WOOL 2018

For the 5th EDITION of WOOL, once again we brought to Covilhã a group of 4 artists, 2 portuguese and 2 foreigners.Pastel (Argentina), Roc Blackblock (Spain), Aheneah (Portugal) and Frederico Draw (Portugal) were invited to develop interventions in the historic center, once again inspired by the local identity, which we consider to be everything that makes this place unique: traditions, songs, gastronomy, personalities, history, fauna and flora, etc.

The group of parallel activities presented: a illustration workshop conducted by André da Loba at the secondary school, music concerts by Filho da Mãe and Senhor Vulcão and the presentation of a exhibition ‘Wool meets Roubaix’. All of these referred actions and the current guided tours, movies and talks aim to promote more contact between WOOL (and other parallel projects), the artists and citizens.

We must highlight that, for this edition and after the past year of 2017, that we saw Portugal suffer the greatest devastation in the field of forest fires, which took the lives of 115 people, we made the special request to the artist Roc Blackblock to develop a tribute to all the firefighter and especially our local volunteer firefighter’s corporation. WOOL could not miss the opportunity to honor who gives Life for Life.