Patrícia Portela and Moços da Aldeia

Patrícia Portela (1974) is the author of performances and literary works, lives between Paço de Arcos and Antwerp. He completed a degree in Plastic Performing in Lisbon, at Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema, a master's degree in scenography and space dramaturgy at the University of Utrecht and at Central Saint Martins College of Art in London, a postgraduate degree in theatricality and performativity from Arts, Performance and Theatricality in Antwerp, an internship at the European Film College of Cinema in Ebeltoft, Denmark, in sound, editing and documentary, and a master's degree in philosophy from the University of Leuven. She is currently completing her PhD in Arts and Multimedia at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Lisbon. She regularly tours Europe and the world. She is nationally and internationally recognized for the uniqueness of her work, and has received several awards for her (including the Madalena Azeredo de Perdigão Prize/Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation for "Flatland I" in 2005 and an honorable mention for "Wasteband" in 2004, the Theater of the Decade for "Wasteband" in 2003, the 1998 Theater Critics Breakthrough Award or the honorable mention in 2006 for the "Flatland Trilogy"). Author of several novels and novels such as "Para Cima e não para Norte" (2008), "Banquet" (2012, finalist for the Grand Prix of Romance and APE novel) or "Dias utilised" (2017, considered by the magazines Sábado and Visão a of the best books of the year), among others, all with the seal of Editorial Caminho. She participated in the prestigious 46th International Writers Program in Iowa City in 2013 at the University of Iowa City and was its first Outreach Fellow. She was one of the 5 finalists of the first Media Art Sonae Award 2015 with her installation "Parasomnia", the first literary scholarship in Berlin of the Portuguese Embassy in Germany in 2016, and one of the first scholarship holders of the new DGLAB literary scholarships with a work to be published briefly.
She teaches dramaturgy and image regularly at Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema and Universidade do Minho, at Forum Dança in Portugal, at the writing school in Curitiba, Brazil, among other alternative performance training spaces. She was briefly a columnist at Antena 1 em Fio da Meada in 2019 and 2020 until her last episode on air. She has been a regular columnist for Jornal de Letras, Artes e Ideias and Coffeepaste since 2017. She is director of Associação Cultural o Prado and was artistic director of Teatro Viriato, in Viseu, between 2020-2022.

The Canto Alentejano singing group Moços da Aldeia was founded on January 9, 2014, in the village of Cabeça Gorda, municipality of Beja.
The "loud" voices are Rúben Ramos, Tiago Ramos and the "points" Ayrton dos Santos, Marco Castilho, Hugo Matos, Carlos Matos, João Gonçalves, André Sousa and Rúben Martins.
They sing modas by authors such as, for example, “Hino dos Moços” by Ayrton dos Santos, Pedro Pereira and Daniel Camacho, “O Alentejo Suão” by Professor Horta and “I have saudades, mais nada” by João Monge.
Their current rehearser is Paulo Ribeiro.