The France-Portugal 2022 Season closes with a bang!

A few steps away from the famous Praça do Comércio, in the heart of the Praça do Municipio, the French DJ and producer Michael Canitrot and Portuguese DJs Xinobi and Diana Oliveira treated the 5,000 spectators to an exceptional musical and visual experience, marking the end of the France-Portugal 2022 Season. 

The two swallows created and decorated in honour of the friendship between our two countries by artists Manuela Pimentel and Kashink opened the closing festivities. Presented to the public at the Vista Alegre do Chiado store, in the presence of the artists, Pedro Adão e Silva, Portugal's Minister of Culture, the curators of the Season, Manuela Júdice and Victoire Di Rosa, and the president of the Institut français, Eva Nguyen Binh, the two swallows are called "Andorinha do eiral" and "Liberté chérie" respectively.

"Nous sommes responsables de ce qui nous unira demain" / "Somos responsáveis pelo que amanhã nos irá unir" (translation by Portuguese poet Nuno Júdice). 

Inauguration of the ceramic sculpture in tribute to Simone Veil, created by the Portuguese artist Maria Ana Vasco Costa - Praça da Europa, in the presence of the Prime Minister, Elisabeth Borne, the Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs, Catherine Colonna, the Minister for Culture, Rima Abdul Malak, the Portuguese Minister of Culture, Pedro Adão e Silva, the Mayor of Lisbon, Carlos Moedas, Jean Veil, eldest son of the former President of the European Parliament, President of the Season, Emmanuel Demarcy-Mota, and the Season's curators, Manuela Júdice and Victoire Di Rosa. 

Inauguration of the ceramic sculpture in tribute to Simone Veil, created by the Portuguese artist Maria Ana Vasco Costa - Praça da Europa, in the presence of the Prime Minister, Elisabeth Borne, the Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs, Catherine Colonna, the Minister for Culture, Rima Abdul Malak, the Portuguese Minister of Culture, Pedro Adão e Silva, the Mayor of Lisbon, Carlos Moedas, Jean Veil, eldest son of the former President of the European Parliament, President of the Season, Emmanuel Demarcy-Mota, and the Season's curators, Manuela Júdice and Victoire Di Rosa. 

As part of the French Film Festival, the public was invited to the Cinema São Jorge, to the screening of the film Simone, le voyage du siècle, by Olivier Dahan. 

This epic and intimate portrait of a woman with an extraordinary life who changed her era by defending a humanist message that is still very relevant today was followed by a debate on the life and work of Simone Veil with guests Micheline Pelletier (photographer), Leïla Slimani (writer) and Sofia Marion (writer). 

The hanging of Nicolas Poussin's self-portrait. As part of the France-Portugal 2022 Season, the Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga is hosting the self-portrait of the French classical painter Nicolas Poussin (Les Andelys, 1594 - Rome, 1665), an oil on canvas painted in 1650 and on loan from the Musée du Louvre. 

The audience was also treated to the final performance of Ça ira (1) Fin de Louis at the Teatro Nacional D.Maria II, Joël Pommerat's contemporary political drama inspired by the 1789 revolutionary process. What drives men to overthrow power? What new relationships can be established between man and society, citizens and their representatives? Between fiction and reality, Ça ira (1) Fin de Louis tells the story of this struggle for democracy. 

Invited to the Galeria Boavista by Irvin Anneix and Cláudia Alves, the directors and creators of the webseries Cher Futur Moi, the Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne, the Minister of Europe and Foreign Affairs, Catherine Colonna, the Ministers of Culture Rima Abdul Malak and Pedro Adão e Silva and the Mayor of Lisbon, Carlos Moedas, went to meet the teenagers who took part in this Franco-Portuguese edition of the webseries. 

"Thank you to the French-Portuguese youth for our discussions around Irvin Anneix's futuristic installation. Through your stories and your dreams, you are the face of today's Europe and the greatest opportunity for tomorrow's Europe", said the Prime Minister. 

Adapted from a trend born on social networks, Cher Futur Moi asked young French and Portuguese people aged 15 to 20 to record a video message to their "future self" in 10 years' time. Alone in front of their cameras at home, these young people put their present on record and confide in their hopes and fears for the future. For the France-Portugal 2022 Season, the 20 episodes were presented at the Galeria da Boavista in Lisbon as a video installation and were also broadcast on YouTube. 

Combining electronic music, heritage, grandiose staging and new technologies, the Monumental Tour show was accompanied by video mapping projections created by the French architecture and design collective AV-Extended and the Portuguese visual artist Vanessa Teodoro.

Mayor of Lisbon Carlos Moedas, Michael Canitrot and Minister of Culture Rima Abdul Malak - Monumental Tour in Lisbon.