Reception at Casa dos Coimbras

The participants finished the day in a reception at “Casa dos Coimbras”. Dj Cat animated the second night of IAMCR 2010.
Animation, food and drinks are the keywords for good moments and, in fact, this was a memorable night to these group of communication researchers.
In the Casa dos Coimbra’s garden everyone enjoyed the music and the environment was very healthy. Carla Cerqueira, a member of Communication and Society Research Centre, considered that these activities are very important to make more relationships and contacts in world of communication. To the researcher the most important is the experience confer to students of this area, like the volunteers.
With regarding to organization, the researcher Helder Prior claims that this conference is better than others especially in the number of participants. Helder confessed that he is surprised with the success of the organization, specifically with this reception.

Sofia Gomes and Andreia Mandim

IAMCR Reception at Casa dos Coimbras

Video by Isabel Ferreira and José Miguel Carvalho

Maria João and Mário Laginha

At the end of the opening ceremony everyone stood silent to hear Maria João and Mario Laginha. The musical duet took the stage and amazed the audience.
For about an hour, the room was filled with the versatile voice of Maria João and the melodious piano of Mário Laginha. Almost everyone in the audience enjoyed the show. “The concert was fantastic” declared Gordon Adam from the UK. “The singer is very unusual, I’ve never heard anything like that before, she has a fantastic voice. It’s something new, like contemporary portuguese jazz”.
Outside the theatre, the appretiation of the duet was unanimous and very positive. “I thought they were both fantastic. The music is very inovative, she has a wonderfull voice and the pianist is outrageously good”, asserted James Kelly, from the USA. Dennis McQuail, a famous academic investigator within the area of communication theories, also enjoyed the performance: “I loved the concert, every song was better than the last”.
The duet is formed by the singer Maria João and the pianist Mário Laginha and they’ve been working together for 25 years. Their music has many influences, from traditional portuguese, african and brazilian music to contemporary jazz. It’s due to this diversity of sounds that Augusto Soares da Silva, from Portugal, believes that it was a good choice to inaugurate an international communication conference: “The concert was excellent, it’s interesting that in a communication congress we can communicate in several ways and sounds, linguistic and non linguistic ways”.
This concert closed the first day of the IAMCR in Braga, that will last until the 22th of July, next thursday.

Mafalda Trindade

Opening Ceremony

The opening ceremony of IAMCR2010 will take place at Theatro Circo (Avenida da Liberdade - city centre) from 18:00.

Conference participants wishing to register can do that at the foyer of the theatre from 15:00.

All are advised to be at Theatro Circo at 17:30.

The ceremony will end with a music concert by portuguese jazz musicians Maria João and Mário Laginha.

Photo by stukinha

Picking up and use of the conference badge

The conference badge looks like a credit card
- please keep it with you at all times.

It can be picked up:

• from 15:00 at Theatro Circo (city centre) where the Opening Ceremony will take place at 18:00
• from 8:00 on the 19 July until the end of the conference in CP 2, Campus de Gualtar, University of Minho

The conference badge is necessary:

• To have access to Theatro Circo's main room where the Official Opening Ceremony will take place;
• To freely circulate in all areas of the Gualtar Campus (CP 2, CP 1, canteens, etc.);
• To have access to monday's Reception at Casa dos Coimbras and to the Conference Dinner in Bom Jesus;
•  To access free transportation (except at the airport where you do not need the badge);
• To circulate for free in any bus of the Braga transport network (TUB – Transportes Urbanos de Braga) by showing the badge to the bus driver.

Registered accompanying people will have a special badge to access all post-18:00 social activities and to circulate for free in any bus of the Braga transport network (TUB – Transportes Urbanos de Braga).

Indications about lunch, reception & conference dinner

Lunch
At the “cantina” (a building located in the upper side of the Campus), from 12:30 to 14:00. To avoid any queues, you may choose to go earlier (from 12:00) or later than 12:30. Picking up your lunch and eating outside is not permitted. Please use the lunch vouchers provided in the conference kit to get your lunch.

Reception
19th July, at the Casa dos Coimbras (city centre), from 19:30 to 21:00. To gain entrance, you need to present the reception voucher, also part of your conference kit. The venue is within a walking distance from the University Campus (20 min). Alternatively, you can catch the Congress buses. Stop: Campus, Main Gate. Departures: between 18:00 and 19:00.

Conference Dinner
21st July, at Bom Jesus, Colunata de Eventos, from 19:00 to 23:00. The conference dinner voucher provided with your conference kit is needed to gain access to the venue. To get to the venue, you can walk from the University Campus to the “elevator” (15 min) and from there to the Church, up on the hill. Alternatively, you can use the staircase (581 steps) to walk all the way to the Church (40 min). You can also catch the Congress Bus at the Campus (from 18:00) or public transport (taxi, city bus). To return to your hotel, you can catch a taxi, walk down the 581 stairs, or pick up one of the Congress buses at 23:00.