Sara Bernardo is an artist who was fascinated by documentary photography, of social nature and simultaneously capture images that have a more artistic side. A dream project she wants to pursue as a way of life .

How this passion by fotography arises although you come from the fine arts?
Sara Bernardo : I started in the visual arts , but it was more for the areas of sculpture and installation. So that was in 2010 , when the opportunity come to volunteer in Port GAS ( Group for Social Action ) worked in an institution for the elderly, for a year and then they invited me to go on a mission for two months in Timor. The truth is that I've wanted to do photography, but that awoke the desire to do more documentary photography rather than embarking on the visual arts .

So tell me some of the differences between documentary and artistic photography ?
SB : It is a much discussed topic nowadays and there is a fine line separating the two . I'm interested in crossing these two methods , how documentary photography can be presented as art . It is a difficult issue to define, for me , the documentary has a more human side that art does not have . And that's what drew me to this area closer to people .

In documentary photography , there is also a social aspect ?
SB : Yes, currently I am doing a work in London dedicated to refugees and this forerunners in the master and I just had a more academic path, because we are always restricted to what we are doing, willingly or not, ends up happening. But the main objective is to turn me over to the social context .

You have also seen that the more artistic works of photography are images where you amplyfied objects, such as protozoa .
SB : This work belongs to a site that I have much more time devoted to the visual arts. Those are pictures with a macro lens, are super mundane that people have in the day-to - day basis and are obviously exposed to the weather, with some light installation and with some care had those results. The latest interner page is where I dedicate myself which is more is documentary photography .

It is a Portuguese scientific project that aims to study climate change in Antarctica and until the end of January .

A team of Portuguese scientists affiliated with the University of Lisbon , led by researcher Gonçalo Vieira , associate professor, and researcher IGOT - ULisboa CEG in the physical geography of the polar regions , are embarking on a crowdfunding campaign aiming to raise about 20 housand euros for the acquisition of an unnamed aerial vehicle ( UAV ) to study the permafrost layer on the Antarctic Peninsula .

The drone will carry detailed topographic surveys and aerial photography of great detail, which will then be orthorectify for analysis. The advances in this technology will be huge, because according to the scientist , " in regions where is not suitable work surveying and is extremely expensive and difficult to fly helicopters to perform aerial photography".

The Antarctic campaign was divided into two phases :
The first will be held in February to March 2014 , with the aim of carrying out preliminary tests on the ground in Barton Peninsula ( King George Island ) . This phase will also depend on we can acquire the UAV until mid February 2014.

Then between January and February 2015 , detailed surveys will be carried out in Livingston, Deception and King George islands . The UAV will also be used later for " surveys of detail in the Serra da Estrela, in summer 2014 and in the Canadian Arctic as part of a project taking place in July 2014 . Due to the logistical possibilities, we extend the application of UAV to all permafrost observatories in the Antarctic Peninsula region, between Palmer and King George Island, in subsequent years, " he concludes.

The Polar Group of Lisbon brings together three research teams ( CEG / IGOT , CERENA - CQE - IST and IST ) that have extensive research experience in the land of permafrost in the Arctic and Antarctic . The main areas of study are permafrost and climate change, remote sensing and contaminants. The team also coordinates the Portuguese Polar Programme, responsible for putting on the ground every year , about 20 national scientists and supporting transport of about 100 scientists and technicians partner programs .

So help and contribute to this cause, for the planet and the scientific research for these Portuguese teams .

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It is the typical behavior of the end of the year, with a view to a new beginning .

You know that time of year that when we make an assessment about everything that happened on the other 364 days? Well, I decided it was time to talk about yvi. And for those who do not know, thanks to google analytics, I learned a number of things I did not know about my own magazine, first that is read more in my country. This is a very good index and unsurprising , then comes Spain, our next door neighbor, we crossed the Atlantic and go to Venezuela , which is also excellent as is my soul nation, then we have Brazil, our brother country and astonishing, Mexico, a nation that would love to visit and franklyfor which I have no logical explanation, but I thank the predilection from the botton of my heart. Then, follows Britain, Argentina , the Netherlands and Colombia, in that order . In conclusion I'm " colonizing" the Latin America. A fact that makes me truly proud since I bring this continent closed to my heart!

It is comedy by channel Q.

I have a habit that irritates a lot of people in fact, to be constantly moving through my tv command, I'm going, and going, and going, thru the various television programs from different channels at my disposal, until there comes a time, as such in the wheel of fortune that I stop. And I see really what is on. This time the program was "layers of nerves" are sketches of a proper not political polity humor that I appreciate in large doses. But in this new year I made a discovery in particular, and spectacular by the way, the work of an actress who I confess was completely unaware, Joana Pais de Brito. She is tiny and looker, a devilish girl and to add all that is extremely plastic and funny, which makes her a serious case of national talent in comedy and I suspect the rest. Therefore, I recommend you get a new "layer of nerves" to begin the year.

The members of the New Rock Group may not be as new as before, but the band continues with the same vitality and energy that you know from the beginning of their career. The GNR concerts continue to attract thousands of people to accompany them wherever they go and sing the most iconic themes of a course that aims to be even longer...

The GNR has a course of 33 years ...
Rui Reininho : Doing what you love is always a pleasure. But we never stole anything to anyone. Everything was conquered and we have been putting this happiness outside. Those were wonderful years, but it is as if we were still in the trenches, looks almost the Gaza Strip. The rest is a wonderful life.

What are the differences between performing a concert several years ago and now ?
RR : In Madeira, for example, the island has improved a lot in that aspect , instead of tiring us with rehersals, we were greeted by a wonderful tecnical staff, had a fantastic stage and are super professional . The island is ready to welcome the world 's great artists, such as GNR.( laughs ) . But seriously, we are not tired and we always do our best within our circuit, rock and roll, and we have an additional responsibility before going on stage .

It's a band that crosses several generations of Portuguese ?
RR : Yes, and just might be. Did not touch to polls and surveys, people like GNR or not. There are those who dislike us, there always will and for the worst reasons. At the moment I have no enmity, nor enemies and those who criticize us are not in our time. The petty people of the Terreiro do Paço that gives us no attention. Today , in Oporto we feel that, maderians treat continental as Cubans , but the people of the city invicta needs you, for us to be the same voice. Therefore , these portugueses should unite, make a new revolution, there is a common enemy that riffraff is that the government, which decides everything and do not know the difference between Vila Franca and Alentejo. Also, I hate the clichés of OPorto, no longer think its funny. We should all be Portuguese again, as the great Rodrigues Lobo said, men and women not only show up, before break than appear, many things can be, men of the court are not. We are not from the court and we are here, but our cathedral is another 's friendship and the hearts of people.

In the discography of a musical group like yours there is always a work that is a hit with the public and to you , the musicians, is not your best . Do you have a record like this ?
RR : Yes, Popless , maybe. But in conversation with my musician friends , GNR has always been a group that did some good records and other more or less.

Liliana Alves is a jewelry designer who bet on pieces that blend the past with the contemporary , is a symbiosis between the traditional , through the filigree, and a present filled with unusual and innovative materials.

How does this get your passion for jewelery ?
Liliana Alves: I 've always had small since some sensitivity to the world of art and crafts . I who made the Christmas gifts with copper wire, beads and some other materials. I spent my imagination for different and interesting compositions, in this case to offer my family .

There arises the idea of following a course of jewelery ?
LA : We are talking about a period that covers the cycle and the secondary. I was 11 years old and already had jobs. In high school I follow the grouping of arts in Caldas da Rainha and then a course of jewelery in Gondomar . I contacted the school and that particular school year was late, gave me time to enroll and did a training of three years, which gave me a lot of insight and sensitivity to work with different materials, be independent, think about the pieces and revitalizes it The technical component was very important to be able to translate my imagination.

Addressing the collections how you begin to perceive the jewel? There is a symbiosis between tradition and contemporaneity .
LA : The ideas that are very free in my case, I end structure for them too, why? Because I am not only passionate about jewelery, this is my way of life . The inspiration and the creative process arise through my sensitivity, I see nature as see art when I hear simple words and appreciate gestures from people. Here are some points from my source of inspiration. They are then interpreted through drawing , I use a lot in my work. It is a very unique, ie , not representative form I am inspired by nature and I do not do something obvious, or realistic. I try to take what I observe and try to interpret it , then I will express it through the techniques I learned and one of them is the filigree. I grabbed this traditional Portuguese design of the yarn itself and created a series of different compositions interpreted by me , that are entered in a drawing that arises from something I heard or saw. And with these same techniques try to apply some versatility in pieces , because one of the great advantages of my job is the same component , try to apply in the jewels a more eternal, more extended meaning. They are pieces that people fall in love, have appreciation for them and want to use them , then I accrue some versatility, or they dislike it. My aim is not a mass market, is of quality and soul. I want people to feel the part and what they use.

You use enamels , stones, wood , silver and other materials in your pieces . So why you choose these and not others?
LA : My training was done in noble materials, in this case silver, the key component is that stuff sometimes apply gold , is then complemented with stones and have used wood and enamels. I have partnered with a ceramist Caldas of Rainha and so some of the pieces have ceramic because I think it is interesting symbiosis. I also have pieces with rubber, which arise through alternative jewelery , she is a jeweler who does work with rubber, we joined her expression with mine and came a very interesting result . Sometimes I try to focus on the materials, but my training and what I really am is qualified in noble materials. The type of market that has a plan to achieve a certain level of high jewelery, appear in art galleries and jewelers , which is not to say that these spaces are not inserting other types of pieces, but I was trained in a particular area and want to enter in a certain level.

It is a work of fiction written by John Aguiar.

In the beginning of one of more very inauspicious year for this rectangule well planted on the edge of Europe, I decided to make a bold suggestion of reading, the voice of the gods , a kind of Portuguese odyssey. This is a book that speaks of heroes and there is one particular that will deserve your sympathy, Viriato the drover, who became a great warrior, strategist and leader, the first champion of the Lusitanians. Their war against the Roman colossus may not have lasted one hundred years , but the seven years that endured made him a legend who crossed the boundaries of time and his name ended up inscribed in the historical annals of our small nation. We all know now how it all ended , but what matters here is the "journey " , the route of the fictional man by João Aguiar, that is nonetheless an exciting trip through the ancient world , the people that inhabited it and is mostly a stroll the beginnings of a proposed nation planted by the sea. A full reading of adventures and lots of action. Have a nice reading.

Miguel Wandschneider is engaged as an artistic director of Culturgest since 2006 , through a multi- programming he has been designing and that has raised as much applause as criticism.

One of the options that have taken place since assume the role of Artistic Director is to bring to Portugal artists that were not known at all.
Miguel Wandchneider : Yes , from the beginning I thought the programming as a space that would allow people a finding the work of artists with which they were unfamiliar, also they very often do not even know them and who in many cases had not even heard about. It was this very idea and continues to be, there is a space for discovery without things come previously legitimated or experienced with a seal of approval to use a quick expression.

It was also an escape from the " mainstream " of what the other trustees programming show at national level ?
MW : Yes, in an artistic context as ours, there's a lot that one does not have access, who do not have the opportunity to experience firsthand and the Portuguese artistic institutional system is still new, it is still in its youth and as befits a peripheral context based much of their programming into the mainstream. If we think about programming of Culturgest itself which appeared in 1993, or the Belém cultural Center that was opened in 1994, the modern art center of Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation , when it came to exhibitions of foreign artists we were already facing the most enshrined. To me it did not interest me. I would like a program that does not come with this delay, which participates in real time in contemporary life of the art world and was also in this sense that we have been focusing systematically on artists who seem to be very interesting, in some cases have very dynamic careers but they were until the date of their exhibits, were in Lisbon or Porto, completely unknown, or virtually anonymous in the Portuguese context. Interested me break this gap that existed and continues to exist largely between the Portuguese and the international context .

Why? Because we are a peripheral country in the art world , as you have mentioned on more than one occasion , or are there other reasons ?
MW : The peripheries tend to be, for simplicity, transmission belts of what is recognized and validated in other artistic centers. I think to conquer their autonomy and asserting themselves have to break this kind of vicious circle, must cease to be boxes resonances of things that have been widely seen and recognized elsewhere. To participate in the dynamics of international artistic context, peripheries have to anticipate the defense and presentation of many artists, cannot be mere breeding sites of what has been shown many times and it is consecrated. They must participate in the actual construction of the route of the artists, and I do not get excited with the tenth retrospective of an artist, as much as interest me, or I loved the artist work. However , interested me greatly to make the first retrospective of an artist and thus affect its route. And there have been several that have exposed Culturgest which in subsequent years made solo exhibitions in very important art centers or museums of contemporary art.

So how is that proceeds of selecting these artists ? Where you find them? Or what must have in terms of personal projection ?
MW: The issue is not the projection , at the time I started thinking about the programming of Culturgest and when it started to materialize was very present in my head that will turn me off the choices made on a criterion of reputation, or knowledge, ie , not choose , because it is considered an important artist. Intended to shut down the choices made with that criterion of reputation without prejudices, dogmas and taboos. There were very little known artists who have made major solo exhibitions at Culturgest, but there were also others well-known .

It is a short film by Rui Rodrigues Dantas addressing the honor among thieves. It's a look into the death and the human relationships that develop around a crime. This is the motto for the first episode of a trilogy that promises a lot.

What inspired this script ?
Rui Rodrigues Dantas : It's a mixture of ideas, I enjoy to do work that mark people, do not like things simple , banal stories. I like to know when people see a movie , or a short film, what they saw is one of my films. The idea of this script was exactly that, be strong in the beginning, a little calm in the middle and striking at the end, viewers know that one of the characters will die, however, wanted to be unique, that nobody had ever seen and got to achieve goal. What today is very difficult . I will forward this is the first film of a trilogy, I will get feedback from people and if it is very positive, I will proceed with the other two episodes.

Why the characters had names related with the Walt Disney universe ?
RDR : It was my little tribute to Quentin Tarantino and " reservoir dogs " which to me is one of the best movies ever and the characters are named after colors . So I decided to use Walt Disney, give him the amount due, he was a genius and managed to build an empire from nothing , and it was also my contribution to the man.

What was your biggest challenge in "confidence" ?
RDR : I evolved a lot since 2010 and "full house", which was also a short movie. In this film, I worked with actors who had never worked as an actor and my background has also helped to better convey the message, care which could never have done but were not for them. The short film was shot on a weekend, and the work actors lasted a week and two days and that was the biggest challenge, deconstruct people, distance them from their day- to-day so it wouldn't go to the movie, they are different persons.

Of characters you have written which is your favorite ?
RDR : Mickey no doubt. It is a character who still has much to give, is spectacular and the people were unaware of what he writes in his notebook. Understand that there is a name and date, but not the context.

You left this point open for the next episode of the trilogy ?
RDR : Yes, for me Mickey is king. ( laughs )

A new rare species was discovered in the Azores .

An international team of scientists has discovered on the island of São Jorge , the rarest orchid in Europe , it is a new species that had previously been identified by German botanist Karl Hochstetter, in the nineteenth century, who studied intensively the Azorean archipelago. The endemic plant has now been named after this scientist, as an honor, so is going to be called orchid butterfy Hochstetter , whose scientific name is Phlantadera azorica, that after demanding and rigorous taxonomic tests was also regarded as the rarest of Europe.

The British team led by Richard Bateman, with the collaboration of the morphologist Paula Rudall, but it was the Portuguese botanist Mónica Moura ( University of Azores ) that, while exploring the laurel forest site in search of butterflies orchids, sensed the rare flower. The discovery was published in PeerJ, the scientific journal , in an article published this week entitled " Systematic revision of Platanthera in the Azorean archipelago ": not one but three species , including arguably Europe's rarest orchid " and that is illustrated with a photograph of the 'new' orchid with 173 years of existence in full anonymity, a delicate plant with several flowers of a translucent green, which remains isolated in the cliffs of the mountains of St. George and will soon be officially classified .