How can we use art to explore ways of responding to climate change? At CERCIAV in Aveiro, people with disabilities participate in co-creation processes that bring together food, design, architecture and performance. A project supported by the PARTIS & Art for Change initiative.
To commemorate International Workers’ Day, the Gulbenkian Foundation spoke with textile workers from Covilhã about freedom, resistance, and collective organisation, both before and after 25 April 1974.
The conference that launched Isto é PARTIS & Art for Change in 2026 set out to reflect on cultural participation, place, public policy, and community development.
What if "Romeo and Juliet" were set in Almada? In the Bairro Branco neighbourhood, a group of young people have reinterpreted Shakespeare’s classic in their own way, with the support of the PARTIS & Art for Change initiative.
At Largo Residências, in Lisbon, art is also a place to live. It is home, refuge and meeting point between people and cultures, where artists and migrants share the same space and build connections and projects, with the support of PARTIS & Art for Change.
A group of young people have found in ‘Sons de Mudança’ a space to experiment, create and share music. Supported by the PARTIS & Art for Change initiative, the project began at the Marquesa de Alorna School Cluster and gained new life at Teatro Avenidas in Lisbon.
In Campo do Gerês, singing is more than an artistic expression: it is a form of memory, of encounter, and of belonging. Today, this tradition is gaining new life through the project Aldeias Criativas – Satélites Culturais na Serra do Gerês, supported by the PARTIS & Art for Change initiative.
They arrived “with blindfolded eyes and tight hearts,” but session after session, Gatilho transforms participants’ blocks and insecurities into joy and freedom. In Lagos, this PARTIS & Art for Change project aims to provide visibility and training for people with disabilities.
A group of young people from Porto and Gaia immersed themselves in the creation of a miniseries and a short film where fiction and reality intersect. The result? A journey of self-discovery, sharing, and experimentation that goes far beyond the screen, with the support of PARTIS & Art for Change.
Refugee and migrant children and young people from different parts of the world have found in northern Portugal a new space to grow—and, through art, a new place to call home. “Habito o Mundo” is a PARTIS & Art for Change project.
At the Leiria Youth Prison, the project ‘Opera in Prison: Mozart On’ seeks—through art in general and opera in particular—to reduce criminal recidivism. A PARTIS & Art for Change project.
At the Guarda Prison, the RadioATIVIDADE project gave rise to Rádio Guarda-me, a program created inside the prison by incarcerated men and women, supported by the PARTIS & Art for Change initiative.
The "Panorama" project, supported by the PARTIS & Art for Change initiative, promotes new risk policies in the field of contemporary circus artistic creation, diversifying circus aesthetics and deconstructing prejudices.
The conference marked the start of another edition of Isto é PARTIS & Art for Change, on February 7, 2025.
“Nós os Loucos” works on free artistic experimentation through drawing, with residents of national mental health institutions. A project supported by the PARTIS & Art for Change initiative.
The Viral project promotes the education and training of young people through artistic work that combines the body, photography, sound and writing around futsal, with the support of PARTIS & Art for Change.
Music and dance are the main forms of expression of the ZHA! project, promoted by Visões Úteis with the support of PARTIS & Art for Change, to celebrate living traditions of the gypsy community and enhance more inclusive and participatory life paths.
The Q-Circo project uses circus arts as a tool for the personal and social development and professional integration of young adults in Porto and Gondomar, with the support of the PARTIS & Art for Change initiative.
Lungo Drom is a multidisciplinary project supported by the PARTIS & Art for Change initiative, which starts from the construction of a Nomadic Museum to reflect on the history and culture of Roma communities, deconstruct prejudices and create social change.
Theatre and dance are some of the artistic disciplines that promote joint work between Roma women living in the Horta da Areia neighbourhood, in Faro, and women from other parts of the city.
Children from three different communities on the island of São Miguel, Azores, develop personal and social skills by learning music through taking part in an orchestra.
Get to know this theatre project that promotes healthy ageing among the senior population of rural parishes in the municipality of Guimarães.
The first keynote speaker at the Isto é PARTIS & Art for Change conference on January 26 is co-founder of the "Citizens in Power" organization in the UK and shows us possible paths to a more participatory future.
Theatre practice unites a generation of former miners from São Pedro da Cova and younger generations around a serious environmental crime that took place there between 2001 and 2002.