In addition to promoting sweets and other convent products, this initiative aims to provide a moment of dialogue with the monastic communities.
Newsroom (05/10/2024 16:01, Gaudium Press) Starting this Friday, October 4, the Diocesan Museum of Santarém will host the eighth edition of the Exhibition of Conventual Sweets and Cloister Arts, which will continue until next Sunday, October 6.
Promotion of convent products and dialog with religious communities
The aim of this initiative is not only to promote sweets and other convent products but also to provide direct contact with religious communities which, due to their secluded nature, end up being unknown to the public.
It is also intended to promote intergenerational contact and dialog with religious communities, as a moment of dialog and testimony about the charism and daily life of the monastic communities present.
Among the participants in this exhibition are: the Monks of Singeverga, the Cistercian Nuns, the Carmelite Nuns of Bande, the Poor Clares of Louriçal, the Carthusian Nuns of Évora and representatives of the Nuns of Belém, the Nuns of Roriz and the Little Sisters of Jesus.
Schedule for the Cloister’s Conventual Sweets and Arts Exhibition
The program will begin on Friday with the ‘Sweet Hour’, which will initially be dedicated to schools and will be attended by nuns. In the afternoon, pastry students from the Vale do Tejo Professional School will demonstrate a recipe and offer a convent sweet. In the evening there will be a medieval dance workshop.
On Saturday morning, there will be a workshop on religious goldsmithing offered in partnership with the “Encadeamentos” Association. In the afternoon, the program will be dedicated to families and children. There will be a story set to music, followed by a performance as part of the “Palhatiko” International Theatre Festival for Children and Young People, which will be followed by a Historical Fencing workshop by Encadeamentos.
Saturday will close with a musical moment dedicated to ancient music with the Golegã Bagpipe Group, Associação Cantar Nosso. Finally, on Sunday there will be a themed visit entitled “Journey through Time”, which will include an ascent to the Tower and in the late afternoon the Vale de Santarém Folkloric Ranch. (EPC)
Compiled by Dominic Joseph
