Casa do Jardim da Estrela - A Theater in Every Neighborhood

Community theater workshops which, using the tools of theater, poetry and literature, explore space and time for creation.

By Casa do Jardim da Estrela, Rede de Bibliotecas de Lisboa and the Social Intervention Division of the Department of Social Rights.

Artist and psychoanalyst Katia Canton presents a universe where fantasy and human experience intertwine and fairy tales become territories of memory, desire and healing.

The urban garden becomes the imaginary forest of fairy tales, where the characters change forever. Paintings, drawings and tapestries become paths on a journey where pigments and pharmacological substances such as iodine, gentian violet and rifocin symbolize powers of care.

Between Portugal, the USA, Italy and Brazil, the artist uses colors and plants to establish narratives and build cultural bridges. Inspired by psychoanalysis, she uses chance and experimentation as learning, inviting the public to touch, observe and discover themselves. Characters such as princesses and Rapunzels reinvent themselves, facing fears and conquering power. Like Louise Bourgeois, here too art heals and integrates traumatic experiences. Healing, after all, is transforming experience into history, memory and a living image.

Curated by Bernardo Vilhena

Through guided breathing techniques, these sessions invite deep relaxation, inner listening and integral well-being.

By Christelle Rodrigues

Personal financial investments have been one of the most overlooked topics, either because they are not well regarded or because we are not encouraged to think about them. This activity aims to fill that gap by providing young people with basic financial literacy tools.

By Paulo Vahia and André Salazar

A weekly theatrical research laboratory on the gestures that amplify the ability to see, hear and feel, with practices focused on body expression, the development of listening skills, the relationship between body and space, between breath and word, between word and emotion.

Actress and director Carla Bolito and teacher Fernando Crespo will combine expressions from theater and dance, through individual and group exercises, to develop creativity and theatricality in the scene.

At the end of May, the result of the experience built up by all the participants will be shared in a public presentation.

Based on the text The Conference of the Birds by Farid Ad-Din Attar, a Persian Sufi poet from the 12th century, we are invited to reflect on and reinvent our ability to live together.

Artistic team: Cecilia Sousa, Cristina Cavalinhos, João Cabral, Lídia Franco, Maria José Paschoal and Sofia de Portugal