Promoter Beira Serra – Associação Promotora do Desenvolvimento Rural Integrado 
Artistic Area Multidisciplinar
Artistic coordinator Sílvia Pinto Ferreira
Social coordinator Marisa Marques
Territory Covilhã

This project's artistic proposal is motivated by the creative and transformative potential of encounters between workers, migrants and pensioners, guided by a multidisciplinary team from the fields of film, drama, performance, theatre, and the social sciences. The artistic and social objectives are interwoven: the aim is to create empathy and rapport through the co-creation of short films based on life stories.

Dramaturgy associated with filmmaking plays a central role as a practice and way of structuring the process. The Corpo Coletivo [Collective Body] workshop, the core artistic action, is based on stimulating exercises in the sharing of life stories and the co-creation of fictions that provide creative tools and communication and social skills. Satellite actions establish the link between this creative process and the community.

Promoter Anda & Fala – Associação Cultural
Artistic Area Multidisciplinar
Artistic coordinator Rita Serra e Silva
Social coordinator Clara Luleich
Territory Ponta Delgada, Ribeira Grande, Nordeste, Lagoa, Povoação, Vila Franca do Campo

MELT is the act of ‘melting’ prejudices through art, the alteration of one's individual and collective ‘state’ for a desired social transformation. It proposes the co-creation and presentation of seven artistic projects in different places on the island of São Miguel, Azores. These projects are born from diverse relationships between participants and their territory, claiming art as a manifesto, a civic act, education, a means of cultivating a sense of community and research.

MELT7 culminates with the presentation of the artistic proposal at the EPROSEC vocational school, reinforcing the importance of using the school as a space for experimentation, creation, meandering and presentation. This is followed by the Transmalhar mediation, which explores alternative spaces to the school to enhance its educational capacity.

Promoter Fundação Cerro – Cultura e Ensino
Artistic Area Multidisciplinar
Artistic coordinator Maria de Vasconcelos
Social coordinator Joana Silva
Territory Odemira

Creation of a community show based on the history of the Herdade do Cerro estate in São Luís, involving different participants in a creative process that aims to reflect their stories and interpretations, promoting a sense of belonging.

With no intention of making a historical re-enactment or a realistic show, this immersive experience will allow the audience and participants to get to know the Herdade. An itinerant show with various symbolic and poetic performative moments that translate the results of research and provoke questioning and critical thinking. The performance will be nourished by a multi- and transdisciplinary artistic approach: Music (traditional Alentejo and possible ethnic fusion), Theatre, Dance and Movement.

Promoter Hirundo, Associação para o Pensamento Crítico, Cultura e Desenvolvimento
Artistic Area Vídeo
Artistic coordinator Bruno Caetano
Social coordinator Fausta Cardoso Pereira
Territory Maia, Gondomar

This project documents the stories, cultural diversity and aspirations of migrant students. Students will learn to animate sand, objects or shadows. This diversity enriches the creative process and broadens their understanding of film, demonstrating how animation is much more than what they are used to seeing on television and in conventional cinema.

The project values students' musical talents in the creation of soundtracks, and manual skills in the construction of sets. A central aspect of the project is the ability to imbue the narratives with a sense of timelessness. As animation, stories are not limited to the student's image and they can freely represent many others in their situation. The narrative remains meaningful even after the student leaves school or demands anonymity.

Promoter PALOMBAR – Associação de Conservação da Natureza e do Património Rural 
Artistic Area Multidisciplinar
Artistic coordinator Nuno Preto
Social coordinator Sara Freire
Territory Miranda do Douro

The artistic proposal of this project is based on revitalising the rich cultural heritage of Miranda do Douro and the parish of Ferral, uniting different generations in an ongoing dialogue around identity and tradition. With a focus on intergenerational exchange, theatre is used as a central tool to integrate and share local stories, legends and customs, ensuring ancestral wisdom is passed on to new generations. Through a multidisciplinary artistic approach, various actions derive from work with the community, such as gatherings, photographic exhibitions, technical workshops, and the theatre show.

Promoter Associação de Moradores do PER11
Artistic Area Multidisciplinar
Artistic coordinator Margarida Mata
Social coordinator António Brito Guterres
Territory Alta de Lisboa (PER 11, PER 7 e PER 9)

In a territory where the neighbourhoods have no name other than ‘PER’ (for Projeto Especial de Realojamento, or Special Rehousing Project), this project seeks the stories of this territory. Alta(mente) is a multidisciplinary artwork based on the history of Lisbon's Alta neighbourhood, inseparable from the rehousing processes in the territories involved in this project – PER 11, PER 7 and PER 9.

The main building blocks of the project are the residents: those who organise, those who participate, but also local artists who are called upon to mediate workshops with young residents that will lead to the final show, in a kind of collage of pictures that, through art, gives a voice to the residents of these nameless neighbourhoods.

Promoter Paisagem Periférica – Associação
Artistic Area Teatro
Artistic coordinator Manuela Ferreira
Social coordinator Carla Alves da Silva
Territory Guimarães e Braga

Residents of two social housing estates in Guimarães and students from the University of Minho's School of Medicine practice care together through theatre. COMvivência(s) aims to design protocols of contact that, through shared aesthetic/poetic experiences, activate forms of coexistence (taking part, being together, connecting in diversity) capable of enhancing the practice of caring for oneself, the other and the common good.

Theatre practice as a practice of care, where investigating the ‘relationship with the other’ is a dramaturgy and an ethic built on a shared exchange of openness and vulnerability. ‘In this way, care implies a change in the subjects involved (...) we are changed and we change in turn, by the people and things to which we give and from which we receive attention.’ Enrico Campo.

Promoter Rio Neiva – Associação de Defesa do Ambiente
Artistic Area Música
Artistic coordinator João Terras
Social coordinator Cristina Nava
Territory Esposende

Recognising ‘sound’ as a core language, a vehicle for experimentation, improvisation and interlingual communication, and selecting water as an element of connection to the territory, the project bases its artistic proposal on multiple experiments that arise at the intersection between the elements of sound and water.

The experiments will be based on practices of capturing, editing, mastering and exploring compositional and improvised dynamics. They will be complemented by a sensory component, such as video, graphic recording or ecological materialities. In this way, the migrant students-territory-community relationship is established from a sonic ecosystem that amplifies aquatic ecosystems and their social, cultural and ecological manifestations.

Promoter Teatro Circo de Braga, EM, SA
Artistic Area Música
Artistic coordinator Joana Machado Araújo
Social coordinator Catarina Portela
Territory Braga

CORDÃO is a community choir made up of cancer patients in treatment or remission and their friends. Friends here are all those who are close by: partners, siblings, children, parents, friends. Those who help carry the weight of the word ‘cancer’ and all that it brings with it. It sounds strange, but cancer is just like that: it turns the world upside down and everything seems to stop making sense. Figuratively, a cordão (a cord) is something that unites, that binds. With the main aim of combating the social isolation of cancer patients and their carers, this CORDÃO wants to connect people, binding together new ways of living and looking at cancer.

Promoter DCTR – Associação Cultural
Artistic Area Dança
Artistic coordinator Rosana Suárez da Costa
Social coordinator André Cruz Marques
Territory Aveiro

This project proposes collaborative co-creation that brings together dance, photography and the community, challenging functional norms through the active participation of diverse bodies. It explores circulation and urban experience, questioning the relationship between the performers and the public space. How is the public space perceived? How do performers experience the city and participate in its life?

Through first-person narratives, people with functional diversity express their visions and call for an inclusive redesign of the city, where the focus is on movement. Dance, photography and creative interaction between people with and without disabilities are developed as tools for expression, empowerment, trust, justice and active presence in the territory, praising the indivisible relationship between art and life.

Promoter 4ISCT – Associação para a Inovação Social
Artistic Area Multidisciplinar
Artistic coordinator Constanza Givone
Social coordinator Marília Martins
Territory Aveiro e Ílhavo

This project creates a dialogue between different areas: art, nature, science, agriculture, gastronomy and health. Oscillating between rigorous observation and processes of analysis and subjective and sensory interpretations, it traces a growing itinerary of literacy, experimentation, empowerment and artistic co-creation.

An intervention that uses art as a way of getting people to develop their creativity and freedom, in a holistic approach to a process of transformation, from the EARTH TO THE MOUTH AND FROM THE MOUTH TO THE HEART. It starts with the EARTH, the house we ‘cultivate’ as individuals and communities. It moves on to the MOUTH, which is dialogue and nourishment. And from there to the HEART, which is feeling, health, intervention and inclusion.

Promoter SOMA COLLECTIVE – Associação Cultural
Artistic Area Música
Artistic coordinator Aixa Figini
Social coordinator Filipa Batista
Territory Fundão, Castelo Branco, Abrantes, Entroncamento, Lisboa

The artistic proposal will culminate in an itinerant concert departing by train from Santa Apolónia (Lisbon) and arriving in Fundão three days later, with a total of six performances at railway stations and cultural venues along the way, with a cast made up of migrant artists and inhabitants of each of the stops. The end of the journey will culminate in a concert at the Octógono, a cultural performance space in Fundão. The contents of this show will be the result of experiences throughout the year, the narratives and music composed in co-creation between all project participants. Each participant in the core group will also create their own artistic laboratory for transmitting and transforming musical and oral knowledge, a legacy they can employ later in their professional lives.

Promoter Associação Cultural Casa Invisível
Artistic Area Artes Plásticas
Artistic coordinator Cristiana de Sousa
Social coordinator Catarina Claro
Territory Ilha da Madeira

Through a series of personal, social, technical and artistic training actions in the field of the visual arts, particularly public art, and carried out simultaneously with a group of inmates and a group of students at the University of Madeira, a specific approach and interaction will be created in the exploration of concepts associated with the ideas of ‘limits’ and ‘freedom,’ with a view to the joint creation of a public intervention piece with artistic and social impact. This creative result will be realised in the public space and open to the participation of the rest of civil society for the commemorations of International Human Rights Day (10/12).

A line of marketable products will be produced subsequently in the Funchal Prison and sold to the outside community, in a Wearable Art strategy that comprises T-shirts and cloth bags (screen printing) and which promotes social and labour (re)integration through art. The entire process outlined above will be documented so that an alternative format catalogue-fanzine can be produced and distributed to the local community.

Promoter GTO LX – Grupo De Teatro do Oprimido de Lisboa
Artistic Area Dança
Artistic coordinator Ângela Guerreiro da Silva
Social coordinator Joana Simões Piedade
Territory Moita (Vale da Amoreira)

With the aim of co-creating a multidisciplinary performance with the participants, and an emphasis on dance and movement, the artistic proposal for this ‘Archive in Motion’ takes as its starting point a reflection on the visual archive of Portuguese colonialism held at the National Museum of Natural History and Science and classified as ‘sensitive’ heritage. The creative process of the performance encompasses somatic education, improvisation, choreographic composition, and image (direct work with photographs). The movement is inspired by the ‘untold’ stories of these bodies enclosed in the archive, as well as their emotional and critical interpretation. How do we look at this historical collection, revisit it in the present and reconstruct it in the future, in a process of repair and healing so that the past can find its resting place?

Promoter CHAMADARTE – Associação Socio-Cultural
Artistic Area Teatro
Artistic coordinator Clemente Severino Tsamba
Social coordinator Adriana Cicciaglione
Territory Beja

The aim of this project is to stimulate artistic co-creation with narratives that reflect the richness and complexity of immigrant experiences. Free workshops will be led by artists and monitors experienced in different artistic areas, especially theatre, but also in music and the visual arts, introducing an environmental concern through the recycling and reuse of discarded materials. The stories and experiences collected during the workshops will be transformed into collaborative works of art, such as theatre performances or art exhibitions. These will be presented in exhibitions to the public, allowing the community to appreciate and interact with the narratives created.