Jornal de Leiria – Caldas Revolution marked today with music and digital mural

The municipality of Caldas da Rainha marks today the 16th of March 1974, also designated as Caldas Revolutionwith a cultural program that includes the creation of a digital mural, a ceremony reminiscent of this date, a gathering and a concert.

A Caldas Revolution was a revolutionary movement that, on March 16, 1974, left Caldas da Rainha towards Lisbon, with the intention of overthrowing the regime.

This objective was not achieved, but “the 16th of March hinted at the desire for democracy and freedom that, weeks later, came to fruition with the 25th of April 1974”, recalls the municipality.

The program starts this morning with the session My Freedom belongs to Everyone, a project of the 50th anniversary 25th of April Commemorative Commission, in partnership with Gerador. The school public is invited to transform the blue pencil – a symbol of censorship during the dictatorship, into a vehicle of freedom.

The students will transfer their interpretation of freedom to paper, in the color associated with repression, and the result will form part of a digital collaborative mural, which will be made public in April.

Present in this session are the executive commissioner of the Mission Structure for the Commemorations of the 50th anniversary of the Revolution of April 25, 1974, historian and professor Maria Inácia Rezola, historian Irene Pimentel, colonel Santos Silva and illustrator Nuno Hail.

This will be followed, starting at 11 am, by the ceremony reminiscent of the 15th of March, next to the monument that alludes to this movement.

During the afternoon, the Café Concerto at the Centro Cultural de Congressos (CCC) hosts a gathering with historian Joana de Matos Tornada, author of the book On the Eve of Democracy in Portugal – The Caldas Coup of March 16, 1974.

Also at CCC, starting at 9:30 pm, Sérgio Godinho presents FREEDOM25the celebration of a career that is intertwined with the history of Portuguese everyday life and that includes a song composed in 1974.