Weaving Stories While Walking

Weaving Stories While Walking, a reading-performance film by Sónia Vaz Borges and Mónica de Miranda, interweaves multiple accounts from members of the resistance against the colonial powers in Cabo Verde, Guiné-Bissau, Angola, and Portugal. It looks at the centrality of individual and collective walking, movement, and affective experiences in understanding the liberation struggles and their legacy in the contemporary times. Weaving Stories While Walking intermingles timely narratives for the current social contexts. It consists of a reading-performance – entitled Weaving Stories and Memories While Walking - in different languages (Cabo Verdean Creole, Portuguese, Italian, English). It will use excerpts from individual stories and memories of liberation fighters. Apolo de Carvalho, Juliana da Penha, Sónia Vaz Borges and Andre Ebouaney will read these excerpts while walking with objects and images of their personal and collective archives. 

What happens when this archive is no longer within a closed space, but in a conversation, in a constant walk that crosses time, transits different geographies, spaces and architectures?