In the second edition of the Simultaneous Openings Reading Club / Atelier 3|3, in a conversational circle format, with moments of reading and idea-sharing, and integrated into the Simultaneous Openings Arts Library (BAIS), the session on May 16 focuses on the work of Maria Fernanda Botelho (Porto, 1926).

The program includes a poster-making activity —Reading is in the Street, Manifesto of the Word — inspired by Fernanda Botelho’s phrase: “I accept the Written for the Spoken and take this Writing as my Word,” taken from the book The Storytellers (As Contadores de Histórias).

Open to all ages.
No prior knowledge required.
Materials will be provided on the day and at the event venue.
Free participation, subject to venue capacity.

Atelier 3/3 is a multi-dynamic, collective, and creative project focused on alternative publishing. It operates as a mobile workspace and a publishing platform, created to highlight the diversity of its own and independent publications. The collective is structured as a cultural and recreational association, led by Cristina Alves (President), a teacher in lower and upper secondary education, with a postgraduate degree in library management.

Cristina Alves is also responsible for ZineFest PT, an international event dedicated to fanzines.

“Madame Zine” is her semi-heteronym for multiple self-published works, editions, and news from her own world—by her own hand and others’, wandering, unregistered in any encyclopedia, assembling loose notes and images, photographs, nomadic poetry, and the ambition to be many books, a bookseller, and free!

Cristina Alves is active in several spaces located in the Miguel Bombarda Quarter, namely the independent bookstore Gato Vadio.