Artistic experimentation laboratories in school context
Gymnasium is a casaBranca’s project that proposes the implementation of a regular program of artistic training and experimentation aimed at children and youth, throughout several schools in the city of Lagos.
It includes the performing of a set of workshops from various artistic “disciplines” oriented by artists, throughout the school year, taking place in those same schools.
Acknowledging the central role school plays in the communities, itself representing a community with an identity of its own, it is fundamental for us the idea of working in the center of this microcosmos, directly intervening in the academic space itself, occupying it, transforming it and disquieting it.
For this project we call for people from the most different areas, closer and accomplices, or whose work we admire, to come think, invent, and (de)construct ideas and concepts, creating labs of action and thought, of training and free and deconditioned experimentation and, simultaneously, protected.
By operating in a transversal way and by proposing interdisciplinary practices of experimental character and also practices with more technical features, the goal is to extent the horizon of the children experiences, by placing them in contact with different expressions and lexicon, and to promote their capacity to choose and think accordingly to their true subjectivity.
Project Management: Mónica Samões
Coordination: Maria João Alcobia
Production: Joana Duarte
Design & Web: José Pelicano
Organization & Production: casaBranca
Partner: Agrupamento de Escolas Gil Eanes, Agrupamento de Escolas Júlio Dantas
Support: Câmara Municipal de Lagos, LAC – Laboratório de Actividades Criativas, Messe Militar de Lagos e Tavira, TEL – Teatro Experimental de Lagos, Associação Estrela Desportiva de Bensafrim
JAN > JUN 2023 - E.B. 2.3 Naus, Lagos
JAN > MAY 2023 - E.B. 2.3 Tecnopólis, Lagos
30 NOV 2022 - Centro Escolar da Luz, Lagos
14 > 18 NOV, E.B. 1 Chinicato / 21 > 25 NOV, Centro Escolar da Luz, Lagos
17 > 21 OCT 2022 / E.B. 1 Bairro Operário and E.B. 1 Santa Maria, Lagos
23 > 27 MAY 2022 / E.B. 1 Bairro Operário, Lagos
21 > 25 MAR / E.B. 2.3. das Naus, Lagos
MAR > JUN 2022 / E.B. 1 Santa Maria + E. B. 1 Chinicato, Lagos
27 JAN > 12 MAY 2022 / Estrela Desportiva de Bensafrim, Lagos
25 JAN > 1 JUN 2022 / Centro Cultural de Lagos
18 > 21 Jan 2022
E.B. 1 Chinicato, Lagos
5 NOV 2021 / E.B. 2.3 das Naus
12 > 15 OCT 2021 / E.B. 1 Bairro Operário
8 OCT 2021 / CCL - Centro Cultural de Lagos
21 > 25 JUN 2021 / E.B. 1 de Chinicato, Lagos
17 > 21 MAY 2021 / E.B. 1 de Santa Maria + E.B. 1 Bairro Operário, Lagos
14 > 22 APR 2021 / E.B.1 Chinicato + E.B.1 Bairro Operário
23 > 27 NOV 2020 - E.B.1 Chinicato / 30 NOV > 7 DEC 2020 - E.B.1 Bairro Operário
16 > 20 NOV 2020 / E.B. 1 Santa Maria
6 NOV 2020 > 25 MAY 2021 / E.B. 2.3 Tecnopólis
17 > 20 FEB 2020 / E.B. 1 Bairro Operário
2 > 6 DEC 2019 / E.B. 2.3 das Naus
26 + 28 NOV 2019 / Júlio Dantas Highschool
25 > 29 NOV 2019 / E.B. 1 Bairro Operário
18 > 22 NOV 2019 / E.B. 1 Bensafrim
28 + 29 OCT 2019 / E.B. 1 Santa Maria
13 > 17 MAY 2019 / E.B. 1 Santa Maria
11 > 15 MAR 2019 / E.B. 1 Bensafrim + E.B. 1 de Chinicato, Lagos
14 > 18 JAN 2019 / E.B. 2.3 Tecnopólis
26 > 30 NOV 2018 / E.B. 1 de Bensafrim
12 > 16 NOV 2018 / E.B 2.3 das Naus
6 > 9 NOV 2018 / E.B. 1 Santa Maria
15 > 18 OCT 2018 / E.B. 1 Bairro Operário
6 > 8 JUN 2018 / E.B. 1 Sta Maria
4 > 8 JUN 2018 / E.B. 1 Sta Maria
15 > 27 MAY 2018 / E.B. 1 Bairro Operário
19 > 22 MAR 2018 / Escola E.B. 2.3 das Naus
22 > 26 JAN 2018 - E.B. 2.3. Naus / 30 JAN > 8 FEB 2018 - E.B. 1 Chinicato
3 > 24 NOV 2017 / E.B. 2.3 Tecnopólis
9 > 13 MAY 2016 / E.B. 2.3 Tecnopolis
2 > 6 MAY 2016 / E.B. 1 Bairro Operário + E.B. 1 Ameijeira
4 > 8 APR 2016 / Júlio Dantas Highschool
14 > 18 MAR 2016 / Naus E.B. 2.3
30 NOV > 3 DEC 2015 / Júlio Dantas Highschool
16 > 20 NOV 2015 / E.B. 2.3 Tecnopólis School
19 > 21 OCT 2015 / Naus E.B. 2.3
5 > 9 OCT 2015 / Gil Eanes Highschool