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>> OPEN CALLS
Through our Open Calls Program, POR:TA supports artistic creation across multiple disciplines. Over the years, we have launched open calls in Music, Visual Arts, Crafts, and Performing Arts, fostering new projects and supporting artists at different stages of their practice.
Digital Arts will be the next discipline to join the program — stay tuned.
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Crafts Open Call Event at Albuquerque Foundation, 2025.
In 2025, Rosa Pomar was announced the winner of the Craft Open Call. As a artist, researcher, author and leading voice in the appreciation of Portuguese wool and traditional textile practices, Pomar is being supported by POR:TA to bring to life her project Rega com gasolina, depois deita fogo (Pour gasoline, then set it on fire), a necessary cry that reflects the crisis of the wool sector and the power to transform fragility into creation and social impact.
Este prémio permitiu-me pôr em prática um projecto em torno da consciencialização. É um passo para lá do meu trabalho habitual, que acredito que vá ter um impacto importante e que provavelmente não daria se não fosse a POR:TA. - WINNER - ROSA POMAR
In 2024, we launched our first Open Call in Performing Arts, awarding artist Carolina Varela for her project The Invention of Rest, selected by a jury of excellence composed of Aida Tavares, Beatriz Batarda and Kees Eijrond. The call registered strong interest, with over 74 applications reviewed.
The Invention of Rest is a multidisciplinary monologue that reflects on the importance of rest in response to the accelerated pace of contemporary life. Extending beyond the stage, the project engages local communities through a dramaturgy rooted in real stories, framing rest as a political practice. The show will be presented in 2026.
Receber o incentivo da POR:TA não só viabiliza a pesquisa a concepção e a construção do espetáculo como também a uma oportunidade de nos afastarmos um bocadinho da precariedade que muitas vezes existe num artista - WINNER- CAROLINA VARELA
Marcelo Moscheta, in 2023, was awarded the grant for the execution of his exhibition Do Labirinto ósseo do Homem ao eixo do Rochedo, which opened at the Museu Nacional de História Natural e da Ciência in Lisbon.
... é extremamente gratificante poder contar com um apoio financeiro para a realização dos projetos. Nós, artistas, sempre temos uma gaveta cheia deles, mas sempre à espera de um suporte que os faça sair do papel. E o prêmio da Opena Call chegou dessa maneira, como um alívio para uma ideia que já fazia 2 anos andava pra todos os lados, mas sempre parava no valor da produção. Então, poder ter um apoio financeiro adequado faz com que o teu projeto não precise sofrer alterações conceituais nem de produção, ele pode acontecer como deve acontecer e isso pra um artista é muito importante, é a qualidade da obra que é mantida e da melhor forma possível. - WINNER - MARCELO MOSCHETA
Cordel, winner of the Open Call for Music in 2023, was awarded the grant which enabled the duo to complete the production of their album Volume II, which was launched in the Spring of 2024 and includes a collection of illustrations by Pedro Vale complementing this edition. The album which will be released on vinyl will also be launched digitally with the support of a collection of illustrations by Pedro Vale which will complement this edition.
The support which Cordel received through POR:TA’s Open Call for music has been of enormous importance as it has enabled the completion of the group's new album, as well as the production of its physical and audiovisual supports -WINNER- CORDEL
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