Biennial 2023 – Presente Invisível

1 March

Lisboa

Panteão Nacional

Concert, performance

Bendik Giske, Romeu Runa

The Endlessly Repeated Risings and Fallings of Desire

Surrendered to the obsessive desire to wander, in a hypnotizing trance, the Norwegian saxophonist and the Portuguese dancer and actor meet at the National Pantheon, in Lisbon, for a special collaboration performance.

29 August

Lisboa

São Luiz Teatro Municipal

Concert

Frederica Campos, Os Moços da Viola Campaniça

Frederica Campos & Os Moços da Viola Campaniça

In a partnership between BoCA and Futurama, the harmony between the sounds of the harp, with the delicate movements of the young artist from Porto Frederica Campos, and the unique timbre of the viola campaniça with the words of the traditional Alentejo songbook, by the Alentejo quintet Os Moços da Viola Campaniça, will be felt at the São Luiz Municipal Theatre.

6 September – 15 October

Faro

Fábrica da Cerveja

Concert

Free admission

Tiago Cadete

Concerto

The audience becomes a stage, and the stage becomes an audience. A concert without a body, a ghostly concert of voices.

16 September

Lisboa

MAAT – Museu de Arte, Arquitetura e Tecnologia

Concert, Installation

Free admission

Lisboa Criola

Gabriel Chaile x Lisboa Criola (Yeri & Yeni, Rute Lopes, Jzaugust)

Within the scope of musical, performative, cinematographic and reflection activations around the installation “What if the autobiographical is nothing more than the history of others passing through us?” by Gabriel Chaile, in Praça do Carvão at MAAT, Lisboa Criola collaborates in programming the 2nd activation date. With a concert by Yeri & Yeni, Rute Lopes and Jzaugust.

28 – 29 September

Lisboa

Teatro Nacional de São Carlos

Music, Concert

Pedro Sousa

A Vaia Viva

Using three reel-to-reel machines, sound amplifiers, and voice, Pedro Sousa ventures into opera territory by reinterpreting Julio Cortázar’s story “Las Babas del Diablo”.

5 October

Lisboa

B.Leza

Concert

Podeserdesligado

Podeserdesligado

Podeserdesligado travels from the north of São Paulo, Brazil, to Lisbon to premiere her Live PA project. Reflecting and celebrating black narratives through Afro-diasporic rhythms, the multi-award-winning music producer and soundtrack composer uses elements of Funk, Electro, Break and Gabber.

7 – 8 October

Faro

Jardim da Alameda

Concert

Free admission

Solistas da Orquestra do Algarve

“The Wind in High Places”, “Canticles of the Sky” e “Three High Places”

John Luther Adams, compositor americano galardoado com o Prémio Pulitzer em 2014, reimagina e recria relações com a natureza através da música. Em dois concertos concebidos para o espaço verde de Faro, solistas da Orquestra do Algarve interpretam três das suas obras para quarteto de cordas.

14 October

Lisboa

Musicbox

Concert, Music

King Kami

BoCA x Musicbox

On Saturday, 14 October, BoCA celebrates the end of its programme at Musicbox. King Kami, DJ Narciso and Mel are the DJs chosen to close the 4th edition of this celebration of art, with a programme identity based on crossings between artistic territories, between languages and geographies, between times and spaces.