RIBOLHOS: LAND OF BLACK CLAY
Book presentation
Sunday, 1st December at 03pm
Black Clay Workshop (Ribolhos, Castro Daire)
The publication “Ribolhos: Terra do Barro Negro” (Ribolhos: Land of Black Clay) was presented on December 1st. It includes texts by various specialists and enthusiasts of black clay and the voices of the community itself, especially some of the people who had the most contact with the master potters of Ribolhos.
This 136-page publication includes dozens of historical photographs, texts by Alberto Correia, Alexandra Ribeiro Simões, Celeste Almeida, Conceição Cordeiro and Luís Gomes da Costa, transcripts of interviews with the potter Jorge Ferreira and with Fernanda Almeida, Justino Silva, Helena Guerra, Deolinda Rocha, Ernestina Nascimento, Gumercindo Rodrigues, Dorinda Duarte and Maria das Dores Teixeira.
The publication is coordinated by Binaural Nodar and the Municipality of Castro Daire, with the support of the Mamouros, Alva and Ribolhos civil parishes union, the Castro Daire School Group, the Saber Fazer National Program and the National Arts Plan.
Photographs by Ana Margarida Ferreira for Binaural Nodar.
Binaural Nodar is an organization supported by the Portuguese Republic – Culture | Directorate-General for the Arts.
