Barcelos, UNESCO Creative City, hosts, from June 7th to 10th, the second edition of LÍNGUA – International Theater Festival in Minority Languages. LÍNGUA’s programming encompasses theater in minority and endangered languages ​​and transcends its borders. The Festival opens up to theater, amateur, community, popular, ethnic, in a search for real-world theaters as they are done and experienced in our time.

Festival brings theater from Galicia, Morocco and Cape Verde to Barcelos

The biennial event that will take place from the 7th to the 10th of June, at Theatro Gil Vicente, in Barcelos, will open with the play “O Milagre das Cruzes”, interpreted in Portuguese sign language, a work starring the APACI theater company , from Barcelos, which artistically works on the inclusion of people with disabilities and/or disabilities through theater.

From Galicia comes the award-winning work “O Meu Mundo non é este Reino” by Teatro da Ramboia, which brings the Galician language to the stage and, from Morocco, the company Blanc’art de Casablanca brings the show “Soupir” in Darija dialect. Closing the poster, and dedicated to children, it is in Cape Verdean or Creole that “Saaraci, the Last Grasshopper of the Desert” takes the stage by the hand of Saaraci Coletivo Teatral, a company in the diaspora between Portugal and Cape Verde.

The event will also have a debate on the importance of theater as an expression for the safeguarding and dissemination of minority languages. There will also be space for training, with emphasis on the workshop for children on the Mirandese language, led by author and professor Duarte Martins. Music is also highlighted at this event, such as a traditional Galician music show and a concert by the Sons de Barro project by Banda Musical de Oliveira.

LÍNGUA – International Festival of Theater in Minority Languages ​​is organized by the Teatro de Balugas company and the UNESCO Club for the Safeguarding of Theater in Minority Languages, with funding from the Municipality of Barcelos, the INATEL Foundation and support from several national and international entities.