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
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
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.
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.
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).
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.