AcustiCidade
- 01 Apr. until 01 Jul.
Urbanização das Parretas
Promoter:
Circuito - Braga Media Arts Educational Service
Circuito - Braga Media Arts Educational Service
- #outside circuit
Braga, UNESCO Creative
Braga is a UNESCO Creative City in the field of Media Arts. Since 2017 we are part of a wider network of 180 cities that put creativity at the heart of their social, cultural and economic development.
Calendar
June 2021
Inter-Symmetry by Mark Fell & Rian Treanor with CERCI BRAGA and Minho University School of Architecture
- 01 Mar. until 01 Jul.
online
- #outside circuit
BMA lab: Pedro Augusto - Sound Synthesis / Introduction to Synthesizers) (Workshop)
- 26 Jun. until 27 Jun. 10:30 -13:00 I 14:30-18:00
Promoter:
Circuito - Braga Media Arts Educational Service
Circuito - Braga Media Arts Educational Service
- #advanced circuit
July 2021
AcustiCidade
- 01 Apr. until 01 Jul.
Urbanização das Parretas
Promoter:
Circuito - Braga Media Arts Educational Service
Circuito - Braga Media Arts Educational Service
- #outside circuit
Inter-Symmetry by Mark Fell & Rian Treanor with CERCI BRAGA and Minho University School of Architecture
- 01 Mar. until 01 Jul.
online
- #outside circuit
Listening to the plants (Workshop)
- 10 Jul. 10h00-12h00
Tibães Monastery
Promoter:
Circuito - Braga Media Arts Educational Service
Circuito - Braga Media Arts Educational Service
- #mini circuit
Circuito Summer School
- 12 Jul. until 16 Jul. 10h30-18h00
gnration
Promoter:
Circuito - Braga Media Arts Educational Service
Circuito - Braga Media Arts Educational Service
- #advanced circuit
Projects
CONFIA
CONFIA is an international conference on illustration and animation, organized by IPCA's School of Design within the Master's Degree in Illustration and Animation. A space for debate and exploration on ...- #conferences
SEMIBREVE
Semibreve is an electronic music festival organized by AUAUFEIOMAU with the support of the Municipality of Braga, Theatro Circo and the Bracara Augusta Foundation. It brings to Braga some of ...- #events
BE A PHOTOGRAPHER
BE A PHOTOGRAPHER is the name of the international collective photography exhibition that shairart gallery opens on January 20 2018. Inserted in Braga Media program, the curatorial's proposal starts from the creative ...- #exhibitions
Guelra
GUELRA is a transdisciplinary breeding laboratory that aims to encourage the creation and discussion of contemporary art. It is intended to call a reflection on space and memory, where artists ...- #artistic residences
Mini Mapa Sonoro
"Mini Mapa Sonoro" invites a group to make their own trip through the heritage of Braga. Starting from six emblematic places for students, the adventure involves creating an illustration of their own ...- #educational projects
index of art and technology
From 23rd to 27th October 2019, Braga will hold index, an event dedicated to the relationship between art and technology, which is part of a wider program of the city ...- #events
Pequenos Makers
Pequenos Makers is a space where small kids get together to explore playful and creative projects that bring together technology and DIY.- #workshops
Primeiros Bits
Primeiros Bits was created to expose children and young people from Braga to new technologies applied to art. The cycle has taken place since 2015, as the result of a protocol between gnration and Digitópia, Casa da Música’s digital music platform.- #educational projects
Scale Travels
Scale Travels is a collaborative program between gnration and the International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory (INL), that puts together artistic expressions with science and nanotechnology. Among the artists invited are Pierce Warnecke and Tarik Barri.- #exhibitions
BRACARA
BRACARA is an audiovisual piece by João Martinho Moura, designed for the façade of the Braga City Hall, commissioned by the Municipality of Braga and the Bracara Augusta Foundation for the "White Night" event.- #exhibitions
Noite Branca
Open call to all community in search for complementary cultural activities to the event Noite Branca Braga. This contest aims to gather participations from different artistic expressions such as Media Arts, Theater, Dance, Music, Visual Arts, Architecture, Design and Urban Art.- #artistic residences
Câmara Neuronal
Câmara Neuronal is a neuro-audiovisual presentation about the confessions and reminiscences of an alien, made by Adolfo Luxúria Canibal (lead singer of Mão Morta). His physical movements and mental activity ...- #exhibitions
Encontros da Imagem
After twenty-seven editions and thirty years in the past, Encontros da Imagem is today an almost unique reference of photographic culture in Portugal and has already reached a prominent position ...- #events
0 + 1 = SOM
0 + 1 = SOM consists of a series of workshops held in a school context, in the basic schools of the Municipality of Braga, aiming to expose students of ...- #educational projects
Network
News
16.06.2021
OPEN CALL: EAI International Conference ArtsIT
The international ArtsIT conference of the European Alliance for Innovation (EAI) celebrates its tenth anniversary this year and comes after stops all over the world to the UNESCO Creative City of Media ...
- #open calls
24.05.2021
Open call: City to City 2021
The cities of Austin (USA), Braga (Portugal), Calí (Colombia), Changsha (China), Dakar (Senegal), Enghien-les-Bains (France), Guadalajara (Mexico), Gwangju (South Korea), Karlsruhe (Germany), Kosice (Slovakia), Sapporo (Japan), Toronto (Canada), Viborg (Denmark), ...
- #open calls
12.04.2021
OPEN CALL: Perto
Are you responsible or a collaborator in an institution in the city of Braga? Perto is a cycle of exploration of sound exploration for institutionalized communities, providing an active and surely beneficial artistic experience.
- #open calls
01.04.2021
OPEN CALL: Summer Laboratories 2021
gnration is promoting the 2021 Summer Laboratories edition. An initiative that offers financial and logistical support for the creation of artistic content. Applications are open until 16 May.
- #open calls
05.03.2021
OPEN CALL: IMPROVISA - Life in Motion
The IMPROVISA. Life in Motion Consortium invites EU artists to submit proposals with new approaches to engaging audiences in cultural and heritage contents through the principles of improvisation and the use of mobile technologies
- #open calls
04.03.2021
OPEN CALL: Gulbenkian Foundation supports artistic creation and training
Given the current needs of the cultural sector, the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation has decided to support artistic training and creation, individual and collective, across visual arts, cinema, theatre and dance.
- #open calls
04.03.2021
OPEN CALL: ArtCamp Andorra 2021
This year, ArtCamp Andorra - "Colours for the planet" aims to promote cultural diversity, peace dialogue between artists, and sustainable development. The 7th ArtCamp Andorra will take place from 14 to 25 July, in Ordino, principality of Andorra.
- #open calls
17.02.2021
OPEN CALL: Beyond Matter Residency
Tallinn Art Hall, Tirana Art Lab Center for Contemporary Art, and the Hertz-Lab of the ZKM I Center for Art and Media are jointly calling for European art practitioners / theoreticians to apply for one of three production residencies taking place in Karlsruhe, Tallinn, and Tirana.
- #open calls
17.08.2020
07.08.2020
OPEN CALL: worldwide story contest
This year, the ILFU International Literature Festival Utrecht will be launching the ILFU International Story Contest. On the theme of ‘Rising’, anyone aged 16 and over can submit a story in ...
- #open calls
03.08.2020
Theatro Circo 2019 results press conference
It was last Friday that Theatro Circo presented, in a press conference, the results for the year 2019, as well as an analysis of all the activity created during the confinement and post-confinement period.
09.07.2020
UNESCO promotes survey for Latin America creative sector
Containment measures or mobility restrictions adopted by many countries to contain the pandemic have drastically restricted access to culture, making the whole cultural ecosystem fragile, in particular through the closure ...
09.07.2020
Trans Europe Halles is looking for startups in Portugal
Trans Europe Halles calls for emerging civic initiatives with a focus on arts, culture and creativity that are located in repurposed buildings to participate in the fourth edition of the Startup ...
- #open calls
08.07.2020
OPEN CALL: Art For Social Change
Pitroda Art gallery is promoting a series of actions that aim to put art as an engine for social transformation. MOVEMENT is the name of a set of activities that ...
- #open calls
08.07.2020
Digital Earth Fellowship: call for entries
Digital Earth is now receiving applications for the "Digital Earth Fellowship" 2020-2021. Aimed at 8 artists and/or duos from different practices, this fellowship starts in September 2020 and ends in May 2021, with a total of €13.500 per fellow for the entire fellowship.
- #open calls
08.07.2020
Round table ESCUTAR, SENTIR, GUARDAR
"Audire" project, from the Center for Communication and Society Studies (CECS) of the University of Minho, is promoting a round table on the theme "ESCUTAR, SENTIR, GUARDAR - Sound experience and acoustic ecology". The presentation will take place at July 17, at 11am.
- #conferences
06.07.2020
OPEN CALL: Igual diz-se de muitas maneiras
Until July 22, Circuito is promoting an open call aimed at all residents of Braga, those who have always lived here and those who chose the city to live, to participate in the collaborative show “Igual diz-se de muitas maneiras”.
- #open calls
17.06.2020
OPEN CALL! ODE: Electronic Devices Orchestra
Circuito – Braga Media Arts Educational Service is still looking for digital musicians to join ODE - Electronic Devices Orchestra. If you want to make music from laptops, tablets, smartphones and synthesizers, apply now!
- #open calls
08.06.2020
Cultural and creative sector Survey
Braga Cultura 2030, the cultural strategy that is preparing Braga's candidacy for the European Capital of Culture 2027, prepared a survey addressed to all artists, cultural agents and colaborators of ...
08.06.2020
Edigma Semibreve Award 2020
Semibreve's 10th edition will feature once again the Semibreve Award sponsored by Edigma, a Portuguese company leader in the development of interactive experiences, multi-touch technology and digital signage projects.
- #awards
28.05.2020
OPEN CALL: Media Art residency at Košice
Creative City Košice is launching an open call for artists who are either born, live, or work in any of UNESCO Creative Cities, for a two-month artistic residency. The art project ...
- #open calls
25.05.2020
Round table "Error in the context of creative and technological processes" online today
Today, starting at 6:30 pm, you can watch the Round Table "Error in the context of creative and technological processes", which took place at gnration on February 29th, in the context of "Construção de um index #1".
- #conferences
19.05.2020
Galeria Duarte Sequeira at Arco Lisboa online
Braga based Duarte Sequeira Gallery will be participating in ARCO Lisboa 2020 Online in a partnership with Artsy, presenting works by artists Jonathan Uliel Saldanha, Petros Moris, Vanessa da Silva and Mimosa Echard.
- #exhibitions
18.05.2020
Time to watch a Round Table about arte, technology and science
Today, starting at 6:30 pm, you can watch the Round Table "Art, technology and science: new paths for a long relationship", which took place at gnration on February 29th, in the context of "Construção de um index #1".
- #conferences
15.05.2020
David Bruno's workshop for Circuito is already online
Workshop "Sampling as a musical composition tool", led by musician David Bruno is online and available on Youtube until next May 31. To watch please click here.
- #activities
12.05.2020
Gulbenkian Award for Adult Literacy
Finding technological solutions that promote adult literacy throughout life was the motto for the creation of Gulbenkian Award for Adult Literacy, promoted by the foundation in partnership with Solve - MIT.
08.05.2020
Open Call Marvelous Art Magazine
Until May 13 you can submit applications for the 1st edition of Marvelous Art Magazine, from Marvelous Art Gallery
07.05.2020
Your Podcast launches fiction podcast
Covid-19 pandemic forced many companies to change routines, cases like Your Podcast.
06.05.2020
Open Call "Portuguese Emerging Art 2020"
Applications for the open call "Portuguese Emerging Art 2020" run until 30 June.
04.05.2020
Get to know Museu dos Biscainhos with virtual tours
If you want to have access to art and culture without leaving your home, Museu dos Biscainhos, in Braga, is offering virtual guided tours.
30.04.2020
Zet gallery launches challenge to the youngest
Many doors were closed at the beginning of 2020. Uncertainties, lethargy, distress, but also institutions and people who did not want to let their arms down. zet gallery is an exemple of that.
29.04.2020
Open call for PARTIS & Arts for Change
This is the first edition of PARTIS & Art for Change.
28.04.2020
Cosmic Burger wants to support artists
Cosmic Burger launched an online campaign to raise funds to support artists,struggling due to the current events.
28.04.2020
Grants for Jovens Criadores 2020 now open
The application deadline ends on April 30th.
27.04.2020
IPCA students provide online support on a voluntary basis
It is called “Somos Tod@s Digitais” and wants to help those who have to stay at home. Digital skills are fundamental to break social isolation.
24.04.2020
Guadalajara promotes virtual creative sprint
Guadalajara, UNESCO's creative city, in partnership with the British Council and the Promoting Council for Innovation and Design are promoting an online creative sprint, a space for dialogue that allows the exchange of ideas.
23.04.2020
Call for artists: Summer Laboratories at gnration
gnration promotes this year, the fifth edition of the Summer Laboratories. Aimed at artists or communities in the district of Braga that produce original artistic content, the initiative kicks off on August 3, with a monetary support of 1500 euros per project.
22.04.2020
Startups and companies get together at "Doing Business" initiative
“Doing Business”, ScaleUp Porto event that reaches its 5th edition, will be held this year in partnership with UPTEC - Science and Technology Park of Universidade do Porto.
22.04.2020
20.04.2020
Theatro Circo celebrates 105 years with dance, poetry, music and performances
Tomorrow Theatro Circo celebrates 105 years of existence. A birthday that this year, due to unexpected circumstances, is celebrated virtually.
16.04.2020
OECD promotes summer academy for creative industries
How can the cultural and creative industries help to overcome the new challenges we face? And how can national and local governments relieve the short and long-term effects of this crisis on the creative industries?
15.04.2020
UNESCO launches global movement on World Arts Day
After launching the #ShareOurHeritage campaign, UNESCO celebrates World Arts Day this wednesday and launches another global movement. It is called ResiliArt and consists of a series of virtual debates and initiatives on social networks.
19.02.2020
Construção de um index #: art and technology come together
Having witnessed the birth of index in 2019, this year Braga will receive a set of sessions entitled construção de um inex, an event that will bridge the first edition of index - Bienal de Media Arts, to take place in 2021.
11.02.2020
Gulbenkian grants in Visual and Performing Arts
Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian opened applications for grants to support projects in the field of visual arts, curatorship, cinema, theater and dance.
- #open calls
07.02.2020
OPEN CALL Technarte
The next Technarte International Conference on Art and Technology will be held in Los Angeles, California, USA on August 6-7, 2020.
- #open calls
07.02.2020
OPEN CALL artist residencies
OSSO Colectivo launched its artistic residency programme.
They invite artists and practice-based researchers from all areas to submit an application.
- #open calls
06.02.2020
Canceled - BMA lab: A closer listen - Masterclass com Jana Winderen
For family reasons, the workshop “A Closer Listen”, by Jana Winderen, has been canceled. Previously scheduled for January 25 and recently postponed at the request of the artist, the workshop will not have a next replacement date.
30.01.2020
OPEN CALL for Media Art grants
The Edith-Russ-Haus for Media Art will award three Grants for Media Art of the Foundation of Lower Saxony.
- #open calls
30.01.2020
Call for entries LUMEN PRIZE - Art and Technology
Applications for the international digital art prize Lumen Prize, organized annually by Lumen Art Projects, will run from February 15 to May 5, 2020.
28.01.2020
IPCA promotes advanced courses in Artificial Intelligence
You can now sign in for the 1st Edition of Advanced Courses, organized by the Laboratory of Applied Artificial Intelligence (2Ai), from IPCA(Polytechnic Institute of Cávado e Ave).
- #teaching
software
24.01.2020
Imaginando develops high quality audio application
Imaginando, a technology startup that creates tools and instruments for the music industry, is developing a platform with an American company, a kind of Skype for Pro Audio.
- #innovation
16.01.2020
Open Call: STARTS Prize'19
Grand prize of the European Commission honoring innovation in technology, industry and society stimulated by the arts.
- #open calls
10.01.2020
Building an index # 1
In 2019 Braga saw the birth of Index, the first international event focused on the relationship between art and technology, created since the city was awarded the title of creative ...
09.01.2020
OPEN CALL AUSTIN SXSW
The UNESCO Austin City of Media Arts Steering Committee, in partnership with the Cultural Arts Division within the Economic Development Department is receiving applications for UNESCO's International Media Arts Exhibition. Artists must be at least 18 years old.
- #open calls
07.01.2020
OPEN CALL! Equal is said in many ways
Circuito - Braga Media Arts Educational Service is receiving applications for the community show Equal is said in many ways. The challenge is launched to all new or old residents of Braga. Participants must be over 16 and. Sign up for free until May 8th.
- #open calls
02.01.2020
OPEN CALL! ODE: Electronic Devices Orchestra
Circuito - Braga Media Arts Educational Service is receiving applications for ODE: Electronic Devices Orchestra. If you're between 15 and 18, sign up for free until March 25!
- #open calls
20.08.2019
Circuito - Community Show at Noite Branca
Circuito - Braga Media Arts Educational Service will present itself to the world during Noite Branca Braga 2019. Save the date: September 6th, 21h30, at Palco Praça.
- #shows
20.08.2019
Open Call Circuito - BMA Educational Service
O Teatro Circo, EM, S.A., entidade responsável pela implementação do plano de ação de Braga Media Arts, Cidade Criativa da UNESCO, no âmbito do CIRCUITO (serviço educativo de Braga Media ...
- #open calls
26.07.2019
index of art and technology - launch day
index - of art and technology was officially launched yesterday at gnration.
- #festivals
06.07.2019
Calígula Morreu. Eu não.
Open Rehearsal of Artistic Residency "Calígula Morreu. Eu não." July 6th - 16h00 @ gnration
- #culture
27.06.2019
INL Mobility Program
INL has launched a new mobility program under the nanoGateway project.
- #open calls
19.06.2019
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18.06.2019
OPEN CALL: Calígula Morreu. Eu Não!
Braga Media Arts Educational Service and Terra Amarela are looking for 5 people to join the work group of the Creative Workshop Calígula Morreu. Eu não.
- #open calls
17.06.2019
João Martinho Moura exhibits in South Korea
Media artist João Martinho Moura has two exhibitions in South Korea. How Computers Imagine Humans? in the context of ISEA 2019 in Gwangju and Sci-fi Miners at the Nabi Art Center in Seoul.
28.05.2019
"A Dança dos Paroxismos" played by Instant Ensemble
The Instant Ensemble interprets the classic film of rare public presentations, "A Dança dos Paroxismos" (1929), by Jorge Brum do Canto, in an audiovisual show for the whole family.
- #shows
23.05.2019
RoadShow 18/19 - UMinho
This third phase of the RoadShow takes us to Maximinos Secondary School for a pedagogical intervention of Product Design students from the University of Minho, focused on groups of blind and low vision students.
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19.05.2019
ARTECH 2019 CONFERENCE
“ARTECH 2019 – Digital Media Art Ecosystems” is the 9th International Conference on Digital and Interactive Arts, hosted in the city of Braga, Portugal and organized by the Association Artech-International, Theatro Circo and UCP.
- #conferences
17.05.2019
2019 Experience Changsha
Experience Changsha Media Arts Residency was part of the Changsha Media Arts Festival and the International Youth Forum on Creativity and Heritage along the Silk Road. In the Chinese city, ...
- #open calls
06.05.2019
Ciclo Binário: "Falaises"
The artistic cycle Binário presents some of the most exciting audiovisual performances that can be seen today. On May 8, Canadian artists Alexis Langevin-Tétrault, Guillaume Côté and Dave Gagnon, stepped onto the stage of gnration to perform "Falaises".
- #shows
06.05.2019
Open Call: "Edigma Semibreve Award 2019"
Semibreve festival returns to Braga once again to celebrate digital arts along the Semibreve prize in collaboration with Edigma, which is open to works in the area of audiovisual, technology and interactivity.
- #open calls
06.05.2019
Artistic Competition White Night 2019
Braga goes back to wearing white in 2019, with various activities ranging from street entertainment to performances or installation. To complement this program, Bracara Augusta Foundation launches an open call to all the community.
- #open calls
26.04.2019
RoadShow IPCA 18/19
RoadShow returns in the last week of April for another show of works, this time with six short films prepared by IPCA's School of Design, exhibited in two secondary schools of Braga.
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09.04.2019
Open Call: community show - Braga White Night 2019
The Educational Service of Braga Media Arts invites singers or choirs to participate in the project "community show", integrated in the White Night Braga 2019.
- #open calls
09.04.2019
Open Call: Encontros da Imagem - International Photography and Visual Arts Festival
The international Photography and Visual Arts Festival, Encontros da Imagem, returns in 2019 for another edition spread throughout the city, bringing again a call for artists.
- #open calls
03.04.2019
BoCA 2019 - Biennial of Contemporary Arts
BoCA - Biennial of Contemporary Arts, returns this year with passage through Braga. Various installations, performances and exhibitions will be exhibited in various spaces of the city, between March 15 and April 30.
- #festivals
25.02.2019
Educational Service: Mini Mapa Sonoro
The Mini Sound Map is the latest activity of Braga Media Arts Education Service, proposed for the 2018/2019 school year. A set of interactive and audiovisual maps that describe schools by their students.
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06.02.2019
Open Call: ECFJ 2019
The Eyebeam Center for the Future of Journalism (ECFJ) is an experimental grant-making program that supports artists producing innovative and revelatory journalistic work for major media outlets. They are currently admitting applications for issues related to technology.
- #open calls
17.12.2018
Braga Cultura 2030
On December 7th, the Municipality of Braga presented the development of a Cultural Strategy, called 'Braga Cultura 2030', for the 2020-2030 time horizon.
- #culture
13.12.2018
BMA lab
In the next academic year, a new cycle of workshops in the area of media arts under the BMA umbrella will be open. BMA lab brings together three initiatives from January ...
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17.11.2018
BMA: Teacher Training Cycle 2018/2019
This set of Short Term Trainings, prepared by the Braga Media Arts educational service fills the space between creation, Media Arts and the community. It serves so that teachers can improve and acquire new pedagogical and technical tools to be applied in the classroom.
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Testimonies
Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa
President of Portugal
“Braga is living testimony of a transversality, ecumenism, of openness for over a millennium.”
Ricardo Rio
Mayor of Braga“Some of the main attributes of the city are its youth, its creativity, the innovative spirit that is very much associated with a very strong technological dynamics, connected with research centers and universities.”
Luís Fernandes
Artistic director of gnration and Semibreve Festival“Events such as Semibreve Festival, Encontros da Imagem, the Theatro Circo and gnration programming, have been highlighting the name of Braga and fostering a growing artistic activity.”
Adolfo Luxúria Canibal
Musician and lawyer
“There is a great appetite and curiosity of Braga's young and old creators for using a technological component in their more traditional activities.”
Pedro Branco
EngageLab
“We have been witnessing this growth over the last few years and Braga really has a creative power in the digital arts areas.”