MARIANA TENGNER BARROS

Séance” is an intimate performance, for 3 to 10 spectators at a time in unique and continuous sessions of 30 minutes each. Barros dives deep in Victorian era aesthetics, searching for reference in the Espírita movement that emerged in the 19th century simultaneously with the feminist movement and as a reaction to the industrial revolution, that at the same time denotes the permanence in the 21st century of the strong desire for the paranormal and supernatural.

ANGÉLICA LIDDELL

In this new creation, having its starting point the Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch narrative as well as the one from Marquis de Sade, the essay “The Cold and The Cruel” (1967) by Gilles Deleuze, Angélica Liddell focuses on the literary and artistic part of perversions, far away from any clinical explanation, where it is highlighted the poetic expression that goes beyond any artistic frontier or discipline to display the relations between father and daughter.

JOÃO PAIS FILIPE

João Pais Filipe is a percussionist, drummer and sound sculptor from Porto. Futurist and traditional. Ethno techno. For the Casa do Volfrâmio in Tibães Monastery (Braga) a circular installation of gongs is projected, suspended from sculpted items that can be sonically activated by the visitors. There will be two moments of live performance-concert of physical interaction between the musician and his sculptures-instruments.

Education and creation project based on HELENA ALMEIDA

The project honors, through contemporary music, one of the greatest artists of the XX and XXI century, Helena Almeida (1934-2018). Bringing together students from the three main Music universities of Lisbon, Porto and Braga, young composers create new works from the series of the same name by Helena Almeida. The result: a concert that brings together students from the three universities.

KUKURUZ QUARTET PLAYS JULIUS EASTMAN

Afro-descendent and gay, the titles of Julius Eastman compositions - “Nigger Faggot”, “Crazy Nigger” or “Gay Guerrilla” - are publicly and socially aggressive confrontations that in opposition to the pieces themselves they are works of meditation. The Swiss pianist quartet Kukuruz Quartet continues its exploration around the political postminimalist music of Eastman, brought to Portugal for the first time, but also of Swiss composer Marcel Zaes.

Education and creation project based on HELENA ALMEIDA

The project honors, through contemporary music, one of the greatest artists of the XX and XXI century, Helena Almeida (1934-2018). Bringing together students from the three main Music universities of Lisbon, Porto and Braga, young composers create new works from the series of the same name by Helena Almeida. The result: a concert that brings together students from the three universities.

Education and creation project based on HELENA ALMEIDA

The project honors, through contemporary music, one of the greatest artists of the XX and XXI century, Helena Almeida (1934-2018). Bringing together students from the three main Music universities of Lisbon, Porto and Braga, young composers create new works from the series of the same name by Helena Almeida. The result: a concert that brings together students from the three universities.

LINN DA QUEBRADA

Linn’s first LP gains its title of “Pajubá” after the dialect spoken by the gay community and its supporters in Rio de Janeiro. The name comes from the African languages and has begun being used by the transvestites of Rio as a form of survival against the violence on the streets. With lyrical and incisive power, frequently humorous, she approaches topics such as violence, poverty, body politics, sex, desire and the daily struggles of Brazilian trans women.

JONATHAN ULIEL SALDANHA

"Scotoma Cintilante" is a performance-concert for a mixed choir of blind people with three dimensional graphical sheet music. The surface of a sculpture-machine is the inanimate matter that operates the mutation over the voice in time. Coming from a world-vision where tactile relations with inanimate matter is the primordial source of sound building, this performance-concert submits itself between matter and animates, pre-language and surface.