Aljezur ~ Free entrance

08.Dec.23 · 03:00 pm — 11:00 pm · Pavilhão Multi Usos

Pottery Workshop
for the youngsters

Forró
beginners class

As Gambuzinas
for the youngsters

Forró
free dancing

Live Concert Jeremy & Cait
acoustic guitar

Storytelling
for the youngsters

Live Concert ALJEROOTS
reggae

Live Concert ARAÇÁ DA GEMA
brazilian music

09.Dec.23 · 11:00 am — 11:00 pm · Pavilhão Multi Usos

NATURALEZA Workshop
herbal medicine

LIFE Zimbral – Conservation Project
presented by REWILDING SW

Forró
beginners class

As Gambuzinas
for the youngsters

Forró
free dancing

Coro da Gente
world music choir

Live Concert MUDBLOOD by THE PSYCHLES
rock

Live Concert THE HOP
hip hop, soul fusion

10.Dec.23 · 11:00 am — 07:00 pm · Pavilhão Multi Usos

Pottery Workshop
for the youngsters

Dança Africana
beginners class

Capoeira SENZALA
beginners open class

Capoeira SENZALA
roda

Dance Hip Hop
with OUTSIDE THE BOX

BOMBEIROS VOLUNTÁRIOS DE ALJEZUR
philarmonic band

As Gambuzinas
for the youngsters

Coro ENTRELAÇAR

Fado Live Concert ADRIANA E GONÇALO

Support

Organization

"The thread connects all states of existence to each other and to their origin.
The thread connects all beings to each other, this world, and the other.
The thread connects puppets to the central will of the man who animates them."

— Jean Chevalier

Leonor Morais, visual artist, created this artistic residency "The Thread", composed of three workshops of experimentation and artistic creation of Drawing with three distinct moments, although connected to each other as if a thread led and interconnected them.

The focus of this project is on origin, on origins, and not on the constant need for the new that today's world demands of us. It is about reuniting different areas instead of dividing them into smaller and smaller sections, risking the extinction of many. It values humans and nature as a whole (biocentrism) and not as dominant and dominated. It seeks cooperation and integration in critical times of war and the rupture of values. With the collaboration of three invited artists - Albina Petrolati (dance), André Duarte (music), and João Luís Simões (painting) - each workshop will focus on the intersection of drawing with one of these artistic areas. The lines of the drawing will enter into dialogue with dance, voice, music, theatre, performing arts, and the ancient language of painting...

The thread, the guiding element of the workshops, is inspired by mythologies that cross different cultures and times, inviting participants to connect with the voices that echo from the past and present. The lines of the drawing will gain a poetic dimension as they intertwine with music, dance, and painting, giving rise to a universe of creative possibilities in a deep immersion in the nature that surrounds us and inhabits us. An intense procedure having the thread as the guiding element and the mythological voice as the backdrop of the work process. True moments of reflection on our impact, regeneration, and relationship with our surroundings.

After having experienced Dance and Music, it’s now the moment for connecting Drawing and Painting…

Over three days of intense work, experimentation, and sharing will become fundamental elements for the construction of a creative process that will be marked by the richness of the exchange of ideas and experiences. With a maximum of fifteen participants, in an old primary school in Barranco da Vaca, in the Sudoeste Alentejano e and Costa Vicentina Natural Park.

Drawing & Painting

REGISTRATION REQUIRED

When

20.Oct.23
5:00 pm - 7:00 pm

21.Oct.23
10:30 am - 1:00 pm
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
shared picnic

22.Oct.23
10:30 am - 1:00 pm
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
shared picnic

Location

Antiga Escola Primária do Barranco da Vaca.

Artists

Leonor Morais, João Luís Simões guest artist

Donation value

20€ recommended minimum per workshop

Maximum number of participants

15 people

Age group

M/15+

Recommendation

Wear comfortable clothing that can get dirty

Exhibition "The Thread"

Free entrance

Finally, after each of the workshops leaves a memory that can serve as inspiration for the next one, it will create an invisible thread that connects the different artistic areas, artists, and participants. This exhibition will be held as a memory, record, and sharing of the work processes and results that arise from it, through a collection of captured images. Some participants' drawings and paintings will also be displayed, which carry the stories and memories shared in these experimentation and artistic creation workshops.

When

11.Nov.23
04:00 pm - 07:00 pm
OPENING
Live Music w/ André Duarte

18.Nov.23
03:00 pm - 05:00 pm

Location

Old Elementary School at Barranco da Vaca.

#Mercado de Agricultor #Largo 1º de Maio #Praceta Kurnach #Espaço+ #Agrupamento de Escolas Professora Piedade Matoso

Program

02.Oct.23 — 03.Oct.23

Story Telling for the little ones
w/ Paula Cusati

Paula Cusati. Reading and writing mediator, and trainer in the field of reading promotion. Designs and conducts storytelling sessions, workshops, and ongoing projects for the promotion of reading and writing. Participates in meetings for reflection and training for mediators and other educational professionals. Provides individual, professional, and institutional consulting services in the field of reader mediation and the promotion of reading and writing.

07.Oct.23

Pimpinella
w/ Eva Ribeiro

PIMPINELLA is a clown going on a stroll in her musical chariot while offering smiles, flowers, and melodies. An itinerant clown show leading us into playing, magic and gathering.

3 stations, 3 stops #Mercado do Agricultor #Largo 1º de Maio #Praceta Kurnach

Location

From Mercado do Agricultor to Praceta Kurnach, passing through Igreja Nova

Schedule

10:00 am

Eva Ribeiro. Walks hand in hand with art and community intervention. She has been a researcher in the field of performing arts for over fifteen years. She began her journey as a young person, discovering street arts and clowning in 2002. In 2004, she started working in the field of street theatre with the Teatro Anónimo company in Coimbra. Between 2002 and 2004, she received training in street theatre from companies such as Generik Vapeur, Les Plasticiens Vollants, Sarruga, and Xarxa Theatre. These training experiences piqued her interest in deepening her studies in the performing arts. She then attended various workshops on Clowning, New Circus, Contemporary Dance, and Puppetry and Animated Forms in Porto, where she lived between 2005 and 2007. In 2006, she studied Theater and Education with Hugo Cruz at the University of Psychology in Porto. During this period, she developed several artivism projects that blended the language of theatre with political and community intervention, beginning her journey as a trainer and educator. In 2009, she pursued her studies at the Jacques Lecoq School of Physical Theater in Paris, France. She lived in various cities across Europe and continued her studies, focusing her research on the art of clowning and comedy from 2010 onwards. She studied the art of clowning in various countries and had the privilege of working with Pedro Correia, Jorge Pacheco, Anabela Mira, Pedro Fabião, Adelvane Néia, Silvia Leblon, Palhaço Tomate, Jesus-Jara, Virginia Imaz, Matteo Cifariello, Maria Colomer, Alex Navarro, Carolina Dream, Jeff Johson, Johny Melville, Celia Ruiz, Elise Ouvrier De-Buffett, Hilary Chaplain, Olivier Terrault, Fanny Giraud, and Tom Roos.

Stories from Roots
w/ Leonor Morais and Joana Barroso

Stories from Roots is a workshop to create objects with natural elements from which stories will be born.

Location

Praceta Kurnach

Schedule

10:30 am — 12:30 pm / 02:30 pm — 04:30 pm

Leonor Morais. She completed her degree in painting, drawing, and printmaking at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Lisbon and undertook an individual project at Ar.co (Center for Art and Visual Communication), with a special focus on drawing and printmaking. She has participated in various exhibitions and urban interventions, both locally and internationally, including: 2017 Cal Viva, Artistic Residency, Aljezur. 2014 "Drawing on the Path," Art District, Cidadela, Cascais. 2012 Influx Contemporary Art, Lisbon. 2010 "Flor del Mundo," Façade Intervention, Saldanha, Lisbon. 2010 "The Fountain," Ermida de S. Mauro, Santa Maria, Azores. 2010 "Wind," Espaço ao Cubo, Lisbon. 2009 "Life Essentials," Artwhino, U.S.A. 2009 "Yourself Nature," Waves and Woods, Lisbon. 2008 Contemporary Printmaking, Museum of Natural History, Lisbon. 2006 Musatour, Barcelona, Tokyo, Lisbon. 2002 Solo Exhibition of Painting and Drawing, CCC, Cascais...

Joana Barroso. I am a woman, a mother, a spirited girl, and a living being, walking step by step, exploring the territories between nature, art, and education, creating landscapes between theatre, dance, poetry, and music. My soul reveals itself around the fire, and my storyteller presents herself heart-to-heart with people of all ages and generations. In singing and storytelling, she weaves a tapestry where the entire community is welcome to be lulled, connected, and reminded of what is essential in the fertility of this soil, this land, a small village, the country of Portugal... all the way to the greater fertile soil of the world, Earth, Mother, Global Village.

Story Telling
w/ António Fontinha

From the Portuguese oral tradition, timeless stories are heard once again.

Location

Praceta Kurnach

Schedule

11:30 am

António Fontinha. He was born in 1966 and lived in Angola until 1974. His vocation as a storyteller emerged in 1992 as part of Chapitô's intervention with at-risk youth (Educational Centers of the Directorate-General for Reintegration and Prison Services). A pioneer in the oral storytelling movement in Portugal, he makes a living exclusively from this activity, having performed in various contexts and conducted thousands of storytelling sessions for diverse audiences. The foundation of his repertoire consists of themes from the Portuguese oral tradition, which he has been researching across the country through multiple campaigns to collect traditional stories, parallel to his work as a storyteller.

Catadupa
w/ Rita Rodrigues and Ricardo Lopes

Catadupa is a physical theatre and music performance by Rita Rodrigues and Ricardo Lopes, wishing to be a manifest anti-non-voluntary loneliness. A team of hosts will welcome and guide the public in a stroll during the performance. We will be lead in a walk full of knowledge until we get inside D. Odete’s house, which through several actions filled with music will abandon her daily routine and give place to something new in her life, inviting spectators to a festive gastronomic moment.This project started together with both the youngster and elder community, during several ateliers and individual interviews willing to get answers to the proposal “Teach me something you know”. This Knowledge, more simple or more complex, was worked to give birth to an artistic object. The show drives the public through a path crossing different spaces and scenic areas where theatre and music frames take place, all of them related to what was collected with the community.

Location

From Igreja Nova to Espaço +

Schedule

05:30 pm

Rita Rodrigues. She was born in 1977 in Lisbon. She began taking theater lessons with António Feio. She graduated in "theater of gesture" at the "Estudis de Teatre" school in Barcelona. She completed a postgraduate degree in Theater Studies at the Faculty of Letters. Rita has undertaken various training programs in theater and dance, including the "Dance in the Community" course at Fórum Dança. Since 1998, she has worked as an actress/performer, collaborating with various directors/creators such as Luís Castro, João Ricardo, Claudio Hochman, Carlos António, Jorge Fraga, Sofia Cabrita, Ana Sofia Paiva, Sílvia Real, Martin Joab, Giacomo Scalisi, Madalena Vitorino, among others. She has been the creator of the shows "Missão Lupa," "Bicho da Malha," "Caracol," and "Em busca de um neto," as well as the co-creator and performer in "Sótão, S.A." She has taught theater to children aged 3 to 15, as well as adults. Since 2013, she has been a director in the community project of the senior theater group in Portimão (O GRUPO). The foundation of her repertoire consists of themes from the Portuguese oral tradition, which she has been researching across the country through multiple campaigns to collect traditional stories.

Ricardo Lopes. (Born in Évora, 1977) studied trombone at the Philharmonic of Loulé for 5 years and completed the Jazz and Modern Music course with the Orquestra Jazz do Algarve, under the guidance of Hugo Alves, where he has been playing since 2013. He also performs with bands like Funkarmónica and Plasticine. Ricardo has participated in various training programs, including a notable improvisation workshop with Nils Wogram and Conrad Bauer at the Goethe Institute in Lisbon in 2011. He has contributed to the recordings of several CDs, including "Sophia" (2019), "The Ladies" (2020), and "Liberdades" (2022) with the Orquestra de Jazz do Algarve, and "Plasticine" with the band Plasticine (2019). Currently, he is recording the band's latest album. In 2019, he collaborated on the show "La Traverseé" with the Basinga Company through Lavrar o Mar.

Open-Air Cinema
w/ Cabeçudos

Location

Praceta Kurnach

Schedule

08:00 pm

Cabeçudos. Cabeças Com Ideias was established in 2010 with the aim of enriching the cultural landscape dedicated to children and young audiences. At the time, the only bookstore exclusively focused on children and youth in Lisbon began hosting artists from the fields of oral storytelling, music, theater, cinema, and visual arts in its amphitheater. The initiative also sought to create moments of sharing with audiences mainly composed of families, presenting both original performances and those proposed by other cultural agents. Dedicated to promoting the arts, CABEÇUDOS' programming has secured its place on Lisbon's cultural agendas. TimeOut magazine consistently highlights it as the best thing to do with kids week after week. The continuous media coverage of its cultural agenda, coupled with the quality of the performances, has attracted more audiences and fostered loyalty among them. The awareness of the importance of introducing the arts at an early age as a facilitator for openness has been a driving force behind the frequent and regular attendance of sessions produced by CABEÇUDOS.

Board Games
w/ Até à Lua

Location

Praceta Kurnach

Schedule

10:00 am — 09:00pm

Até à Lua. It's a space for the whole family with a shop, activities, and a recreational area for events. The store offers children's and young adult books from various publishers, sustainable and high-quality educational toys, and board games for all age groups. They organize regular activities for babies, children, and young adults, as well as adults and families in various areas such as visual arts, painting, music, theatre, creative writing, dance and movement, yoga, study support, art-filled holidays, learning through play, storytelling, and board game meetups and tournaments.

Book Sale
w/ Cabeçudos

Location

Praceta Kurnach

Schedule

10:00 am — 09:00pm

Secondhand Book Sale / Food and Drinks

Location

Praceta Kurnach

Schedule

10:00 am — 09:00pm

08.Out.23
The programming is all at Praceta Kürnach

With the Moon Light
w/ Leonor Morais

Creative Book Workshop, where from a story, many ways of telling will be imagined.

Rosalinda das Cabras
w/ Joana Barroso

Rosalinda das Cabras is a character who is a shepherdess, a woman, and an animal telling stories from the Earth and from the land. Stories from the Mother Land, the mother house of all beings down to a bit of soil fitting in our hand. Stories from the land, which is my village and yours, from the land of our grandparents in the South, Center or in the North of the country. Stories that bind our roots to remember where we come from and that will tell where we wish to go. Stories told; stories sung. A clay basin with water, a water calabash… these and other things will take form out of this storyteller and singer.

Story Telling
w/ António Fontinha

From the Portuguese oral tradition, timeless stories are heard once again.

The witnesses – The Apparition
w/ Rafa Santos and Eva Ribeiro

The Witnesses – The Apparition are two women clowns in a game of physical comedy challenging gravity whilst waiting for an apparition. A journey through myths diving from the top of a pyramid. They are the witnesses of a new era, funny and absurd. They are the duo Witnesses.

Board Games
w/ Até à Lua

Location

Praceta Kurnach

Schedule

10:00 am — 07:00pm

Book Sale
w/ Cabeçudos

Location

Praceta Kurnach

Schedule

10:00 am — 07:00pm

Secondhand Book Sale / Food and Drinks

Location

Praceta Kurnach

Schedule

10:00 am — 07:00pm