Edition 2025
The 9th edition of Encontrarte Amares takes place from 24 to 26 July 2025 and focuses on the resilience of local ways of life as a subject for artistic creation, programming and research.
Collaborations between local communities and contemporary artists will tension and connect multiple realities, traditions, landscapes and ways of doing things, contributing to the regeneration of a shared collective imaginary. Ancestral knowledge, artisanal forms of creation and local mythologies will be re-signified within contemporary artistic contexts, deconstructing the conventional boundaries of art and opening up space for new ways of seeing and interpreting everyday life.
Encontrarte Amares will be a time and place that promotes transformative encounters, where the boundaries between centralities are blurred, creating proposals that simultaneously reflect the rural context and resonate with wider artistic debates.
PROGRAMME
Thursday, 24 July
21h00
Largo D. Gualdim Pais
Luís Capela and Inês Carneiro
Music + Contemporary Dance
22h00
Auditório Conde Ferreira
Guache
Concert
Curator: Trajetos Comunicantes
Friday 25 July
10h30
Casa da Botica
Bravas and R@ízes
Collective embroidery + Traditional music
18h30
Largo D. Gualdim Pais
Official opening of Encontrarte Amares 2025
Guided tour of the exhibitions
18h45
Casa da Botica
As Bravas
Paulo Pimenta and Pele
Photography
Francisco Sá de Miranda Library
Future scenarios
Pele
Installation
Aquarium
Entre os Montes
Allison Acza Figueroa Rojas + Philippe Teixeira St-Cyr
Audiovisual installation
Curated by Caixa Negra, Associação Cultural
Aquarium
From afar
Abel Mota
Painting
19h00
Largo D. Gualdim Pais
Community Dinner
19h00
Largo D. Gualdim Pais
Crassh Recycled
WeTumTum
Street entertainment + Music
20h45
Largo D. Gualdim Pais
Grupo de Bombos Animares
Street entertainment + Music
21h00
Largo D. Gualdim Pais
Crassh Recycled
WeTumTum
Street entertainment + Music
21h30
Largo D. Gualdim Pais
What role does culture play in transforming our municipality?
Candidates for Mayor of Amares:
Álvaro Silva, Emanuel Magalhães, Pedro Costa, Rui Tomada
Mediation: Sara Sofia Gonçalves (communicator and cultural programme maker)
Conversation + Thinking
Saturday 26 July
11h00
Amares Swimming Pool
Arianna Casellas and Kauê
Children's concert
14h30
Valoriza
Mnemonium
Rafael Gonçalves and CACI users
Virtual reality
17h00
Casa da Botica
Jorge "Cientista" Carvalho and young people from Férias Ativas (CDRC Amarense)
Music
18h00
Portuguese Red Cross
Boa noite Senhor Fotão
Janne Schröder and Mathilde Granier
Performance
21h30
Largo D. Gualdim Pais
Allan Sencades and Samuel Martins Coelho
Contemporary circus + Music
22h30
Casa da Botica
Dance songs for sad people
Luís Contrário
Punk and electronica concert
Curated by Caixa Negra, Cultural Association
23h15
Casa da Botica
MixElle
Drum n Bass concert
Curated by Caixa Negra, Associação Cultural