Did you know that Braga is also home to Galeries Lafayette? However, their only similarity to the glittering Parisian department store is…the name. Our Galerias Lafayette are one example of many shopping centres built between the 1980s and 1990s in Braga which, despite being located in central and privileged areas of the city, now need … Continued
The Braga 25 Mediation Programme aims to promote contact with different audiences, insisting on the strategy previously outlined in the context of Braga’s bid to become European Capital of Culture 2027: implementing projects with a strong participatory dimension – which promote fair access for all – that focus on identifying and creating new audiences and … Continued
The project – “O que fazemos com isto?” – seeks to address the multiple colonial pasts and silences from different perspectives and experiences. Starting in 2024, various artistic objects will be developed in Braga, including a book and a performance, based on the encounter between young people, artists and war veterans. The project will work … Continued
Supracasa is inspired by Sebastião Alba, a poet from Braga who spent part of his life in Mozambique and lived his last years as a homeless man on the streets of the city that saw him born. The expression ‘supracasa’ is a metaphor used by the poet to describe an imaginary space, a place that … Continued
Drawing on the musical heritage of the municipality and the Minho region, Roots Club is a project that aims to create an ecosystem for the celebration and promotion of traditional music in Braga. Challenging a diverse experience, rooted in traditions and enriched by contemporaneity, this club aims to strengthen the musical identity of Minho … Continued
In the same way that European integration has blurred national borders, this project aims to blur the boundaries between two municipalities, between artistic genres, and between art and nature. Extremo combines sonic experiments and music, testing sound boundaries in the natural environment between Braga and Guimarães. The project will take place in a peculiar … Continued
CINEX is the expanded cinema programme line-up of Braga 25, the Portuguese Capital of Culture. Using film as a means of creative exploration by filmmakers, musicians, writers and artists from different generations, it takes different paths: musical creation and cine-concerts, installation and VJ, re-reading cinematographic works, and discovering experiences based on the use of … Continued
Originating in the 17th century, a period when the Iberian Peninsula was at the centre of European political power, the Iberian Pipe Organ influenced the musical composition of the time and served as a model for instrument builders in much of Europe. However, after its heyday in the Baroque period, the instrument became undervalued … Continued
In Portugal, on 25 April 1974, soldiers took to the streets and ousted a forty-eight year long fascist dictatorial regime that had proudly stood alone in the context of democratic Europe, and closed the chapter of the colonial war in Africa that had been going on since 1961. The machine guns that the soldiers wielded … Continued
Before the existence of online newspapers or social networks, urban kiosks were places for transmitting information, meeting, collecting, and gossiping, where the latest news and events were spread around the city. However, with the growth of online content, these urban devices have slowly been dismantled due to their progressive disuse. But how can we … Continued