João Santos

Coordinator of the Cine-Teatro de Alcobaça João d’Oliva Monteiro

Portugal

In 2008 he joined the Cine-Teatro staff, where he began to have contact with the role of production of events, collaborating in the shows scheduled for the Cine-Teatro but also in larger projects such as Alcobaça Summer Nights, Baía Azul Summer Fest, Exchange Festival (co-production with the dance company CeDeCe) and Cistermúsica - Alcobaça Music Festival (Coproduction with the Music Academy of Alcobaça).

Quickly develops a taste for the arts and for the whole process that involves creation, production and presentation to the public, and the relationship with it. From 2009, in a gradual restructuring process, the team has been suffering a reduction in effective which results in an accumulation of functions, but also in a greater challenge in maintaining one that is considered by many as one of the most beautiful theaters in the country, firm and with regular programming and monthly averages above a thousand spectators.

In 2012, in the same restructuring process, he moved to the Municipal Library where initiates contact with another reality and develops work in the promotion of books and reading, playful activities and clipping. In 2014 he returns to the Cine-Teatro de Alcobaça, with accumulated functions of coordination and production of events always with the same objective: to dynamize the space and the local culture and actively collaborates in the programming of the Culture Department, in the various co-productions with external agents and in the ARTEMREDE project where the Municipality of Alcobaça is a member founder.
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