in specialised magazines and several solo and co-authored literary works, such as ‘Tales of Entanglements and Entrelines’ and ‘The Light of the Lime at the Corner of the Fire’.
Target audience: ≥ 16 years old
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