Category: Agenda

"Fragmento" by José Bica - a sound installation at the EMEF balconies

Diogo

Our return to activity continues with a sound installation which brings the Cidade Som archive to the fore through the work of one of its main contributors, José Bica, a musician and sound artist from Barreiro.

“Fragmento ("Fragment") is a multi-channel, open-air sound installation, active on the next Saturday, the 22nd, between 11h and 19h at the iconic balcony of the EMEF building, at the art of the Miguel Pais street - a place full of symbolism related to the city's railroad heritage, as well as a meeting point with its riverside.

Admittance is free of charge, albeit limited to the the space's capacity at any given point. "Fragmento" is part of the intermunicipal initiative Mural 18.

"Fragmento" is part of the intermunicipal initiative Mural 18.

OUT.FEST: programme for June announced, passes on sale now

Diogo

After a year-long forced hiatus, OUT.FEST is back for its 17th edition, this year divided in two moments.

Between June 3rd-5th, the center of the action will move uptown, with concerts taking place at the open air auditorium of the Paz e Amizade Park (every day at 18h) and the Augusto Cabrita Municipal Auditorium, in the neighbouring city park (every day starting at 20h45).

It is, as always, a demanding year (full of unexpected challenges one could hardly foresee at the end of the glorious 2019 edition of the festival), yet, also as usual, a year in which we rise up to present circumstances to allow new entry points into the (un)known Barreiro and strive to foster, as much as possible, a sense of proximity in times of physical distancing - and what better way to promote that proximity than through shared sonic experiences?

During this year’s first OUT.FEST moment we will present eight shows, three of which associated with the UNEARTHING THE MUSIC (www.unearthingthemusic.eu) project which has, since 2018, been discovering, analysing and compiling the music created at the edges of the European dictatorial regimes of the second half of the 20th century (in which, obviously, Portugal is included, but also Spain, Greece and all eastern Europe); and we introduce a new European project, REMAIIN (www.remaiin.eu), which promotes European experimental music with roots in other parts of the world and which brings to Barreiro a concert and an associated lecture; finally, we will also showcase four Portuguese bands/musicians with their eyes, ears and minds turned towards the future, one of our defining activities since OUT.FEST’s (and OUT.RA’s) inception.

Sit down (on the marked seats), put on your masks, and open your ears. OUT.FEST is back!

Find out everything here: www.outfest.pt

OUT.FEST 2021

Diogo

We are incredibly excited to finally announce the 17th edition of OUT.FEST, which will take place twice this year - once at the beginning of June, and then, as usual, at the start of October.

This will be an OUT.FEST adapted to our current situation, but a true, live OUT.FEST nonetheless, taking place in both well-known and lesser known spaces - an intimate way to experience Barreiro and feel as close to it and each other as possible within the rules and laws of the world in 2021.

Save the dates: June 3rd-5th and October 5th-9th!

We'll be back soon with more information and the full line-up for the first instance of the festival this year - it's very close! 

(Another) return to the stages

Diogo

Now that a return to cultural spaces has become a possibility (even if a tentative one) once more, we waste no time in announcing our next two events: the public presentations of the work of last year's recipients of the OUT.RA Creation Grant, both of which serve as a symbolic end to 2020.

On the 24th of this month, at 11h, the third and last public presentation by ZIMA (Sara Zita Correia and Marta Ramos) will take place at the Madre de Deus da Verderena Convent - a chance to encounter free exploration in a "dream" format once more. In the artists' own words: "Exchanging the eve of the solstice with the eve of freedom, we open the gates to a new place, to share another life experience. This time, we're interested in chasing a moment which reinforces the simplicity of existence and exposes the inevitable rawness of the meeting between plain voices and the walls. ZIMA presents its dream, in the last public moment of Marta and Sara's project while under the OUT.RA Creation Grant".

At 21h on May 13th, in AMAC, we'll be able to see the work of filmmaker CAMILA VALE - “Solo Infértil” is the film she created throughout 2020, with the participation of several leading local representatives of the worlds of sound and image. "When something odd goes on in the soil, Laura and Miguel's curiosity blooms. The siblings' fascination with the inexplicable colors of the earth, and the secrets hidden by the past, leads them to create an harmony for their dissonant reality in the space they live in. Between disquiet and discovery, one can tell that the world, in these children's eyes, can be a place to imagine, even when nearing its end."

Admittance to both events is free, although a prior reservation (made by e-mailing info@outra.pt) is required.

It goes without saying that the use of a mask and regular hand disinfection is still mandatory - a small requirement for a return to these moments we've all been missing.

Domingo: ZIMA e Tiago Sousa apresentam ‘Grão de Luz’

Diogo

O nosso 2020 acaba já no próximo domingo, com a apresentação, às 11h, n’Os Franceses, do segundo momento do trabalho desenvolvido por Sara Zita Correia e Marta Ramos (ZIMA) no âmbito de uma das Bolsas de Criação OUT.RA. “Grão de Luz” é o título deste espectáculo, que conta com a participação especial do nosso eminente Tiago Sousa, convidado pelas ZIMA para explorar sons e métodos de trabalho.

Sei Miguel Quartet – “Swing Ratio” at the Municipal Library

Diogo

Our 2020 concert schedule continues, this time at the renewed auditorium of the Barreiro Municipal Library to host one of the great masters of genre-less music, trumpeter and composer Sei Miguel, who will present his latest work, "Swing Ratio", with his quartet.

This show will take place Friday the 11th of December at 21:00, and attendance is limited to 40 people, in accordance with the health norms in place. Tickets can be purchased here, or in person at Worten, Fnac or CTT stores.

November: Floresta Oblíqua's new album release at Os Franceses with ZZY opening

Diogo

While still navigating through these uncertain times, we're back to our concert programming, this time to present the new release by FLORESTA OBLÍQUA, the Lisbon-based entity who has, for the past two years, affirmed itself as another great representative of the ever-richer world of modular electronic experimentation in our country. 

This release will take place Saturday, the 7th of November, in a matinée at the lovely dance hall of the SDUB "Os Franceses", with Barreiro's own ZZY (who has released two great albums over the past 12 months - "Plastic Jazz" and "Disorder") opening the afternoon.

Attendance is limited to 40 people, with the usual social distancing and higiene rules in place and with mask usage being mandatory. Tickets can be purchased for 5€ (general audience) or 2.5€ (under-25) at BOL (https://outra.bol.pt/) and their partner stores (Fnac, Worten, CTT).

There's no OUT.FEST this year

Diogo
It comes as no surprise, but we need to say it: there will be no OUT.FEST this year. We thought long and hard on how to make sense of a festival in the most unpredictable year we've traversed so far – but even though we witnessed and admired some good examples and possibilities of format reinvention all over the world, we've concluded that it would be impossible to maintain the ever more open, participatory and inclusive character we've been pursuing, that which is unique to OUT.FEST.
Immersing ourselves in the city, wandering, meeting and sharing – all of these need physical proximity to happen. We're therefore already in full OUT.FEST 2021 mode, ready to navigate through guaranteed uncertainty but also firmly dreaming that we'll be able to resume the journey on a port more familiar to the one where we've met last time. See you there!
photo: Davy Kehoe by Vera Marmelo @ OUT.FEST 2019

Joana da Conceição's "Aerossol", this Saturday at PADA Studios

Diogo

After ending the Paz & Amizade cycle in style, we're back in action this Saturday with the opening of the 'Aerossol' exhibition by plastic and multimedia artist Joana da Conceição (known to us as a musician, part of Tropa Macaca and more recently as one of the minds behind the "Toda Matéria" concert at OUT.FEST 2018).

« 'Aerossol' began from the song with the same name by Tropa Macaca (one of the longest running and most celebrated duos in Portuguese experimental music), a previously unreleased piece which is part of this exhibit. Like a hand casting forth the whelks, or a ghost travelling meters ahead of its own shape, the music lit the way for Joana da Conceição in preparing this exhibit, which brings together her work over the past three years. These are paintings with variable heights and widths, presented in a large composition with intellectually sensualist proportions and volumes, physically free, inspired by transience, erosion and creation, and animated by the companionship and the encounters which living beings share amongst themselves and with other things. »

This exhibit is free and can be explored between 15:00 and 20:00 this Saturday, the 26th, after which it will remain at PADA until October the 17th, where it can be visited between 12:00 and 17:00.

Throughout the afternoon several spaces in the Baía do Tejo area will also be hosting their own initiatives, as part of the European Heritage days.

Concerts return to Barreiro

Diogo

For four saturdays between August 29th and September 19th, as part of the "Paz & Amizade" cycle, we will host concerts by Vaiapraia, Lula Pena, Rodrigo Amado com Ricardo Toscano, João Lencastre e Hernâni Faustino, as well as a brand new performance by local musician Fast Eddie Nelson (on September 19th) whom we've challenged to create a show around Pink Floyd, entitled "Between Barrett and the Moon" which, as the name suggests, will explore the expansive legacy of the British quartet focusing on their releases in the period between Syd Barrett's departure and the massive success of "Dark Side of the Moon".

Before that, on August 29th, Vaiapraia will open this concert cycle with their recent (and highly praised) new album "100% Carisma"; on September 5th the idiosyncratic singer-songwriter Lula Pena takes the stage, fresh off an Italian mini-tour; and on September 12th we'lll host a quartet which brings together several currents of jazz in the form of the union of the two most celebrated Portuguese saxophone players (Rodrigo Amado and Ricardo Toscano) with drummer João Lencastre and double bassist Hernâni Faustino.

These concerts will take place in the late afternoon (18:30) at the open air amphitheatre at the Paz e Amizade Park, a seldom used space inaugurated in 1983, whose name (which translates to Peace and Friendship Park) comes from the anti-nuclear proliferation events which occurred during the summer of that same year in Czechoslovakia.

Tickets (5€ or 2,5€ for under 25-year-olds) are already on sale at outra.bol.pt and associated points of sale, and we strongly recommend that you purchase them in advance to comply with the Directorate-General for Health recommendations. For that same reason, hand sanitization and wearing a mask will be mandatory at the event, and the venue's capacity will be limited to ensure a safe distance between all attending. 

Live music will in fact return to Barreiro one day prior to this however, on August 28th, with a show by the recipients of one of the three OUT.RA creative grants for 2020:  “Nuvem de Pó” is the first of several public presentations of the work developed by ZIMA (Sara Zita Correia e Marta Ramos), two creatives whose background is rooted in dance and performance and who have been investing themselves in the research of sound as a complementary and non-academic method of self-descovery. This show will take place at SDUB “Os Franceses” at 21h30, with admittance being free of chage subject to the venue's capacity and a mandatory reservation made in advance by e-mailing info@outra.pt, and also to the Directorate-General of Health's guidelines.

EM REDE II, from June 28th to July 2nd

Diogo

The EM REDE festival is back for its second edition, once again helping to draw a musical portrait of present-day Barreiro.

After a first edition where 18 artists recorded solo performances in their homes, EM REDE II (with the current context of a controlled deconfinement in mind), focuses on, almost exclusively, performances by bands and collectives recorded at the iconic ADAO, with 10 shows broadcast over 5 days, from the 28th of June (Barreiro Day) and the 2nd of June, always at 21:30 at the Municipality’s YouTube channel.

The line-up presented during these five days, once again the fruit of a partnership between OUT.RA and the Municipality, goes even deeper into the aesthetic diversity of the music made in or connected to the city, bringing to the stage representatives of garage rock, heavy metal, hip hop, cotxi-pó and jazz, with figures as established as General D, Nídia and Pista and up and coming artists beyond the borders of the Municipality like Rafa G or New Mecanica.

Access to these shows is, as always, free, but we urge you to consider supporting the artists by purchasing their music and merchandise by following the available links to their online channels.

The schedules and daily line-ups are listed below.

 

Line-up

June 28th

21h30. B2R

22h00. The Brooms

Dia 29 de Junho

21h30. Monkey Cage

22h00. New Mecanica

Dia 30 de Junho

21h30. Scorpions

22h00. General D

Dia 1 de Julho
21h30. Pista

22h00. Otavinho

Dia 2 de Julho

21h30. Rafa G

22h00. Nídia

 

The artists

June 28th

B2R

A collective of rappers and producers from Barreiro formed this decade, based around Quint da Amoreira (in Alto do Seixalinho), active in crossing trap, drill and hints of afro-house with lyrics concerning their (our) reality. Along with the relevancy of their work, their videos bring forward new perspectives over some of the city’s distinct areas and daily lives. 

THE BROOMS

Born from the ‘ashes’ of The Sullens, one of the city’s garage rock institutions, The Brooms are a quintet which lives up to their eternal promise of energy, electricity, vertigo and hypnosis. Fuzz, Vox, Beat & Groove!

 

June 28th

 

MONKEY CAGE

Quartet on a journey through the imaginary railway connecting Black Sabbath to Pixies, with stops at the Kyuss and Queens of the Stone Age stations. They’ve released “Be Well” this year, the second album in their discography.

 

NEW MECANICA

With three albums released to the world during a career spanning over a decade (the last of which, “Vehement”, was released by the Italian label “Wormhole Death Records” and distributed in Europe, the USA and Japan), New Mecanica is an all-Barreiro quintet carrying the torch of cohesive, powerful and socially aware metal.

 

Dia 30 de Junho

 

SCORPIONS

Following their “Roice Cosmos” tape, the trio Scorpions presents two new pieces at EM REDE: “Tubolata” and “Santander”, born from a continuous evolution starting from improvisation to cosmic composition. 

 

GENERAL D

A pioneer of rap in Portugal, a citizen of the world (but also, on many occasions, of Barreiro’s urban area), General D brings us classics like 'Black Magik Woman' and 'África Nossa', as well as 'Zombie', which will be part of a new album to be released in 2021 which, in the artist’s words, “focuses on the ways in which social networks changed the relationship dynamics between populations”.

 

Dia 1 de Julho

 

PISTA

Tropical, cheerful and celebratory rock music bringing the summer heat to the remaining seasons, born from its members love of bicycles and music. After releasing their debut EP (“Pista”) and album (“Bamboleio”), they revisit their sound with a new album which promises to reach ever bigger heights: Ocreza.

 

OTAVINHO

Otavinho is part of a new generation of Afro-Portuguese people well connected to their roots, bringing new life to the stories and life experiences of their heritage. His music renews and carries on with tradition simultaneously - in this case, turning funaná into cotxi po, and radiates happiness even when lamenting sadness.

 

Dia 2 de Julho

 

RAFA G

From Vale da Amoreira to the world, Rafa G is one of the brightest new lights in truly urban music made in Portugal over the last two years. “Correria”, one of his first songs released on YouTube and already a classic on its own merits, has now over 4 million views and an enormous influence in the narrative of so many of the life experiences in peripheral neighborhoods throughout the country. He has just put out his first physical release, featuring appearances by artists like Deejay Telio, Minguito, Kappa Jotta and many others.

 

NÍDIA

A 23 year old producer who already is one of the great exporters of new Portuguese music, with press from all over the world (including the New York Times, for instance) gushing over her three (!) new releases in 2020. After her debut with the Príncipe label in 2015, she’s been travelling the world in performances and collaborations with people like Kelsey Lu, Lafawndah and Mica Live. She has since won a Grammi (the Swedish music industry’s equivalent to the Grammys) for producing a song by Swedish star Fever Ray.

 

Noite da Raposa IV – June 6th, 21h30, online

Diogo

It's the return of a night which has already established itself as one of the most eclectic in OUT.RA’s programming: Noite da Raposa, bringing together local, regional, and on this occasion international creators in electronic dance music, modular synthesis, contemporary composition and ambient music (and everything in between).

Originally planned for the beginning of May in ADAO, its "natural habitat", Noite da Raposa will instead be broadcast online in OUT.RA's youtube channel, retaining its line-up of CARINCUR, ONDNESS, PHILIPPE TROVÃO, RABU MAZDA and SPELLCASTER. You can find out more about these artists by clicking here.

Access to the transmission is free, but we accept (and are thankful for) any donations through paypal through the following link: www.paypal.me/OUTRABarreiro (fees paid to the artists do NOT depend on these donations).