In a statement, the municipality of Braga explains that the recomposition of the board of directors of the municipal company Theatro Circo de Braga will be completed at the general meeting that will take place next Monday.
The president of the Braga Chamber, Ricardo Rio, and, as non-executive member, María de Lurdes Rufino, will remain as presidents.
For Ricardo Rio, Joana Meneses Fernandes is the “natural solution to continue, with tranquility and competence, the work developed until now”, with a view to preparing various projects and initiatives and, above all, in the period prior to Braga 2025. Portuguese Capital of Culture.
Joana Fernandes was part of the municipal company Theatro Circo in 2018 when she assumed the executive coordination of Braga Cultura 2030 — Braga Cultural Strategy 2020-2030 and, subsequently, the coordination of the artistic program of Braga’27 — candidacy for European Capital of Culture.
He was manager and senior project manager at Opium (2006-2017), a company specialized in consulting in the cultural sector.
In this context, he was responsible for the general coordination of the projects Manobras no Porto (promoted by Porto Lazer, EM., 2011-2012), Festival do Norte (promoted by Turismo do Porto e Norte, ER., 2012-2013), Quintas do Barroco do Tâmega e Sousa (promoted by the Intermunicipal Community of Tâmega Sousa, 2017), permanent exhibition at the Casa da Memória de Guimarães (Câmara Municipal de Guimarães/A Oficina, 2016).
As a consultant, she was responsible, among others, for the applications for community funding for the European Youth Capital Braga 2012 and for the rehabilitation of the building (2011).
She was co-author of the Macroeconomic Study for the Development of Creative Industries in the Northern Region (Fundação de Serralves, 2007) and the Management Plan of the Historic Center of Porto, UNESCO World Heritage (Porto Municipal Council and SRU Porto Vivo, 2008 ).
He graduated in Art and Heritage from the School of Arts of the Catholic University of Porto and completed his master’s degree in Cultural Heritage Management at the same institution, with the dissertation “Cultural Tourism in the Historic Center of Porto”.
The board of directors of Museus e Monumentos de Portugal, announced last Thursday, has Pedro Sobrado as president and members such as Cláudia Leite and the previous president of the board of directors of the Portuguese section of the International Council of Museums (ICOM-Portugal), in the three-year period 2020-2023, and the director of the Casa de Bragança museum-library, Maria de Jesus Monge.
Source: Observadora
