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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Avenir Book";color:black" lang="EN-US">Dear Spectrites,<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Avenir Book";color:black" lang="EN-US"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:normal;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Avenir Book"" lang="EN">The
summer of Leonardo / Olats will be an Iberian journey in three stages:
Barcelona in Spain, then Evora and Marvão in Portugal and resolutely focused on
the plant world with events around the projects "Roots & Seeds
XXI" and "The Traveling Plant".</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Avenir Book""><span></span></span></p>
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<p class="gmail-MsoNormalCxSpFirst" style="text-align:justify;line-height:normal;margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Avenir Book";color:black" lang="EN-US">1 - Roots &
Seeds XXI<span></span></span></b></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:justify;line-height:normal;margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span class="gmail-titrerubrique"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Avenir Book"" lang="EN">Multidisciplinary
Garden Cartography </span></b></span><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Avenir Book"" lang="EN"><span></span></span></b></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormalCxSpLast" style="text-align:justify;line-height:normal;margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span class="gmail-titrerubrique"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Avenir Book"" lang="EN">15
& 16 July 2021 Barcelona <span></span></span></b></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-family:"Avenir Book""><a href="https://rootsandseedsxxi.eu/multidisciplinary-garden-cartography-bcn/" target="_blank" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline">https://rootsandseedsxxi.eu/multidisciplinary-garden-cartography-bcn/</a><span></span></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-family:"Avenir Book"">Organised by Quo Artis, the lead partner of
the Roots & Seeds XXI project, this workshop is the first of a series of
three. Taking place at the Ferran Soldevila Garden (University of Barcelona) it
gathers a group of professionals from different fields (artists, scientists,
economists, philosophers, curators and art critics) whose practices are linked
to the plant world in different ways. <span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-family:"Avenir Book"">The two other workshops will take place in
september, one organised by Ars Electronica during the Festival in Linz and the
other organised by Leonardo/Olats in Paris.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial"><span style="font-family:"Avenir Book"" lang="EN">The Roots & Seeds XXI partners are: </span><span style="font-family:"Avenir Book"">Quo Artis,
Ars Electronica, Leonardo/Olats, Universitat de Barcelona </span><span class="gmail-d2edcug0"><span style="font-family:"Avenir Book"" lang="EN">in collaboration with the Institut Botànic de Barcelona. The
project is supported by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union. </span></span><span style="font-family:"Avenir Book"" lang="EN"><span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Avenir Book";color:black" lang="EN-US"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Avenir Book"" lang="EN">2 - The Traveling Plant : an Iberian tour</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Avenir Book";color:black" lang="EN-US"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Avenir Book";color:black" lang="EN">Seeded in Paris in June 2020, <i>The Traveling Plant </i>Project </span><span class="gmail-y2iqfc"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Avenir Book"" lang="EN">[<a href="http://thetravelingplat.net">thetravelingplat.net</a>]
</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Avenir Book";color:black" lang="EN">germinated
in Treviso in July and launched in September 2020 at Ars Electronica Festival
in Linz with the "Preparatory logbook" and "The Traveling Plant
Video Tour" </span><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Avenir Book"" lang="EN"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Avenir Book";color:black" lang="EN">In 2021, <i>The Traveling Plant</i>
gets out of its Winter Quarantine to start its long journey around the world.
It stops in Barcelona on July 17th at the Botanical Institute before crossing
the border over to Portugal, stopping over in Evora on July 21st before going
to Marvão on the 24th.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Avenir Book"" lang="EN"><span></span></span></p>
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<pre style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Courier New""><span class="gmail-y2iqfc"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Avenir Book"">* The Traveling Plant in Barcelona, <i>Cruel of Tucuman</i></span></b></span><span class="gmail-y2iqfc"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Avenir Book"">, performance by <b>Paula Bruna, </b>organised by Quo Artis in collaboration with the </span></span><span class="gmail-d2edcug0"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Avenir Book"">Institut Botànic de Barcelona</span></span><span class="gmail-y2iqfc"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Avenir Book""><span></span></span></span></pre>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Avenir Book"" lang="EN">July 17 (by invitation) - July
18 (public event, free upon registration)<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Avenir Book"" lang="EN"><a href="https://quoartis.org/events/traveling-plant-cruel-tucuman/">https://quoartis.org/events/traveling-plant-cruel-tucuman/</a><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Avenir Book";color:black" lang="EN-US"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Avenir Book"" lang="EN">* The Traveling Plant in Évora, </span></b><b><i><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Avenir Book";color:black" lang="EN">The Discoveries of Traveling Plant in Évora /
As Descobertas de Traveling Plant in Évora<span></span></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Avenir Book";color:black" lang="EN-US">On July 21st,<i> The
Traveling Plant </i>stops in Evora for a public round table organised by Marta
de Menezes from Cultivamos Cultura in collaboration with the Center for Art and
Culture of the Eugenio de Almeida Foundation where the exhibition <i>Alter(action) </i>is displayed.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Avenir Book"" lang="EN">[<a href="https://cultivamoscultura.com/2021/05/03/alteracao-altercation-fundacao-eugenio-almeida-cultivamos-cultura/">https://cultivamoscultura.com/2021/05/03/alteracao-altercation-fundacao-eugenio-almeida-cultivamos-cultura/</a>]<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Avenir Book";color:black" lang="EN-US"><span> </span></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><b><span style="font-family:"Avenir Book"">*
The Traveling Plant in Marvão, </span></b><b><i><span style="font-family:"Avenir Book";color:black">Marking the Pace
in Marvão / Marcar o compasso em Marvão<span></span></span></i></b></p>
<pre style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Courier New""><span class="gmail-y2iqfc"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Avenir Book"" lang="EN">The Traveling Plant will then continue its journey at the International Music Festival of Marvão, in eastern Portugal, for a public round table presented on July 24 by Marta de Menezes for Cultivamos Cultura in collaboration with the Festival.</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Avenir Book""><span></span></span></pre>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Avenir Book"" lang="EN">[<a href="https://marvaomusic.com/?programa=24-jul">https://marvaomusic.com/?programa=24-jul</a>]<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Avenir Book";color:black" lang="EN-US"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Avenir Book";color:black" lang="EN-US">A wonderful Summer (or Winter for the other half!) to
all<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Avenir Book";color:black" lang="EN-US">Best<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Avenir Book";color:black" lang="EN-US">Annick Bureaud<span></span></span></p>
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