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 that merges contemporary artistic thinking and practices, aligned with social and sustainability concerns in artistic creation for public space. This initiative 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, considering the triad between the place, the artist and the people. The program is developed in a mix of masterclass and debate, based on the guests' experience, in direct speech with the participants, promoting an open and constructive debate.

Vaga - Espaço de Arte e Conhecimento

Ponta Delgada

12 July 2024

Duration: 4 hours

Time: 6:00 pm to 10:00 pm [includes networking dinner]

Panel: Luís Sousa Ferreira and Sofia Botelho

Registration cost: €12.50 (includes networking dinner)

Registration HERE

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 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.

Sofia Carolina Botelho works as a programmer and cultural mediator in São Miguel, Azores. She studied Fine Arts-Sculpture with a Masters in Museology and Museography at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon. She currently coordinates the Mediation Service at the Arquipélago-Center for Contemporary Arts. She is vice-president of Anda & Fala-Associação Cultural, where she is co-artistic director of Walk & Talk-Festival de Artes. She worked as a set designer and puppeteer at the company “La Boule Bleue”, in Champagne-Ardennes, for the International Puppet Theater Festival (under the Eurodysseia program), and was curator of the Contemporary Design collection at FBAUL, with a social merit scholarship. . She has worked as a cultural programmer and measurer since 2012 in several cultural institutions in São Miguel, such as the Tomaz de Borba Vieira Library, Vivo Museum of Franciscanism, Teatro Micaelense or the Carlos Machado Museum, where she coordinated the Educational Service between 2019 and 2020 and in 2019 co- founded the Fabric Arts Festival, in Fall River Massachusetts, where she was part of the curatorial team until 2022. She has been participating as a speaker in conferences and seminars in the areas of cultural and artistic programming and mediation, public relations and museology.

The Outdoor Arts Portugal laboratories are promoted in partnership with Riscado and with the support of the Portuguese Republic - Culture, through the Directorate-General for the Arts. This edition has the support of the Anda & Fala Cultural Association.