14 OCT 2026 / 9h00 + 11h30
E.B.1 Bensafrim
Storytelling Concert + Workshop
School Sessions – 1st Cycle
Pre-selected classes
M6 / 90'
Contos Baralhados (Jumbled Tales) is the new musical tale from Histórias Magnéticas, with original text and music by Sérgio Pelágio, narrated by actress Isabel Gaivão, followed by a workshop.
Unlike the previous tales, this one is structured around twelve “micro-stories” that appear to have no connection to one another. Based on unlikely everyday life events, they cross dreams, thoughts, and situations that we normally undervalue, but which, if we pay attention to them, reveal quite an amusing and unexpected parallel world, inhabited by flying swimmers, cycle-poets, otolaryngologists and aliens.
The session is also a game with 12 illustrated and shuffled cards that each child is challenged to order while listening to the narration. The resulting sequence will be the starting point for a conversation-workshop that ends with the creation of a concertina book (leporello).
Original text, Score, musical direction and electric guitar: Sérgio Pelágio
Narrator: Isabel Gaivão
Graphic design: Carlos Bártolo
Executive production: Mariana Dias
Communication: Susana Martins
Press: Levina Valentim
Support: Antena 2, Câmara Municipal de Lisboa, Câmara Municipal de Castelo Branco, SIB A Voz do Operário.
Produções Real Pelágio is supported by República Portuguesa – Cultura, Juventude e Desporto / Direcção-Geral das Artes
Sérgio Pelágio is a guitarist and composer whose work spans jazz and improvised music.
He began his musical studies on classical guitar at the age of 12. He later discovered Jazz and improvised music and played, among others, with David Liebman, Andy Sheppard, Graham Haynes, Frank Lacy, Norma Winston, John Abercrombie, Sylvia Cuenca, Mário Franco, Bernardo Sassetti, and Mário Laginha – with whom he recorded the album Hoje (Farol Música,1994).
In 1992, he formed the group Idefix and released the CD Idefix Live. He has composed music for choreographers Paulo Ribeiro, Paula Massano, João Galante, Teresa Prima, among others.
In 1997, he co-founded Produções Real Pelágio with Sílvia Real, and together they created the trilogy Casio Tone, Subtone and Tritone.
He has performed in several countries across Europe, Brazil and the USA. In 2002, he released Bandas Sonoras para peças de Francisco Camacho e Vera Mantero 1993–97 (2002).
He regularly plays with double bassist Mário Franco, with whom he recorded the CDs Our Door, Mário Franco Trio(2014) and Rush, Mário Franco Quinteto (2017). He released the CD RIFF OUT (2022) and the CD Para Gust 9723(2023) through RP.
In 2009, he created the project for children Magnetic Stories, for which he wrote nine musical tales, released the CD Magnetic Stories (2018), and two audiobooks featuring texts of his own: Don’t Be Fooled! A Pamphlet Tale from 2019, illustrated by João Pedro Gomes (2023), and Mixed-Up Tales, illustrated by Carlos Bártolo (2026).
Isabel Gaivão was born in Lisbon, and studied theatre at the Lisbon School of Theatre and Cinema and at the Herbert Berghof Studio in New York.
She has worked in television, film, advertising and fashion shows, taught drama to children and teenagers, and provided voice-overs for experimental films.
In recent years, her work has focused on theatre, collaborating with various directors. She has taken part in several projects for young audiences, working in particular with João Carneiro, Mário Trigo and Rui Pisco. In 2009, she began collaborating with Sérgio Pelágio on the project Magnetic Stories.
