Oeiras 2023

PRESENTATION OF FESTIVAL SETE SÓIS SETE LUAS

The Festival Sete Sóis Sete Luas was started in 1993 and it is now a project promoted by a Cultural Network composed by 30 towns from 12 different countries: Brazil, Cape Verde, Croatia, France, Italy, Luxembourg, Morocco, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, Tunisia and Turkey. The Festival Sete Sóis Sete Luas, that in 2023 will celebrate its 31st edition, develops its projects mainly in the area of popular, ethnic, traditional music and the plastic arts, always involving important personalities of the European and Mediterranean cultures.

THE FESTIVAL SETE SÓIS SETE LUAS AT THE EUROPEAN AND FRENCH PARLIAMENT

The Festival Sete Sóis Sete Luas that was born in 1993, is growing up year by year up to become an exemplar and innovative project as to the Culture Commission of the European Parliament granted it audience on 20th January 2009 and 23 January 2013 in Bruxelles.

A new important goal achieved for the Festival Sete Sóis Sete Luas which, after the auditions of 2009 and 2013 in the European Parliament, will be the subject of a new audition, this time in the historic seat of the French Parliament (the National Assembly) in the Culture Committee.

On 6th March 2023, the director Marco Abbondanza and the representatives of some historic towns of the Festival 7S7L told the deputies of the French Parliament the innovative experience of Sete Sóis, with the aim of making known the rich artistic and musical reality of 30 years dedicated to the international mobility of artists, intercultural dialogue and cultural decentralization.