The finishing touch to something that is already good, aka The Forum of the Future

Saving the best for last when talking about The Forum of the Future in Porto is not accurate at all; In fact, these last days are the icing on the cake, with proposals that will literally satisfy all types of audiences.

"Parthenon Marbles", the performance by Romanian artist and choreographer Alexandra Pirici, at Pátio das Nações, in Palácio da Bolsa, performs its last presentation today. Pirici explores the historical implications of monuments to draw attention on the production of economic value within the global cultural heritage or the role of the arts in the context of current economic trends.

Also, the last Artist Talk of the week: "Afrogalactica III: Deep Space Scrolls", by Kapwani Kiwanga, the anthropologist of the future, goes on stage at Rivoli, at 5 pm.

At 7 pm, the film "What is Democracy?" by Astra Taylor is screened at Cinema Trindade, to inspire thinking and change about the ways of the world. The film is subtitled in Portuguese.

The Grand Auditorium of Rivoli will host Paul B. Preciado, who will address the topic "Revolt in Technopatriarchal times". Preciado advocates the creation of multiple and unexpected colour-queer-crip alliances, for a collective movement "in transition" not dedicated to the fabrication of identity, but rather to open fields of collective transformation.

Ovid's Metamorphoses closes the day, at mala voadora, presenting a set of 50 performers, each of which has a distinct colour. At 11.30 pm, located at Rua do Almada.

The very last day of the Forum of the Future begins at Casa da Música, with "myth and music" by Harrison Birtwistle, a leading figure of British music over recent decades, and one of the key composers to have demonstrated that the myths of Ancient Greece still have an important place in contemporary culture. A must-see at 4 pm.

At Rivoli, around 5 pm, Brooke Holmes, Professor of Classical Studies at Princeton University, in charge of the project "Liquid Antiquity", will dwell on sympathy, or the (ancient) history of nature.

The finishing touch to something that is already good are the remaining session and the closing of the entire event.

André Aciman's talk on how a writer reads memory and love at the Forum of the Future in Porto, at 7 pm, at Rivoli and the closing of The Forum of the Future, which is organised in three acts, featuring the topic of ruins, and the "reconstruction of History, from West to East", at 9.30 at Rivoli.

See here for the full programme of The Forum of the Future.