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Thursday, October 22, 2009

lisboa a cultural visit



An October cultural visit to lisboa, primarily to meet either Jose Saramago or his grandaughter Ana.
But firstly to meet and hear sam play in an underground car park at the marquis do pombal……we had a meal with the promoter and pete tha zouk portugals top dj…….what an amazing gig over 3000 people…this was the first time that we had heard sam since he played at barca in Manchester 12 plus years ago?………………….sam and gav where brilliant…they really whipped the crowd up.
Lots of culture..paula rego in caiscais……oriente museu……vera cortes gallery to talk about vhils aka Alexander Fartos work…….museu agua in principe real…and lots more
Today we met Ana with Isabel at the Saramago Foundation to talk about my ideas for a concertina book based on the Unknown Island and the Stone Raft…we chatted about possible ideas including an idea to organise a Saramago image based show…………….




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