Foundation OBRAS
runs an art residencies program.

We aim to provide an atmosphere for inspiration and effective working. The focus is on residencies for (emerging) professional artists. Disciplines include visual art, music, dance, and writing. Occasionally exhibitions, concerts and site-specific performances are organized.

Most activities take place in a rural area of Portugal, in a carefully renovated quinta with eight apartments, two cottages and five artists’ studios. The region is full of culture and history, and the nature is inviting and mysterious. The weather is warm in summer (with cool, starry nights) and mild in winter.
In Holland OBRAS has an auxiliary establishment: a beautiful mansion with place for two artists, in a village surrounded by nature and with good connections to bigger cities.

Since 2004 OBRAS hosted 550 artists from 44 countries for residencies of 3 to 10 weeks and organized 85 cultural events.

latest news:

On 28 August we had an Open Studio with participation of Catalina Ouyang (USA; visual artist), Gerry van der Linden (Holland; poet), Yvonne Halfens (Holland; ceramist), Nico Huijbregts (Holland; composer, painter), Raphaelle Oskar (Croatia, living in Germany; actress), Elena Cheah (USA, living in Germany; cellist), Hannah Pass (USA; writer) and  Saaya Hitomi (Japan; multimedia). More info is in the newsletter.

"Cor+Som" has been extended until 25 September. It is an exhibition in the fortress of Evoramonte, with Scott Cherk (sound scapes) and Pat Badt (light interventions). See the newsletter for more information. Opening speeches were from Ana Cristina Pais (Art Historian of the Direcção Regional de Cultura do Alentejo) and Marcia Oliveira (Chancellor of Culture of Estremoz).

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On 30 August  Elena Cheah (USA) and Raphaelle Oskar (Croatia) played the prophet of Seville in the Igreja de S Vicente (Évora). It is a work of Musical Theatre about a boy who discovers that his parents are hiding a secret of existential level for both the parents and him: they live as a Christian family, but his parents are in fact Jewish and Muslim. The piece is about multi-culturalism and on the current spirit in the Western world: that you must be and must feel special.  See the newsletter for more info.

Click on the above image to see a trailer.

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