Half a loaf of bread, a book, and two cardboard wings: A virtual conversation
Come and talk with Helena Patrício and Gaudêncio Gaudério (present via Zoom) about the world of cartonera books, books produced with hand-painted and hand-sewn recycled cardboard covers by unconventional publishers, as an alternative and outside the commercial publishing circuit. This meeting takes place within the framework of the exhibition The Universe of Cartonera Books.
Specifically, the emergence of the cartonera movement in Latin America will be contextualized, and three examples of cartonera publishers will be presented: Vento Norte Cartonero (Brazil - Gaudêncio Gaudério), EVA Cartonera (Portugal - Helena Patrício), and Alma Cartonera (Portugal - Patrícia Andrade). There will also be time for viewing the documentary Carretera Cartonera, a guided tour of the exhibition The Universe of Cartonera Books, and the sharing and exchange of ideas.
Helena Patrício (Coimbra, 1973) is a librarian in Lisbon and, in her spare time, a "gatherer" of words, phrases, and texts in books, films, music, magazines, and newspapers. She studied Law, Information Science, and Digital Libraries. She regularly collaborates with cultural organizations, promoting activities that invite the discovery of new ideas, experiences, sensations, and feelings through reading. She is a researcher in the field of developing bibliographic ontologies for the semantic web. She founded a SpokenMusic project that combines traditional Portuguese songs with poetry, short stories, legends, fables, and other tales.
In 2013, Gaudêncio Gaudério created Maria Papelão, the first cartonera publishing house in southern Brazil, in Rio Grande do Sul, which published six titles and conducted numerous workshops. In 2014, she founded the publishing house Vento Norte Cartonero, based on the same principles as Maria Papelão: autonomy and self-management, which imply the absence of institutional ties. Currently, the project has a catalog of 34 titles and many cartonera workshops held in Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Spain, and Portugal. Since 2020, she has coordinated Multinacional Cartonera, an informal group of cartoneras from various Latin American countries that meets weekly via Zoom.
Target audience: General
Free participation subject to prior registration HERE
More Information: 214 815 403/4 (call to the national landline network) | weekdays from 10:00 to 13:00 and from 14:00 to 18:00
Organization: Cascais City Council, in partnership with the publisher Vento Norte Cartonero, the Animar Association and Eva Cartonera
