June 19-22
Working with f(r)ictions — decolonial and speculative practices
Workshop with Sonya Lindfors
Let's talk about the fictions and frictions, needs and desires, hopes and dreams that being an artist in times of multiple crises creates! The workshop consisted of two parts. During the first part, the C-LAB artists focused on group dynamics and a happy landing into the upcoming process – getting to know the group, creating ways and guidelines to work and communicate in an intersectional and diverse group, working around the needs and dreams of the participants. What are your needs and dreams? What would you need in order to be able to work together? How can we create that space together? In the second part of the workshop, they go deeper into decolonial and speculative practices and the possibilities of the stage as a miracle making machine. During these days, the artists discussed, moved, wrote and dreamed– together.
Sonya Lindfors is a Cameroonian Finnish award–winning choreographer and artistic director that also works with facilitating, community organising and education. In all her work, Lindfors aims to shake and challenge existing power structures, penetrate society, and empower community.
June 25-26
Desire as document
Workshop with Keli Freitas
In this workshop, Keli Freitas shared some of the experiences and questions that permeate her research and interests as a theatre-maker, such as the everyday writing of ordinary people, working with personal documents, disruptive autobiographical narratives, and the power of seemingly unimportant events in the macrosphere of inventive gestures.
Keli Freitas (1983) is a playwright, theatre-maker and actor from Brazil, living in Portugal. A collector of letters written by anonymous people, she is dedicated to developing authorial works based on so-called ordinary writings. In addition to writing and performing her own work, she collaborates as a dramaturge with artists such as Gaya de Medeiros and Tita Maravilha.
June 27
CommonLAB for CommonLAB
A time of sharing and learning led by C-LAB artists for C-LAB artists.
June 28
Brunch with local programmers
Local programmers / art operators running venues and residency programmes were invited to share a brunch with C-LAB artists.
June 29
Artists attended Shared Landscapes, a one-day event created by Caroline Barneaud and Stefan Kaegi (Rimini Protokoll) and organized by Culturgest.
From afternoon to sunset, the artists spend a day in nature to explore the plains and forest of Quinta do Pisão, in the Sintra-Cascais Natural Park, and discovered seven artistic projects in dialogue with the landscape.