Casa América, the Embassy of Portugal, and the Camões Institute are organizing the celebration of World Portuguese Language Day, which will take place in the Ambassadors’ Hall of Casa América on May 5 at 6:30 PM. Free entry until full capacity.
Spoken by more than 260 million people across different continents and in diverse historical, cultural, and human realities, Portuguese today constitutes one of the great languages of global circulation, a simultaneous space of memory, creation, and reinvention.
The celebration will take as its starting point a particularly expressive triangle of that vastness – Portugal, Mozambique, and Brazil – a reduced but eloquent sample of the infinite variety of experiences, rhythms, imaginaries, and ways of inhabiting the world that the Portuguese language harbors and continuously renews.
For this meeting, the presence of the Portuguese writer Dulce Maria Cardoso, whose work has illuminated, with rare aesthetic demand and sharp human intelligence, the fractures, displacements, and persistences of the contemporary condition; and the Mozambican poet, playwright, and essayist Luís Carlos Patraquim, a figure of modern African literature, who turns language into a territory of freedom and poetic reinvention, will be counted on.
To this dialogue, moderated by Anabela Mota Ribeiro, whose recognized capacity for listening and dialogue will make this meeting a privileged space for reflection, the presence of Brazil will be added through the musical intervention of Sol Homar Osimani, whose participation will add to this celebration the affective dimension of a language that is also sung and recognized in shared emotion.