CAPUCHOS TALKS

The Capuchos Talks come ahead of this year’s Music Festival. They pave the way for the programme through a series of three conversations, reflecting the very diversity the Festival aims to celebrate. We will find ourselves “Between Worlds”, looking towards the municipality of Almada from Lisbon, in the Cultural Programme space at El Corte Inglés. And it is “between worlds” that we will conclude this mini literary debate cycle, by bringing together two Portuguese writers for whom identity is a complex theme: Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida and Richard Zimler. These May talks, always on Wednesday evenings, begin with a tribute to José Cardoso Pires, marking the centenary of the birth of the author of Ballad of Dogs’ Beach. For this occasion, we will gather the writer’s biographer, Bruno Vieira Amaral, and one of his scholars, Marco Neves. The same year, 1925, which saw the birth of Cardoso Pires, also marked the posthumous publication of a prophetic novel: The Trial, by Franz Kafka. We will pay tribute to it with two writers whose experience in the judiciary makes them especially qualified as readers of the work in question: Julieta Monginho and Álvaro Laborinho Lúcio. Capuchos Talks 2025 will thus be three late afternoons with literature as the antechamber to the great music that the Capuchos Festival brings once again — for another unmissable season. 

Carlos Vaz Marques
Curator and moderator of the Capuchos Talks