O CAMINHEIRO DE SINTRA (Night walking tours)
Friday, August 3, 2018:
Registration required to: producaoaurafestival@gmail.com
Under the Light of Romanticism
Meeting point: Miradouro da Correnteza
Saturday, August 4, 2018:
Shadows from Other Centuries
Meeting point: Quinta da Regaleira
Two nights in which the eyes of the contemporaries will look to the past with other habits and other eyes. Using the light and the shadow in cadency words by the penumbra and the landscape, these two walks look for the pulsar of the fantasy; the faint lights of the 19th century in Sintra (night of August 3), and the shadows of times more distant and more hidden from the present view and light (night of Agust 4).
The experiences of some historical figures (known from books or only from anonymous and intimate writings) will be evoked through stretches of their lives, interweaving improvisations with the landscape and the artistic facilities of AURA - a unique way to travel to Sintra's past.
MIGUEL BOIM / O CAMINHEIRO DE SINTRA
- Portugal
Miguel Boim - also known as Sintra's Walker - is a writer, researcher, and storyteller of Sintra history. He was born in Lisbon, in August 1978. In 2007, he began to write his memoirs in Serra de Sintra, in a blog called "O Caminheiro de Sintra", a pseudonym that he uses in the publications about the mountain and the village. In 2013, he began to write scripts and to make day and night visits to Serra de Sintra, contributing to the various projects in which he was and is involved. Author of the book Sintra Lendária. Since 2015 he writes monthly articles for the Sintra newspaper and is a habitual presence in the schools of Sintra municipality for the sensitization of the material and immaterial patrimony among the students, with his project "As Lendas de Sintra e os Ratos de Biblioteca", carried out through the Municipal Council of Sintra.
