"Famalicão is also the place of culture", reaffirmed today, publicly, the Mayor of Famalicão, Mário Passos, in the opening of the Autumn Encounters, under the theme "Conspiracies, revolts and revolutions in Portugal (1927-1974)". The colloquium, organised annually by the Bernardino Machado Museum, takes place until tomorrow, the 20th, at the Cupertino de Miranda Foundation.
The Mayor took advantage of his first public intervention, in the context of culture, to leave a guarantee to the famalicenses and the cultural agents of the county that "the cultural policy of the municipality is to be continued and strengthened in all its fronts".
Mário Passos stressed the importance of the cultural decentralisation project, implemented in 2019, Há Cultura, as well as the dynamics of the famalicenses cultural valences and the attractiveness of the existing heritage in the county. "Today we have in the county a network of cultural equipment with regular and high quality programming, (...) and a very interesting Museum Network with a diverse panel of museum units to discover" highlighted the mayor.
The scientific coordinator of the Bernardino Machado Museum, Norberto Ferreira da Cunha, who has been organising this meeting for 24 years, highlighted that "culture, when lived, is not a waste of time, nor a human vanity, but rather the fiat lux (let there be light) of the best that humanity has (...) I hope that this colloquium brings everyone a glimpse of being".