A tribute to Branquinho da Fonseca
The Cascais Municipal Library – Casa da Horta da Quinta de Santa Clara pays tribute to António José Branquinho da Fonseca (1905–1974), the visionary who transformed the library of the Condes de Castro Guimarães Museum into a true public library and who created Portugal’s first mobile library, paving the way for new access to reading in Cascais and across the country.
As part of this commemoration of the 121st anniversary of Branquinho da Fonseca’s birth, we will bring back into active use one of the tables and four chairs he designed for the Condes de Castro Guimarães Museum-Library in one of the reading rooms of the Cascais Municipal Library, where we will permanently honour the inventor of the Cascais Mobile Library.
The event will also feature the opening of a temporary documentary exhibition on the life and work of this great Portuguese figure, and a lecture to be given by Maria Mota Almeida and Luís Branquinho. Poems by acclaimed authors will be read in the various reading rooms of the Library, including works by António Madeira, the pseudonym of Branquinho da Fonseca.
Come and (re)discover the life and work of this ‘intellectual in action’!
Target audience: General (10+)
Free admission subject to space availability
More information: 214 815 417 (call to the national landline network) | weekdays from 10.00 am to 1.00 pm and from 2.00 pm to 6.00 pm
Organization: Cascais Municipal Council
. Opening of the permanent exhibition ‘Branquinho da Fonseca: A Writer in the Library’
. Opening of the temporary exhibition ‘Branquinho da Fonseca: Archive and Memory’
. Lecture ‘Distances Make the Paths’, by Maria Mota Almeida and Luís Branquinho
. ‘Poets in the Garden’, poetry reading by Byfurcação - Cultural Association
