A Brasileira do Chiado recently resumed its mission of debate and thought, this time about the city of Lisbon. Under the motto “Lisbon Back”, a cycle of 6 events moderated by the journalist Catarina Carvalho, the impact on the city of Covid-19 in several areas is debated.

This Thursday,16th, at 6 pm, the conversation will be about Health in the city; the challenges that a virus posed to urban life and how health has several consequences, including economic ones. What can health professionals do to improve health in the city and how can we get out of this problem with an even healthier city?

The debate will have the participation of Henrique Veiga Fernandes, Director of the Laboratory of the Champalimaud Institute, Adalberto Campos Fernandes, from the Nova School of Public Health and former Minister of Health, André Peralta Santos, doctor specialised in Public Health, from the University of Washington and Margarida Tavares, an infectious disease specialist at the São João Hospital, on the frontline of the fight against the virus.

Debating Lisbon in Chiado
This cycle of debates shows the new life of the café A Brasileira. Using an acronym with the letters of the word Lisboa and taking inspiration from them for the themes L- Lisbon, I-innovation, S-health (in Portuguese “saúde”), B-bicycles, O-olysipo, A-housing (in Portuguese “alojamento”), the debates take place every Thursday, from 6pm to 7pm. The last one will be on August 6 and at the end, a manifesto of six ideas for a (re)new(ed) city will be published by A Brasileira do Chiado.

The first event, precisely about Lisbon, counted with the participation of Fernando Medina, Mayor of Lisbon, Ana Jacinto, General Secretary of AHRESP, Tanka Sapkota, chef, owner of restaurants in Lisbon and member of the Nepalese community, Giuliana Miranda, collaborator of Folha de São Paulo newspaper and João Marecos, lawyer and Global Shaper.

In the second debate, which took place last Thursday, innovation was the topic of a conversation with Carlos Moedas, former European Commissioner and administrator of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, and had the participation of Rui Miguel Nabeiro, CEO of Delta Cafés, Miguel Neto, Associate Dean of NOVA IMS and Elena Duran, organiser of Platform 55+.

Restricted debates
Despite public health restrictions, these debates may be attended by some members of the public. To attend in person, you must register by sending an email to geral@abrasileira.pt (Participation is free, but places are limited).

The debates may be followed live on the A Brasileira’s Facebook page or on Sapo Videos channel.

A tribute to the historical past of A Brasileira do Chiado
One of the oldest and most emblematic cafés in Lisbon invites you to enter and share the meeting point of the intellectuals of yesteryear, in a century-old space that preserves the original charm and elegance. In the city of Fernando Pessoa, and as a tribute to the past and to the many stories that took place in A Brasileira do Chiado, the gatherings will be resumed in a cycle of events open to the community. In a tribute to its past, A Brasileira gives the city back its cultural dynamics, in a tribute to the gatherings of intellectuals, artists and writers that used to meet here in the past.

Another debate not to be missed, in the return to life in the city and to cultural events in A Brasileira do Chiado.

About A Brasileira do Chiado
Opened on November 19, 1905, in Chiado, A Brasileira was created by Adriano Telles, a former Portuguese immigrant in Brazil. With the freedom achieved in the period following the implantation of the republic in 1910, and due to its privileged location, A Brasileira do Chiado became one of the most popular cafés in Lisbon at the time and was the setting for countless intellectual, artistic and literary gatherings. Renowned writers and artists like Fernando Pessoa and Almada Negreiros found in A Brasileira do Chiado the inspiration for paradoxical concepts and ideas. It was in A Brasileira do Chiado that the expression “bica” was created, which would be the abbreviation for “drink this with sugar” (in Portuguese “beba isto com açúcar”), an incentive to make coffee (a novelty at that time), more pleasant for customers, while creating them a habit and marking a ritual.

A Brasileira do Chiado has kept its identity intact, both due to the specificity of its decoration and the symbolism it represents as it is linked to intellectual circles. Classified as a building of public interest since 1997, it is today one of the oldest and one of only three cafés in Lisbon that have remained open throughout the 20th century. A Brasileira do Chiado has always been a truly iconic spot of the city of Lisbon, earning its place among the most emblematic places in Chiado, as one of the most visited and photographed in the entire city.

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