LAC – Laboratório de Actividades Criativas is a non-profit cultural association formed in 1995 and based in the Old Prison of Lagos. Its main objective is to stimulate and promote artistic creation in the Algarve. Its activity is based on three areas: Creation through the hosting of long and short-term artistic residencies with a special focus on the areas of Visual Arts and Performing Arts (music); Program, where it promotes and hosts exhibitions, concerts, conferences, etc. and Audience development, through the Education Service, running a series of workshops in a wide range of artistic disciplines, aimed at the community in general and the school community in particular.
It also promotes the circulation of works, both by the artists in residency and from its collection in national territory, and develops projects of an international nature, such as the urban art project ARTURb; ROOTSwhere it addresses pressing contemporary issues such as. human trafficking, classical and contemporary slavery, as well as gender and environmental issues.
LAC is a structure funded by the Ministry of Culture/DGArtes, Municipality of Lagos e CRESC Algarve 2020.