The Abecedário_Festival of the Word aims to support and promote the street bookstores, doing it through the realization of a group of gatherings and concerts around the various senses of a word. This year the word is “border”.
The Abecedário_Festival da Palabra is promoted by the Reading Booth, in Praça de Londres, in Lisbon, in collaboration with Barata, Tigre de Papel and Leituria bookstores and will take place from 8 to 11 March this year, with the aim of promoting bookstores street, paying homage to a different word every year. This year, the word chosen is FRONTIER.
It will seek to explore the various meanings of the word frontier: real, geographical, natural, economic, cultural, religious, social, technological, psychological, thinking, carrying out an analysis of the current and future perspectives in the view of writers, thinkers, , directors, artists, cultural managers and Lusophone musicians, through the holding of tertulias, literary cafes, recitals and concerts, which will take place during 4 days, in 3 bookstores, 3 libraries 1 shop and 3 cafes in Lisbon. Of these spaces 4 are Stores with History.
The Campaign "Giving your hands to bookstores" aims to contribute to the realization of the festival.
We count on you!