Public space, community and interconnections

Outdoor Arts Portugal is an interdisciplinary platform, promoted by Bússola, aimed at professional creative and production agents in the fields of performing arts in public spaces and contemporary circus in Portugal. In 2024, the Outdoor Arts Portugal Laboratories will begin, an immersive program of contemporary artistic thinking and practices aligned with social concerns and the sustainability of artistic creation for public spaces. A proposal that aims to contribute to the aesthetic and dramaturgical innovation of street arts, valuing the “common space” in a multipurpose notion of public space as a place for meetings, valuing the triad between the place, the artist and the people.

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Date: February 24, 2024

Location: Casa Varela, Pombal

Timetable: 2:30 pm to 7:00 pm [with a 30-minute break]

Guests: Luís Sousa Ferreira and Léa Prisca López

REGISTRATION

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Luís Sousa Ferreira is the founder and director of Riscado, an artistic project that values the relationship between the arts and the territory and communities. He is deputy to the artistic direction of the Teatro Nacional D. Maria II and director of 23 Milhas, a project that brings together the four cultural spaces of the Municipality of Ílhavo and other cultural events. He was an artistic and communication consultant for Braga’27 – candidacy for European Capital of Culture 2027. He is a teacher on the Cultural Programming and Production course, at ESAD in Caldas da Rainha; and artistic director of the Aldear project, in the Tâmega e Sousa region. Graduated in Industrial Design, he was cultural commissioner at the Médio Tejo Intermunicipal Community, took over the production and development coordination of experimentadesign and worked at the Center for Studies of New Artistic Tendencies (CENTA) as a cultural producer. He was also the founder and artistic director of BONS SONS, a community Portuguese music festival, in Cem Soldos – Tomar, and co-founder of colectivo-mente. He was also a member of the working group to improve the Arts Support Model and, since 2019, he has been a member of the advisory board of the Portuguese Pavilion at Expo 2020, in Dubai, and a columnist for Gerador magazine.

Léa Prisca López is a mediator and cultural programmer. She has a degree in Fine Arts and a Master's degree in Arts Studies (École Supérieure des Beaux-Arts Montpellier), with interventions by Annie Tolleter and Mathilde Monnier from the Center Chorégraphique National de Montpellier and completes her academic training with a Master's degree in Regional Planning and Urban from the University of Aveiro to understand how cultural (a)gents can have an active voice in territorial planning and the importance of Cultural Policies as an absolute necessity in the construction of a territory with values of equality, solidarity, integrative, interdisciplinary and intercultural . She arrived in Portugal in 2005, through the European Artistic Residency program, “Artist in context” des Pépinières Européenne pour Jeunes Artistes and worked at d’ Orfeu until 2014, creating all visual and multimedia communication. She is a consultant in cultural communication, develops pedagogical and community projects, in addition to working as a freelancer in band management and road management with the production company Sons Vadios for accompanying international bands in Macau, at the Lusofonia festival. In 2017, she coordinated the UNICEF Children-Friendly Águeda Action Plan and the participation strategy for the Cultural Strategic Plan for the Municipality of Águeda.