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André Braga, Cláudia Figueiredo & Panaíbra Gabriel Canda

25 & 26 April 2025 | Festival DDD, Cine-Teatro Constantino Nery – Teatro Municipal de Matosinhos [PREMIERE]
29 April 2025 | Teatro Miguel Franco, Leiria
16 May 2025 | Teatro Aveirense, Aveiro
23 May 2025 | Teatro das Figuras, Faro
30 May to 1 June 2025 | São Luiz Teatro Municipal, Lisboa

OR (from Latin aut) Conjunction that indicates alternative or optionality.

In 2022, Panaíbra Gabriel Canda was in residence at CRL – Central Elétrica, giving rise to the desire to develop together a project that had a strong connection to Mozambique. From the first conversations, the idea arose of rooting him in a place, in a landscape, as a starting point for “a long conversation”. The idea of good meetings and the transformative power of good conversations is among the first principles, with the aim being that the project constitutes, above all, a compliment to the full encounter.

Inhambane, the land of Panaíbra’s father, is also the land where Vasco da Gama and his crew arrived more than 500 years ago, naming it “Land of Good People”.

Colonization and post-colonization are naturally core thematic units of the project and we want to think about them from an overlap of times: past, present, future.

“Contemplation of great things from the past consists of welcoming them into our space. We are not the ones who transport ourselves into them, they are the ones who enter our lives.” Walter Benjamin