Fado singer alone (21th Century) by Tatiane OliveiraVirtual Museum of Lusophony
The Festival
Music, dance, cinema, poetry, theatre, exhibitions, and workshops. This is how Convergências Portugal-Galiza festival highlights and integrates Portuguese language affinities between the two cultures – Portuguese and Galician –, in the different forms of artistic expression
Musicians with the guitars (21th Century) by Tatiane OliveiraVirtual Museum of Lusophony
Artists
In each edition, the names of important artists are remembered, such as the singer Zeca Afonso and the writer Rosalía de Castro
Interview with Fernando Pena (21th Century) by Tatiane OliveiraVirtual Museum of Lusophony
Interview
Find out the story about the festival in an interview with one of the event organizers, Fernando Pena
The ninth edition of the festival took place between the 10th and 25th of February 2023 in the cities of Braga (Portugal), Ponteareas and Santiago de Compostela (Spain)
Performance of two fado singers (21th Century) by Tatiane OliveiraVirtual Museum of Lusophony
Music
Galician Fado
During the programme, Noite de Fado Convergente involved the Galician singer Iria Estévez
Portuguese fado singer (21th Century) by Tatiane OliveiraVirtual Museum of Lusophony
Portuguese Fado
And with the Portuguese fado singer, Tiago Correia and the musicians, Artur Caldeira and Daniel Paredes
Two fado singers (21th Century) by Tatiane OliveiraVirtual Museum of Lusophony
Fado is one of the most traditional music styles, specially in Portugal. It is usually sung by just one person, the fado singer, who is accompanied by a Portuguese guitar and a classical guitar
Instruments
The festival also had a workshop on the ukulele and viola braguesa instruments
Portuguese musician with the guitar (21th Century) by Tatiane OliveiraVirtual Museum of Lusophony
The presentation took place at the University of Minho, in Braga, with the participation of the Portuguese musician Daniel Pereira Cristo
Workshop opening (21th Century) by Tatiane OliveiraVirtual Museum of Lusophony
See more on these instruments in the exhibition “The sounds of Braga – Part I” in https://artsandculture.google.com/story/jgUBaEn3yR9FKg
Galician dancer (21th Century) by Tatiane OliveiraVirtual Museum of Lusophony
Dances
The ninth edition also featured the animation of traditional dances of Galicia and Portugal, showing the cultural similarities
Traditional Galician dance (21th Century) by Tatiane OliveiraVirtual Museum of Lusophony
Galician group
The Galician Group Ecos e Agarimos from Peitieiros
Traditional Portuguese dance (21th Century) by Tatiane OliveiraVirtual Museum of Lusophony
Portuguese group
The Portuguese folk group from the University of Minho
Portuguese dancers (21th Century) by Tatiane OliveiraVirtual Museum of Lusophony
Convergências Portugal-Galiza festival is an event organized by Canto D´Aqui group, in partnership with Centro de Estudos Galegos of the University of Minho
and has the support of the Municipality of Braga, the Xunta de Galicia and the Lúcio Craveiro Library, and also involving around 15 institutions from Portugal and Galicia
Galician dancer (21th Century) by Tatiane OliveiraVirtual Museum of Lusophony
Elaine Trindade e Tatiane Oliveira
