One Object and its Speeches per Week

“One Object and its Speeches per Week”

A cycle of stories that present the assembly of the puzzle that fits the municipal heritage, great institutions of the city and the most varied objects that are usually away from public access.

Porto city Mayor explains that the challenge given to the city was of revealing itself through weekly conversations around its material and nonmaterial heritage.

With more than 100 guests each year, and a weekly cycle, the “Object and its Speeches per Week” project is part of the cultural routine of the city of Porto.

In this way the city presents its museums, libraries and beaches, but also its associations, restaurants and boats, cemeteries, laboratories or gardens and hospitals.

Museological objects,  ideas, values and tastes go on debate; specialists from different quadrants of society and areas of expertise – from engineering to arts,  through fishing, health, or religion – will interact.

“One Object and its Speeches per Week” is knowledge, inclusion, and circulation. Its an experience of Porto. Of a whole city that projects itself into the future through the love that nourishes for its history and heritage.

27 October – “The Philosophy of the chamber” from Marquis de Sade

Fernando Ribeiro de Mello was one of the main editors of the anti-fascist resistance, “cursed” and persecuted by the Estado Novo regimen for the audacity of its publications.
With translation by Manuel João Gomes and new illustrations by Martim Avillez, as well as a curious afterword reproducing the official documents of the “Sade process” of 1966-67 and transcriptions of witness testimony.

03 November – “Echo”

An echo is a repeated sound, sent back by a hard body, due to the reflection of the sound waves. The unfortunate history of this young Greek nymph varies according to the rapporteurs. In this session, the punishment of Eco and the unfortunate relationship with Narciso will be on debate in the presence of art historian Nuno Vaz de Moura. Its acoustic repercussions, beyond mythology, will also be discussed with the young soprano Leonor Oliveira.

10 November – “Book of the Condemned to Last Pity”

In the two volumes of “Relation of Sentenced Prosecutors to the Death Penalty whose sentences are registered here”, of Porto Court of Appeal,  we find judgments of numerous courts condemning “to die in the gallows”, “to die of natural death “,” to the death penalty”or “to the death of natural death forever on the gallows”. The host, an Appellate Judge, talks to a specialist on the subject and with an investigator, writer and director.

17 November – “São Martinho of Cedofeita Church”

The Church of São Martinho de Cedofeita is considered the oldest church in Porto.
According to legend, the temple was built so quickly that it was referred to as “Cito Facta”, which then derived in the name of city district Cedofeita (done early). Although the documentary sources are insufficient to prove it, it will also be of this period the invocation to São Martinho (Saint Martin), to whom the king Suevo Teodomiro have dedicated the church, after the cure of his son in presence of the relics of the saint.
In the week that revives the traditions of S. Martinho, the specialist in archeology and medieval art Manuel Real and the art historian Sara Rocha will be the guides in this true journey in time, in a session moderated by António da Ponte, Regional Director of Culture From North.

24 November – “Microscope”

Welcome to the iconic building of i3S (Institute of Research and Innovation in Health) where we can get to know an object that is witness to the research itself in Portugal: the Siemens Elmiskop 1A electron microscope.
On the International Scientist and Scientific Culture Day, the host, Sobrinho Simões, invites to the talk Rosalia Vargas, director of the National Live Science Agency, and the lens specialist, and Leica employee, Pedro Nogueira.