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Gineceu+Estigma
With roots in the Gardens of Palácio de Cristal, Gineceu+Estigma addresses the fantastic world of botany, crossing scientific, artistic, philosophical, spiritual and ecological thought with approaches in which academic, artistic and empirical knowledge intersect and complement each other.
 
Gineceu+Estigma offers talks, workshops and interpretative tours of the garden by invited educators, researchers and artists. 

Friday, February 23rd, from 10 am to 12 pm

Closing of ESCOLA TERRA: Presentation of workshop results with Landra

Escola Terra was a workshop outside the gates of the gardens of Palácio de Cristal, which took place in the playgrounds of the Canelas school complex. During the four seasons of the year, Landra invited students and teachers, from pre-school to high-school, to get out of the classroom and discover the surrounding living habitats. 
 
A variety of collective actions were carried out, including collecting samples and looking through a microscope, followed by drawings and listening sessions. We talked about biological succession, biomes and the different scales of the school landscape, from the tree to the lichen, from the darkness of the soil to the light of the ground. 
 
The closing session of this educational project will include a visit to the exhibition at the Galeria Municipal do Porto and a talk with the participating students and the Landra duo, open to anyone with an interest in pedagogy or mediation in Art and Ecology.
Landra is the name given to the land and to the practice of Sara Rodrigues and Rodrigo B. Camacho, paying homage to acorns, called Landras in the Iberian Northwest. The duo sees in them a culture of autonomy, sovereignty and self-sufficiency that they seek to recover, aligning themselves with a practice of living and doing in tune with natural rhythms and cycles.
www.landra.pt

Tuesday, April 23rd, from 3 to 5:30pm

Ressonâncias de um Jardim: Developing workshop for schools with Casa da Imagem

The process of imagining this workshop began with a collection of organic elements such as leaves, seeds and branches from the Palácio de Cristal Gardens, but also with a selection of photographs from the Teófilo Rego archive, which depict times lived in this garden in the city of Porto and show dog shows or stands for a Wine Fair. The practical part will take place at Casa da Imagem, an art and knowledge-sharing space where students will be able to get to grips with different developing processes - more experimental and ecological - that use some of the plants collected earlier. 
Botanical collecting and scientific representations of plant and animal species will be replaced by a representation of nature that is not so humanized, but more experiential and personal. 
Casa da Imagem is a place of art and mediation, transdisciplinary learning and museology, acting for equity and social justice. It is a project of the Manuel Leão Foundation in Santo Ovídio, Gaia. Inês Azevedo and Joana Mateus, the coordinators, and other artists, mediators and researchers organize exhibitions, develop studies and run workshops. Casa da Imagem works on: the use of digital technologies for the representation and critical involvement of young people on social networks (#NarcissusMeetsPandora); images that represent industry; the Foto-Comercial Teófilo Rego and Rocha Artes Gráficas archives; and the creation of images through ecological processes.

[REGISTRATIONS CLOSED]Saturday, May 18, from 3 to 5pm

International Fascination of Plants Day - Walk through the Gardens with Evgenia Emets

As has become customary in the Public Programs of the Galeria Municipal do Porto, International Museum Day has been celebrated as International Fascination of Plants Day, in a close relationship with those who inhabit the Palácio de Cristal Gardens - its fauna and flora - and also those who visit them, in a joint celebration of the different forms of life. 
 
This year's guide will be the artist Evgenia Emets, who runs the Eternal Forest project, focused on careful research into the connection between communities and the forest and the urgency of reflecting on these relationships, which are often based on extractive logics.
 
For this event, Evgenia has followed the four seasons of the year in the Gardens, letting herself be intuitively guided by the plants and trees of the place. The proposal is to go on a journey where we will talk about the species of trees that exist, adding a collective experience of writing from what the plants tell us, while establishing relationships and stories behind each one of them. 
REGISTRATIONS CLOSED

All routes are carried out on foot. 
Meeting point to be defined.

Limited capacity.
Registrations via email: galeriamunicipal@agoraporto.pt
 

Evgenia Emets (1979, Poltava, Ukraine, USSR) is an artist and poet who lives and works in Portugal. She studied for a master's degree in Fine Arts at Saint Martin's, London and five years ago decided to rebuild a house and rehabilitate an agricultural plot in Torres Vedras, Portugal. Her practice focuses on ecological issues, which she transposes into visual art, sound and calligraphic poetry, installation, performance and site-specific art in natural contexts.  
Her Eternal Forest project marks a transition in the integration of ecological thinking into her art, with the mission of sharing more knowledge about biodiversity, connecting people to nature and the forest landscape through participatory art. 
 
She has exhibited individually or collectively in exhibitions such as CI.CLO / Bienal Fotografia do Porto - Sustentar; Roots & Seeds in Spain; Multispecies Salon in Mexico and at the Cerveira Biennial; Encontro Pela Terra and Galeria Diferença; She has taken part in meetings on Art and Ecology, guiding "artistic experience" courses that have taken place at Estufa Fria Parque Florestal de Monsanto in Lisbon, or at Encontro Pela Terra in Idanha-a-Velha.


Images: Evgenia Emets

Schools / Friday, May 31st, from 10am to 1pm and from 2pm to 4pm

Amulets for magical beings inhabiting gardens - Amulet-making workshop with Oficina Sibila

What can we uncover in these gardens full of life, visible or invisible? 
 
How can we inhabit them, without them ceasing to dazzle us, without damaging or transforming them? In groups, we'll build amulets for magical beings. 
 
Do you ever feel them lurking around? During the day they hide while we're out walking, but at night, in the silence, they come to check that we've protected their place while they were resting.  
 
With the art of protecting, you twist a string three times, hug the tree and hang it up, saying the magic words: "this is your place too, and we're going to care for it". With leaves, twigs, branches, stones, sticks, earth, clay, water and natural pigments, we put together a secret binder. What will it be?  
 
And tomorrow, will the magical beings that inhabit the gardens return? 
 
Will you come along?
More information about the Festa da Criança, here.

Local
Jardins do Palácio de Cristal/Jardim das Cidades Geminadas (Next to Avenida das Tílias)

Admission is free.

Oficina Sibila is an art education project rooted in contemporary art, with a studio in Maia, near Porto.  
A place where generations meet, Sibila's aim is to extend the research field of Joana Mendonça - teacher, educator and artist - to the community where she lives, through partnerships with other educators, artists or craftspeople, and where a collective path is built. 
Oficina Sibila believes that contemporary art provides answers to today's greatest conflicts and dilemmas and its actions demystify the artistic aura that distances art from those who really want it.

Festa da Criança 2024 - Families/Sat., Jun 1st. 10h-13h, 14h-16h

Amulets for magical beings inhabiting gardens - Amulet-making workshop with Oficina Sibila

What can we uncover in these gardens full of life, visible or invisible? 
 
How can we inhabit them, without them ceasing to dazzle us, without damaging or transforming them? In groups, we'll build amulets for magical beings. 
 
Do you ever feel them lurking around? During the day they hide while we're out walking, but at night, in the silence, they come to check that we've protected their place while they were resting.  
 
With the art of protecting, you twist a string three times, hug the tree and hang it up, saying the magic words: "this is your place too, and we're going to care for it". With leaves, twigs, branches, stones, sticks, earth, clay, water and natural pigments, we put together a secret binder. What will it be?  
 
And tomorrow, will the magical beings that inhabit the gardens return? 
 
Will you come along?
More information about the Festa da Criança, here.

Local
Jardins do Palácio de Cristal/Jardim das Cidades Geminadas (Next to Avenida das Tílias)

Admission is free.

Oficina Sibila is an art education project rooted in contemporary art, with a studio in Maia, near Porto.  
A place where generations meet, Sibila's aim is to extend the research field of Joana Mendonça - teacher, educator and artist - to the community where she lives, through partnerships with other educators, artists or craftspeople, and where a collective path is built. 
Oficina Sibila believes that contemporary art provides answers to today's greatest conflicts and dilemmas and its actions demystify the artistic aura that distances art from those who really want it.

For schools / Thursday, October 24, from 2:30pm to 5:30pm

Formas sónicas das plantas – Drawing and sound workshop with Escola de Desenho Inconvencional

The Escola de Desenho Inconvencional proposes a series of moments - like radio stations - where we record the auditory nature of the Crystal Palace Gardens. In each place, we'll create a moment of capture: the sound is extracted and transferred to images scratched on paper, or digitally, as sonic waves.
 
Art, science and technology are the branches of this ping! workshop, which we want to bring out different sensations. Let's feel, touch and draw the sound of the plant beings that grow and expand endlessly in these gardens...
 
In a variety of ways, we'll think about drawing and listening far beyond what we learn at school, bringing new perspectives on the plant world, full of sensitive and communicative beings.
To participate, all interested groups can register through the email galeriamunicipal@agoraporto.pt.
 
 
Miguel Ângelo was born in Guimarães in 1994. An ever-expanding visual artist, he completed his Master's degree in Fine Arts at the Caldas da Rainha School of Arts and Design (2023) and his Bachelor's degree at the same school (2016). He founded the Escola de Desenho Inconvencional in 2020 and since then has worked on art education and art liberation projects with schools, institutions and associations. 
 
Since 2021, he has been part of the Coletivo PALMA together with Catarina Braga, an artistic project focused on ecological issues.
 
In his paintings and drawings, he works with archival sources, fiction and memory, looking for compositions that rewrite canonical images to imagine another subject. These themes are represented in a rich color palette, with an attention to light and space that gives the work a psychological depth and narrative.
 
He has been exhibiting regularly since 2015, including the group exhibitions Fazer Arbítrio, Centro Cultural Vila Flor (2024); Hammer Time, Zaratan Arte Contemporânea, Lisbon (2023), Drowning Room, Cosmos CAC, Lisbon (2023), O Verdadeiro lado da Manta; a proposal by Sara & André at Centro Cultural Vila Flor, Guimarães (2022), PREMIERE at Centro de Artes de Meymac, France (2022), Sem Medo, Casa das Artes de Tavira, Tavira (2021) and the solo shows Things that can be thrown, Salão dos Recusados, Leiria (2024); Os Algoritmos da Pintura at Centro de Artes das Caldas da Rainha(2021) Resistir a todos os traumas, Galeria Verso Branco, Lisbon (2019); the artist residencies also stand out: If this plant could talk, OSSO Coletivo, (2023) Masks with Damian Ortega, Centro Botin Santander (2022) and Unrevelling the Myth , CAU Cortém (2021).

For schools / Thursday, November 7, from 10am to 1pm

Formas sónicas das plantas – Drawing and sound workshop with Escola de Desenho Inconvencional

The Escola de Desenho Inconvencional proposes a series of moments - like radio stations - where we record the auditory nature of the Crystal Palace Gardens. In each place, we'll create a moment of capture: the sound is extracted and transferred to images scratched on paper, or digitally, as sonic waves.
 
Art, science and technology are the branches of this ping! workshop, which we want to bring out different sensations. Let's feel, touch and draw the sound of the plant beings that grow and expand endlessly in these gardens...
 
In a variety of ways, we'll think about drawing and listening far beyond what we learn at school, bringing new perspectives on the plant world, full of sensitive and communicative beings.
To participate, all interested groups can register through the email galeriamunicipal@agoraporto.pt.
 
 
Miguel Ângelo was born in Guimarães in 1994. An ever-expanding visual artist, he completed his Master's degree in Fine Arts at the Caldas da Rainha School of Arts and Design (2023) and his Bachelor's degree at the same school (2016). He founded the Escola de Desenho Inconvencional in 2020 and since then has worked on art education and art liberation projects with schools, institutions and associations. 
 
Since 2021, he has been part of the Coletivo PALMA together with Catarina Braga, an artistic project focused on ecological issues.
 
In his paintings and drawings, he works with archival sources, fiction and memory, looking for compositions that rewrite canonical images to imagine another subject. These themes are represented in a rich color palette, with an attention to light and space that gives the work a psychological depth and narrative.
 
He has been exhibiting regularly since 2015, including the group exhibitions Fazer Arbítrio, Centro Cultural Vila Flor (2024); Hammer Time, Zaratan Arte Contemporânea, Lisbon (2023), Drowning Room, Cosmos CAC, Lisbon (2023), O Verdadeiro lado da Manta; a proposal by Sara & André at Centro Cultural Vila Flor, Guimarães (2022), PREMIERE at Centro de Artes de Meymac, France (2022), Sem Medo, Casa das Artes de Tavira, Tavira (2021) and the solo shows Things that can be thrown, Salão dos Recusados, Leiria (2024); Os Algoritmos da Pintura at Centro de Artes das Caldas da Rainha(2021) Resistir a todos os traumas, Galeria Verso Branco, Lisbon (2019); the artist residencies also stand out: If this plant could talk, OSSO Coletivo, (2023) Masks with Damian Ortega, Centro Botin Santander (2022) and Unrevelling the Myth , CAU Cortém (2021).

For schools / Thursday, November 12, from 10am to 1pm

Formas sónicas das plantas – Drawing and sound workshop with Escola de Desenho Inconvencional

The Escola de Desenho Inconvencional proposes a series of moments - like radio stations - where we record the auditory nature of the Crystal Palace Gardens. In each place, we'll create a moment of capture: the sound is extracted and transferred to images scratched on paper, or digitally, as sonic waves.
 
Art, science and technology are the branches of this ping! workshop, which we want to bring out different sensations. Let's feel, touch and draw the sound of the plant beings that grow and expand endlessly in these gardens...
 
In a variety of ways, we'll think about drawing and listening far beyond what we learn at school, bringing new perspectives on the plant world, full of sensitive and communicative beings.
To participate, all interested groups can register through the email galeriamunicipal@agoraporto.pt.
 
 
Miguel Ângelo was born in Guimarães in 1994. An ever-expanding visual artist, he completed his Master's degree in Fine Arts at the Caldas da Rainha School of Arts and Design (2023) and his Bachelor's degree at the same school (2016). He founded the Escola de Desenho Inconvencional in 2020 and since then has worked on art education and art liberation projects with schools, institutions and associations. 
 
Since 2021, he has been part of the Coletivo PALMA together with Catarina Braga, an artistic project focused on ecological issues.
 
In his paintings and drawings, he works with archival sources, fiction and memory, looking for compositions that rewrite canonical images to imagine another subject. These themes are represented in a rich color palette, with an attention to light and space that gives the work a psychological depth and narrative.
 
He has been exhibiting regularly since 2015, including the group exhibitions Fazer Arbítrio, Centro Cultural Vila Flor (2024); Hammer Time, Zaratan Arte Contemporânea, Lisbon (2023), Drowning Room, Cosmos CAC, Lisbon (2023), O Verdadeiro lado da Manta; a proposal by Sara & André at Centro Cultural Vila Flor, Guimarães (2022), PREMIERE at Centro de Artes de Meymac, France (2022), Sem Medo, Casa das Artes de Tavira, Tavira (2021) and the solo shows Things that can be thrown, Salão dos Recusados, Leiria (2024); Os Algoritmos da Pintura at Centro de Artes das Caldas da Rainha(2021) Resistir a todos os traumas, Galeria Verso Branco, Lisbon (2019); the artist residencies also stand out: If this plant could talk, OSSO Coletivo, (2023) Masks with Damian Ortega, Centro Botin Santander (2022) and Unrevelling the Myth , CAU Cortém (2021).

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