Agenda

The exhibition "Weaving the Reed" centers on the craftsmanship of reed mats from Forjães, a "know-how" that became the main artisanal industry of this village for much of the 20th century.

This artisanal labor is portrayed through the lens of Juan Pablo Moreiras, a French photographer whose work has illustrated numerous exhibitions and publications, including those of UNESCO World Heritage, as well as features in prestigious international magazines.

Additionally, this exhibition hosts pieces from the "Water Earth Fire" showcase, which are the results of work produced over the last four editions of the academic project "'Design' and Territory" by ESMAD, the Polytechnic Institute of Porto.

Schedule:

Summer Schedule - June 1 to September 30

• Tuesday to Friday: 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM | 2:00 PM to 6:00 PM
  
• Saturday and Sunday: 2:00 PM to 6:00 PM

Winter Schedule - October 1 to May 31

• Tuesday to Friday: 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM | 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM
  
• Saturday and Sunday: 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM

The Esposende Nautical Station continues with its activity plan by organizing an event titled “Surf & Rescue,” which will take place on the morning of May 19th at Ofir Beach, in Fão.

This is a free training session, essential for Surf Schools and Coaches, Surfers, and Lifeguards. Participation grants the Surf & Rescue Certificate, as well as 1.4 Credit Units for the renewal of Coaching Licenses!

Esposende, a nautical destination with a high number of water sports enthusiasts, is hosting the launch of the sixth edition of this project, developed by the Portuguese Surf Schools Association and the Sea Rescue Institute. The goal is to train surfers to save even more lives.

Registration is free but limited and can be completed through the website: https://www.surfrescue.pt

Drawing, understood as a border-crossing errancy, was the subject of the author's research within the scope of the doctoral thesis presented in 2007 at the University of Vigo, in the Faculty of Fine Arts in Pontevedra.

For around ten years, the philosophy of the limit, as developed by Eugenio Trías, was studied and applied with the aim of providing ontological grounding to the idea that Drawing is traversed ad intra by the tense interplay between conjunctive and disjunctive forces. The draughtsman, being a border subject, elevated to the limits of the world and positioned before the mystery, through critical reason, ultimately opens himself to its shadow — that is, to unreason. He may then, in an indirect and analogical manner, resort to the power of the symbol in order to establish a dialogue — always defective or precarious — with all that transcends the phenomenological events of this world and which, according to the Spanish philosopher, resides in that impenetrable realm he calls the hermetic enclosure (cerco hermético).

Thus, it is a journey demanded by passionate intelligence, wandering between the world and the mystery, between reason and unreason, between being and nothingness. Because whenever a line travels across the paper establishing defined physical boundaries, it simultaneously opens, in an interrogative manner, to the infinity of meanings and senses: it is both conjunctive and disjunctive, it unites and separates by functioning as a hinge between matter and transcendence.