Artists and cultural producers from all over Italy congratulate Faro on its application for European Capital of Culture

Several artists from the Wunderkammer project have been applauding the work done by the Faro2027 team, and their use of cultural venues across the city to host meetings, interviews and workshops, among other projects.

As part of the initiatives used to produce Faro’s Strategic Plan for Culture, interviews were conducted in the Chapel of Santo António do Alto, the Faro Municipal Museum and in venues belonging to local entities such as the Moto Clube de Faro headquarters. Other meetings were held in various cultural locales across the city, such as Club Farense, Ginásio Club de Faro and private venues that make up the city’s cultural heritage, such as Belmarço Palace. The Teatro das Figuras, in Faro Theatre, has also been a key venue in this application process, used to hold meetings, present projects and hold workshops. The project taken on as part of the application aims to showcase the importance and versatility of cultural venues within the city, as well as making new audiences aware of each one.

​Aware of these initiatives, the Wunderkammer project made a compilation of video testimonials congratulating the Faro2027 project for putting this debate on the table, and varying the events held in locales that are usually exclusively dedicated to artistic and performative exhibitions.

The Wunderkammer project promotes the sharing of theatre, music, art and food and wine culture in unconventional locations. The project encompasses a festival with the same name, which is already in its sixth edition, and can be assumed to be one big family, encompassing established and emerging artists, all united through the excitement of populating such unusual places with their bodies, voices and talent.