Coimbra City Council is promoting the first edition of Cu.Co. Coimbra Cultural Journalism Meeting, an initiative that will mark the city’s cultural agenda from 4 to 8 September. With an unprecedented programme, the event proposes a collective reflection on the role of cultural journalism today, inviting a panel of renowned experts from national and international media outlets to take part in the debate, in close dialogue with the dynamics of the city’s cultural and artistic ecosystem.

At a time when there is intense debate about the role of journalism in the defence of democratic societies, it is also important to think about and debate the more specific role of cultural journalism in this same context. Cu.Co thus arose with two fundamental purposes: to be a laboratory for discussing and thinking about the different issues surrounding cultural journalism today — its urgency, its framework, its relevance in the age of social networks, its funding — but also to establish a platform for communicating the different cultural dynamics that exist in the city of Coimbra, both indoors and outdoors.