Short conversations with guests about Cinema and Environment
_October 15_ Internet Room in House of Culture Seia

Conversation with Fernanda Botelho - Travel of plants and their traditional uses in Portugal and in the various countries of lusophony.
_October 16_ Internet Room in House of Culture Seia

Presentation of the 2019 Agenda for tropical plants by Fernanda Botelho, which this year constituted a wonderful and stunning journey of plants and their traditional uses in Portugal and in the various Lusophone countries. 2019 is the International Year of Indigenous Languages and this is the bet on raising the veil of tropical medicinal plants. The author wanted to build bridges between the uses of various plants and fruits in the different countries of Lusophone, to reveal, for example, secrets of the “safú” in São Tomé and Príncipe, “araucária” and “aipim” in Brazil. Unite scientific knowledge and traditional uses.

Concert for blindfolded eyes. Other sounds, Other landscapes, with Luís Antero.
October 17 _ 4hp.m. _ Auditorium of the House of Culture

What is the importance of sound in our day-to-day life? Does it remain, as advocated by Murray Schafer in the 1970s of the last century, the most neglected element of our landscape? Is not the sound also characterizing the identity of our villages, towns and cities? What, for example, the sound produced by ants in contact with a microphone? And the deer in their seasonal roar? And the mills and water wheels, mixed with the life stories of shepherds and farmers with weather-beaten hands?
It is in an attempt to answer these questions that the concept Concert for Blindfolds, starting from the premise that we often stop to see, but rarely do it to listen!
The public is invited to blindfold the eyes, allowing other senses to awaken ...

Luis Antero is sonic landscape artist. Since 2008, it has developed a work to collect and document the acoustic heritage of various areas of the national territory, based on sound recordings of the field and that can be tracked through the sites.
www.luisantero.yolasite.com and www.luisantero.bandcamp.com

Workshop on “Environmental Cinema for students” with Suzana Amado (Filmambiente, Rio de Janeiro) and other guests

Following actions organized in previous years, CineEco goes to schools to sensitize students and teachers about the importance of cinema as a fundamental tool in promoting environmental values. Guided by Suzana Amado, Director of the Festival Filmambiente, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, the workshop also counts on the participation of other guests of this 24th edition of Seia Festival. This initiative will result in articulation with Seia's secondary schools.

Workshop: “Building digital learning environments with cinema”, for Teachers , with António Moreira e Sara Trindade, from Universidade Aberta.

Resulting from the partnership between CineEco and the Open University, this action is aimed at pre-school education teachers, 1st, 2nd and 3rd Cycles of Basic and Secondary Education. The aim is to raise awareness of the communicative potential of cinema in the classroom; To promote the use of cinema in the pedagogical process; Know and analyze opensource software for the use of cinema in the classroom; In this way it is intended that at the end of the action the trainees: Adopt innovative pedagogical practices resorting to the cinema and use effectively strategies and tools of cinema exploration in the classroom.
Participation upon registration.

Retrospective exhibition of CISE Environment Photography Competitions
_ Galleries of the House of Culture

During the 24th edition of CineEco, a retrospective exhibition of the Environmental Photography contests organized by the Interpretation Center of the Serra da Estrela (CISE) over the last 15 years will be displayed at the Galleries of the House of Culture of Seia. It is a contest that has awarded the best works of amateur and professional photographers, for their quality, innovation and creativity, in the categories Landscape, Biodiversity and Mountain Villages. In the genesis of this contest has been the challenge of stimulating environmental values and promoting the photographic activity, through the creative potential of the participants, in what is the observation and protection of nature.

Exhibition of painting and drawing “And the wind burned”, by Patricia Matos
_ Foyer Auditorium of the House of Culture

A cathartic and reflective memorial of the voracious and controversial fires of October 15th, 2017, lived by the artist.
Ten pieces mark a chronological circle, of death and rebirth: six drawings traced with coal that remained of destroyed trees; three oil paintings; an object with conceptual / symbolic load. The exhibition also includes an experimental piece of video dedicated to the same theme, artist and filmed at the places where the coal was collected. Ana Patrícia Coimbra de Matos (Tondela, 1985) is a plastic artist dedicated to painting and video art, awarded in the latter area. Licensed by the Faculty of Fine Arts of Unversidade do Porto (Painting Branch), she with an academic and professional background in Biomedical Engineering, which opted to discontinue in 2011 in favor of an integral bet in the plastic arts. Since 2016 she has been working independently for full time.

Exhibition Scarves and Shawls
October 17 , 5hp.m. _ Ethnographic Museum of the Folk Ranch of Seia

In the Ethnographic Museum of the Folkloric Ranch of Seia are present memories of the citizens of the Serra da Estrela community. Objects bearing a collective and ancestral memory that have been collected over time or donated by individuals, objects linked to agriculture and traditional crafts, exposed and explained in a simple and pedagogical way, framed in a journey that makes us travel in time and remember the past in a modern space.
This space, which opened again to the public, currently has a Temporary Exhibition of Scarves and Shawls, which the guests of CineEco will have the opportunity to visit this day, following the invitation.

Residência Artística de Cinema e Audiovisual
Casa da Cultura de Seia _ CineEco 2018

Integrated in the program of the 24th edition of CineEco, organized by the Municipality of Seia, there will be an Artistic Residence of Cinema and Audiovisual, dynamized by the Association of Art and Image of Seia.
This Residence will be held during the festival from October 13th to 20th at the Municipal House of Culture of Seia and is intended for a group of 30 young volunteers, composed of two young people from each of the municipalities belonging to the Inter-municipal Community of Beiras and Serra da Estrela.
Participants will have the opportunity to contact closely with filmmakers from around the world, from the area of environmental cinema and with them to share knowledge, and experiences.
In addition to this enriching experience provided to the participants, the Residence will contemplate the practice of an audiovisual language, also providing an initial context for those who wish to develop more in-depth knowledge about these themes.
This is an organization of the Municipality of Seia, Inter-municipal Community of Beiras and Serra da Estrela and Association of Municipalities of Cova da Beira, integrated in the CineEco Festival of Seia.

Space Eco 2 Seia
_ Galeria das Magnólias da Casa da Cultura

In one of the spaces of the Galleries of the House of Culture, we will have the opportunity to know more about this program implemented by the municipality of Seia within the scope of its Agenda XXI Local.
Eco2SEIA addresses the environmental issues specifically related to climate change, which result from greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, mainly due to energy consumption.
Energy efficiency is an important part of the eco2SEIA program. Along with the ambition to become an environmental reference, Seia also aims to achieve full employment. It is in this context that economic development, investment attraction, job creation, energy efficiency and protection of the environment are one and the same objective that everyone wants to share. The environment is not protected without creating a job or creating employment without protecting the environment.
Making Seia an environmental reference is a design that all Senenses must embrace, because, as the old saying goes, "unity is strength." Therefore, the eco2SEIA program includes a set of initiatives that intend directly or indirectly to involve all people who live or visit Seia.
Eco2SEIA is a program that makes Seia a Low Carbon City, where energy is consumed as efficiently as possible, making the most of opportunities to use renewable energy sources, respecting natural heritage and avoiding GHG emissions.

Artistic Installation "composite spaces, lively reflections", DME / art! – climate.
_ Room 2 House of Culture

The Sound installation 'Composite spaces, living reflections' was born from a partnership between the DME Festival and the international electroacoustic music competition "art! ⋈ climate "(Canada / Argentina).
The sound is arranged in space through a multi-channel device that plays uninterruptedly the winning musical pieces of the aforementioned contest, which privileges excellence in electroacoustic music, associated with works that involve concepts of high environmental awareness. Award winning examples include the work "Omniscience is a Collective I" by Jaime Reis and "Resignificamar" by Daniel Quaranta, a professor at UNIRIO and former artist of the residence of the DME Festival in Seia.
While Reis work uses an awareness-raising approach through simultaneous messages in more than 15 languages of Europe and Asia arranged in a "multi linguistic polyphony", Quaranta has chosen a naturalistic path combining the sounds of waves from the Atlantic and Pacific oceans collected by composer in disparate geographical locations and creating a composition that refers to a 'composite sound landscape' and is performed in a way that connects the listener to nature.