Fairytale in the Bookstore

July, 5th – 13h30 – 14h00 – Opening Exihibition

‘Fairytale in the bookstore’
Artist: Tigre De Papel feat. KISMIF

Exhibition

Free Admission

5-7 July 2018 | Room At The Top [Sala de Reuniões 1], Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto, Porto

Description: Tigre de Papel is a bookshop that stands out due to its sales of new and used books, manuals and school material, as well as a set of other articles, such as games, postcards, illustration, posters, etc. It seeks to be a space where that one long searched book, where smaller independent labels can find room and where school manuals are reused and circulated. We usually note that books are not spent, and that whilst its true that readers search for books, it is also true that books search for their readers – some lasting a lifetime, and some only one sitting, some on the bedside table, others stored away. As any other good, though, books can be sold and purchased, be carried from hand to hand, so that their stories are never fully finished. A book can have the trace of those who wrote in it, the yellow tint of the years, the spirit of an age or the key to understand what is coming, but is not spent by the thousand times its read. Buying it second hand is the same as reusing it, saving the trees and other resources needed for them – with many surely forgotten books in some attic or drawer, waiting to be awaken. Besides this, Tigre de Papel has a small auditorium where various kinds of events regularly take place – from launchings to discussions about books, activities for children and thematically varied debates, concerts, poetry readings, etc. We seek to be, then, a place of meeting, making books live through the healthy debate of ideas they raise. Being located in a Lisbon neighbourhood, our choices live off of the local dynamics, as well as contributing to it – that is also its function and its role. Tigre de Papel feat. KISMIF is one more avenue of freedom in Porto, seeking to engage dialog with the world, society, music and diversity. It is a space of books, papers, fanzines, and an extension of the Conference – where books once again meet their readers, throwing tracks, paths, affections and belongings.