Long live freedom!

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What's up? #4

Long live freedom!
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Echoes

In April

April began with the workshop Semear Pássaros at A Moagem in Fundão. We sought out the bird within each participant’s soul and set it free to fly. Liberdade also passed through the Teatro Aveirense and, in the form of PaPI – Opus 10, the Palácio Anjos in Algés. During an artistic residency at the Teatro Curvo Semedo in Montemor-o-Novo, PaPI – Opus 12 took further steps filled with music, colour and improvisation. In Faro, we took part in ZOOM – Cultural Mediation Meeting. The inspiration of the ‘Enciclopédia da Música com Bicho’ brought Casa do Contrabaixo together with over a hundred double bass players at a gathering at the Braga Conservatory of Music.

Happening

In May
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23–5–2026

Cartografia Sonora Imaginária

At the 10th edition of the Serpa Book Festival, we will present Cartografia Sonora Imaginária — a convergence of the art of setting film to music, generative multimedia, free improvisation, Schubert, Cage, Kurt Weill, and the atmosphere of various real and imaginary places.
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PaPI Opus 7

16–5–2026

Biblioteca Municipal Casimiro de Brito, Almancil. Email para inscrição >
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PaPI Opus 10

17–5–2026
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PaPI Opus 11

22/23–5–2026

Other Journeys

  • From 6 to 8 May, we will be taking part in Opera Europa’s Education & Outreach Forum 2026 at the Teatro Sociale in Como, Italy.
  • From 21 to 30 May, in Loulé, we will be celebrating freedom in the form of women, during the second artist residency of the new constellation.
  • On May 24, we’ll be back at Fernando Rosado Concert Hall for another Feliz Encontro (Happy Encounter).
  • In March, the Porcelain and Crystal Gamelan will visit Mafra.

Radar

Freedom to Remember

“I believe that memory has a gravitational pull. It is constantly drawing us in. Those who have memory are able to live in the fragile present moment. Those who do not have it do not live in any time at all,” says filmmaker Patrício Guzmán. Listening to music created for freedom is to carry it with us as a space of memory, but also of resistance: a place where historical time is inscribed in the present and where memory remains alive. In listening to it, we are invited to inhabit time — the past and the present — to resist and to reflect on our own time in the light of what has already passed. Remembering is, today, a form of resistance.

Sara Maia — Musicologist, Cultural Programme Coordinator and Soprano

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i.Lab #2026 – Arts for Childhood – Immersive Training
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You can still register for the next edition of i.Lab – Arts for Childhood – Immersive Training until 5 May. This training programme, which focuses on art for children, includes the final presentation of an artistic experience aimed at families with babies and allows participants to experience the creative process of putting on a show in an immersive way. An opportunity to network with professionals working in early childhood and to broaden your practical and theoretical knowledge in the field of artistic intervention in early childhood. From 27 July to 1 August, at the Solar da Música Nova Auditorium in Loulé.

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Parenting Musically podcast with Helena Rodrigues
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In episode 55 of the Parenting Musically podcast, we spoke with Lisa Koops, Vivian Madalozzo and Tiago Madalozzo about musical parenting, community involvement in music and the arts, the work of the Companhia de Música Teatral, and the influence of Edwin Gordon and Colwyn Trevarthen on our work in Portugal.

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