Fome de Bola

Isto é PARTIS & Art for Change 2025

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This 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

Funded by

An initiative by

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.

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