Multipurpose

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2024-06-04
2024-06-04

Talk with:

Isabel do Carmo and Giulia Strippoli about the screening of the film "Night for Day" (2020), Emily Wardill

Moderated by Emília Tavares and Sandra Vieira Jürgens


Isabel do Carmo

Born in Barreiro. She attended high school in Setúbal. Graduated and PhD from the Faculty of Medicine of Lisbon (FML). Endocrinology, diabetes and nutrition specialist. Doctor at Santa Maria Hospital throughout her professional life and director of the Endocrinology Service until 2013. With Daniel Sampaio, she created the Master's Degree in Metabolic Diseases and Eating Behavior at FML, where she still teaches today. She was part of the governing bodies of the Order of Doctors before the 25th of April, when she was arrested. 

PCP activist between 18 and 29 years old. Founder with Carlos Antunes  of Brigadas Revolucionárias in 1970. Very active in the revolutionary period of 1974/75, she was director of the newspaper Revolucion and contributor to the newspaper Página Um. She was imprisoned for four years after the counter-revolution. He was part of organizations such as the Ecology and Alternatives Forum and Tempo de Avançar. He is part of the Manifesto Association and the group of health professionals We are on the Solution side. In addition to books and articles of a scientific nature in the field of Medicine, he wrote in collaboration with João Lobo the book Dossier Checoslováquia in 1970, Puta de Prisão in 1982 and later wrote with Lígia Amâncio Vozes Insubmissas. He also wrote Stories that Women Tell and Armed Struggle in 2017 and Three dictatorships in Western Europe in 2024. He is president of the General Assembly of Livraria Ler Devagar.

Giulia Strippoli is a historian, researcher at the Institute of Contemporary History at Universidade Nova de Lisboa. He conducted research on the communist parties of Western Europe, student movements, the history of labor, left-wing activism, the history of women and feminism, the production and circulation of images (photography and cinema). His most recent book (2024) is co-authored with Sandro Moiso and is about the experience of the revolutionary group Lotta Continua in Portugal between 1974 and 1975.

MNAC - MULTIPURPOSE ROOM - Rua Serpa Pinto, 4

Free entry

On Exhibition

Loops.Expanded 2026

2026-07-14
2026-10-03
Curatorship: Irit Batsry
MNAC – National Museum of Contemporary Art – Chiado and DuplaCena present, for the 11th consecutive year, an exhibition dedicated to the loop as a seminal form of the moving image.
Temporary Exhibition

On Gestures and Forms

A dialogue between collections

2026-06-18
2026-09-20
Curatorship: MNAA e MNAC
Works from the collections of Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga, Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporânea, and Fundação Millennium bcp, engage in a dialogue across different periods, materials, and approaches to artistic creation.
Temporary Exhibition

Alice Geirinhas

Sycorax

2026-05-29
2026-09-20
Curatorship: Lúcia Saldanha e Rui Afonso Santos
Sycorax is an installation of drawings that summons the absent and silenced figure of Sycorax, the witch and mother of Caliban, characters from "The Tempest" by William Shakespeare.
Temporary Exhibition

Ultratremor

Group show

2026-05-29
2026-09-27
Curatorship: Germano Dushá
Between the visible and the invisible, the exhibition brings together artists who explore states of transformation, apparition, and resonance, bringing matter, imagination, and spiritual experience into dialogue.
Temporary Exhibition

Maria José Oliveira

I who once was I

2026-05-15
2026-10-04
Curatorship: Paula Parente Pinto
Maria José Oliveira transforms everyday materials and discarded objects into territories of memory, ritual, and metamorphosis, where time itself becomes a living material of artistic creation.
Temporary Exhibition

Impressões Digitais. MNAC Collection

2024-12-12
2026-12-30
Curatorship: Ana Guimarães, Emília Ferreira, Maria de Aires Silveira e Tiago Beirão Veiga
Consisting of founding works of contemporary Portuguese art historiography, from 1850 to the present day, the MNAC's collection holds several national treasures.
Permanent Exhibition