Knowledge and wisdom, academia and society, creativity and development can and should be conjugated. For their experience, applied to cultural production and programming, to investigation and citizenship amidst the countryside, interlocutors will deal with opportunities and schedules, themes and communities, and with places — villages, towns and cities — as Landscapes, both visible and interior.

The first Idle Talk is a weaving of complicities motivated by the idea of the programming. Torrão’s Community is invited to meet nearby and distant neighbours, whose work in the field of culture is making a difference.

Filomena Barata | Santiago do Cacém | Archeology

José Alberto Ferreira | Évora | Theatre 

Sara Fonseca | Alentejo | Music / Landscape | Lands Without Shadow Festival

Sara David Lopes | Lisboa | Cinema | Mediterranean Gaze Festival 

Arlinda Ribeiro | Reguengos de Monsaraz | Culture / Patrimony | Monsaraz Open Museum

Júlio Roriz | Beja | Photography | Yes Association

Manuel Correia da Silva | Casa Branca | Colaborator | Casa Branca’s Cooperative Station