“Happiness” opens today with Nobel prize – LOCAL.PT

PORT – The Forum is an international festival of thought which runs from 4 to 8 November at the Municipal Theatre Rivoli, but also in Serralves, the House of Music and the National Theatre Saint John, which aims to bring together multiple disciplines invited to reflect on issues that matter to contemporary societies in the areas of sciences, humanities and arts.

The festival begins tomorrow, Wednesday, November 4, at 21:30 in the TM Rivoli, with John C. Mather, biggest name in space agency NASA and whose research on the origin of the cosmos earned him the Nobel Prize for Physics in 2006. A conference who will speak of light as a starting point for life in the universe. A symbolic beginning that also marks the International Year of Light At the official opening of the Forum, intervention also responsible for the various partners:.. Town Hall, University of Porto, Serralves, Casa da Musica, and National Theatre of St. John

The first forum session, however, occurs at 18:30 in the auditorium of Serralves, with one of the most influential contemporary photographers, Wolfgang Tillmans, and the director of the Museum Suzanne Cotter, on the theme “Happiness untitled” .

Happiness central theme to all the perplexities of the human condition, is the theme that has crossed the diverse programming of the city this year. What are the barriers facing the happiness – and how we can overcome them in the contemporary social and cultural context – when we are led to believe the difficulty to be happy today? Are answers to these questions bring to the Future Forum speakers from different fields of science, thought, politics, art and society.

In the area of ​​Sciences, in addition to opening conference with the nobel prize John C. Mather, accompanied by Portuguese scientists Orfeu Bertolami and Carlos Fiolhais, opportunity to learn about the mechanisms of “The happiness of Sensor”, a program that aims to map the happiness of citizens (with Ana Aguiar and Filipe Araújo) thermographic evaluation of happiness (with Afonso Pinhão Ferreira, Joaquim Gabriel Mendes, Miguel Pais Clemente and performance of violinist Ianina Khemlik) and the pursuit of happiness through politics, science and faith (with Alexandre Quintanilha, Alselmo P. Borges and Paul Rangel).