MALACATE | Companhia Cepa Torta

em 2025, o projeto malacate volta à mina de são domingos

O MALACATE foi um projeto de intervenção artística multidisciplinar criado especificamente para a Mina de São Domingos, financiado pelo fundo EEAGrants e com o apoio da Câmara Municipal de Mértola, que decorreu entre 2021 e 2023, e teve como como vetor o trabalho artístico contemporâneo que surge do encontro entre os locais e uma comunidade de artistas sustentado no processo de mediação comunitária.

Este projeto que mobilizou, de forma crescente, toda a comunidade em torno da criação artística contemporânea comunitária, regressa agora em 2025, a convite do Município de Mértola, para uma nova temporada que decorrerá entre março e junho, marcada por novas atividades, incluídas num MALACATE renovado.

Conheça aqui o projeto MALACATE 21-23

temporada 2025

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Images from the Open Days - 27-29 March '25

Malacate Artistic Residency

This year, the MALACATE Project invites three artistic structures — CAMA, MEIO DO MATO and OCRE — for a two-week residency at Mina de S. Domingos, between June 1 and 14. During this period, each structure will develop an artistic proposal inspired by the territory and its people, in a process that integrates not only research and creation, but also the active involvement of the local community.

The residency begins with the Artists’ Reception Program (June 2-4), a series of activities that allow visiting teams to get to know the Mine through shared experiences with local residents and partners. At the end of the residency, on June 14, the public presentation of the developed proposals will be made.

It will be the community of Mina de S. Domingos itself that will choose which of these proposals will give rise to the community show MALACATE 2026, reaffirming the centrality of collective participation at the heart of this project.

GUEST ARTISTIC STRUCTURES

CAMA a.c.

CAMA is a cultural association founded in 2019 by Daniel Matos and Joana Duarte.
Based in Lagos, its mission is to support the creation, production and dissemination of artistic projects.
The association aims to promote the intersection of emerging artists and creators in various areas of performing arts with the aim of creating innovative projects that focus on the decentralization of artistic creation processes, the creation of new audiences, the exploration of new artistic narratives and the democratization of access to the arts.
Since 2019, he has been producing projects by choreographer Daniel Matos, Coletivo Aurora Negra and multidisciplinary artist Mariana Ferreira. In 2022, at the invitation of Lagos City Council, he created Pedra Dura - Algarve Dance Festival, with artistic direction by Daniel Matos and Joana Duarte, which will start its second edition in 2023.
In addition to the supported creations, CAMA.ac also runs workshops in the context of performing arts, shows linked to local communities, and curates the “EM CAMPO” artistic residencies in the Algarve region.

MEIO DO MATO

MEIO DO MATO, based in the Serra de Monchique, with its very young core team, was created to continue and consolidate the artistic journey of some of its members, as well as to challenge itself, as a Cultural Association, to create sustainable conditions to integrate, value and live in the territories it is committed to embracing, generating and promoting new forms of artistic and cultural affirmation.

Currently developing the project called “POVO DA CASA – Partida” which is the beginning of an artistic journey with and for Monchique, with the creative and inspirational focus of restructuring the currently inactive Casa do Povo da Terra. This programme of artistic workshops for local children and young people will culminate in a closing party for and with everyone, where the “Book of records and memories” of Partida will be launched, which is born from a space for research, documentation and archiving, transversal to the entire project.

OCRE

OCRE is the tone of an undiscovered land, a common ground between architecture and theatre. Ochre is the colour of relationships, of the way we touch and are touched by a place with its people, materials and experiences. What structures emerge from what already exists, and how can we inhabit them together?

Collective formed by Matilde Leal, in artistic collaboration with Maria López and production by Vanessa Martins

IMAGES FROM THE ARTISTS RECEPTION PROGRAM - JUNE 2-4 '25

MEIO DO MATO WAS THE STRUCTURE SELECTED FOR THE 2026 COMMUNITY CREATION

On June 14, the Cineteatro da Mina de S. Domingos hosted the public presentation of the three proposals developed. This symbolic moment was followed by the decision of the MALACATE Council — a community curation group — which chose the MEIO DO MATO structure proposal to be further developed and explored throughout 2026, in collaboration with the community.