Súbito Festival

This campaign is an opportunity to be part of this initiative and support new national artists.

Festival Súbito is a cultural initiative that arises from the desire to give structure and voice to new artists. It seeks to enhance collective reflection, multidisciplinary experiences and the programming of young people willing to create and share. The festival takes place in the historic area of Vila Nova de Gaia, between the institutional spaces that occupy the old cellars and the open sky of the Pier. The Festival Súbito, in addition to projecting young artists, is accompanied by a community-in-residence program, remembering that culture is an essential pillar for the quality of life in society.

Created by young people for young people, it wants the value of culture to be highlighted and reach everyone equally, making it a free festival that calls for the free support of the community.

The Festival Súbito program will include performances, exhibitions, debate sessions, conversations and video art sessions. Each edition of the festival will revolve around an issue that will shape the curatorship of the year. The question of this zero edition of the festival is "How can we rethink the common?" . With it, we intend to trigger reflections on the art-community relationship on several fronts, from the accessibility of art to the community to the way in which artistic practice itself changes depending on whether it takes place in the institutional or public space.

This crowdfunding arises from the urgency of creating a structure that is more aware of the value of culture, appealing to civil society to raise initiatives that welcome new artists. The value of crowdfunding is intended to bring artists a greater economic structure , which is the main focus of this campaign.

Any contribution is welcome! Thanks!

This crowdfunding appears not only as a form of support but also an invitation to participate in the Festival. If you are interested in participating, accompanying the artistic team and the creative processes of the invited artists, get in touch with us through our networks!

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* Rewards: Some of our rewards are preferably hand delivered on Festival days! However, if you are not present, please contact us and we will send it to you by post.

About the author

The artistic direction of the Festival Súbito is composed of two young artists , Beatriz Sarmento and Joana Couto. They met in elementary school and shared many years of art education together. Following different areas, they come together again to combine the visual arts with the performing arts in a festival. With informal conversations during the first confinement, they begin by discussing the pillars of a cultural structure for young artists due to the lack of a network when starting their professions. Hence the Festival Súbito in a close relationship between art and community.

Beatriz Sarmento , Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal. Graduated in Fine Arts - Multimedia at FBAUP with Curating and Performance as her main interest. She studied dance for 12 years at the Escola de Dança Ginasiano. He attended the Soares dos Reis Artistic School, specializing in Plastic Performance of the Artistic Production course. Curator of the exhibition “ACTO” on the various forms of performing arts (2020 - Kitchen- FBAUP) and co-founder of the sessions “Conversas sobre Performance” at FBAUP.

Joana Couto , Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal. She started her dance career at an early age, carrying out 15 years of specialized teaching at the Ginasiano Escola de Dança. He took intensive courses at the Carte Blanche Company and at Malandain Ballet Biarritz. He continued his studies at ArtEZ University of Arts, in the Netherlands. He works with Kale Companhia de Dança, Companhia Instável, and as a freelancer, having worked with several choreographers, such as Hélder Seabra, Roberto Olivan, Christine Hassid, Gilles Baron, among others. As a choreographer, she debuted in 2021 the piece "If only this was about food".

Budget and due dates

The Súbito Festival takes place on September 17th and 18th in Vila Nova de Gaia, with the Orbita program - community project - which starts on September 1st. This crowdfunding serves exactly to create a more sustainable structure for the festival and for these young artists.

The money raised will serve to bring artists a greater economic structure (50%) , to cover communication and design costs (35%) and consumable expenses during the Órbita program and the festival itself (consumables for exhibition setups, technical material for the execution of activities, per diems for present artists and volunteers, etc. (15%) .

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