WOOL 
TALK 01
14th of JUNE
9h45 > 11h45
CIEC – Centro de Inovação Empresarial da Covilhã _ Rua António Angusto Aguiar, 60
The WOOL TALKS will have simultaneous English-Portuguese and Portuguese-English translation.
Places are very limited, subject to registration and confirmation of payment.
Admission fee (one-time only): € 10 _ includes WOOL 2024 tote bag, WOOL 2024 A6 notepad, WOOL pencil.
Program, information and registration HERE
“How do we work with these urban expressions in low-density territories and rural contexts?”
The first TALK of the day brings to Covilhã a group of festivals that operate in low-density and/or rural areas. This condition has not prevented them from being, on the one hand, ‘the oldest Urban Art festival in the world’, ‘the second oldest Urban Art festival in the world’ or one of the most interesting festivals still active, whether due to their geography, community building or curatorial proposal.
We’ll start the debate with the question “How do you work with these urban expressions in low-density territories and rural contexts?”, sharing practices, methodologies and formats, but we’ll also wander into other questions, such as why these practices are so unique in these territories, the objectives inherent in creating these projects, the results, the difficulties of taking action, among many others.
Speakers:
Susan Hansen, researcher representing NUART FESTIVAL – Stavanger (Norway).
Alice Pasquini, artist and founder of CVTà Street Fest – Civitacampomarano (Italy)
Laura Lara Sánchez, mediator and co-founder of Parees Fest – Oviedo (Spain)
Alfredo Martínez Pérez, co-founder of ASALTO – International Urban Art Festival, Zaragoza (Spain)
Lara Seixo Rodrigues, co-founder of WOOL | Covilhã Arte Urbana – Covilhã (Portugal)
Moderator:
Luis García Alamán, co-founder of ASALTO – International Urban Art Festival, Zaragoza (Spain)