
Fome de Bola
Isto é PARTIS & Art for Change 2025
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Studio Centro de Arte Moderna GulbenkianThis performance was created as part of the VIRAL project, promoted by Circolando – Cooperativa Cultural and funded by PARTIS & Art for Change.
“Over the course of two years of meetings with a group of young people from east Porto, in which our bodies encountered sound, image and writing, we reflected on the political and social elements of futsal, what it means to be a team, what it means to lose a game or to shake hands with someone who scored an own goal.
We used drama to analyse the motivational discourses of the locker room, and created songs that symbolise the different moods of players on the pitch. As we did this, we also spoke about things like where we live, what happened on the way here to meet each other… And, we created a ‘FOME DE BOLA’ (a hunger for the ball).
What is it that makes our hearts pound when we see a ball go into a goal? What relation does the manga series ‘Captain Tsubasa’ have to house prices in Porto? And when will we stop being afraid of the ball?“
Image © Vinicius Ferreira
The VIRAL project is aimed at young people between the ages of 16 and 29 who live in social housing in the parish of Campanhã. Recognising education and training as essential factors for full and informed citizenship and bearing in mind the need to create spaces in which the multiple identities of these young people can be played out, the project proposes an artistic work based on new media, with which this age group is already very familiar. Body, photography, sound and writing interweave to promote reflection on their everyday places, virtual or physical, through workshops for training, collective creation and public presentation.
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Credits
Artistic director
Paulo Mota
Social coordinator
Susana Lage
Artistic support
André Braga and Cláudia Figueiredo
Dramaturgy
Raquel S.
Sound design
Pedro Augusto
Music
Tito
Photography and video
Vinicius Ferreira and Carlos Barradas
Facilitators
Joana de Verona, Joana Leite Castro, Jorge Neto, Nuno Matos, Pedro Augusto, Pedro Vilela, Raquel S., Tito and Vinicius Ferreira
Cast
Daniela Ramos, Gabriel Lopes, Isis Joaquim, Leandro Santos, Leonor Moreira, Lisandro Cardoso (Bé), Marco Silva, Miguel Alvarelhão, Samuel Machado, Tomás Soares
With the special participation of
David Guimarães
Production
Ana Carvalhosa and Cláudia Santos
Communication and graphics
Sara Jorge and Susana Lage
Administrative support
João Gravato
Partners
Fios e Desafios, ARRIMO – Projeto Escolhas / Sinergias
Acknowledgements
Joana Martins, Projeto Sinergias, FC Sinergias, André Sousa, David Guimarães, Ricardo Lopes (Ricardinho), Tiago Brito, Hélder Nogueira, Centro Social de Soutelo, Iara Lima, Marco Silva, Ruben Santos, José Medina, Gonçalo Moreira, Bruno Ferreira and Mariana David
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The Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation reserves the right to collect and keep records of images, sounds and voice for the diffusion and preservation of the memory of its cultural and artistic activity. For further information, please contact us through the Information Request form.