08.MAY

Drama Translation

Guilherme Mendonça

LECTURE
MAY 8TH, 10AM
ROOM 51 EP.1

A brief overview of the translations produced specifically for Theatre Project. It encompass a variety of translations from distinct periods and at least one historically significant text, never translated to Portuguese. A few names: Cervantes; Michael Frayn; Mark Ravenhil; Nick Dear; Theatre de Complicité. The translations are an example of scientific production and also an instance of collaborative work. Images and videos of the plays will be shown and there will be a short live presentation made with the collaboration of students. (Within the celebration of the 30 years of ESAD CR.)

What’s art direction?

Pedro Ferreira

MASTERCLASS
MAY 8TH, 10.30AM
AUDITORIUM EP.1

What’s art direction?
This is the question I have asked throughout my career.
Art direction are that set of rules that I was told are essential to be good and that I consciously learned to question and often to disrespect, in a long life of experimental nomadism.
From happy cows to Swan Lake are stories about art direction, Art, Fashion and photography and the incessant search for looking at life is work in a less conventional way, making the boundaries that corporations and briefings like to impose disappear.

In Practice

Elisabete Paiva, Catarina Louro, Sara Abrantes, Beatriz Sousa e Guilherme Mendonça

DIALOGUES
MAY 8TH, 11AM
ROOM 51 EP.1

Materials Diversos promotes artistic research and creation, as well as bringing different audiences closer to the performing arts, especially dance, through axes such as Associated Projects, the Materiais Diversos Festival and the Regular Program in the municipality of Alcanena. In this round table, we will present and discuss methodologies that favor proximity, dialogue and collaboration, particularly in the New Materials, Fios do Meio projects, artistic residencies and the Summer School in Practice.

Fine Arts Open Studio

Jorge Gregório + Sara Reis
Daniel Costa + Francisco Silva

OPEN STUDIO
MAY 8TH, 12PM AND 1PM
ROOM 4 EP.1

The performative events are carried out by students, a work in progress, like everything that will be presented within the scope of the open studio. Each of these events is a slot available for student actions. Some include objects, others just events, others even changes in space, with freedom of action reserved until the last moment.

back to ESAD.CR

Tamara Alves

OPEN CLASS
MAY 8TH, 2PM
ROOM 21 EP.2

Tamara Alves, well known transdisciplinary artist is a former student of ESAD.CR BA in Fine Arts. May 8th, in the context of the schools open week, she will give an open class about her work. Tamara Alves has been weaving a narrative that celebrates in a raw, poetic way the primeval vitality of strong sensations, of an animal becoming, of brute passion, as opposed to rational deliberation. Based on the idea that our instincts are what defines us, the artist invokes a universe of (female) human and animal figures in interaction with the natural landscape and objects imbued with a strong symbolic charge that invite us to embrace feelings as a wild and untamed driving force. A universe

Um Caroço de Abacate

Ary Zara

FILM SCREENING AND TALK WITH THE DIRECTOR, CINECLUBE DAS CALDAS – LARA TOMÁS AND CALDAS EM MARCHA
MAY 8TH, 2.30PM
AUDITORIUM EP.1

Larrisa, trans woman and a man meet on the streets of Lisbon. They come from different realities but soon find common ground, challenging and laughing their way into each other’s arms. Ary Zara has a degree in Cinema from Lusófona University- Lisboa and attended, as a scholarship student, the University of Texas in Austin with a focus on writing and narrative production. In May 2022, his first short film “An avocado pit” premiered, which won the audience and New Talent Prize at Indie Lisboa 22, in 2023 the film was short-listed for the Oscars, with Elliot Page as executive producer.
Ary is an activist co-creator of the T Guys Cuddle Too project – a project awarded “Activists of the Year 2019” by Dezanove and mentioned in the “Ilga Europe 2019” report due to the importance of the work developed. Ary is also a performer in the Braba collective, a network of trans and non-binary artistic professionals. In 2021 he debuted alongside creator Gaya de Medeiros with “Atlas da Boca”, a piece awarded by Expresso in the DANCE section as “the best of 2021” which is on tour.

European Funding for Cultural Projects

Francisco Cipriano

OPEN CLASS
MAY 8TH, 3PM
AUDITORIUM EP.2

This open class aims to provide ESAD students with motivation, knowledge and the ability to detect funding opportunities for artistic and cultural projects. In this class, we propose a journey through European funding for Art, Culture and Creativity. Firstly, we’ll give a brief overview of the EU programmes that are available to Portugal and that can potentially fund projects in the field of arts and culture, distinguishing between what the subsidiarity programmes are, i.e. what Portugal 2020 was, what the new Portugal 2030 will be, what Operational Programmes there are, how the regional organisation works, how they articulate with the new Recovery and Resilience Plan and, in contrast, which programmes under a direct regime with the European Commission are relevant to the arts and culture, in particular the Creative Europe programme, whose management is direct between the beneficiary and the European Commission, highlighting the differences with Portugal 2030. The aim is to provide specific information on how to turn an idea into a project, the main elements to take into account when formalising an application, the logic of calls for proposals, where to submit applications, how to register in European databases and all the necessary formalities.

Art, artists and fascisms

José Luís Garcia
and António Guerreiro

CONFERENCE
MAY 8TH, 3PM
ROOM 11 EP.1

At the conference “Art, artists and fascisms”, part of the 30th anniversary week, José Luís Garcia, Principal Researcher at the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon, and António Guerreiro, is a columnist and literary critic for the newspaper Público, editor of the magazine Electra (EDP Foundation) and guest professor from the Faculty of Fine Arts will debate the historical and contemporary relationships between art, artists and fascism.This conference will discuss various themes and concepts surrounding the relationship between art and politics.

ABALADIÇA
ESAD.CR’s Year Exhibition

EXHIBITION OPENING
MAY 8TH, 5PM
ESAD.CR

From May 8th to 12th, visitors are invited to witness the final act of these students, passing through corridors, atriums, classrooms and ateliers, questioning the works and the processes, deconstructing patterns and posing new questions to the contemporary world. Each work, each object, opens up a narrative, a unique and singular expression that invites reflection. The exhibition marks the culmination of several years of learning, self-discovery and the challenges of the imminent entry into the professional art world, differently expressed in dreams, anguish, fear, emptiness, curiosity, nostalgia, enthusiasm and daring. From toasts among friends to solitary journeys, from promises of what’s to come to memories of what has been, we celebrate both this farewell and its step forward.