ENOUGH OF HEALTH. PORTUGAL TODAY, with Susana Moreira Marques and Miguel Carvalho – Events – Municipality

April 6│3:30 pm (next session 15/06)

Location: Lagos Municipal Library
Org.: CM Lagos
Class. age: M16
Duration: 90m
Free participation, but subject to room capacity limits

Initiative integrated into the Celebrations of the 50th anniversary of the 25th of April.

“No more longing. Portugal Hoje” is a cultural proposal by the Municipal Library of Lagos, started in September 2022, and scheduled to take place four times a year, in the format of conversations-interviews between a journalist and a guest. These are reflections on Portugal and the Portuguese, led by journalist Miguel Carvalho, in informal conversations with writers, artists, scientists and freethinkers. We wish to convene moments where critical, free and individual thoughts can flow, about this “us” that we are: a people full of a long past who have an imperative need to project their future through the growing national and global challenges of the present. One Portugal, “thought and action”.

Freelance journalist, author of non-fiction works, Susana Moreira Marques wrote about the way we die, forgotten, in territories of emptiness, in a disappearing country (Now and at the Hour of Our Death). She took us to the intimacy of the word mother to make her an accomplice through the daily anguish and joy that motherhood brings (How long is a day). She followed in the footsteps of the country walked by Maria Lamas (black scarves, straw hats and gold earrings) and rescued the royal with even more questions to ask, in the feminine. What journeys fit into the lives of women in this country, from the road traveled to the paths of the future?

BIOGRAPHIES:
Susana Moreira Marques is the author of the literary non-fiction books “Now and at the hour of our death” (Tinta-da-China, 2013), translated into English, French and Spanish, “How long does a day have” (Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos, 2020) and “Lenços Pretos, Chapéus de Palha e Brincos de Ouro” (Companhia das Letras, 2023). Her work has been published in magazines such as Granta, Tin House and Literary Hub, and in media outlets such as Público, Antena 1, Jornal de Negócios, BBC World Service and Mensagem. She also writes for television and cinema; more recently, for the documentary “Um nome para o que sou” (2022), by Marta Pessoa. She lives in Lisbon with her two daughters.

Miguel Carvalho was born in Porto on November 25, 1970 and is a journalist. He studied Radiojournalism at the Porto Journalist Training Center. He worked at Diário de Notícias (1989-1997), at the weekly newspaper O Independente (1997-1999) and at VISÃO magazine (1999-2023). He won the Orlando Gonçalves Prize (Journalism), in 2008 and 2020, and the Grande Prémio Gazeta, from the Clube dos Jornalistas, in 2009 and 2022. He has published seven books. The last two – “Como Portugal Ardeu”, about the far-right bomb network, and “Amália – Ditadura e Revolution, a História Secreta” – have already had 11 editions.

Free parking – The Lagos Cultural Center and the Municipal Library of Lagos offer free parking in the Frente Ribeirinha (Avenida dos Descobrimentos) park for audiences at their shows/events. For this discount, the user simply needs to present, at the park reception, a stamp obtained at the ticket office of the Centro Cultural de Lagos or at the entrance to the Municipal Library of Lagos. The offer only applies to one hour before and up to one hour after each show/event.