Portugal

Ghetto Six, an Ethnography-based Art Project

Submitted by Portugal on Sat, 16/09/2023 - 15:40
Ghetto Six

The 6 de Maio is a self-built neighbourhood located in Damaia, council of Amadora, close to Lisbon. Since its origins in the 1970s it houses a community of mostly Cape Verdean origins. Stigmatized for reasons of public disorder and drug trafficking, and targeted therefore by violent police interventions, the neighbourhood is a place of memory and identity for its residents. The 6 de Maio is being demolished and will be entirely dismantled by 2015, while its population is being relocated, according to a scheme of urban sanitation recently applied to other spontaneous urbanizations in the greater Lisbon area.

Based on research on the life in the neighbourhood, EBANOCollective created Ghetto Six, an ethnography-based art installation inspired by the life stories of the residents and by the contradictions and violence of postcolonial Portugal and Schengen Europe. It employs the remains of the houses that have already been demolished (doors, shelves, aluminium plates, wood, etc.) as supports for the inscription of a “portrait” of the neighbourhood itself, using mixed media including photography and painting. At the same time an experiment in visual ethnography and a tribute to the social life of a neighbourhood doomed to disappearance, Ghetto Six intends to evoke the instability but also of the creativity and aesthetics of a way of life.

The installation was moved to the 6 de Maio neighbourhood in early 2013, and will there remain indefinitely, becoming actual part of the built environment until the final destruction of the whole area. The remains will finally go back to their context of origin, transformed into visual elements of social critique within the urban space itself.

EBANOCollective is an artistic and curatorial collective that proposes to carry out site-specific projects and urban interventions through art supported by ethnographic research, and one of the members of Anna Lindh Foundation's Portuguese Network. Through the collaboration of artists and social scientists, EBANO develops participatory projects of public art tackling local community issues and larger social and urban questions.

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Goethe-Institut Portugal

National Network
Portugal
Address

Campo dos Mártires da Pátria, 37
1169-016 Lisbon
Portugal

Telephone
00351 21 882 45 10
Fax
00351 21 885 00 03
E-Mail
director@lissabon.goethe.org
E-Mail (2)
programa.cultural@lissabon.goethe.org
E-Mail (3)
info@lissabon.goethe.org
Website
http://www.goethe.de/portugal
Organisation Type
Public Institution
Year of Establishment
1962
Fields of Activity
  1. Arts
General Information
- Branch office of a German Non-Profit Organisation; staff: 32 - For cultural programme: minimum 60.000,00€ - Federal Foreign Office (Germany), sponsorship - See Modalities of action of the Goethe-Institut Munich (head office) - All main Cultural Institutions in Portugal
Mission and Objectives

See Mission and Objectives of the Goethe-Institut Munich (head office)

Main Projects / Activities

Cultural exchange in all artistic and intellectual fields between Germany and Portugal

Contact (1) Full Name
Dr. Joachim Bernauer
Head of the organisation
Dr. Joachim Bernauer
Contact (2) Full Name
Astrid Grabow

Grupo Teatro do Oprimido de Lisboa - GTO LX

National Network
Portugal
Address

Travessa do Corpo Santo,21, 3ºEsq
1200-131 Lisboa
Lisbon
Portugal

Telephone
+351 213 476 319
E-Mail
geral@gtolx.org
Mobile Phone
+351 962 892 673
Website
http://www.gto-lx.blogspot.com/
Organisation Type
Non-Governmental Organization
Year of Establishment
2004
Fields of Activity
  1. Arts
  2. Democracy and community development
  3. Youth and education
General Information
1.NGO with 6 employees for the all the organization struture and we have 10 volunteers working with us. 2. 100.000€ per anum 3. EQUAL Initiative; Gebalis; Portuguese High Commissioner for Immigration and Inter-Cultural Dialogue 4. Social Empowerment using Forum Theatre Methodology, workshops and training in Forum Theatre Methodology. We also created the Multiply network composed of groups of Theater of the Oppressed LX GTO. Trained and certified by GTO LX, these groups use this method of multipliers to intervene in their own communities. The network covers more than 12 active groups in various parts of the country, consisting of populations as diverse as young people at risk, teenage mothers, elderly, immigrants or returnees. 5. Professional Theatre Company "A Barraca"; Multiply Network;EQUAL Initiative; Gebalis; Portuguese High Commissioner for Immigration and Inter-Cultural Dialogue; Moinho da Juventude Cultural Association
Mission and Objectives

The GTO Lx is the Theatre of the Oppressed Group of Lisbon, a non governmental organization engaged in stimulating active and conscious participation of the citizens in the construction of society.
We develop community intervention projects in critical neighbourhoods working directly with the population in order to provoke an awareness process about their realities and encouraging individual empowerment.
Our methodology incentives the beneficiaries to create Forum Theatre plays based on their issues and personal realities. These plays are then presented to the whole community, creating a common ground where shared problems are discussed and solutions explored, promoting social empowerment.

Main Projects / Activities

.“DRK”- Forum Theatre group composed by young people of Zambujal and Cova da Moura neighbourhoods, two infamous boroughs in the outskirts of Lisbon. This group is currently working autonomously, using Forum Theatre to intervene in their communities and acting as multipliers of the methodology, training new groups in the Forum Theatre technique.
They are the result of the DiverCidade Project, an EQUAL initiative, in which the GTO Lx is responsible for community empowerment through Forum Theatre
“R2” An adaptation of Shakespeare’s play, Richard II, performed by young people of Casal dos Machados, Zambujal and Cova da Moura and presented in the National Theatre D. Maria II in Lisbon.
This project was the result of a collaboration between theatre director Nuno Cardoso and GTO Lx. This work allowed these young people to participate in a professional theatre production.
“RVA!” A Forum Theatre group composed by young people from the Vale da Amoreira. This neighbourhood was considered by the government as a critical and priority area.
The group is currently working with GTO LX and has already created two Forum Theatre plays.
Besides this projects, we also have forum theatre projects with disabled and elderly people.

Contact (1) Full Name
Diogo Brito de Mesquita
Head of the organisation
Gisella Mendoza

IN LOCO – Associação de Desenvolvimento

National Network
Portugal
Address

Sítio da Campina – Av. da Liberdade, Apartado 158 – 8150-022 S. Brás
de Alportel
S. Brás de Alportel
Portugal

Telephone
+351 289840860
Fax
+351289840879 / 78
E-Mail
inloco@mail.telepac.pt
Website
http://www.in-loco.pt
Contact (1) Full Name
Miguel Velez

Instituto de Cultura Ibero-Atlântica

National Network
Portugal
Address

Largo Dr. Bastos, 13 – 8500-654 Portimão
Portimão
Portugal

Telephone
00351 282470822
Telephone (other)
00351 282470822
E-Mail
mgraca.ventura@gmail.com
E-Mail (2)
icia.geral@gmail.com
Mobile Phone
00351 962514062
Mobile Phone (other)
00351 966793019
Website
http://www.institutoculturaibero-atlantica.pt
Organisation Type
Non-Governmental Organization
Year of Establishment
1995
Fields of Activity
  1. International/Cultural relations
General Information
Instituto de Cultura Ibero-atlântica is a cultural association, collective person of public utility, founded in 1995, in Portimão (Portugal). Is ruled by a Headquarter composed by 5 members. The budget available in a year is 83.000 €. The sources of funding are public institutions. Our main action is seminars, editions, cultural visits, cultural meetings, post-graduations and courses. Our partners in scholarships are the University of Lisbon and the University of Algarve. The main partners are the Municipality of Portimão, the Minister of Education and the Minister of Culture.
Mission and Objectives

Development and divulgation of Latin-American and Mediterranean History and Culture, promotion of patrimony’s studies and the dialogue between the Mediterranean and Atlantic cultures

Main Projects / Activities

Since 1995 we organize, every year, internationals meetings about the identity of the Iberian and Latin-American history and culture.
Since 1998 we have an agreement with two public universities that allowed us to offer post-graduations in Local and Regional Studies.
Since 2002 we are partners, with the Ministers of Education and Science, in a Latin-American project to promotion the historical and cultural identity.
Our headquarters are in Manuel Teixeira Gomes’s house the algarvian President who lived and died in Bejai (1925-1941). So, we are presenting a project to the municipality of Portimão to increase the Mediterranean studies and the relations between cities from bolt edges, mainly morocco and Algerian cities.

Contact (1) Full Name
Maria da Graça Ventura
Head of the organisation
Maria da Graça Ventura

Jazz ao Centro Clube

National Network
Portugal
Address

Largo do Poço, nº3, 1º Andar
3000-335 Coimbra
Portugal

Telephone
+351239837078
E-Mail
josemiguel.jacc@gmail.com
E-Mail (2)
salaobrazil@gmail.com
E-Mail (3)
servicoeducativo.jacc@gmail.com
Mobile Phone
+351913085648
Website
http://www.jazz.pt
Organisation Type
Non-Governmental Organization
Year of Establishment
2003
Fields of Activity
  1. Arts
  2. Democracy and community development
  3. Heritage
  4. Human rights
  5. Media
  6. Youth and education
General Information
JACC - Jazz ao Centro Clube is a portuguese Non for Profit Cultural Association. It was officially constituted on April 30 th 2003, in the city of Coimbra. Altough many of it's projects are of a national scope, it has a very strong local basis in Coimbra, where it runs a vibrant music venue called Salão Brazil. In the last fifteen years, Jazz ao Centro Clube evolved from a mission centered in the promotion of musical culture - with a special emphasis on jazz and exploratory music – to a larger field of activity involving the questioning of the role of artistic practices in community development. JACC's foundational projects still form the basis of i's identity, closely connected to music: jazz.pt (online magazine), JACC Records and Festival Jazz ao Centro – Encontros Internacionais de Jazz de Coimbra.
Mission and Objectives

As a Non for Profit Cultural Association, JACC has a Board of Directors (11 in total) which conducts the affairs of the Association during 3 year terms.
In 2020, JACC will have 3 full time emplyees and 2 other with close work ties (although not with a work contract like the first three). It also will receive two internships (in partnership with the National Institute for Emplyment).
From an overall budget of nearly 400.000,00€,  70.000,00€ are state support (from the General Directorate for the Arts) and 60.000,00€ from the Municipality of Coimbra.
In 2020 will produce 4 festivals, mantain three editorial projects (JACC Records, Cena Jovem Jazz.pt and jazz.pt), manage a independent cultural centre that hosts more than 100 events per year and support the creative activity of more than 60 artists.
Our Educational Service will promote about 50 activities, including the Coimbra's Historic Centre Digital Archive and the programmes connected with the UNESCO Club, dedicated to community involvement, democracy and civic participation and the promotion of Humam Rights.

Main Projects / Activities

These our some of our main projects:
(1) Sons da Cidade (multidisciplinary Festival organized with the University of Coimbra and the Municipality of Coimbra);
(2) Jazz ao Centro Festival (18th edition in October 2020);
(3) jazz.pt (online magazine dedicated to Jazz and Improvised Music);
4) Salão Brazil (concert venue located in Coimbra);
5) Coimbra's Historic Centre Digital Archive ;
6) XJazz (Arts in the Schist Villages);
7) Dar a Ouvir (Festival dedicated to sound arts and ecology);
8) UNESCO Club Coimbra: Art, Heritage and Community;
9) Educational Service: audience development, artistic creation and support.

How can you contribute to the Network in your country?

In the last few years we have been making an effort to joint platforms and networks (more or less formal) with the main objective to share experiences and good practices.
That willingness to move forward collectivelly and to learn from partners in similar conditions has brought good results and has helped to sustain processes of transformation to our structure.
We are now capable of contributing with a rich experience in the artistic domain and to collaborate in meaninfull projects that build bridges between teh arts and larger themes connected with civic participation and human rights.

Why do you want to join the ALF Network?

We identified that ALF network brings together actors questioning the same things as us and we really feel the necessity of being in contact with other organizations that can help us connect the dots of our multiple interests in the arts as an instrument of social transformation.

Additional Information
about_jacc_en_2020.pdf
Contact (1) Full Name
José Miguel Soares Pereira
Job Title
President of Board
Head of the organisation
José Miguel Soares Pereira
Contact (2) Full Name
Adriana Maria Vieira Ávila
Job Title (2)
Vice-President of Board

Jimdandy Unipessoal Lda.

National Network
Portugal
Address

Rua Nova do Loureiro 77 R/C
1200-294 Lisboa
Portugal

Telephone
+351 96 36 79 888
E-Mail
guests@jimdandy.pt
Website
https://www.lisbonlife.pt/
Organisation Type
Private Company
Year of Establishment
2015
Fields of Activity
  1. Innovation and Entrepreneurship
General Information

Jimdandy Unipessoal Lda. was created in 2015 with the purpose of creating a Tourism more sustainable and involving the local community instead of put a side the traditional commerce and the person that leave in the city. At the moment our company has 5 employees, each one is responsible to work with the community and promote cultural events like cinema festival (DocLisboa) and theater (Companhia Teatro de Almada). We also cooperate with Associação Aequalitas. Having a internacional group that works in creating sustainable tourism with organization from Belgium, Spain, France and Italy.

Mission and Objectives

Creating and more sustainable tourism developed together with the community. Having good practices ecological good practices.

Main Projects / Activities

Creating a model of a sustainable Tourism Ecological good practices in Tourism Developing in international organization of fair Tourism

How can you contribute to the Network in your country?

Giving tools to the members in ecological good practices day by day work. Our experience in how we work with the local community in away of inclusion.

Why do you want to join the ALF Network?

We want to join ALF Network because we can improve the way we work the community and have access to new members that can help developed a better model of Tourism.

Contact (1) Full Name
Lourdes Pinto
Job Title
Supervisor
Head of the organisation
Lourdes Pinto
Contact (2) Full Name
Tomás Lemos Menezes
Job Title (2)
Manager