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Communities

The Communities are the heart of Literat: they are monthly meetings to discuss short stories and movies that are submitted to careful curatorship, attentive planning and structured recording. 

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They were created to stimulate cultural initiatives connected to both literature and movies worlds, based on a methodology designed to enlarge the repertory of both teens and grown-ups in a funny, intimate, and casual way. The Communities are organized in cycles – either yearly or semestral – and count on a limited number of members.

47 actors from 15 different countries

Edgar Allan Poe

John Mayra Donne

Virginia Woolf

Anton Tchekhov

James Joyce

Kate Chopin

Gabriel García Márquez

Marcelino Freire

Lygia Facundes Telles

Karen Blixen

Monteiro Lobato

William Shakespeare

Walt Whitman

Guimarães Rosa

Yasunari Kawabata

Machado de Assis

Mario Quintana

Alice Munro

Mia Couto

Jhumpa Lahiri
Franz Kafka

Braulio Bessa

Nathaniel Hawthorn

Ernest Hemmingway

Janet Frame

Isabel Allende

Herman Melville

Ingrid Jonker

Marina Colasanti
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Liev Tolstói

Fitzgerald

Rupi Kaur

Albert Camus 

Lucia Berlin 

Cristina Peri Rossi

Conceição Evaristo

William Blake

Clarice Lispector

Sei Shonagon

Sófocles

Aristófanes

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30 movies

FICHA MOVIES

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Cycle 1.

 

- Alive

- Inception

- Click

- The Prestige

- The Godfather 

- Ferris Bueller’s Day Off

- Green Mile

- Hacksaw Ridge

- Ted Bundy

- Spirited Away

- The Big Short

- 12 Years a Slave

- BlacKkKlansman

- Silver Linnings

- Gladiator

- Indecent Proposal

- Scent of a Woman

Cycle 2.

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- Two Popes

- Psycho

- The Blind Side

- The Social Dilemma

- Patch Adams 

- Inside Out

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Cycle 3.

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- Stronger Than the World: The Story Of José Aldo 

- As Good as it Gets

- Black Panther

- Split

- The King’s Speech

- Schindler ‘s List

- Concussion

- Scoop 

- Matrix

Cycle 4.

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- The Second Mother

- Spider-Man

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LICHA

In 2017, in a sunny September evening, a group of girlfriends were having tea while chatting when the idea came up to talk more often about literature, yet informally. And that is how LICHA was created – a name that, in Portuguese, mixes the words literature (literatura) and tea (chá). Since then, meetings to discuss short stories take place every first Tuesday of the month, from 7:30 pm to 10:00 pm (in person) or from 8:00 pm to 9:30 pm (remote). To accompany the discussion on the short story chosen, we have tea, gingerbread and smoothies. A monthly payment will grant the access to the literary contents – pre-material (introduction to the author) and post-material (abstract); welcome notebook and collection of magnets displaying colored co-created phrases. Members may also access the working space throughout the meeting day, as well as the collection of books and DVDs. They may also benefit from special discounts to rent the space for events. 

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AND WHY SHORT STORIES? 

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Short stories are brief narrative texts, usually in prose, reporting short, funny and even folkloric (the folk tales) routine situations. From a classic point of view, a short story is defined for not being long: shorter than a romance, with closed structure, a story is developed usually leading to a climax. It is a widely flexible literary genre that might approach both the poetry and the chronicle.

Short stories are concise, accessible and deep. That’s why it is our choice.

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FICHA

FICHA Community was created on the outset of the pandemic, April 2020, in an effort to enlarge the cinematographic repertoire and to stimulate inter-generational discussions among the members.  Meetings are remote, and take place every month on the last Wednesday or Thursday, from 7:00 pm to 8:00 pm. The name results from putting together the initials of the Portuguese words filme and chá (movie and tea). 

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LYCHA

LICHA’s little sister, LYCHA is the most recent Community of the portfolio, still consolidating. As well as its elder sister, this Community also comes together every month to discuss short stories, but it was conceived to captivate curious youngsters (the letter Y is a reference to the word Young). Jointly decided, the meetings are carried out according to its members’ availability.

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Since their origin, the FICHA, LICHA and LYCHA Communities did already discuss more than 47 authors from 15 different countries, and more than 30 movies, covering the recent 50 years. The groups vary as to the number of participants and are formed at the beginning of the year or the semester. 

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