Mindelact


Mindelact is a theatrical association in Mindelo on the island of São Vicente, Cape Verde. Each year, it organizes the Mindelo Theatrical Festival
When the association was founded in 1996 by Elisângelo Ramos and Portuguese actor João Branco, it was the most popular in Cape Verde along with its festival, today it is the second most important and is Barlavento's most important theatrical festival. Several plays were performed with the Grupo de Teatro do Centro Cultural Português do Mindelo, founded in 1993, two years before the foundation of Mindelact.
In 2001, the association celebrated its 5th anniversary of its foundation and in 2006, its 10th anniversary.

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Its first edition was made in 1995. The festival today is considered one of the most important event in African theater. As of 2016, it had recently done 22 editions of the festival.
One of the plays performed in one of the early editions were by Sergio Frusoni.
Several plays were performed before Mindelact was founded in 1996. Some of the plays are world renowned and some of them are Capeverdean. One of the actors and performers included João Branco.