Avante! Festival

The Festa do Avante! held annually on the first weekend in September Amora (Seixal ) instead. The press hard the weekly newspaper Avante! , The party newspaper of the Portuguese Communist Party, is a three-day cultural major event in Portugal.

History

For the first time Festa took place after the Carnation Revolution held in 1976 on the former grounds of the Feira Internacional de Lisboa (FIL ). It took place in the following years in Jamor (1977, 1978), in Alto da Ajuda ( 1979-1986 ) and in Loures (1988, 1989) instead. 1987 could not take place the festival. 1990 succeeded the Portuguese Communist Party (PCP ) is a site that da Atalaia, in the municipality of Amora ( county Seixal ), on the Lisbon side of the river to buy Quinta, and held there annually since then the Festa do Avante! . Here, every year designed the new pavilion. The festival is run largely by volunteers.

The " Festa ", with over 500,000 visitors a year, one of the largest cultural events in Portugal.

Program

Traditionally, the festival opens on Friday afternoon by a short speech by the party leader of the PCP, and ended on Sunday afternoon with a longer PCP event. The party primarily uses the traditional Sunday afternoon party as a public event on the biggest stage of the terrain ( Palco 25 de Abril ). At the same time available at all other venues on a variety events.

The annual " Festa " offers an almost unmanageable number of program points. In a comprehensive festival magazines (2007: 110 pages ), all program activities and locations are listed, in a small festival edition of the " Avante! " The most important events are presented separately, and other information and reports available in the festival radio. The program of the " Festa " includes concerts on various large and small stages, open and covered. The spectrum ranges from classical music to jazz, blues and world music to punk, ska, metal, hip-hop and all varieties of pop / rock and electronic dance music. There are also fado, folk and popular music. In addition, there are various tents exhibitions, readings, workshops, theater, cinema and dance ( both dance and folklore ).

Over the whole area theme pavilions are spread. Thus, each regional PCP organization their home region gastronomically and culturally ago, there are pavilions on topics such as women's rights, future technologies, migration, youth or internationalism, and also befriended international parties and organizations put their countries gastronomically and culturally ago.

There are health stations, telephone booths, ATMs, information stands, left luggage and camping. There are continuously during the festival among others, a book fair, a CD, LP and DVD market, wine tasting, food vendors, themed bars and restaurants, arts and crafts tents, discussion forums, cabaret and sporting events (athletics races, skydiving, cycling, football tournaments, etc.).

A typical feature of this festival is the always -heard instrumental Song A carvalhesa. It goes back to a 1932 first retained by Kurt Schindler folk tune from Trás -os- Montes. The song is played on the main stage before the first evening concert of the " Festa " and represents a first peak dar. It is played since the election campaign in 1985 to everyone " Festa " and is heard again and again at different points of the terrain. A plurality of (mainly young ) Festival visitors then begins always at a bouncing, boisterous circle dance. The song is considered the " anthem " of the Festa do Avante! .