Capicua (rapper and writer), Cristina Taquelim (storyteller) and Pedro Horta (activist)
Beja, July 31st 2022, 11h
Where Jardim Público de Beja
Free entry
We opened Constellations in Beja with a conversation between rapper and writer Capicua, storyteller Cristina Taquelim and activist Pedro Horta.
Each Constellation brings together artists with different practices for a unique moment of dialogue and experimentation. There is no set script, the guests don't know each other and we don't know what might happen. Join us at Jardim Público de Beja and discover what will come out of this meeting.
Capicua
Capicua was born in Porto in the 80's, discovered the Hip Hop culture in the 90's and became a Rapper in the 00's. A sociologist by training, she is known for her excellent, emotional and politically engaged writing. With a vast discography, it already has a solid track record in the Portuguese-speaking music scene: two mixtapes, three albums in its own name and a remix disc, a book-disc for children in partnership with Pedro Geraldes, a Portuguese-Brazilian disc in collective and a live EP. In the last decade, she has added intense concerts, conquering a very diverse audience and critical recognition, has accumulated collaborations with several Portuguese-speaking artists, and participated in several conferences, workshops and social projects. Also noteworthy is her acclaimed career as a lyricist and her activity as a columnist for Revista Visão.
Cristina Taquelim
Cristina Taquelim (Lagos, 1964) is a reading mediator and storyteller. With a degree in Educational Psychology and Librarianship, until February 2020 she was a technician at the Municipal Library of Beja José Saramago, an institution where for 30 years she coordinated the Reading Mediation Service, the Palavras Andarilhas project, the reading program in Rural Areas, among others. She is an accredited trainer by the CCPFC in the area of reading promotion. She has presented several communications in colloquia, congresses and promoted training actions for other mediators – librarians, library technicians, narrators, teachers and parents. She was part of the Gulbenkian Casa da Leitura project team. She collaborated with the Catholic University in the Children's Book Graduate Program. She has been active as an oral narrator since 1995 and as such she has participated in several meetings in different countries. He has works of children’s literature published in Brazil and Portugal, including “Corrupio” by Editora Lê (Br.2017), and “Avó de Coração” (Pt. 2019) and “Teodora and the Mystery of Cachapins” (Pt. . 2020) by Ed. Zero to Eight. She believes that reading and counting are ways of drawing windows to the diversity of the world's languages. Also those of the inner world. She is a founding partner of the Ouvir e Contar Association and of Chão Nosso CRL, a Cultural Cooperative based in Beringel.
Pedro Horta
He was born in Beja, but only about 11 years ago began a path of conscious activism in the Alentejo region. He was one of the founders of Eco-Comunidades na Plainie, a group of citizens that organized various activities with the aim of bringing people together and generating ideas on the collective construction of a human habitat with a future. This group made three editions of the Eco-Festival in Jardim Público de Beja, launched cycles of Eco-Films and several training initiatives. Today he is part of the Agroecology Domain of GAIA Alentejo and of the work group on Agriculture, Forests and Biodiversity of the ZERO association. He is an eternal student of things and spaces, a practitioner of cultivation and of being cultivated.
