Festival: Shadow land without crossing the Atlantic and becomes Iberian in 2019.
The Lands without Shadow presents next Thursday, day 10 January, 11.00am, the program of the 15th edition of the festival, event that will take place in the Luso-American Foundation for Development, in Lisbon.
The music and travel are the touchstone of Lands without Shadow (TSS) in 2019, that has, as Guest Country, the USA. This edition - the 15th - extends from January to July, with a music season, but also heritage and biodiversity, with the Alentejo by stage.
According to the topic On Earth, About the sea – Travel and Travel in Music (XV-XXI), two ephemeris provide the thread for this choice: in 2019 if the signal- 550 anniversary of the birth of Vasco da Gama, had Sines for cots; and, all over the country, start-up, the celebrations of the fifth centenary of Ferdinand circumnavigation voyage of Magellan.
This year, TSS has almost 50 activities, between concerts, conferences, guided tours of the heritage and biodiversity safeguard actions. In addition to its traditional geography (Lower Alentejo and Alentejo Litoral), the event now comes to the Alentejo and the Alentejo Central. On the other hand, also reinforces the Iberian vocation, operating in two municipalities of the Spanish Extremadura, with deep connections to Portugal.
"And so, from 2003, with a persistence that became fortunately normality: a music festival, but also the land Alentejo, a heritage festival, but also diversity, in other words, from memory, knowledge, disclosure, and panache. "Who says is the President of the Republic, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, TSS in the opening text 2019.
The festival's collaboration with US institutions, particularly with the US Embassy in Portugal, started in 2017, It is a reflection of the historical ties of the Alentejo with this vast country. Abbot José Correia da Serra, natural Serpa, He was a close friend of Thomas Jefferson. It held important political influence in the US, over several years, and that's ambassador in Portugal 1816. On the other hand, practically since American independence exist US consulates in Odemira and Sines, sign of the vitality of exchanges then established and that remain today.
Turn, Juan Angel Vela del Campo, artistic director of TSS, highlights "the itinerant vocation of the project", not only because each concert takes place in a different town but, above all, the innovative nature of music as mediation element: "Travel is to live, Lands and the journey crosses geographies, but also is an inner journey, which opens the doors of unique experiences ".
