Licenciada em jornalismo com especialização (pós-graduação lato sensu) em Literatura e Interculturalidade, mestre em Teoria da Literatura e Literaturas Lusófonas e PhD em Estudos Comparatistas (já finalizado, a…
Licenciada em jornalismo com especialização (pós-graduação lato sensu) em Literatura e Interculturalidade, mestre em Teoria da Literatura e Literaturas Lusófonas e PhD em Estudos Comparatistas (já finalizado, a defender). Investigadora e escritora com sete livros publicados, poeta e performer com experiência e vocação para docência e educação social, tem trabalhos nos segmentos de curadoria, editoração, direção artistica, produção e mediação cultural e literária; bem como competências de excelência em produção de planos pedagógicos, textos acadêmicos, jornalísticos, criativos ou literários.
Minha Poetry Slam: Held in two editions (2022; 2023) with public funds (DGARTES/IMPACTA), Minha Poetry Slam is an inclusive project that promotes access to literary production, diversity and the democratisation of literature through a Spoken Word tournament in which anyone can take part and compete for a prize. The tournaments were held in public spaces in the city of Guimarães. The third edition is planned for 2025.
Volta para tua Terra: a collection of literary anthologies by foreign writers living in Portugal. Description: Started in 2020, the project published 128 texts in essay, poetry and prose by 105 writers from 15 countries, all resident in Portugal, in three volumes by Editora Urutau. The project was curated through public calls for submissions. The texts were published in three books distributed in Portugal, Brazil and the European Union, and the authors took part in transdisciplinary activities between literature, visual arts and audiovisuals, as well as taking part in the seven book presentation events.
Books
Bezerra de Melo, M & Vaz Mourão, W. (eds) (2024). Back to your land: No April without immigrants. V.3 (Poetry, prose, essays). Barreiro, Portugal: Urutau. ISBN:https://www.twine.net/signin.
Bezerra de Melo, M & Vaz Mourão, W. (eds) (2022). Volta para tua terra: uma antirracista|antifascist anthology of foreign women writers in Portugal. V.2 (Prose). Setúbal: Urutau. ISBN:https://www.twine.net/signin.
Bezerra de Melo, M & Vaz Mourão, W. (eds) (2021). Volta para tua terra: uma antirracista| antifascist anthology of foreign poets in Portugal. V.1 (Poetry). Pontevedra, Spain: Urutau. 2021.ISBN:https://www.twine.net/signin
Transdisciplinary actions
Memory and Archive: The project has an audiovisual memorial archive with video poems and readings by the participating authors available at https://www.twine.net/signin
Exhibition Cine da Mula 2024: the videos were shown in an audiovisual exhibition at an event held at Cooperativa Mula in Lisbon (PT).
Poster Exhibition: The project involved immigrant visual artists who, inspired by the texts in the anthologies, produced a collection of posters and lambes. The visual material was exhibited in Vila do Conde as part of the official A Mostra 2022 Festival programme.
Performing Arts: Between 2021 and 2024, the project organised seven public presentation events, including two at the Porto Book Fair (2022; 2024), one at the Aljube Museum (2022) and one at the Óbidos International Literary Festival (2024), as well as three other community events. In all of them, the authors involved gave readings and performances.
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