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The whole thing started in 2000, some time after my children's book
L'Aventure de Barry was published in Belgium and its sale promoted by the
Service du Livre Luxembourgeois,
a Belgian cultural institution that also promotes the sale of my children's cd-rom
A Aventura do Barry, the Portuguese version of the same stories.
The cd-rom was published in Portugal where it is on sale at the Fnac in Lisbon as well,
having been presented to the Portuguese community in Luxembourg on 7 February 2002 at the
Instituto Camões,
the Portuguese Centre for Culture. (see photos)
It is also through the Sercice du Livre Luxembourgeois that I have regularly been invited
since 2000 to a number of literary and pedagogical activities, of which the most important are...
Attending events promoted by the
Service du Livre Luxembourgeois has offered me the opportunity of making acquaintances at different
levels and being in turn invited to other cultural activities and events in Belgium, France, Luxembourg.
It also happens that contacts are established through the internet, as it was the case with a high school in Romania.
This link turned into a strong collaboration, and I was very happy to travel to this country in
June 2006:
- On June 8, 2006 Pingouin et le Figuier (photos),
one of my juvenile theatre plays, was performed by a group of children of the Tismana high school, who were sweet enough to assign a special place to me
in their web site.
This play was again brought to stage at the end-of-the-school-year celebrations and also performed on August 15 2006, during the
Festival of the Fig that takes place every year at Svinita, a small town on the southern part of the country, on the shores of the Danube
I am mainly concerned with children and teenagers and their access to book reading and
other sources of knowledge in general. That is why I am particularly sensitive and open to any project
in the educational and cultural areas, having created the site for kids
Barry4kids to that purpose.
For every collaboration on these important fields, please feel free to send me a
message
or to
contact the Service du Livre Luxembourgeois. Other didactical material is also
available on
but only in French and Portuguese, therefore useful for learning these foreign languages.
I sincerely hope to be able to continue collaborating in pedagogical projects in Europe,
as well as attending future literary events as until now. I wish to go on writing and therefore
spreading the European culture in general, the
Portuguese culture in particular.
Activities scheduled for 2008:
- May 4 (afternoon): my theatre play for children Penguin and the Fig Tree will be performed by
a group of teenagers of the Portuguese Cultural Association of Esch/Alzette, in Luxembourg, during the 30th anniversary of that association
- March 15 and 16 (afternoon): participation in the
8e Salon du Livre et des Cultures in collaboration with the Association
Amitié Portugal-Luxembourg, during the 25th Festival of Migrations, Cultures and Citizenship
CLAE in Luxembourg
Year 2007:
- November 24 and 25: "Weekend of the Book" at the Centre Culturel Schungfabrik, Tétange, G.D. Luxembourg,
in collaboration with the Association
Amitié Portugal-Luxembourg
- October 5 and 6, between 11.30 AM and 4.30 PM: "Foire du Livre de Musson", Belgium, at the
invitation of the Service du Livre Luxembourgeois
- June 29: Book Fair during the inauguration of the European Cultural Pole at Aubange,
in Belgium, at the invitation of Service du Livre Luxembourgeois
- June 10: Meeting of authors during the Festival of the Natural Park of Haute-Sûre, in Belgique,
at the invitation of Service du Livre Luxembourgeois
- March 21: Conference on the
Lusitano Horse, at the iniciative of the Portuguese Cultural Centre (
Instituto Camões) in Luxembourg
- March 18: Pedagogical and literary activity in collaboration with the Association
Amitié Portugal-Luxembourg, during the 24th Festival of Migrations, Cultures and Citizenship
organized by CLAE in Luxembourg
ACTIVITIES before 2007
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