Having done virtually no research about Leiria before I arrived, I was very enamored with it - a very charming little town, given what I imagine was an extra frisson by the near complete decoration of the centre for Christmas. I was a bit early for the start of the letra festival, so I visited the Banco das artes galeria for an exhibition of (primarily) drawing by Álvaro Siza – Drawings. Banco das Artes Galeria, Leiria. Obviously I'm very familiar with his architecture (his famous School of Architecture is at the end of our street), but his drawings were a revelation. No Photos allowed so you can look it up.
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From there we moved to Sal's miraculous shop/workshop of concrete and sound poetry Paperviewbooks where I bought what must be the book of my year Derek Beaulieu's Catalogue Saisonée and Christian Bok's new (blue) umlautmachine
Sadly, I had to return to Porto before the evening performances but Christian will be coming north for a few days next so I'll find out what I missed.
