The festival
The Script Road is bringing together writers and artists from various fields in Macau, guests from Portuguese speaking countries, Mainland China, Hong Kong and countries such as Australia. The event will take place at the Macao Polytechnic Institute. Su Tong, Xu Xi, Jose Luís Peixoto and Rui Cardoso Martins are some of our guests. There will also be art exhibitions, film screenings, with the presence of filmmakers Miguel Gonçalves Mendes, Ivo Ferreira and Tony Ayres, and music concerts. We hope you will join us in this celebration of literature and culture.
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The festival rundown
Starting from today and until next Friday, Polytechnic Institute will be stage for a series of talks on literature,...
Sadness – at Polytechnic Institute
A brave and moving documentary based on photographer William Yang’s acclaimed stage show of the same name, ‘Sadness’ explores the roots of Yang’s Chinese-Australian identity, and his grief over the AIDS related deaths of his friends. As an intriguing s [...]
The Home Song Stories – at Cinema Alegria
Joan Chen stars as Rose a former Shanghai lounge singer who follows her heart - and a sailor - to Australia. Tony Ayres semi-autobiographical film recounts his memories of his mother uprooting them and migrating from Hong Kong to Oz in the early 1970’s and t [...]
Aldina Duarte, Promised Princess – at Polytechnic Institute
Manuel Mozos tinha filmado Aldina Duarte a cantar o fado ‘A Rua do Capelão’ nas ruas da Mouraria em “Xavier”, rodado em 1991. Em 2009, a partir de uma ideia de Maria João Seixas, compôs-lhe um retrato de fadista, “uma das mais importantes vozes femi [...]
Go With the Wind – at Polytechnic Institute
Qingtiang is a small rural town in China (Zhejiang province) where the Portuguese, Spanish and Italian languages can be heard on the streets. Wang Jin Ping is a young man who is preparing to immigrate to Europe. Friends, family and others who have gone through [...]
José & Pilar – at Macau Cultural Centre
“The Elephant’s Journey,” the book in which Saramago recounts the adventures and misadventures of a pachyderm transported from the court of King John III to Archduke Maximilian of Austria, is the starting point for “José e Pilar”, Miguel Gonçalves Mend [...]
Love is in the City – at Macau Cultural Centre
It is not necessarily fate that brings people together in this small city. Could it be circumstantial events the linking factor, or something else? Inside the library, a former popular novel hides their unfermented seeds of love; a middle-aged dressmaker meets a y [...]
Why Are They Here, Chinese Stories in Africa – at Polytechnic Institute
A small village in Lesotho, an isolated island in Mozambique, the bustling capital of Ghana. Hundreds of Chinese immigrants seeking a better life come with the hope of succeeding, but soon find themselves facing all kinds of obstacles - even death. This docum [...]
Private Z(oo)M – Tempo de Bichos – at Polytechnic Institute
Private Z(oo)M – Tempo de Bichos is a multifaceted proposal that combines elements of poetry, music and video. VIDEOPHONEMA was the name found to characterize this hybrid vein, which has been traveling as an exhibition of photographs and slam poetry. This propos [...]
Aldina Duarte at University of Macau
Aldina Duarte was born in 1967 and grew up in Chelas, a suburb of Lisbon, however her relationship with fado was not immediate. At the age of 24 she entered a fado house in Bairro Alto where she heard the singer Beatriz da Conceição perform fado. She fell in [...]
Turtle Giant+YFM+Soler at Macau Forum
Born in Macau, Soler was formed by Eurasian twin brothers Julio Acconci (bass/piano/vocals) and Dino Acconci (guitar/drums/vocals). In 1996 they released their first single in Europe. After spending over a decade in Europe, the duo returned to Asia to continue t [...]
Noiserv+Andreia Dacal+Nancy Vieira
To say that Nancy Vieira is Cape Verdean could be one way to justify her innate musicality, but it would not leave everything said. From her way of living and interpreting things in life, with gentleness, subtlety, rhythm and strength, emerges a flow of emotions [...]
Xu Xi
Xu Xi is the author of nine books of fiction and essays, and editor of three anthologies of Hong Kong literature in English. Her latest novel, “Habit of a Foreign Sky”, was shortlisted for the inaugural Man Asian Literary Prize. Her achievements include an O [...]
Tatiana Salem Levy
Tatiana Salem Levy is a Brazilian writer living in Rio de Janeiro. She is also a translator and holds a PhD in Literature. She was born in Portugal in 1979, grandchild of Turkish Jews and the daughter of a Brazilian in exile during the dictatorship. She has publ [...]
Su Tong
Su Tong’s prolific and provocative oeuvre – six novels including “Rice”, “My Life as Emperor”, a dozen novellas and more than 120 short stories – has earned him a pre-eminent place in the heart of China’s literary scene. In 2009 he was awarded th [...]
Rui Cardoso Martins
Rui Cardoso Martins was born in 1967, in Portalegre. He is the journalist founder of the newspaper Público, where he maintains a weekly column, and he has received two awards from the Portuguese Press Club. As a reporter he has covered, among other events, the [...]
Paulo Aido
Paulo Aido, 49 years old, has been a journalist for more than two decades and is now an alderman in the Odivelas Town Council. He is also the author of several religiousthemed books that have been bestsellers including “A Mensagem da Irmã Lúcia,” “O Pere [...]
Marvin Farkas
Marvin Farkas was a New York film actor who abandoned a leading role in a hit show on Broadway to look for adventure and excitement in the Far East. As a pioneering news correspondent/cameraman, in the 1950s and 1960s he covered wars in Vietnam and Cambodia and [...]
Lolita Hu
Ching-Fang Hu’s works of fiction and essays ponder the meaning of modernity in the context of urban life in China and around the world, defining a unique sensibility on the global city and contemporary life. Born in Taipei, she has lived and worked in Hong Kon [...]
José Luís Peixoto
José Luís Peixoto is one of Portugal’s most acclaimed and bestselling young novelists. He was born in 1974 in Galveias, in the region of Alentejo, Portugal. Has studied Modern Languages and Literature at Universidade Nova de Lisboa. Since 2000 Peixoto has pu [...]
João Paulo Cuenca
João Paulo Cuenca was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1978. He is the author of the novels “Corpo presente”, “O dia Mastroianni” and “O único final feliz para uma história de amor é um acidente”. Between 2003 and 2010 he wrote weekly columns for newspa [...]
Jimmy Qi
Jimmy Qi is the author of “Yu Li: Confessions of an Elevator Operator”, the hilarious story of a migrant worker who works as an elevator operator in a luxury apartment building as he struggles to understand city life. He is fluent in English, Chinese and at [...]
J. Rentes de Carvalho
Can an author over 70 shake up the literature of a country? Yes, he can. That’s what J. Rentes de Carvalho (born in 1930) has done. Born in Vila Nova de Gaia, in Trás-os-Montes in the north of Portugal, he lived there until 1945 when he was forced to leave Po [...]
Jade Y. Chen
Jade Y. Chen is a novelist, journalist, theatre director and playwright from Taiwan. After studying Chinese in Taipei and theatre in Paris, she worked as a director in New York before becoming the correspondent for United Daily News in Germany. Her book “China [...]
José Rodrigues dos Santos
José Rodrigues dos Santos is Portugal’s bestselling novelist and also a journalist who started his career working in Macau television in the 1980s. He is the author of five essays and nine novels, including Portuguese blockbusters “Codex 632”, which sold [...]
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