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Storytelling Sessions
Storytelling sessions in village squares and hills, with Rita Sales and Pedro Bravo, where people are encouraged to tell and thus share their memory of oral tradition and life stories. It is also intended to contribute to the county's cultural dynamism and to the creation of positive collective memories.

Digital Resource Center
Online platform for disseminating the project, which provides the collection of the oral tradition carried out, as well as an area to receive contributions from the community.

Short Story Writing
Original stories by Pedro Faria Bravo based on listening to the life stories of the population of Mértola, based on previous visits and sessions of Tales in Largo.

Paper Photography
At each meeting we take photographs of people and places, always taking care to respect each one's spaces. When we return to the same place, we look for people to give them their photograph on paper. We realize how important physical contact with their photographed image is for many people, in times when so much of the world becomes virtual and impalpable, therefore, inaccessible to those who do not use digital media.

Path, Landscapes and People - a journey through the Boca em Boca project
This is at the same time a presentation of the work carried out, a storytelling session and a conversation where the participants will have the opportunity to get to know the route, actors and places of the De Boca em Boca project - stories to nurture communities. Whoever joins us will be able to experience and reflect on the power of stories in communities and groups, be they neighborhoods, villages, schools, families, and so on. And because oral narration contributes to promoting and reinforcing collective memory, this gigantic tale that, over time, spreads from mouth to mouth, will also be able to taste a little of its flavor in this session. By sharing the work process carried out within the framework of the De Boca em Boca project, we believe we can contribute to increasing the number of people telling and listening, expanding the place given to imagination, creation and communion, in societies and in life.

Gatherers and Gatherers of Stories
The creation of the Clube dos Gleaners and Gleaners of Stories arises from the desire to expand the movement of telling and listening to different parts of the community, namely families, schools and other institutions and organizations.
Inspired by Agnès Varda and her documentary Os Gleaners and Gleaners, we claim to be story collectors with the intention of keeping alive the tradition of storytellers, thus reinforcing the life and culture of our community. For 2022/23, we propose the implementation of the project in schools within the scope of the National Arts Plan.

Today there are tales again
From Boca to Boca, he returns to the places he has already been to listen to people already identified as connoisseurs of stories. The objective is to continue the cultural dynamism in the villages and hills, counting and collecting, listening better and making recordings and photographs. Contact will be at the door and on the street. From the experience of Contos ao Largo, we plan to visit 15 locations where there are people we can listen to again.

Terra que Conta - the stories of Mértola on Radio and Podcast
It is a celebration of listening to stories from Mértola, its people and territory, based on collections carried out within the scope of the De Boca em Boca project - stories nourishing communities, which started in 2020; as well as a way of keeping alive the storytelling movement that is at the genesis of this project. Each program presents a listening path of a place, giving voice to the landscape, reinforcing its richness and value. We address the local listeners, whose voices we hear in the programs, making the importance of this culture audible, through the exercise of building narratives.