DeVIR meetings

cycle “d’outra maneira” (in another way)

opening fissures, creating discontinuities, breaking, thinking in an alternative way, promoting the creation of other perspectives, is very much the role of those who create, and it should be the training that we should not shy away from. That’s why we chose to present a set of shows that challenge us to leave our place and experience other points of view. In addition to the shows, the 2nd edition of the cycle brings together a set of texts by thinkers who offer us short reflections on the inevitability of acting differently when the repercussions of climate change are increasingly notorious and overwhelming, on a Planet that lives in ecological emergency.

d’Outra maneira, it’s how those we invite make a difference.

link to the programme

“Passivity and alienation are words that seem to make no sense when we live in a world heading towards disaster. However, the reality is strangely different. There must be some reason…”

André Barata, Pedro Eiras and Viriato Soromenho – Marques are the writers invited this year to contribute small reflections on the need and urgency of thinking and doing differently, starting from the aforementioned phrase. Your texts will be included in a notebook, which will be distributed at all shows in the 2024 d’outra maneira cycle.

link to d’Outra maneira notebooks

9th edition

It is inevitable, we have to assume the balance of the Planet. We must recover the complex and diverse Natural World. It is a survival challenge where we all have to be involved.
We can consider that we are left with almost nothing, the symbolic, solidarity and little else. However, we know that, in other times, resistance, like the will and madness that Art has the capacity to promote, contributed to escape, to invention, to the creation of alternative views that did not let us sink.
– Where did we come from? – Where are we going? are the motto of the 9th edition of this festival, two questions that we address to a group of creators from various areas so that they take them as ignitions for their work, and return them as challenges, possibilities and reflections.
Arriving here we know one thing: we cannot ignore or give up, we have to change and demand change, influence those who have the power to decide for the good of Humanity and Nature.

8th edition

This edition of the DeVIR Meetings Festival was divided into 2 phases: from 3 Nov to 3 December 2022 (secondary school students from Loulé, Faro and Quarteira and adult audiences) and from 14 January to 25 February 2023 (cycle “d’Other way, aimed at an adult audience).

The first phase included the presentation of shows for school audiences, workshops and an exhibition at the Praça do Mar Art Gallery, in Quarteira.
in 2023, the second phase was dedicated to the adult audience, with the “d´ Outra Man” cycle, housing at CAPa the performance Rasante by Joana Levi, the partnership TERRA BATIDA/Parasita, shows by Sean Riley & The Legendary Tigerman and A GAROTA NÃO, dance and music by REDO & Dominique and Lula Pena and words and dance in e(u)co(m)logica by José Laginha, a new version of the play, now aimed at an adult audience.
d´Another way is how we believe these artists create and develop their work.

The digital platform ARTEPENSAMENTO&information continued to play an important role in disseminating and raising awareness of environmental and social Ecology themes, challenging high school students to carry out activities related to them within the school context. These challenges can be consulted on the platform, as well as the results of the work of all participants.

7th edition

DeVIR meetings one month for the FUTURE
In 2022, this festival has a hybrid format, with programming from March 14th to April 14th, aimed at students in the 2nd and 3rd cycles of Quarteira. It includes face-to-face actions in the school context, shows for the entire public, but also a digital platform for disseminating ARTEPENSAMENTO&information.

Having Art as a support for communication and awareness, we want to contribute to raising awareness, stimulating reflection and action and promoting the creation of critical thinking about the Future of Life on the Planet, facilitating short videos, artistic interventions that result from readings of the World by creators national and international, in the areas of Performing Arts, documentary, animation, photography, music, comics, Urban Art, food, fashion, short films and cartoons, as well as information for the future. The aim is to facilitate both access to video recordings with an informative and scientific bias, as well as excerpts from artistic productions that fall within ARTIVISM as a movement and aspect of expression. We want to contribute to the training and involvement of EVERYONE, with regard to common issues relating to the CLIMATE CRISIS and HUMAN RIGHTS, which lack the empowerment of citizens, in the face of a class of political and economic decision-makers who maintain a merely reactive stance , despite the appeals of scientists, based on irrefutable evidence. It is important for EVERYONE’s commitment to defending a future that is promising, especially for the youngest, they are an important element in communication and action for an auspicious future, which belongs to them and to which they are entitled.

6th edition

rescue
RESCUE was the word from which we built a diverse program, which rescues works and creators that are landmarks in the history of contemporary, national and international dance over the last three decades, and instigates critical reflection on climate change. Xavier Le Roy, Raphaëlle Delaunay, Jérôme Bel (Fr), Emanuel Gat (IL/Fr), Roger Bernat (Es), Bassam Abou Diab (Lb), Gregory Maqoma (ZA), Eduardo Fukushima (Br), Tabea Martin, Francesca Foscarini (Sz), Vera Maintaino, Francisco Camacho, Jacinto Lucas Pires, Marc Parchow, João Tordo, Mantraste, Vasco Célio (Pr).

5th edition

de(a)nunciar
de(a)nunciar is a dubious word that, when broken down, can have different meanings and different readings. Discussing the present and denouncing the Future – this was the starting point for a comprehensive reflection that also included thinking about our territory, reflecting on the works of those who were here, paying homage to those who distinguished themselves in their time and who are still remembered today for the relevance and relevance of his legacy. IKOQWE (An/Pt), Shobana Jeyasing Dance (In), Erna Ómarsdóttir (Is), Redouan Ait Chitt/Jeroen van der Linden (Nr), Chey Jurado (Es), Hélia Correia, Fabio Froiedli, Fabio Pelmieiri, DOT504 (CZ ), Sofia Dias, Vítor Roriz, Samuel Lefeuvre (BE), Florencia Demestri (BE), Hillel Kogan (IL), Collective Loss of Memory (Rc) Luaty Beirão, Jayga Rayn, Aristid Rontini (It).

4th edition

segregation
segregation and its effects, not from a strictly local perspective but proposing a broad reflection that included addressing the tensions experienced in the Arab territories, in Palestine. For the refugees, the slaves of our days, for the gypsy communities, for the diseases that steal our life and world, but also, looking at our recent history, the Portuguese colonialism of the 60s and 70s. Freedom Theater (Ps), Belén Maya ( Es ), Tim Casson (Gb), Cie KHAM (La/Fr), Spitfire Cie (Cz), Roni Chadash (IL), Cie Sun of Shade (Fr), Vincent Mantsoe (Za), JAS, Dulce Maria Cardoso, Manuela Pimentel , João Pinto Coelho, Marco da Silva Ferreira, Hotel Europa, Bruno Vieira Amaral, Fidel Évora, Elisabete Maisão, Frey Faust (workshop) (Us/De).

3rd edição

decharacterization of the Algarve coastline
Only balanced territorial development, attentive to reality, weaknesses and potential will allow us to no longer mortgage what we still have and are. This way we will be taking care of ourselves and what is ours and ensuring a quality of life that lasts and “nourishes” us. Pedro Penim, Miguel Castro Caldas; Gonçalo Duarte Gomes, Filipe Pinto, Francisco Camacho, Lídia Jorge, Luís da Crúz, Rui Neto, Vera Dentro, Nuno Graça, Miguel Cardoso, Sara Feio, Miguel Mendes, Rui Neto, Afonso Cruz, JAS, Fernando da Silva Grade, Gonçalo Pena Public Danger, Mithkal Alzghair (Sy), Maholra Company (Kr), Panaibra Gabriel Canda (Mz), Abhilash Ningappa (In), Marcela Levi & Lúcia Russo (Br/Ar), Simon Mayer (At), Cosmin Manolescu (Ro) , Faustin Linyekula (CD).

2nd edition

where do we COME from? where are we GOING?
edition dedicated to children and young people. It brought together 196 activities developed in parallel with school curricula, emphasizing information and training, based on issues that relate to the development and sustainability of the Planet, allowing the experimentation of different artistic languages ​​and stimulating the creation of civic and ecological awareness in young people, encouraging debate about our place in building the Future. Afonso Cruz, Aldara Bizzaro, André E. Teodósio, Gonçalo M. Tavares, Miguel Cardoso, Miguel Castro Caldas, Laurinda Silva, João Fazenda & Pedro Martins, José Laginha, 5ª Punkada, Ana Rostron & João Caiano, Patrícia Portela, Susana Menezes, Vera Maintaino.

1st edition

human desertification of the Serra do Caldeirão
we want this festival to help point out different directions for a reality that everyone, especially decision makers, persist in ignoring. We are not interested in reflecting on what has no return, we rather want to encourage meetings where, with realism and sensibility, false inevitabilities are dismantled. We want to say that the people of the Serra, despite being abandoned, maintain their pride in being mountainous, and that the coast, constantly tampered with, is increasingly inhospitable to those who live there. Carlos Bica, Norberto Lobo, Abel Neves, José Laginha, Marlene Vilhena, Amélia Muge, José Martins, José Maria Vieira Mendes, Patrícia Silva, Vera Maintaino, João Paulo Estevas da Silva, Mickael Oliveira, Mariana T. Barros, Maria João Luís, Daniela Gorjão, Cláudia Dias, Cecília Laranjeira, Gonçalo M. Tavares, Rui António, André e. Theodosius