Lavrar o Mar EN

Name Lavrar o Mar
Status In progress
Location Costa Vicentina and Serra de Monchique.
Entity Lavrar o Mar Cultural Cooperative CRL

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About the project

"Lavrar o Mar - the arts in the high mountains and the Vicentine Coast" is a cultural project promoted by Lavrar o Mar Cooperativa Cultural CRL, funded by the Directorate General for the Arts, CRESC Algarve 2020 and the municipalities of Aljezur and Monchique. It is a project of cultural dynamics in the areas of performing arts, participatory art and European programming, with a strong relationship with the territory and cultures of the Vincentian coast and the Monchique mountains. The results of this regular cultural and artistic activity are visible, contributing to a new look at the territory and its daily life.
It was created in 2016 by Giacomo Scalisi and Madalena Victorino (artistic directors), and has been bringing quality international cultural programming to the municipalities of Aljezur and Monchique during the low tourist season. Dividing its programming between existing shows, artistic residencies, new creations and participative laboratories in the areas of new circus, dance, theatre, culinary theatre, music and art and nature, Lavrar o Mar has been embracing projects that are deeply connected to the territory where they take place, to the Algarve's rural maritime and highland culture, and to local communities, who have often contributed to and participated actively in the artistic creations.

New European Bauhaus Framework

This project engages with nature as a space for artistic intervention, as well as with the ancestral and contemporary cultures of the territory in which it is integrated. The notion of a relationship between art, territory and populations has always been at the core of our work.
The programme of the Lavrar o Mar project assumes two distinct dimensions that relate in different ways with the territory: creations from scratch that start from artistic residencies in the field; and a programme of dance, theatre, new circus, music and transdisciplinary projects of European nature, in which the participation of the populations is always present with formats, objectives and depths that are always new. The active participation of the local populations brings, in this perspective, essential and indispensable contributions to the interior of the artistic matter.