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Launch of the book: The story of João Gala-gala
The book tells a story based on the biography of Chico António, Mozambican musician in a fiction version by Pedro Lopes and illustrated by Luis Cardoso.
The event will feature the presence and performance of the musician Chico António, and an exhibition will be on display at the venue with Luís Cardoso's paintings, used in the illustration of the book.
The author Pedro Pereira Lopes was recently awarded the literary prize Eugénio Lisboa of the National Casa da Moeda press with the book "Mundo Grave".
This story, based on the biography of Chico António, a Mozambican musician, tells an adventure of a young man, from the countryside to the banks of the city streets, where he sows friends and stories and collects sounds and harmonies with which he later composes his songs. Fiction version by Pedro Lopes, to which Luís Cardoso is fictionalized on canvas, giving him the colors of a fantastic scenery where the ocher of the field mixes with the lights of the city and its multiple meanders.
Chico António was born in 1958. He was a herdsman in Magude, in the province of Maputo, and a prince in the streets of Lourenço Marques, later Maputo, where he arrived in the early 60's. At the age of nine he became a soloist and learned trumpet and solfege. He was part of the "RM" and "Mozart Star Orchestra" groups. In 1990, he won the Radio France International (RFI) award, with the song "Baila Maria", in a duet with Mingas. He studied music in France and then founded the Amoya Studio and Art Gallery. Launched in 2014, the album "Memorias". He frequently toured Europe and Africa and became a regular contributor to music for documentaries, films, videos and theatre.
Luís Cardoso was born 53 years ago, in the city of Beira, a large piece of land conquered to the Indico, the shallows of the Chiveve and the savannah. He became accustomed to his landscapes of intense colors and strong contrasts. It was thus appropriated, from a palette in shades of ocher and sea blue, of reds ripened in the trees by the sleeves and the cashews.
He appropriated the green grass that surrounded the house, where he lived his first years of life, and that extended to the distance, where the forest began. He is an advertising professional and plastic artist. He has done many exhibitions and illustrated many books. Likes to tell stories illustrating, drawing and painting. That was the way he found to continue colouring other people's world.
Pedro Pereira Lopes, was born in Zambézia, in 1987. A storyteller of poetry "manias" and founded the web-magazine "Lidilisha" and "Projeto Ler para Ser". Member of the Mozambican Writers Association, he is a researcher and professor at the Higher Institute of International Relations.
He is the author of the books: "The Man of the 7 Hairs" (infantojuvenil, 2012), Prize Lusofonia - Municipality of Trofa, 2010, "Kanova and the Secret of the Skull" (infantojuvenil, 2013), "Journey around the world into a pollen other poems "(infantojuvenil, 2014) and" The train that wore slippers "(no prelo, Maria Odete de Jesus Prize, 2016).
Pedro Pereira Lopes was the winner of the literary Prize Eugénio Lisboa, with the novel "Mundo Grave".
Date and Time: Tuesday, December 12 2017 at 17h30
Entrance: Free
Adderss: Centro Cultural Franco-Moçambicano, Av. Samora Machel no. 468, Maputo
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