Active Listening

Every month, the Fonoteca Municipal do Porto invites a prominent figure from the Portuguese cultural scene to select an album from its collection. In a joint listening session, they share experiences and musical stories.

The April edition of this Active Listening is part of the public programme for Francisco Pedro Oliveira‘s exhibition Primal Form and will feature João Sarmento as a guest.

João Sarmento has been a Jesuit since 2008 and was ordained a priest in 2020. He holds a degree in sculpture from the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto, a degree in philosophy from the Portuguese Catholic University, and studied theology at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, the University of Comillas in Madrid and the Portuguese Catholic University. He has been a guest lecturer at ArCo – Centro de Arte e Comunicação Visual and is currently the artistic director of Brotéria – the Portuguese Jesuit cultural centre in Bairro Alto, where contemporary urban cultures and Christian faith intersect.

Photographs by Renato Cruz Santos