Precárias III: Performance Festival

Precárias III: Festival of Performance is an intercultural and community project created by Tita Maravilha in 2022. It provides a platform for marginalised groups, including trans people, queer people, non-binary people, women, and people of colour, by offering alternative narratives and contemporary performances.

Now in its third year, Precárias continues to offer an emotional curatorship that considers the needs of those who create from the margins. With the theme CORPAS BRINCANTES ("playful bodies"), the festival invites us to reinvent childhood as a realm of freedom and imagination. Following an open call at the beginning of the year in collaboration with Alkantara and Rua das Gaivotas 6, the festival selected four artists to showcase their work. Activities at Rua das Gaivotas 6 will take place on 25 and 26 July, while those at Espaço Alkantara will take place on 24, 25 and 26 July.


Programme at Espaço Alkantara

24 JUL

Programme launch event
7 pm
Launch of the radio programme ‘CRIANÇAS PÓS DRAMÁTICAS’
A programme published by Pyromanya radio, which brings the children in our lives to the forefront, allowing us to hear what their favourite songs are at the moment.

Reading of the Precárias Manifesto + Round table discussion
8 pm
With Daniel Rakin, Jorge Cipriano, Mariana Barros and Mayara Baptista.
An enjoyable chat about the creative processes behind the works they've brought to the festival and how childhood memories have moved them so far.


25 JUL

Oṣe Odù - The feminine that sets us free by Jorge Cipriano
8.30pm
This project encourages reflection on how femininity and childhood challenge norms, exploring resistance and the pursuit of freedom in a society that is still affected by homophobia and intolerance.


26 JUL

Porta-te by Mariana Barros
8.30pm
Playing is urgent. Do well or do badly, I don't care. A political device for opening and closing doors, boundaries and universes. Here, a mobile door, a body in transition, multiple times and spaces. A door to other doors, entering, leaving, going somewhere, getting lost or finding yourself. It's better to open it to air it out.

Admission to the performances on the 25th and 26th is free, but tickets must be collected in advance from either Gaivotas 6 or Espaço Alkantara. A total of 70 seats are available for each session.

Deprogramming Space
An Invitation to the Playground: Jardim Das Descoisas

24 JUL – 6pm - 10pm
25 JUL – 2pm - 6pm
26 JUL – 2pm - 6pm

On the first three days of the festival, a deprogramming space will be set up in Espaço Alkantara for children of all ages to play. A playground/installation will be set up for socialising on these summer afternoons. A playful space, showing that life imitates art. A playground set up by Precárias in partnership with the artist Cigarra.


About Jardim das Descoisas
Creative activities for our youngsters to flit around and butterfly our mornings! Jardim das Descoisas is a project by Ágatha Cigarra, born in 2013, based on playful actions involving children aged zero to 89, which stir up our creative imagination and deposturise adulthood. This afternoon, in partnership with the Precárias Festival de Performance, they join forces in caraminholas to produce an interventional space of playful proposals and activities for children and adults, always with a focus on ‘do-it-yourself’, the resignification of technology and popular imagination.

Access to the Jardim das Descoisas is free, no appointment necessary. Everyone is invited to move around freely during the time periods mentioned.


The travelling programme of the festival continues in September with a workshop at Espaço do Tempo in Montemor-o-Novo on the 6. The full programme will soon be available on their website.

This edition will come to a close on the 14 at Espaço Alkantara, with a special closing programme that you can find out more about on our website.

Credits

Artistic direction and programming Tita Maravilha Curators open call Luan Okun, Nádia Yracema and Tita Maravilha Production Mandí Kaibô and Bê Duarte Technical direction Lui L'abbate Video Arla Coleto Graphic design, website and social media promotion Gadutra Podcast and poster design Bertrand Support DGArtes - Direção Geral das Artes, Institutional Partner: República Portuguesa - Cultural Coproduction Alkantara, O Espaço Do Tempo Partners Rua das Gaivotas 6 Partners media Coffeepaste Organisation Associação Trypas Corassão Acknowledgements Telma Moreira Faria; Cigarra; Pedro Barreiro; Bruno Trigo Gonçalves; Mariana Freitas; Violet, Inês Coutinho; Rádio Quântica, Maria Tsukamoto and Joana Costa Santos