General Assembly Meeting Program Young Friends Lisbon and Madeira 8th - 13th of May 2018
Dear Young Friends, Lisbon and Madeira are ready to host our Young Friends Meeting and General Assembly! We are most delighted to have you in these unique cities and to welcome you to our heritage and traditions. These will be some hard working days but also packed with culture and vibrant sights. Get ready! The Young Friends of FAMP Federação de Amigos dos Museus de Portugal have been organizing a meeting where work and discussion fit in the same room as exploring the capital s treasures and the island s wonders. Madeira has given us a wonderful example of how a Friends of a Museum group ought to be created. The Friends of Museum Quinta das Cruzes has done a superb work on the WFFM's program for the General Assembly and has been building a very interesting place in the cultural scene of Madeira. We dearly cherish the Young Friends communion all around the globe and we strive to have you sharing these moments of partnership, adventure and joy with us in Portugal! It is for us a privilege to congregate youth voluntary energy around such important themes as: protecting and giving life to cultural heritage, and stimulating youngsters creative art world. Being so, we invite you to join us in WFFM s annual General Assembly to meet Young Friends from around the world and share different ideas about what brings us together! Hoping to see you all next May, Eliana, Sara, Ksenia, Gonçalo and Duarte
LISBON 2018 th Tuesday, 8 04:00 p.m.: Museu Nacional de Arte Registration and cocktail. of May 2018 Antiga museudearteantiga.pt Portugal s most important and Lisbon s richest museum will be our first gathering place. It firstly belonged to the Marquis of Pombal's family (Carvalho) and nowdays holds an impressive permanent collection (famously presenting Bosch s The temptations of the St. Anthony and Nuno Gonçalves s Painéis de São Vicente ), a varied and intense program of temporary exhibitons and a beautiful garden over the Tagus river. 06:30 p.m.: Museu Nacional de Visit to the exhibition. Arte Antiga 09:30 p.m.: Dance/Theatre Performance happening on a city's Theatre Hall.
LISBON 2018 Wednesday, 9 th of May 2018 09:30 a.m.: Casa-Museu Medeiros e Almeida Guided tour to the collection. casa-museumedeirosealmeida.pt Built in 1896 by Manuel Correia Júnior, the palace of the Museum Medeiros e Almeida congregates the wonderful art collection of António de Medeiros e Almeida, who lived there from 1940 to 1970. The still unknown but high-quality collection includes furniture, pictures, jewelry, and sacred art, throughout twenty five themed rooms. 11:30 a.m.: Cinemateca Portuguesa Museu Meeting at Sala Luís de Pina. Snack. do Cinema cinemateca.pt The main headquartes for cinema lovers, the portuguese Cinemateca is the national museum of cinema and regularly projects pictures in film. Majorly preseting world classics and independent cinema, it s well know for programming themed cycles and both national and international film festivals.
12:00 p.m.: Cinemateca Portuguesa Museu do Cinema Watching of two short-movies of Portuguese Cinema. 01:30 p.m.: Museu da Cidade Lunch and guided tour. Palácio Pimenta museudelisboa.pt/equipamentos/palacio-pimenta.html The City s museum is located in a XVIII century palace the Palácio Pimenta, named after Manuel Joaquim Pimenta. It presents the evolution of the city since prehistoric times to the first half of the XX century, going throughout the roman occupation and Islamic settlements, the Cristian conquest by D. Afonso Henriques, first king of Portugal, and the growth of the city as capital of the portuguese empire. 04:00 p.m.: Palace of Meeting. Galveias The Palace of Galveias was built in the XVII century for the Marquis of Távora. In 1801, it was acquired by D. João, fifth count of Galveias. After 1920, Lisbon city hall bought the building and organized it as a public library. It was here that the Nobel prize of Literature, José Saramago, spent years reading and studying for his novels.
LISBON 2018 Thursday, 10 10:30 a.m.: Museum of Guided tour. th of May 2018 Condes de Castro Guimarães cm-cascais.pt/equipamento/museu-condes-de-castro-guimaraes The Museum is placed in the Palace of the late Count of Castro Guimarães. The Palace was built in the end of the XIX century by Jorge O Neill, and is a mix of architectural styles. The Count of Castro Guimarães left his art collection and the Palace to the city of Cascais. The Museum opened in 1931. The collection ex-libris is the Chronic of D. Afonso Henriques by Duarte Galvão, a very precious document about the life of the first King of Portugal. 11:30 a.m.: Museum Meeting. 13:30 a.m.: Lunch. of Condes de Castro Guimarães
09:30 p.m.: Palácio Foz Dinner and farewell meeting. gmcs.pt/palaciofoz The Palace, built in the XVIII century in one of the noblest areas of the city, belonged to the Marquis of Castelo Melhor until 1888, when it was rented by the marquis of Foz, who now names the Palace. Nowadays it is property of Presidência do Conselho de Ministros and it holds an intense cultural and mostly musical program.
MADEIRA 2018 Friday, 11 th of May 2018 Departure to Madeira. 02:30 p.m.: Convento de Guided tour. Santa Clara and Igreja do Colégio João Gonçalves Zarco, first governor of Funchal, built the Convento de Santa Clara in the XV century. It still has a religious order, the Franciscanas, although there are open areas and it is possible to see the marvelous collection of tiles and paintings. The church of the Colégio is named Church of Saint John the Evangelist. It was built in the XVI hundreds and is a stunning example of the transition between mannerism and the portuguese baroque. 06:30 p.m.: Bothanic Garden Visit and dinner.
MADEIRA 2018 Saturday, 12 th of May 2018 08:45 a.m.: Levada of Castelejo Departure from the Pousada da Juventude do Funchal. Please, bring comfortable clothes and shoes and water. 12:30 p.m.: Casa de Lunch. Chá do Faial 02:00 p.m.: Departure to Funchal.
03:00 p.m.: Museum of Quinta das Cruzes Visit to the exhibition and group assembly 06:30 p.m.: Center of Funchal Guided walk by the university s History Tellers around the historic center of Funchal. 08:30 p.m.: Londres Dinner Typical Madeiran food restaurant.
MADEIRA 2018 Sunday, 13 th of May 2018 09:00 a.m.: Casa das Mudas Departure to the General Assemby Meeting. 10:00 a.m.: Casa das Mudas Arrival to the Contemporary Art Museum of Casa das Mudas: Visit to the museum. Casa das Mudas was designed by the architect Paulo David and it opened in 2004. The Museum holds a modern and contemporary art collection with representation of well-known portuguese painters and artists. 11:00 a.m.: General Assembly Meeting. 12:30 p.m.: Transfer to Calheta for lunch. 01:00 p.m.: Lunch offered by the Secretaria do Turismo da Madeira. 03:30 p.m.: Cabo Girão Transfer to hotels with a stop at Cabo Girão for a high view of the island.
MUST READ Information This is a preliminary program and may be changed due to external circumstances. The subjects of Young Friends meetings are being discussed with the WFFM and the program will be updated soon. «Madeira» means «wood», and it was named after the forest that covered the entire island when João Gonçalves Zarco discovered the archipelago. In Lisbon we do not advise any hotel or hostel, as there are many wonderful and cheap places to stay all over the city, mainly in the Chiado / Príncipe Real areas. Many Airbnbs are also available and are perhaps the best option. Whenever we are going somewhere and it is not a walking distance, we will use the public transports. We advise you to get a «green card» that you may charge and use to travel by bus, metro, tram and trains. Flights from Lisbon to Funchal are not included nor organized by us. We advise you to get the flight tickets as soon and quick as possible. Tickets are now quite affordable; nevertheless they may get very expensive and less available. Please, when choosing, take in mind that it would be ideal to arrive to Funchal before 01:00 p.m. In Funchal we advise you to stay at the Pousada da Juventude: it was an ancient villa and is very suitable and well equipped. The Pousada is placed in the center of Funchal, near the places of our activities; it will be our meeting point. If you wish to stay there, please contact us. Link: www.visitmadeira.pt/pt-pt/onde-dormir/detalhe/pousada-de-juventude-do-funchal In case you need any help with advise for the accommodation, do not hesitate to contact us. In some cases, Lisbon Young Friends may provide accommodation in their places. Important contacts are: Gonçalo +351 91 912 4143 Duarte +351 91 831 4189 / duarte.benard@hotmail.com Eliana Zanini +54 3447 15 445888 / eli_zanini@hotmail.com