Viva Portugal 2024! – Celebrating the Carnation Revolution
A multi-art form project including theatre, archive creation, workshops
and music.
April 25 th 2024 will be the 50 th Anniversary of the revolution in Portugal which ended the 40 year rule of Antonio Oliveira Salazar. What happened? What changed? What’s so important about it? There is plenty to celebrate and plenty to learn. The Carnation Revolution brought freedom for the people of Portugal, an end to a bloody colonial war and helped give birth to the new independent nations in Africa of Angola, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique and São Tomé and Príncipe, and East Timor.
Street Art workshop
Sat 20 April 11am – South Lambeth Library
Inspired by the explosion of Street Art following the revolution, this is your chance to get creative and make your own street art for the here and now, led by artist Vicki Long, and based on rare photographs that captured the revolutionary spirit in 1970s Portugal. What do you want to say? Sign up for this workshop to explore your ideas. For all ages.
Produced by Modern Culture
Tickets: Eventbrite
Living History: The Carnation Revolution
Wed 24 April 6.30pm – South Lambeth Library
What happened on 25th April 1974? What changed for you, or for Portugal or the wider world? Zoltan Biedermann, Professor of Early Modern History at UCL and author of Disconnected Empires, and Susannah Finzi, a playwright and Portuguese translator who was in Lisbon at the time of the revolution, and who has an incredible photographic archive of revolutionary street art (to be shown at the event) will be in conversation. They will welcome perspectives and questions from the audience, and will also be inviting UK Lusophone residents to help us by recording their memories of the breaking news for a Living History sound archive hosted by the library.
The event will be chaired by writer and former BBC World Service journalist Lara Pawson, author of Spent Light.
Produced by Modern Culture
Tickets: Eventbrite
Viva Portugal – Two Stories from the Time of Salazar
Omnibus Theatre – 2 July – 14 July