A week-long program to celebrate Rui Cunha Foundation

Rui Cunha (center)

In celebration of its third anniversary, the Rui Cunha Foundation has scheduled a week-long program of events to take place from April 20 to 28, including legal seminars, school events, concerts, book launches and art exhibitions.
The non-profit organization’s founder and president, Mr Rui Cunha, told the media on Tuesday that the Foundation has rolled out various types of activities in the past, and is planning to stretch its relations to Macau’s neighboring regions.
“We’ve started to communicate with the neighboring regions. Apart from exchanging experiences in legal studies, our events will also extend to artistic and cultural exchanges, including literary writing, so as to introduce Macau’s culture to them,” he said.
Mr Cunha further stressed that the foundation’s events are not held for any single community, as Macau holds a rich diversity of ethnic groups. The foundation’s gallery, also a venue for hosting lectures, is specially equipped with an interpretation room; events can now add simultaneous translation of speech from Chinese to Portuguese to the previously unidirectional translation of Portuguese to Chinese. Moreover, he announced that a mobile app would be launched this year for releasing information on new events.
As for the celebration next week, events will be rolled out in the categories of law and culture. A total of three seminars on various laws will be held, with the foundation expecting lively debates on the topics of “gaming laws in Macau,” “bullying,” as well as “the evidence in a criminal process, between the lines of the Criminal Process Code.” Also, a new book by Paulo Cardinal will be released, titled “Studies of Fundamental Rights in the Context of JusMacau.”
To attract the children’s attention, on Monday and Tuesday, the foundation will also bring its law awareness program to two schools. The events will be held at the D. Jose da Costa Nunes Kindergarten and the Portuguese School of Macau, and will focus on the theme of “environmental protection.”
As for the cultural events taking place, the organizer will hold a concert titled “An Afternoon with Piano in Caritas” at the School S. Joao de Brito on Tuesday, and a concert and simultaneous CD release by local group Mowave will take place at the foundation’s gallery on Friday.
Yesterday the Rui Cunha Foundation Gallery opened an art exhibition featuring local artist Fortes Pakeong Sequeira’s tough path towards artistic creation. The event will be accompanied by a book launch of Pakeong’s “Experiencing. Fortes,” which documents a set of his artworks.
On Saturday, the gallery will also host the Foundation’s “Philosophy Cafe” series, exploring “the meaning of religion today.” Following that, a jazz concert will take over the venue, featuring Portugal’s jazz master Zé Eduardo.