In 2025, Braga will be the Portuguese Capital of Culture. We are preparing a year-long celebration of national artistic creation, in connection with Europe and with the artists and cultural agents from Braga

Currently the Executive Director of Faz Cultura – Empresa Municipal de Cultura de Braga, she joined the municipal company in 2018 to take on the executive coordination of Braga Cultura 2030 – Braga’s Cultural Strategy 2020-2030 and, subsequently, the coordination of the artistic programme for Braga’27 – the bid to become European Capital of Culture. She was manager and senior project manager at Opium, a company specialising in consultancy in the cultural sector. She has a degree in Art and Heritage from the School of Arts of the Catholic University of Porto, where she also obtained a Master’s degree in Cultural Heritage Management.

Claudia Cibrão joined the Faz Cultura Empresa Municipal de Cultura de Braga in 2018, where she provided support to the executive coordination of the Braga Cultura 2030 strategy. Subsequently, she took on the role of producer for Braga’27 – European Capital of Culture bid. Simultaneously, she works as a freelance artist and illustrator. Claudia has additional work experience in Cultural Programming, Communication, and Cultural Production at gnration, as well as in Curatorship, Commerce, and Marketing at Zet Gallery. She holds a degree in Fine Arts, specializing in Painting, from the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Porto, and a Master’s degree in Creative Industries Management from the Portuguese Catholic University.

In 2018, Natacha Correia joined Faz Cultura – Empresa Municipal de Cultura de Braga, where she assumed various roles. She contributed to communication efforts for Braga Cultura 2030 – Braga Cultural Strategy 2020-2030 and Braga Media Arts – UNESCO Creative City for Media Arts. During Braga’s bid for the European Capital of Culture 2027, she took on responsibilities related to external relations and production.
Concurrently, Natacha works as a freelance artist and illustrator. With a background in journalism, she served as the deputy director of information at the radio station RUM – Rádio Universitária do Minho. Natacha has also collaborated with the Público newspaper and the Liberal newspaper in Cabo Verde. She holds a degree in Social Communication from the Polytechnic Institute of Viseu.

Carolina Lapa is the communication director of Faz Cultura – Empresa Municipal de Cultura de Braga, after coordinating the communication of Braga’s bid for the European Capital of Culture 2027 and Braga 25. She was also responsible for the communication of Braga Media Arts, UNESCO Creative City for Media Arts, from 2019 to 2021. Before this, Carolina ran the communication of the artistic project Comédias do Minho. She holds a degree in Communication Sciences from the University of Minho and is currently pursuing a master’s degree in Communication, Art, and Culture at the same institution.

Samuel Silva has collaborated with institutions such as Teatro Nacional D. Maria II, Teatro Municipal do Porto, Centro Cultural Vila Flor, Theatro Circo, gnration, Centro Internacional das Artes José de Guimarães or Contextile – Bienal de Arte Textil Contemporânea, and was part of the team from the Institute of Social Sciences at the University of Minho responsible for the Report on the Economic and Social Impacts of Guimarães 2012 – European Capital of Culture. He has a degree in Social Communication and a master’s degree in Journalism and Information from the University of Minho, and was a journalist at PÚBLICO, among other titles. He is currently completing a master’s degree in Art and Culture Communication at the same university. He has been working in the cultural sector since 2016 and, through Capivara Azul – Associação Cultural, has co-directed Shortcutz Guimarães (cinema), EGO (music), Terra (music) and MODS Collective, a transdisciplinary project that performed in Valletta 2018 – European Capital of Culture, among other projects.

She is the Coordinator of the Digital Communication Team at Faz Cultura – Empresa Municipal de Cultura de Braga. Previously, she was responsible for the digital strategy of Braga’27, Braga’s bid to become European Capital of Culture 2027, and she also worked as a communications manager for Braga Media Arts. During her professional career, she won IAPMEI’s Passport to Entrepreneurship with a project linked to transmedia storytelling for the music market, worked in the communications department of Viagens Abreu, Vitamina. Digital Agency and the SA365 agency. She has a degree in Communication Sciences from the University of Minho and in Tourism from the Portuguese Catholic University

Cultural programmer and musician, Luís is associated with the artistic direction of some of the most transformative initiatives in the cultural landscape of the city of Braga over the past 15 years, such as the Semibreve festival (until 2023), gnration, or the Index biennial of art and technology. Since 2023, he has been the Artistic Director of Faz Cultura – Empresa Municipal de Cultura de Braga. He is a Guest Assistant Professor at the University of Minho and has been a guest speaker at institutions such as Berklee College of Music, Elektra Montreal, Eurosonic Noorderslag, Ars Electronica, MAAT, Serralves, Portuguese Catholic University – School of Arts, and ESMAE. His activity has also been developed internationally, being the only Portuguese member on the curatorial committee of the European Media Art Platform (EMAP). As a musician, he has worked on solo projects and as a member of multiple collaborations. He holds a Master’s degree in Museological and Curatorial Studies from the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto.

He has worked in multiple areas such as cultural communication, artistic programming and show production. With a degree in Communication Sciences from the University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro, he was communications director for gnration from 2014 to 2023, and also directed communications for Braga Media Arts from 2021 to 2023, Braga’s action project as a UNESCO Creative City for the Media Arts. He has been communications director for the electronic music and digital art festival Semibreve since 2014. In the field of artistic programming, he has been responsible for programming festivals and music cycles in various cities across the country, with a focus on Portuguese and international music. She also curated the disc ‘Miguel Torga por Lavoisier – Viagem a um Reino Maravilhoso’, which combines the words of the writer Miguel Torga with the music of the Portuguese duo Lavoisier. He has more than a decade’s experience in producing shows, working with national and international artists. Since January 2024, he has been in charge of gnration’s music programme and is part of the artistic direction team at Faz Cultura – Empresa Municipal de Cultura de Braga.

She has been a member of the Circuito – Braga Media Arts Educational Service team since its creation, being responsible for its programming and coordination. She was also recently part of Faz Cultura – Empresa Municipal de Cultura de Braga programming team, in the area of Mediation and Participation. At the same time, she works in the field of cultural production. She was executive producer at gnration between 2014 and 2019, where, in addition to regular programming, she was responsible for the educational service and participatory art projects. She has a postgraduate degree in Communication, Art and Culture from the University of Minho and in Artistic Practices and Social Inclusion from the Portuguese Catholic University.

Inês is a playwright, creator and programmer of performing arts, who joined Faz – Cultura Empresa Municipal de Cultura de Braga programming team in 2023. In 2020, she co-founded the artistic collective UMA, where she developed her creative work for theater, performance, and installation. She holds a PhD in Dramaturgy from the Yale School of Drama, having worked for five years as a dramaturg and literary consultant in the USA, in collaboration with institutions such as Yale Repertory Theatre and Theater for a New Audience. Between 2019 and 2023, she produced and advised on programming for different companies and artists in Portugal. She is the curator of the online content platform FITEI Digital.

She was manager of Projeto Pláka between 2019 and 2024 – a platform that brings together projects that embody the municipal policy of supporting contemporary artistic practice in Porto – and artistic coordinator of ArtWorks between 2017 and 2019 – an organization that produces, develops and manufactures works of art and other projects, in which she developed the No Entulho artistic residency program. She has been a member of ZOOM since 2014 – the cultural association responsible for the Barcelos film club – where she was a founding member of the independent space Casazul, and is a member of A Macho Alfa Associação Cultural – through which she collaborated in the programming of the Linha TGV Festival and in the organization of the Allvenues project. She has collaborated on different cultural programming and curatorial projects since 2014 and is the co-creator and co-artistic director of the BARLOS project. She has a degree in Art History from the University of Porto and a Master’s degree in Art Studies, in the field of Museological and Curatorial Studies, from the same institution.

Better known as Kina, she has a professional career linked to production and design. In the production area, she has worked on festivals such as FEST – New Directors, New Films Festival, Festival Entre Cidades, Fenda, Jazz Fest, História de um Mosteiro: Recriação Histórica as well as Circolando, CRL – Central Elétrica, in Porto. In the area of design, he has worked with brands from the Sonae group, Nuboyana Portugal and Anexo82. In the areas of production, communication and measurement, she has collaborated to date with Plataforma do Pandemónio. She has been part of the Braga 25 team since January 2024, in the areas of production, mediation and audience participation. She has a degree in Design from the University of Aveiro and a degree in Museological and Curatorial Studies from the same institution.

Ana Ferreira was born in Braga and graduated in Social Communication from the University of Minho. She holds a postgraduate degree in Strategic and Business Communication from the European University in Lisbon, and a master’s degree in Protocol and Event Organization from the International School of Protocol in Madrid, Spain. From 2003 to 2017, she served as an assistant for Public and Institutional Relations to the President of the Supreme Court of Justice. She returned to the city of Braga in 2017, joining the municipal company INVESTBRAGA – Agency for the Economic Dynamization of Braga, taking over the direction of the Economic Dynamization and Investment Attraction area in 2018. Since October 2019, she has been the Head of Staff to the Mayor of Braga City Council.