October began in Prague with a Cartografia Sonora Imaginária trip to the FALL Festival. Shortly afterwards, M de Manifesto continued its debut tour, this time at the Narciso Ferreira Theatre in Riba d’Ave. Fundão hosted the second edition of the Mil Pássaros project throughout the month, featuring workshops, the performance of PaPI – Opus 8 and the Conferência dos Pássaros. It was also in Fundão that we screened Dooo Ba Wooo, the full-length version of the show filmed by Luís Margalhau at the iconic Casino Fundanense. The Silvestre Festival hosted Cartografia Sonora Imaginária and Luís Margalhau’s documentary Ursonâncias, which was also screened in Famalicão at the Close-Up Festival. We also travelled to Brussels to reflect on art and culture for young people at the RESEO conference. In Évora, we presented PaPI – Opus 7 and Opus 11 and ran another training course on art for childhood. PaPI – Opus 7 also visited schools in Moita. And, whilst we continue to create new encounters and connections, PaPI – Opus 12 has been preparing for its premiere this November.

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What’s up? #10

Dear sisters, you are truly beautiful. Whether you’re serious, feisty, talented or a bit silly. Make a stand. You are protest. A declaration of affection. Start a movement. Uncle, cousin, father, sister – together for tomorrow.
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Echoes

In October

October began in Prague with a Cartografia Sonora Imaginária trip to the FALL Festival. Shortly afterwards, M de Manifesto continued its debut tour, this time at the Narciso Ferreira Theatre in Riba d’Ave. Fundão hosted the second edition of the Mil Pássaros project throughout the month, featuring workshops, the performance of PaPI – Opus 8 and the Conferência dos Pássaros. It was also in Fundão that we screened Dooo Ba Wooo, the full-length version of the show filmed by Luís Margalhau at the iconic Casino Fundanense. The Silvestre Festival hosted Cartografia Sonora Imaginária and Luís Margalhau’s documentary Ursonâncias, which was also screened in Famalicão at the Close-Up Festival. We also travelled to Brussels to reflect on art and culture for young people at the RESEO conference. In Évora, we presented PaPI – Opus 7 and Opus 11 and ran another training course on art for childhood. PaPI – Opus 7 also visited schools in Moita. And, whilst we continue to create new encounters and connections, PaPI – Opus 12 has been preparing for its premiere this November.

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In October
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14/11/2026

PaPI – Opus 12 (Premiere)

1, 2, 3, improvise! See? You can do it: use the wind, use the pliers! And… Poof!

After several months of preparation, the time has come for PaPI – Opus 12 to premiere at the Casa das Artes de Famalicão and the Narciso Ferreira Theatre. In PaPI – Opus 12, performer Maria João Vieira Leite improvises using her voice, the saxophone, her body and various objects on stage. A show for families that sets the imagination soaring.
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M de Manifesto

7/11/2026

27/11/2026
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PaPI Opus 11

7/11/2026

14/11/2026
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XVI Encontro Internacional Arte para a Infância e Desenvolvimento Social e Humano

14/11/2026
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Cartografia Sonora Imaginária

19/11/2026

Other Journeys

  • On 4 and 5 and on 24 and 25 November, we will be visiting secondary schools in Albergaria-a-Velha and in Loulé for the Bastidores de M de Manifesto outreach programme.
  • From 9 to 13 November, PaPI – Opus 12 will be bringing improvisation to the nursery schools in Famalicão and Riba d’Ave.
  • The Mil Pássaros constellation flies to the Casa-Museu Egas Moniz in Estarreja with the Semear Pássaros workshop on 9 November and the Conferência dos Pássaros on 16 November.
  • On November 18 and 19, join us for PaPI – Opus 8.z, which will be shared with you via Zoom.

Radar

The artist: varnish or untreated wood?

Writers are just like everyone else. When you say writers, you mean pianists. When you say pianists, you mean sculptors. When you say sculptors, you mean filmmakers. Actors, painters, theatre directors, composers. Just like everyone else. But both many of them and those who read, listen to, watch and admire them become convinced that they are made of a special stuff. I used to think so too. I really did think so. The mere fact that I thought this for years on end shows just how little I actually thought. But now my adolescence is over. I’ve lost my innocence. That is why I shall distance myself from the worldliness of the social circles of writing. I remain interested in the world of writing, but not in the worldliness of those who write, those who edit, those who spout platitudes about writers, those who write about those who talk about writers – and all those who work on the veneer. Raw timber, yes. Raw wood, bone and marrow – that is what now appeals to me. And when I say writers, I mean pianists. And sculptors. And so on.

Luís Fernandes, in partnership with João Habitualmente (a psychologist and a writer, respectively). Guest speaker at the 16th EIAIDSH.

Highlight

XVI International Colloquium Arts for Childhood and Social and Human Development
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On 14 November, we will return to the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation for the 16th International Conference on Art for Childhood and Social and Human Development. This conference provides a space for the sharing of ideas without boundaries between academic knowledge and artistic creation, and between education and culture.

Registrations (free of charge) are still open.

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PaPI – Opus 8.z
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