multiVERSES 00 Poetry and Video The interdimensional craft had a serious engine trouble and some of the occupants landed in Prisma Estúdio. They have been wandering between multiple universes, including Uqbar, Neverland and Twin Peaks. But for the first time in 100 years, they got in Lisbon (and never felt so lost). Now we are trying to help them go back to the journey. They say the engine is powered by Poetry and Video, so they asked us to make a multiVERSES night. • • • ARTISTS • • • Sara F. Costa - Poet Sara F. Costa is a Portuguese poet, writer and translator. She has published five books in Portugal. Her latest book won the international award “Glória de Sant’Anna” for best poetry book published in Portuguese speaking countries in 2018. She has an MA in Intercultural Studies: Portuguese/Chinese from Tianjin Foreign Studies University. Her verses have been translated into several languages and featured in literary journals all across the world. As an emerging European poet, she was an invited author of the International Istanbul Poetry Festival 2017. In 2018, Sara worked in the organization of The Script Road-Macau Literary Festival and China-European Union Literary Festival in Shanghai and Suzhou. In 2019, she was invited to go to Kolkata, India to share her poetry in the second edition of “Chair Poetry Evenings”. She translates Chinese poetry into Portuguese and coordinates events for the Spittoon Beijing Based Arts Collective. She recently launched an anthology of Chinese poetry that she translated into Portuguese Miguel Antunes - Poet Miguel Antunes is a young writer with an old soul. His poems are unique, inspired by the source that connects the human spirit. A storyteller, a pathfinder that leads you on a ride through insanity and sanity of human behaviors. He's the co-founder of Lispoetas, a poetry event that happened in a traditional Portuguese tavern. He's now the curator of Palavras EmContraste, a poetic evening happening every Sunday at Espaço Espelho d'Água. Miguel has been active in developing the arts scene in Lisbon and participating in different events around the capital. His performances have an enigmatic power, more than a poet, he is an artist who loves the Blues, joining both worlds, Poetry, and Blues. His passion took him to open mic stages in Manchester, Paris, and Berlin, where he had the chance to play along with other musicians. Last year he competed in a contest by the singer, songwriter, musician Amanda Palmer. His poetry was read by Amanda and her husband Neil Gaiman. Both cherished his words. He was invited to create a video for a Brazilian school to help kids under five years old understand the meaning of poetry. A poet who dreams about being a guide in this strange labyrinth that is life. Mariana Varela - Poet Mariana Varela is from São Paulo, currently living in Lisbon. She's a poet and has a Master in Sociology. Published "Enigmas de Jaguar e Jasmim" (Editora Urutau) in 2020 José Pinto - Poet José Pinto (Vila Real, 1988) lives in Elvas, Portugal. Psychologist, poet, playwright, translator and performer. Author of ‘Humanus' (Portugal, 2015), 'TOCA: oito poemas de amor e uma canção angustiada' (Portugal, 2021) and ‘Chá para o nevoeiro' (Brazil-Galicia, 2021). Author in the collective publication ‘Literatura e cultura em tempos de pandemia' (Portugal, 2021). His texts were published in magazines and fanzines in Brazil, Cape Verde, Spain, United States of America and Portugal. His poems have also been adapted for melodramas by the composer Filipe Pinto (Germany) and he writes for theater, with his work having premiered in Cape Verde and Portugal. He has collaborated with Revista Palavra Comum and in the edition, translation and revision of Revista dos Tr3sReinos, both in Galicia. He worked as a playwright and dramaturgist at UMCOLETIVO (Portugal) and is the mentor and artistic director of Associação txon-poesia (Cape Verde), which is dedicated to organizing activities around poetry and poetics, from a transdisciplinary, intercultural and participative perspective. João Meirinhos - Visuals Adopting multiple personas (insider / outsider / artist / performer / ethnographer) as to validate my understanding of things, I intuitively use photography, text and film as a way to engage in diverse and often uncomfortable situations, attempting to depict settings from habitually disregarded angles in order to identify and reveal the often unconscious procedures from which political, social and spatial structures emerge. I tell audiovisual tales that stem from my avid interest towards discordant/conflitual interactions between peoples and places: How social phenomena inextricably embed themselves into inhabited landscapes? And how environments archive endemic human behaviors, beliefs and representational systems? How are we perceived by others and how others perceive themselves? Lígia Reyes - Host At 30th of August of 1990 a fire settled in the mountains of Serra da Estrela. We could see the flames from the window of the room where Lígia Reyes was born. It was under the sign of fire that she developed her poetic and aesthetic sensibility. Between the creation and the destruction of her work there's a fine line. Some of the rescued texts were published in literary magazines (“A Sul de Nenhum Norte”, “Apócrifa – PLEC 8”, "TLON - Revista Literária Independente 5", "PULSAR", "O meu Útero é Uma Bomba" and in the turkish “Türkiye Dil ve Edebiyat Derneği”). Her first poetry book "Amor Peixe e Outras Loucuras" (Editora Urutau) was published in 2019. She was also invited to show her work at: International Young Writers Meeting (Turkey), Feira do Livro do Porto, Festival Literário de Óbidos 2019, Libraria Paz na Galiza (Spain), Associação Cultural Valsa, International Poetry Night @Anjos70, "Ginginha Poética nas Galegas", Maria da Mouraria - Casa de Fados and Associação Bota in Lisbon. • • • Please note • • • Book your free spot for the event via https://tinyurl.com/prismalx
