festival do castanho 2015

Car@s Amig@s, 

Paradela já tem saudades nossas! A boa notícia é que voltaremos a
anima-la em breve. Temos todo o prazer em convidar-vos a fazer
parte da sexta colheita do Castanho. Dizem que é aos 6 anos que as
crianças vão para a Escola Primária, por isso, meus meninos, desta
vez é “obrigatório”.
Este ano propomos um dia - uma oficina, desde circo, cerâmica,
construção de instrumentos musicais, entre outras ideias que andam
a dançar até serem definidas. Teremos então, um castanho, com um
grupo de energia em que tod@s teremos oportunidade de explorar.
Precisamos de saber se estás interessad@ em fazer parte desta
colheita, que decorrerá 27 de Agosto (Quinta-feira) até 3 de Setembro
(outra Quinta-feira), na aldeia de Paradela. Uma semana de animação, de
conversa, trabalho e um intercâmbio entre os “castanhos” e a
comunidade da aldeia.
Para participares confirma até 10 de Agosto (2015). Temos lotação
limitada no festival.
Basta enviar um email para festivalofbrown@gmail.com com o nome,
contacto telefónico e um “sorriso”. Convidamos-te, também para
partilhares alguma proposta, caso queiras fazer parte da
programação, temos as noites “virgens”.
Após recebido o teu email, enviaremos programação e outras
informações. 

Até breve
Um abraço,
o grupo do Castanho
09 Julho 2015


Escola Primária de Paradela
5470-362 Paradela  Tel. 276566100
Tlm. 917457337 festivalofbrown@gmail.com

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festival do castanho 2013

festival do castanho - paradela do rio 2013 from festival of brown on Vimeo. (há mais slide-shows do festival no Vimeo)

A aldeia, as impressões, os objectos, os olhares, as emoções, as propostas, a transformação, os processos e as pessoas fazem do festival do castanho um acontecimento muito especial! Sinto-o como um feitiço que provoca as nossas vidas, espicaça a nossa criatividade, nos anima e estimula para este encontro curioso de saberes e gosto de experimentar. maria, zé, carolina, duarte, maria, joana, sebastião, alex, andré, joão, miguel, francisco, pedro, mescla, nelson, joão, hugo, teresa, susana, joana, daniel, joão, susana, tomás, joão, georgina, heitor, joaninha, joão, eugénia, diogo e daniela envolveram-se na efemeridade dos projectos já pensados, e em outros que a aldeia inspirou: na construção de uma tenda-abrigo, num muro-mobil, na pintura de portas, cancelas, carro de bois, caixas de incêndio, poste e varanda, na lã enfeltrada, na sombra pintada, nas pedras com lã no muro, nas pedrinhas na fonte, na construção da bicicleta, na máquina de desenhar, na recolha de terras para fazer objectos cozidos em soenga, no enxerto de lã na vinha, nas mariolas, na jangada e na tinturaria vegetal para a lã. A jam session, as estórias, a poesia, as cantigas, o malabarismo, a arte corporal, a queimada barrosã e o teatro de fantoches criaram belos momentos de prazer e magia. Saímos, mais uma vez, contentes desta manifestação de arte!

Um bem haja à Câmara Municipal de Montalegre e à população de Paradela do Rio, que cada vez mais nos aceita nesta fusão de arte na aldeia, ao Padre Fontes e, especialmente, a todos nós.
O grupo do Castanho
Maria, Zé, Sabine e Peter

                               Impressões da Pietrina Atzori 

                                      

                                             Totem do Luis Raposo 



Festival do Castanho 2013 | Festival of Brown 2013

Olá a Todos,

Convidamos-te mais uma vez a participares no 5º Festival do Castanho que decorrerá na aldeia de Paradela do Rio, Montalegre, de 1 a 8 de Setembro.
A motivação deste ano será

A arte efémera (música, poesia, teatro, dança, instalação, escultura, performance, mecanismos...).

As obras desenvolvidas durante o festival farão parte da aldeia.

Teremos a Escola que funcionará como espaço de acolhimento e de trabalho e contamos com o apoio da Câmara Municipal de Montalegre.

Por favor envia a tua proposta até 15 de Agosto.

Vamos trabalhar juntos e ultrapassar as fronteiras das disciplinas.

Abraços

O Grupo do Castanho

Maria, Zé, Peter e Sabine

 

Contato: festivalofbrown@gmail.com

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Dear friends,
we are happy to invite you to participate in the 5thFestival of Brown which will be held in Paradela do Rio, Montalegre, Tras-os-Montes, Portugal from the 1st to the 8th of September.
Our theme this year is
‘Ephemeral Art’ (including music, poetry, theatre, dance, installation, sculpture, performance and mechanisms...).
We have use of the School which will be our base and we are grateful for the support of the Câmara Municipal de Montalegre.
Please reply if you wish to attend - and include a proposal if you have one - by the 15th of August.
We will work together to transcend the borders of disciplines.
Hugs,
Grupo do Castanho
Maria, Zé, Peter and Sabine

Contact: festivalofbrown@gmail.com

festival do castanho 2012 | festival of brown 2012

 

AN ACCOUNT OF THE ENGLISH FESTIVAL OF BROWN 2012

The second of the 2 FESTIVALS this year happened in BRIGHTON, ENGLAND and culminated in a public performance and exhibition on Sunday 23rd of September. The whole festival was based at the Coach House, a small, discreet and secluded venue in Brighton’s Kemp Town and quite the brownest room short of the Old Bailey. The Festival’s initial meeting on Monday 17th of September attracted 19 participants and involved a lively, interesting and wide-ranging discussion about brown and its many connotations, shades, moods and aspects. Various ideas were proposed and some of them were even brought to fruition in the week ahead. The whole event was marked by a friendly and co-operative atmosphere and a great willingness to honour this most downtrodden of colours. At the final event: There were readings by Tim Wood, Annie Kerr, Sabine Schroepel and Peter Pick. Peter read the poem ‘things to say about brown’ (as usual). Annie read ‘the inventor’ and a piece naming many of the terms used by the manufacturers of paint to avoid saying brown. Sabine Schroepel read a short story of her own invention. Tim read some brown fragments and a piece about a car crash. There were performances by VV, Sabine Portela and Carolina Diaz. VV’s piece was called ‘her outdoors’ and included film, installation and live performance, a carpet covered in earth and eggs and a soundtrack with music by the vitamin b12, narration by Mark Anthony Whiteford and the participation of Ines Blasco-Petty. Carolina Diaz danced shadows with Annie Kerr’s reinterpretation of Bach. Sabine Portela performed ‘fragments’ with projected light and her narration was read by Peter Pick. There was a therapeutic or confessional interlude in which Sara Jane Glendinning and Nick Sebley spoke of unrequited love and stirred up contributions about mourning and loss from the floor. There was a theatrical piece or sketch in which Michael Gale interviewed Nick Sebley and Sabine Schroepel about the ‘Brown Movement’ and its political aims. It seems that the intention of the movement is to compost or mulch Canary Wharf and seed the remains with marigolds imported from ‘Czechoslovakia’ on donkeys. There was music from the choir of rolls, Annie Kerr and meshmass. The choir of rolls featured Emily, Lola, Peter, Richard and Melanie, and Nigel played the marimba. Annie Kerr played an improvisation based on one of Bach’s partitas for violin. meshmass played and were augmented for the occasion by Tim Wood (tenor saxophone), Annie Kerr (violin) and Nigel French (percussion). Everybody did remarkably well considering that nobody had the slightest idea what they were doing. There was brown art on display from Carolina Diaz, Tim Wood, Alanna, Peter Pick, Michael Gale and Nick Sebley. There were photographs by Nigel French and there was a slideshow of brown photographs. This was only the culmination of a week’s collaborative effort including all these people some of the time and some of these people all of the time. Our grateful thanks to all participants and especially to those who made delicious food and cakes.