Be part of Faro2027!20/6/2022 Opinion article by Débora Gonçalves, Facilitator Faro2027
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Faro's candidacy to be European Capital of Culture has just launched the book "Europe at Home", an artistic reflection on the pandemic and its impact on the daily lives of families and communities in Europe. With an opening text by Lídia Jorge, the book "Europe at Home" gathers literary texts and photographs by more than 60 artists from 30 European cities, in a joint vision about a particularly demanding moment in our lives, marked by the harshness of social isolation and repeated confinements. According to Lídia Jorge: "It is a pleasure for me to participate in this book. May this book and all the involvement it represents be a gateway to Faro, a city that intends to win the title of European Capital of Culture. Art and literature being essential goods to life". The writer Sandro William Junqueira and the photographer Vasco Célio, were the artists invited by Faro2027 to represent the city of Faro in the project Europe at Home. According to Sandro William Junqueira and Vasco Célio, this project is revealing of human fragility. Participating in Europe at Home is to contribute to building a memory for the future of this unprecedented moment experienced by us all. The photographs and texts present in the book "Europe at Home" are a reflection on the unpredictability of nature and on the way we live our lives today. Created in 2020, "Europe at Home" was thought, developed and implemented as a purely digital project, but over time it has grown and gained dimension. The importance of the initiative, as an artistic legacy for future memory, led 30 European cities to join Faro2027 in this initiative, which aims to be a unique and singular record of an unprecedented period in our collective history. As such, "Europe at Home" quickly jumped from the website and social networks to paper, now giving birth to a work with the same name. The public presentation of the book "Europe at Home" took place last Monday, February 21th, in a ceremony held at Club Farense. The books can be purchased at the Municipal Museum in Faro.
Become the Faro representative for the Rooftoppers Nomad Academy. Applications open until 06 June at www.acoteia.pt. Faro Municipality will select a student or young professional in architecture, urban planning, heritage, arts, design, sociology, social sciences and humanities, cultural management, civil or environmental engineering (or related areas) to become Faro's representative in the Rooftoppers Nomad Academy, an innovative learning and networking project, which aims to explore and develop sustainable uses for European rooftops. The selected young person will have the opportunity to participate in an innovative exchange that can be framed in their academic or professional life. Applications are open until 6 June and more information can be found at www.acoteia.pt. On 27 May there will be an information session via Zoom, requiring prior registration at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScfiBFEOaUDiy5GL1ETRAQ9AU6ZyL4p2DXVxf3S650GFVDsJQ/viewfor. Faro City Council is one of the members of the European Creative Rooftop Network, a project co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union and in that context has opened this call. The Academia Nómada of the European Creative Rooftop Network works as a network for sharing and creating knowledge, at the same time that promotes exchange, connecting 9 partners from various parts of Europe. The selected members - 9 in total, one for each of the participating European cities - will be in contact in order to deepen their experience and will meet face-to-face through study visits to the partner cities. The experience gained and the work carried out will be disseminated in various media and presented at the ECRN Congress to be held in 2024. During the ECRN project period, Nomadic Academy members are expected to develop an academic study or a project related to the theme of the use of rooftops. More information at: https://www.acoteia.pt/open-call-ercn.html.
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