Estival Festival – Summer Performance Arts Festival
04 Aug. 2018
Faia, Guarda
This holiday is also a festival, and this festival is also an holiday! With no worries about the weather, a huge variety of performances is staged on our beautiful terrain. Under century-old olive trees in one of the olive groves, in a huge rocky open space (we call the Rock Theatre), in our amphitheatre, on the Panorama Terrace with a 360° view, or in a cosy setting at the Summer Bar.
Loads of workshops in all arts, and for all ages. This unique concept is thriving for over 7 years now and surprises any time.
Associação Domínio Vale do Mondego (DvdM) aims to initiate, organize, develop, and execute activities and projects in the area of Art & Culture, Biodynamic agriculture, Education & training, anthroposophy and philosophy, Nature & Ecology – in the Mondego Valley, in general, and specifically at Domínio Vale do Mondego. This work is intended for an international audience, and is organized by a diversity of artists and groups. Summer schools and Masterclasses form an integral part of the activities.
The Mondego Art Valley project is an initiative to be executed in cooperation with the FAIA Collective, a cooperative of young entrepreneurs, educated in Philosophy, Psychology, Biodynamic Agriculture, Ecology and Gastronomy. It includes the following objectives:
– to intensify the Art & Nature program (summer school, workshops, internships, courses)
– to internationalize creative, cultural and scientific tourists
– to extend the annual summer festival programme ESTIVAL throughout the valley of the Alto Mondego (and possibly the Serra da Estrela)
– to improve the accommodation and working spaces for artists-in-residence
– to offer truly year-round facilities
– to regularly involve professional artists
– to extend its network-capacity
– to include the local community (e.g., through arts and crafts, exchange of students, social activities, work)
» Creative tourism pilot: Mondego Art Valley
Faia, Guarda
Creative Tourism; Artists-in-residensce; Art festival; Theatre Cycle; Creative Spaces
