World Voice Day marked with free shows and screenings – Move News

 

 

 

Prevention and early diagnosis remains the best weapon to fight cancer of the larynx, whose prevalence in Portugal is increasing. The celebrations of World Voice Day – on April 16 -estendem up for the next three days with free screenings, performances and reimbursed consultations

Ahead of the anniversary and to raise awareness of the scourge of disease. related to the theme and focusing on prevention, Hospital CUF Porto will perform today (15 April, Friday) an assessment of Pathologies Voice. From 15h00 to 19h00 the initiative will be open to the entire population, lacking mandatory labeling.

Also, until the 16th of April, all who go to the Unit of the Hospital Egas Moniz Voice, in the central building external consultations, on the 1st floor, will be attended by a medical specialty. Between 9:30 am and 18 pm, except on Saturday ending at noon. People sign up at the site and will be called in order of arrival.

“Who uses the voice as a working tool, such as actors, singers, announcers, teachers, street vendors, rececionistas, among others, the match will have priority, “says Clara Capucho. The screenings are accompanied by small performances.

Paulo Pires will is an excerpt of a piece that puts the different use of voice in evidence, at 15:00 on Friday.

the program also includes the premiere of “the Voice in the representation of space,” the Iberian Theatre at 21.30. “It will be a show dedicated to searching our vocal identity,” says Luis Madureira, volunteer professor at the Hospital Voice Unit Egas Moniz and tenor presenting and leads the piece. Rise also to stage the singers Miguel Gameiro, Michelangelo, Nuno Guerreiro, Paulo de Carvalho and Act, Emanuel, Olavo Bilac, Angels, Gonçalo Tavares, tenor Jorge Baptista da Silva, the soprano Ana Madalena Moreira and actress Eunice Muñoz. That night, the Social Services of the Lisbon City Council and the GDA Foundation – the Artists Rights Management sign the protocol that will allow artists to have a voice consultation with included laryngoscopy, the subsidized prices by the Foundation

. to point out that Portugal is the third European country with the highest incidence of laryngeal cancer and therefore it is essential to alert the public to possible changes in the voice, which helps early diagnosis of vocal disorders.