A PORTA is a multidisciplinary festival that focus on creating spaces where encounters and action are the fundamental pillar to create the notion of a community. We aim to create and build new relations with fellow artists and the local community, while inhabiting and renewing the city center. A PORTA Festival operates as a meeting facilitator, an aggregator of synergies, an event for everyone. From 23 to 27 September 2015 all the streets lead to the city center, especially during the wee...
A PORTA had its first edition in October 2014. Over the five days of the festival, more than 1500 people have passed through our festival, our concert-dinners where booked out, workshops were completely full, and our main public spaces (Rua Direita, Praça Rodrigues Lobo and Parque do Avião) were full of people and life.
A PORTA is an invitation to attend a meeting of multiple presences. From fine arts to short movies, from concerts to street art, from workshops to gastronomy, it is an encounter with the other, a meeting with the public, a meeting for and with the city of Leiria.
A PORTA is also a way to consolidate the fundamental role that each one of us has in creating contexts for cultural and social development of our city. We feel an ongoing responsibility to regenerate cultural environments, to be present, to continue to want more and better for Leiria and to MAKE THINGS HAPPEN.
A PORTA aims to:
- Involve the public with the cultural and artistic life; open new and old spaces, combine resources, expand access to information and methodologies of and with others; create moments of dialogue and encounter, generate movement in close idea with the relation of individual, communal and cultural development; emphasize on "forgotten" areas in the center of Leiria in order to renew the life of these areas; increase the city's visibility by establishing customs, traditions and other initiatives that can general cultural and social value.
Given the gratuity of most of the activities, your support is crucial so that A Porta FestivalFestival happens in the best and fairest way for everyone involved. Our sincere and profound gratitude for supporting and share this campaign!
THANK YOU SO MUCH! Everything and everyone for A PORTA FESTIVAL 2015!
Photos by Ricardo Graça e Rafael Silva.
Video by Rui Girão, Rafael Silva e Arlindo Cid.
Music by MAU - Children playing adults
A Rua Direita cheia de vida!
