CPLP Ministers analyse circulation of agents and cultural goods
The Culture Ministers of the Community of Portuguese Language Countries (CPLP) are discussing the circulation of cultural agents and goods in the Portuguese-speaking area today during the XIII meeting that is taking place today in the capital of São Tomé.
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The Portuguese Minister of Culture, who is in São Tomé to participate in the event, told Lusa that the theme of the meeting "is especially interesting because it raises the issue of the mobility of young people and cultural agents and also the perspective of the circulation of cultural goods" in the CPLP.
Dalila Rodrigues said that "mobility today refers to areas of great tension and concern, namely as a result of globalization or because of it" and because it "implies a very strongly committed relationship with international tourism circuits" which "has an impact on environmental preservation".
The Portuguese Minister of Culture also said that "mass tourism is having a worrying impact on the capacity of cities, heritage sites, monuments, museums".
The Portuguese government official defended "a harmonious articulation between the need to provide artistic residencies and short-term scholarships with return and bilaterality" to promote cultural mobility between São Tomé and Portugal.
"It is important that Portuguese artists and cultural agents come to São Tomé and Príncipe in the same way that it is important to promote, support artistic residencies and short-term scholarships with return that take place in Portugal and the Ministry of Culture has a very significant set of cultural facilities that it supports directly or indirectly and that will certainly be available and committed to integrating these cooperation ties and this bilaterality", she stressed.
"I am here to mobilize all the resources that are within my reach to ensure that the CPLP actually does effective work", stressed Dalila Rodrigues.
The Minister of Culture was speaking after visiting a project to reuse the old Água Izé colonial plantation, in the district of Cantagalo, developed by the São Tomé cultural promoter, João Carlos Silva, which will host the Tenth Biennial of Arts and Cultures of São Tomé and Príncipe.
"This project is absolutely fascinating because of the way it was drawn up in a relationship between what was and what could be, from the point of view of maintaining the historical and cultural roots of the place, but of giving it a new life in the light of what are the contemporary needs in the domains of art, on the one hand, but on the other hand in the domains of built heritage", considered Dalila Rodrigues.
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