The Blue Summer School is a biennial training programme for contemporary arts that takes place in the intervening years of the Blue Summer Festival. This year, it opens its doors in the city of Faro between 8 and 12 of July.
More geared towards performance – dance, theatre and visual arts – it aims to support training in the areas mentioned, broaden references, follow trends, and explore new languages which are closely related to the past artistic legacy.
This year’s programme includes four workshops led by renowned national and international artists Vera Mantero, Marcelo Evelin, Jonathan Saldanha and Vasco Célio.
In four intensive workshops, they aim to promote new teaching and learning methods, encouraging artistic research and experimentation by addressing contemporary transdisciplinary issues.
The Blue Summer School is open to all interested people, artists, performers and other arts professionals in general, as well as students from all over the world.
Vasco Célio – Looking
Photography
Jonathan Saldanha – The Invention of the Oracle
Music / Visual and Sound Arts
Marcelo Evelin / Demolition Incorporada – Choreographic Substances
Dance / Performance / Theatre
Vera Mantero – The Thinking Body
Dance / Performance
Blue Summer School is a project by the cultural association casaBranca, with funding from Ministério da Cultura / Direção-Geral das Artes and Teatro das Figuras, and with support from Câmara Municipal de Loulé, CAMADA – Centro Coreográfico, Associação Recreativa e Cultural de Músicos (ARCM), Universidade do Algarve, Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas and CIAC – Centro de Investigação em Artes e Comunicação.
The Marcelo Evelin / Demolition Incorporada workshop is being held in partnership with Materiais Diversos.
Associação Recreativa e Cultural de Músicos (ARCM)
R. do Castelo 4, 8000-401 Faro
Camada – Centro Coreográfico
R. Frederico Lecor 10, 8000-347 Faro
Universidade do Algarve / Complexo de Anfiteatros do Campus de Penha
Anfiteatro 0.3, Laboratório fotográfico de Artes Visuais, Edifício dos Serviços Técnicos do Campus de Penha
Estr. da Penha, 8005-139 Faro
The workshops will take place over 5 days, in the mornings and afternoons (see corresponding times on the form). Anyone interested can sign up for 1 or 2 workshops *
Registrations can be made using this form and are open until 3 July. Limit 20 people per workshop.
* for Jonathan Saldanha’s workshop you will need a computer (laptop), headphones and if possible, a portable sound recorder (Zoom).
Prices * :1 workshop: 80 euros / 2 workshops: 150 euros. (payment details will be sent after confirmation of enrolment)
* Seven free places will be available for students on the Visual Arts Degree Course and the Master’s Degree in Creative Processes at the University of the Algarve. PLACES FILLED.
