arts festival ENGLISH 5–20 july 2019 ISLAND WALK&TALK A PROJECT BY FINANCING Artistic Direction Walk&Talk is the Azores Arts Festival and Jesse James Sofia Carolina Botelho the Artist Residency Program that happen Guest Curators 2019 INSTITUCIONALS SPONSORS Miguel Flor throughout the year. Experimental and Sérgio Fazenda Rodrigues The Decorators participative, the project encourages Mariana Pestana, Carolina Caicedo, Suzanne O’Connell and Xavi Llarch Font SPONSORS the creation of new objects in dialogue Production Direction Luís Brum – Island Circuit with the territory and the socio-cultural Bruno Sousa – Exhibition Circuit Joana Cardoso – Performative Circuit specificities of the archipelago. It focuses João Rebelo Costa – Pavilion ASSOCIATED PARTNERS Knowledge Program on the involvement of local communities Sofia Carolina Botelho Rita Mendes and visitors, through the knowledge that Communication Direction is generated by today’s artistic practices, Sílvia Escórcio, Curating Communication (CUCO) Tânia Moniz LOGISTIC PARTNERS and intersects art, dance, performance, Production theatre, architecture, design, cinema and Dário Rosa Joana Moreira music. In 2019, the festival completes its João Sousa Marta Espiridião ninth edition inviting artists and curators Welcoming Mafalda Brazão to present their works, especially new Bruna Maré Rita Sampaio PROGRAMMING PARTNERS projects developed in residence in the Rodrigo de Sá Communication Design Azores, in more than twenty locations vivóeusébio on the island of São Miguel and in five Web Design Pedro Rodrigues artistic circuits: Island Circuit, Exhibition Image Direction Sara Pinheiro Circuit, Performing Circuit, Residency Photography Circuit and the Knowledge Circuit. Álvaro Miranda Mariana Lopes Filipa Couto COMMUNICATION SUPPORT Video Bernardo Ferreira Cláudio Oliveira Rui Nó Legal Consultant Lina Tavares Raposo Financial Consultant Paulo Veríssimo 1 KNOWLEDGE W&T Pavillion Info Point / W&T Shop Largo de São João, Ponta Delgada SolMar Avenida Center, Thinking, participation and sharing are Central Square Sunday* to thursday: 11H – 00H the key axis of the Walk&Talk Knowledge Friday: 11H – 03H Monday to Saturday: 12H – 19H Saturday: 11H – 04H Program. In the festival, knowledge describes an autonomous circuit with *except july 7, open between 21H – 00H Open Canteen 6 – 20 JUL / 20H / 8€ activities that cross the different The Pavilion is a temporary structure, Pre-registration required: destined to inhabit Largo de São João, [email protected] circuits and involve people and distinct next to Teatro Micaelense, in the center of the city of Ponta Delgada, during The W&T Pavilion is also the festival’s groups around artistic production. the festival period. It is a functional canteen and at dinner it’s open to all space that gathers canteen, bar, people that wish to share a meal, get The W&T Pavilion is an open space auditorium and stage, and promotes to know the backstage, the artists, get-togethers between artists, team curators, staff and guests that built for the community and it hosts Talks, and visitors. Meeting point of the the human frame of the project. Brunch&Talks, Open Canteen dinners Walk&Talk activities, also hosts concerts, talks, parties and performances. and nights of party and conviviality. Contacts The first W&T Pavilion was created General Information Children, youngsters and people of all in 2018 by the architecture collective [email protected] Mezzo Atelier. This year, is projected by ages can develop their artistic skills the collective Artworks & GA Estudio Press and Partners and inspired, in its concept and form, in Holiday Ateliers at Carlos Machado [email protected] by the traditional Azorean cloak. Museum, in the Summer School or Knowledge Circuit [email protected] in thematic Workshops. The festival Summer school, férias no museu, ateliers, visitas-guiadas relies on the support of volunteers Reservations [email protected] and in 2019 welcomes a group of Open Canteen, Brunch&Talk youngsters who travel specially from Tickets Available at presentation Terceira island. Artists working in venues and W&T Pavilion. São Miguel open their studios to new visitors and the guided tours invite to know closer the various projects of the festival, as well as the people of the island, its stories and special places. 2 Program subject to updates. KNOWLEDGE KNOWLEDGE (Geo)graphy of the body Summer School Férias de Verão Walk&Talk What happens to the geography of an island 8 – 12 JUL no Museu Summer that is affected by natural phenomena, W&T Pavilion by climate change, by volcanoes that 18 – 19 JUL Workshops suddenly wake up or giant waves? + 16 years old / 50 € / Pre-registration required Museu Carlos Machado What changes in its identity? [email protected] (+351) 913 412 105 Núcleo de Santo André 15 – 19 JUL Like an island we have a body with very W&T Pavilion and Quinta do Priôlo clear and defined lines, from the tip of 18 JUL > 6 – 12 years old / 19 JUL > 13 – 16 years old the hair to the tip of the feet, surrounded Free / Pre-registration required 6 – 11 years old / Free / By appointment The W&T Summer School (+351) 296 202 930 [email protected] by air and by others, just as the island is is a daily program of talks (Educational Service Museu Carlos Machado) (+351) 913 412 105 surrounded by sea, sky, other islands. If we blur the boundaries of our body a and exercises with artists Workshops that explore the bit, of our perception, what happens? and curators participating collections of the Museum in The Summer Workshops What changes in our identity when we in the festival, which aims to invite youngsters to explore are overwhelmed by tenuous changes? dialogue with its territory. This workshop plays with the geography promote the artistic skills, the various contents of of our body - valleys, mountains, rivers, especially of young adults and The exhibition Limbo de Gonçalo Preto, Walk&Talk - visual arts oceans, plains - to give it another shape. students of high schools in presented within the Exhibition Circuit, exhibitions, design, crafts, has its starting point on the herbariums São Miguel, through informal of Museu Carlos Machado collection and architecture and the festival’s The body of RARA / sessions of sharing and on the way these plants relate in nature. relationship with the city RARA in the body discussion of work methods. Can one plant stand next to another and the island, aiming to (from the Design and Crafts in the herbarium collection but Residency of the Azores - RARA) not in nature? Why is that? stimulate their critical skills (an object thinks to itself) How was I 8 JUL (mon) 10 JUL (wed) This activity aims to discover how the and abstract thinking. thought? And built? How did an idea 10H – 13H 15H – 17H plants relate to each other and to create come from me? How does one thing Diana Vidrascu + The Decorators new landscapes inspired by the exhibition. The sessions last change into something else? How do Johan Harnsten approximately 1 hour you make fabrics with a strand of yarn, a 11 JUL (thu) basket with wicker, or a vase with mud? 9 JUL (tue) 10H – 13H and are for participants The objects are with us every day. They 10H – 13H Ana Cristina integrated into ATL groups are part of us and we cannot do without Sérgio Fazenda Cachola (schools holidays activities). them. And their story is already long. Rodrigues People began to make them millions of 12 JUL (fri) years ago. And nature has been doing 9 JUL (tue) 10H – 13H it for even longer! It’s from her that we 14H – 17H Danny Bracken learn and that we continue to learn. Abbas Akhavan This workshop returns to a primary idea: our body is the object. And with 10 JUL (wed) it we will research, build, think and 10H – 13H unveil how to start with an idea, will Alex Farrar or desire, until the final result. 4 5 KNOWLEDGE KNOWLEDGE Workshop Rain Wu’s proposal for the Island Guided Tours 8 JUL (mon) 16 JUL (tue) Circuit is based on the story of Sabrina 17H – 19H 17H – 18H Island - an island that appeared and Meeting points: PREFÁCIO PARA UM LIMBO Gonçalo Preto + for families ARQUIPÉLAGO RECETÁCULO Rita GT disappeared in the middle of the sea, 8, 12 and 19 – City Hall PDL Maria Trabulo + LIMBO 13 JUL /15H to think on the unpredictability of 9, 10, 11, 16, 17 and 18 – W&T Pavilion Gonçalo Preto + RECETÁCULO Rita GT 17 JUL (wed) W&T Pavilion nature and how we relate to it. Various locations / Free + EAST ATLANTIC 17H – 18H This workshop aims to reflect on how Miguel C. Tavares e PREFÁCIO PARA UM Families with children + 5 years old / Free nothing is permanent and to think about José Alberto Gomes ARQUIPÉLAGO Pre-registration required + TIMESHORES Maria Trabulo Further information and registration: our island how it was and how it is now. The Exhibition Circuit is Diana Vidrascu + + EAST ATLANTIC [email protected] From here we will build our island. IN(SUL)AR Mónica Miguel C. Tavares e (+351) 913 412 105 formed by seven solo shows What plants? What animals? What de Miranda José Alberto Gomes rocks? What kind of smell and colours? in four different locations in 18H – 19H Workshops that invite families What shape will it have? What shape the city of Ponta Delgada, 9 JUL (tue) RARA RESIDENCIES will it gain in the future? Let’s build it? 17H – 18H With the curator, to creatively explore the which are the result of the LIMBO Gonçalo Preto + designers and artisans festival’s programming. work developed by artists RECETÁCULO Rita GT (Quinta do Priôlo) in residency at Walk&Talk. 18 JUL (thu) The guided tours will focus 10 JUL (wed) “Drawing with...” is an activity promoted 17H – 18H 17H – 18H Drawing with... on the curatorial proposal of PREFÁCIO PARA STRATA Andreia Santana by the Urban Sketchers Azores that invites UM ARQUIPÉLAGO + TIMESHORES Diana authors to share their ways of exploring Sérgio Fazenda Rodrigues Maria Trabulo + EAST Vidrascu + IN(SUL)AR 13 JUL / 14H30 Mónica de Miranda the practice of Drawing in a notebook.