Workshops

We are happy to announce we have managed to setup a unique 'live stream cooking' experience event orgnaised in collaboration with the 'Petiscaria - Milão', that is as the name says, located in Milan!

By participating you will be able to cook a full Portuguese menu for two! You will need to order a 'mystery' box with all the necessary ingredients that you will then receive directly at your address. You will then be invited to follow the on-line interactive 'stream cooking' session on how to cook such a menu, directly from the kitchen of the 'Petiscaria - Milão' to your own kitchen!

The menu will include: Caldo Verde (soup), Bacalhau à Bras (main dish) and Baba de Camelo (the dessert)!

The box will also contain an exclusive Portuguese Semester 2021 surprise that you should wear throughout the event. We will attempt to make such an experience as interactive as possible! The main language used will be Italian but questions in English will be possible!

Content of the 'mystery' box: Recipes of the 3 dishes and ingredients. The ingredients will be: Potatoes, fresh kale, 'chouriça', 300 gr of salted codfish (our famous bacalhau), 1 packet of our famous 'Pala Pala' potatoes, 1 onion, eggs, olives, fresh parsley, 1 can of cooked Nestlé condensed milk, ground groundnuts.

For inscriptions: go to https://petiscaria-milao.myshopify.com/collections/workshop-in-collaborazione-con-portuguese-semestre-2021

Cost: €50 (€45 per box + €5 of delivery costs)

Inscription Closing date: 16-05-2021.

Maximum number of boxes is 20 and delivery is limited to Italy (for logistical reasons) so hurry up before all places are taken!

Whether you are a dance lover or are just looking for something fun to do on a Friday night, this workshop is for you!

We will travel to Portugal through dance. Each dance represents a different region in Portugal. We start our tour in the Northern region of Trás-os-Montes with the “Saia da Carolina” and move to Minho to dance the “Malhão”. Our next stop is Beira Litoral for a “Toma Lá Dá Cá” and we end our trip in Ribatejo region with the beautiful “Sariquité”.

Due to the pandemic, we currently can’t be in person, but the best of the best – Tradballs – reimagined Portuguese traditional dances in a way that we can all enjoy in the comfort of our homes.  We will learn online, each of us in our own space, and then be ready to dance together once the situation improves.

Put your best foot forward and let’s dance like nobody is watching!

Dance Night Programme

20:30-21:05 CET: "Saia da Carolina & Malhão"
21:05-21:15 CET: Take a break for a drink or two
21:15-21:50 CET: "Toma Lá Dá Cá & Sariquité"

What you need to know

Workshop is free of charge, but you need to register here.
No dance experience necessary
Open to all ages
Make sure you have enough space to move around! You won’t need more than 3 square meters.
Join 10 minutes before to warm-up or just to check audio and video quality.

About Tradballs

Tradballs is a cultural cooperative dedicated to the promotion and dissemination of traditional arts and culture. Since 2005, Tradballs has been organising several dance classes, workshops, concerts and dance festivals. Know more: https://www.facebook.com/tradballs/

About our Dance Instructors

Alexandre Matias
Matias teaches traditional dances and produces artistic events for over 15 years. He is also the founder of Tradballs. Matias graduated on Dance in Education Contexts by the Faculty of Human Kinetics of the University of Lisbon. 

Tanya Cruz
Tanya produces artistic events and has been in the traditional dances world since 2008. She holds a post-graduate degree on Community Dance by the Faculty of Human Kinetics of the University of Lisbon. 

Are you feeling like a canned sardine lately? Well, then this workshop is for you!

From a long time, the portuguese people has been looking at the sea both as a way of discovery and a way of survival. With a sea that goes beyond what the eye can see, we have been making the best of it. 

We believe that we have the best fish in the world, and when we cannot eat it fresh, we put it into tin cans and save it for another time. It still tastes wonderful.

So... All hands on deck!!

At aperitivo time we will guide you through some recipes that you can prepare and have for dinner right away.

We will go through some of the history around the canned fish industry and how you can eat it.

So, join us on Sunday at 18h CET for our workshop where we will have fun while cooking some (hopefully) delicious dishes here: https://europa.zoom.us/j/84089949764?pwd=NFhiWmhxL01QMElJdDBIU3pqTkhtUT09

Below you can find the recipes and shopping list of items that you can find in your local supermarket. We will make some bitesize recipes and a main course.

Stay Tunad (ahah)

Of all the corners of the world
I love with a stronger and deeper love
That beach enraptured and bare
Where I become one with the sea, the wind and the moon.

Sophia de Mello Breyner Andersen, (Mar, in Poesia, 1944)*

8th of June is World Oceans Day!

With  this poem, Sophia de Mello Breyner captures the relationship the Portuguese have with the sea, which in our case is the Atlantic Ocean.

In our culture, the ocean has historically represented  temptation, adventure and a major driver for technological development.

Did you know that we even have a Sea Ministry?

What for sure you do know is that marine pollution is a growing problem that asks for action and it can be mainly categorised into two types: chemical and trash (you can read a bit more on this National Geographic article).

In what regards trash, or litter, in 2018, the Joint Research Centre published a detailed report on the main types of marine litter. On the top ten items you can find Plastic/polystyrene pieces, cigarette butts, cotton bud sticks, glass… that end up or are washed from our beaches.

As a way to counter fight this epidemics, there are several organizations and initiatives, acting locally and worldwide to clean our beaches. Among others we can name the Puliamo il mondo from Legambiente, the world clean-up day  and the citizens’ initiative #LitterHero.

Additionally, there are single initiatives or artists that try to raise awareness on this topic, as it is the case of the Portuguese project Plasticus Maritimus (here are the Facebook and Instagram pages).

Here in Ispra (Italy), we do not have an ocean, but we do have a lake that is also very special to us.

In this spirit, the Portuguese Semester started the Lake cleaning challenge Think global, act local! - Let's clean our lakes

To celebrate the Ocean's day we will share with you the results of the challenge and more information will come in the upcoming days!

is planning several beach cleaning actions  that will end up with an event on the 8th of June. More details will come soon. Please stay tuned.

*Original version

De todos os cantos do mundo
Amo com amor mais forte e mais profundo
Aquela praia extasiada e nua,
Onde me uni ao mar, ao vento e a lua