Wednesday: Making It happen + Metamorfosis

• 10 May, 3 p.m — Schools

• 11 May, 9.30 p.m — General public
  

Created and performed by Grade 9 students from Escola Secundária Fernão Mendes Pinto, Wednesday: Making It Happen is a piece by and for young people standing at the border between adolescence and adulthood. Taking Cláudia Dias’s Wednesday: The Time of the Cherries as their starting point, they draw a line from their past and present experiences to their hopes and doubts for the future. The text, choreography, and set were developed in creative laboratories with Cláudia Dias and Karas, in the context of the Seven Years Seven Schools project, and with the support of teachers teachers Cristina Azevedo and Gabriel Mithá.

The performance is presented along with Metamorphosis, a film documenting the creative process, by Multimedia students from Escola Secundária Francisco Simões, with the support of their teacher, Américo Jones.

Metamorfasis reflects on the experience of participating in Wednesday: Making It Happen. The film traces the relationships between the students from the two participating schools in Almada, addressing individual perspectives as well as the big picture. From very early on in life, we are asked a series of transversal questions: what do you want to be when you grow up? What makes you happy? What are your dreams? The answers are found through our choices and decisions, or lack thereof. In this journey, we attempt to discover something about the other and about ourselves.

Seven Years Seven Schools, a satellite of Cláudia Dias’s Seven Years Seven Pieces project, aims to develop creative and personal skills in young people by bringing arts practices into secondary schools.

Credits Wednesday: Making It happen

Created and performed by Alexandre Machado, Alexandre Fernandes, Beatriz Santos, Bruna Cruz, Fábio Martinho, Geovana Cruz, Hugo Pinto, Laiza Ismael, Marcos Rodrigues, Oleksandr Ukhach, Rafaela Costa, Ricardo Silva, Tarcila Ismael, Thatylla Castro, and Tifany Ismael (Grade 9 Section 5, ES Fernão Mendes Pinto)
Coordinators and Artistic Directors: Cláudia Dias, Karas Technical Director: Nuno Borda de Água Music: Vai – Vado Más Ki Ás Participating teachers: Cristina Azevedo (ES Fernão Mendes Pinto), Gabriel Mithá (ES Fernão Mendes Pinto), Américo Jones (ES Francisco Simões) Produced by Alkantara Supported by Escola Secundária Fernão Mendes Pinto, Escola Secundária Francisco Simões, Teatro Extremo Special thanks to Ana Pina, diretora Francisco Simões, Andreia Garrido, Cristina Silva

The Seven Years Seven Schools project is supported in part by a grant from the PARTIS programme of the Gulbenkian Foundation and funding from Câmara Municipal de Almada. Alkantara is funded by República Portuguesa Cultura | DGArtes – Direção-Geral das Artes and Câmara Municipal de Lisboa.

Ficha Técnica Quarta-Feira: Fazer acontecer

Criação e interpretação Alexandre Machado, Alexandre Fernandes, Beatriz Santos, Bruna Cruz, Fábio Martinho, Geovana Cruz, Hugo Pinto, Laiza Ismael, Marcos Rodrigues, Oleksandr Ukhach, Rafaela Costa, Ricardo Silva, Tarcila Ismael, Thatylla Castro e Tifany Ismael — alunos do 9º 5 – E.S.Fernão Mendes Pinto (Almada) Coordenação e direcção pedagógico-artística Cláudia Dias e Karas Direcção técnica Nuno Borda de Água Música Vai – Vado Más Ki Ás Texto, espaço cénico e figurinos Criação colectiva dos alunos
Professores de Apoio Cristina Azevedo e Gabriel Mithá – E. S. Fernão Mendes Pinto / Américo Jones – E. S. Francisco Simões (Almada) Coordenação e Produção Alkantara Coordenação para a Área Social Carlota Quintão, Luísa Veloso e Mafalda Gomes – A3S Apoio Escola Secundária Fernão Mendes Pinto, Escola Secundária Francisco Simões, Teatro Extremo Agradecimentos Ana Pina; Augusta Delgado; Andreia Garrido; Cristina Silva

Ficha Técnica Metamorfosis

Produção, edição e realização Daniel Carqueija, Diogo Ribeiro, Jessica Fragoso, Rafaela Caiola e Tiago Valente — Alunos curso profissional de técnico de multimédia Coordenação Américo Jones – E. S. Francisco Simões (Almada)

O projecto Sete Anos Sete Escolas conta com o apoio da Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian no quadro do Programa Partis – Práticas Artísticas para a Inclusão Social, e com uma rede de parceiros alargada dos quais se destacam O Teatro de Ferro e a Câmara Municipal de Almada.