ROOTS 2025

The ROOTS 2025 artist residency brings together artists from Portugal, Mozambique, Cape Verde, and Senegal, inviting them to reflect on roots as displacement, uprooting, and transformation, and the multiple layers that form identity.

The works produced during the residency will be presented to the public on November 22, at 6 pm, at LAC. The parallel program includes a Film Series, a conference with guest artists, show cooking, musical performances, and a series of talks and lectures on colonial legacies and heritage and the tools for their deconstruction.

This year, the ROOTS program begins with the exhibition “Parallel Narratives,” which brings together works produced during previous artistic residencies and unpublished works by Francisco Vidal alongside videographic works by João Samões and Vanessa Fernandes.

All the activities in this program are free to enter and participate in.

Inauguration of the ROOTS 2025 Program: Exhibition “Parallel Narratives” with Abraão Vicente, Fefe Talavera, Francisco Vidal, João Samões, Kwame Sousa, Valdemar Dória, and Vanessa Fernandes November 8 at 6 p.m. ➝ Free admission ➝ LAC

ROOTS 2025 Artist Residency: Amadeo Carvalho (CV), Marilú Mmaapengo Námoda (MZ), Modou Dieng Yacine (SN), and Sara Baga (PT) — Co-curated by Francisco Vidal and Patrícia Leal November 9–22 ➝ LAC

Conference “My Place: So Many Places for a Home” with guest artists ROOTS 2025 and moderated by Prof. Dr. Mirian Tavares November 15 at 4 p.m. ➝ Free admission ➝ Lagos Municipal Museum

Showcooking with João Carlos Silva
November 16 at 3:30 p.m. ➝ Free admission ➝ Armazém Regimental de Lagos

Batucadeiras Boa Esperança
November 16 at 5 p.m. ➝ Free admission ➝ Armazém Regimental de Lagos

Inauguration of the ROOTS 2025 Exhbibition
November 22 at 6 p.m. / Open until December 30 ➝ Free admission ➝ LAC

ROOTS Cinema Cycle #1: “Outros Bairros” (1998) with guided tour, screening of the documentary, and celebration of St. Martin’s Day November 25 at 3 p.m. ➝ Free admission ➝ Vasco Pimentel, Inês Goncalves, and Kiluanje Liberdade ➝ LAC

Movie-talk: “We Did Not Come from Nothingness” and Presentation of the Conciliare Project / CES – Center for Social Studies / University of Coimbra November 25 at 7 p.m. ➝ Free admission ➝ Carla Fernandes and Sebastian Gouigan ➝ LAC

Conversation-lecture-performance: “Cartographies of Not Forgetting” January 26 at 7 p.m. ➝ Free admission ➝ Melissa Rodrigues ➝ LAC

ROOTS Cinema Cycle #2: “Praia Formosa” (2024) – 93 min November 27 at 7 p.m. ➝ Free admission ➝ Julia Simone ➝ Lagos Cultural Center

ROOTS Cinema Cycle #3: “Banzo” (2024) – 127 min November 28 at 7 p.m. ➝ Free admission ➝ Margarida Cardoso ➝ Lagos Cultural Center

Ciclo de Cinema ROOTS #4: “Contos do Esquecimento” (Tales of Oblivion) (2023) – 63 min November 29 at 7 p.m. ➝ Free admission ➝ Dulce Fernandes ➝ Câmara Municipal de Lagos Paços do Concelho Séc. XX1, Câmara Municipal de Lagos

Technical Team

Residency and Exhibition Co-curators – Francisco VidalandPatrícia Leal
Cinema Cycle Curator – Patrícia Leal
Project Management / Production Management – Nuno Pereira
Production – Ana Teresa Mariano
Education Service – Sara Borges
Communication, Graphic Design, and Photography – Daniel Bastos
Illustration – Mara Gonçalves
Technical support – Ricardo Cruzes

Financing

República Portuguesa – Cultura, Juventude e Desporto
Direção-Geral das Artes
RPAC – Rede Portuguesa de Arte Contemporânea
Município de Lagos

Partners

Município de Lagos/Museu de Lagos
Município de Caldas da Rainha
Centro de Artes de Caldas da Rainha
CAAA – Centro para os Assuntos de Arte e Arquitectura (Guimarães)

Sponsors

Teatro Experimental de Lagos – Transport / Circulation
Messe Militar de Lagos – Hosting