Casa do Jardim da Estrela - A Theater in Every Neighborhood

Julee is a visual artist based in Lisbon. Her practice explores processes of transfiguration of matter in dialog with themes such as permanence, disappearance and containment. Her work gives visibility to what has historically been relegated to the background - the banal, the domestic, the decaying - affirming it as a nucleus of presence and resistance. In her compositions, materials and forms reveal layers of the invisible and build a spirituality that inhabits the space between the intimate and the collective.

À Margem investigates the limit as a multiple condition: a space of edge, of nearness, of suspension, but also of exclusion and distance. The project is based on a wide-ranging exploration of matter, marked both by processes of wear and transformation and by symbolic powers, treating the margin as a territory where forces of nature, matter and society take center stage and meet in tension.

De Julee (Juliana Lee Pinto, Curitiba, 1994)

Opening: November 8th at 17:30

Participants are challenged to paint using only organic materials. Instead of brushes, pens and pencils, branches, stones and sticks are used as drawing and painting tools. Instead of paint, pigments are extracted on the spot from the earth, leaves and flowers.

By António Choon

A conscious pause to breathe, refocus and revitalize. Through guided breathing techniques, these sessions invite deep relaxation, inner listening and integral well-being.

By Christelle Rodrigues

The Casa classic for the youngest in its new season continues to offer a sensory, auditory and tactile experience, in which a story is the pretext for a narrative thread that unfolds with the children's participation.

By Noélia Fernandes

Monthly reading and discussion meetings dedicated to environmental literature. In November, the book is "Cartographies of Misplaced Places (10 Tales of War)", by Ana Margarida de Carvalho.

By Alecrim - Art and climate activism

The Children's Reading Club at Casa do Jardim da Estrela meets monthly to promote participatory discussion based on a book previously selected and read as a family.

By Noélia Fernandes

A series of drawing workshops that explore how the sounds and characteristics of spaces - both natural and spontaneous, as well as constructed and artificial - determine the way we draw.

By Pedro Mesquita

Written by Judite Dória and illustrated by Filipa Pereira, this children's book explores emotions and the power of seeing beyond the obvious.

Sessions based on the principles of body awareness and connection and facial movement, and intended to be a journey in a flow through guided dynamics of creative movement (dance, voice and writing).

By Andreia Correia

Monthly sessions that combine revitalizing yoga practices with self-knowledge activities.

By Mariana Pacheco

Assembling compositions with drawings, print cut-outs and dry materials
from the garden.

By Rita Cortez

Artist Carla Santana shares her research into minerals and natural pigments and proposes a creative practice in which families can experiment with the production of paints and create their own drawings and paintings using geopigments.

By Carla Santana

This workshop establishes a link with an ongoing activity at the Casa. It begins with a guided tour and from there we start experimenting with materials that represent the forces of nature.

By Noélia Fernandes

The exhibition brings together a body of work conceived from mineral materials found along the route, reflecting on cultural and sensitive relationships with the earth and ways of inhabiting the world. The result of three months of research between Portugal and Morocco, the works were made with minerals and organic materials collected along the way, exploring the earth as a symbolic, tactile and cultural space. At this stage of her research, the artist proposes displacement not only as a geographical practice, but above all as an experience of the body and of living.

The work traverses the individual and social body, interweaving historical, material and cultural layers. From this listening to matter, the exhibition evokes notions of shelter, home and communal space, affirming the performative body as a place of encounter and otherness.

By Carla Santana

Opening on December 9th at 18:00

A guided tour of the history and activities of the Casa do Jardim da Estrela.

Drawing natural forms using shadows, charcoal and powdered pigments. Creation of a final large-format collective drawing on scenery paper.

By Rita Cortez

In this session, the work under discussion is "Shuggie Bain" by Douglas Stuart and the guest speaker is André e. Teodósio.

By Lisbon Libraries and ILGA Portugal

Narration and conversation around a story, preferably a traditional one, which may be from another country or culture, which has only just been invented or which is already very old.

By Noélia Fernandes

Introduction to sustainable handmade paper by product and biomaterials designer Souad Ghaffari, who proposes the manufacture of paper from natural fibers in its various stages, from the alkaline treatment and milling of the pulp to drying and finishing.

By Souad Ghaffari