The Algarve’s contemporary arts festival returns to Lagos and Loulé for its 11th edition, with sound as its guiding principle. Tânia Carvalho, Félicia Atkinson, Sh!t Theatre, Hetta, Tami T, Nídia, and Odete are among the performers. The Festival Verão Azul, which takes place from April 6th to 16th, will include concerts, performances, parties, exhibitions, poetry, and cinema.
The 2023 Festival Verão Azul returns stronger than ever in its mission to promote decentralization, promotion, and creation in contemporary art, in various possibilities and crossroads. Lagos and Loulé will once again receive a transdisciplinary program curated by Ana Borralho & João Galante, this year assisted by performer, choreographer, and visual artist Daniel Matos.
The sound, in its relationship with the body and space, is the starting point this year. There will be around 22 proposals, some presented in both cities, including four concerts, five performances, four nights of clubbing, four cinema sessions, an exhibition, a dance moment, a poetry slam, two conversations, and the launch of a publication.
One of the highlights of the festival is “MadMud,” a unique proposal that immerses audiences in the musical and poetic sphere of the inescapable choreographer Tânia Carvalho. Félicia Atkinson’s improvisation, immersion, and abstraction also merge music with space. Sh!t Theatre brings the bold and very political play “Drink Rum With Expats” from London. The exhibition NO, FUTURE, NO CRY features works by five artists who develop work between sculpture and digital art, assuming the 4th industrial revolution as a vehicle of immediate and poetic expression. The festival ends with “A Pussy Point of View,” a dance performance by Piny that questions the hypersexualization and obsession with shape.
Verão Azul festival brings contemporary art and culture to the Algarve, attracting both local and international audiences.
