2021
Professor Raquel Soeiro de Brito, a geographer who was part of the scientific mission of the Center for Geographical Studies at the University of Lisbon and who traveled in 1957 and 1958 to study the eruption of the Capelinhos Volcano, returned to Capelo and to the very house where she had stayed at the time, the so-called Casa da Missão, a house that had been abandoned for decades and has now been renovated by AVISTAVULCÃO.
Professor Raquel revisited all the locations where she had filmed and studied the eruption of the Capelinhos Volcano
PUBLIC MEETING AND FILM SCREENING WITH COMMENTARY
The highlight of Prof. Raquel’s return and stay in Capelinhos took place on the afternoon of Saturday, October 2, with a public gathering and conversation between Prof. Raquel and the island’s residents on the roof of the Casa da Missão cistern, where her film *Erupção dos Capelinhos* was screened and discussed by the filmmaker herself.
Exhibitions and video installations
Professor Raquel’s return to and stay in Capelinhos was marked by a series of exhibitions featuring her photographic collection, displayed at the Casa de Artesanato do Capelo and the Galeria Camarupa in Horta. At the Casa da Missão, several video installations created by Gonçalo Tocha, documenting Prof. Raquel’s return to Capelinhos, were on view to the public for a month.
