Sung in chorus by groups of men and women, Cante Alentejano is a popular manifestation characteristic of the various municipalities in the district of Beja, in Baixo Alentejo. Classified by UNESCO as Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, its choirs give off a chilling telluric force.

The project entitled Cantexto fuses the words Cante and texto, by proposing collaborations between choral groups from Alentejo cante and contemporary Portuguese writers. Every year, Futurama commissions the writing of new poems to be set to music and sung by choral groups of Alentejo singing, through different female, male, mixed, adult and young voices, in a representation of the diversity of compositions and genres of the groups from Baixo Alentejo .

Between visits, writings, rehearsals and new musical compositions, Cantexto creates new words, contemporary lexicons that will be presented to the public, through a season of concerts that brings together the eight choral groups, during the Futurama Festival. Futurama also ensures the national and international dissemination of this project, which every year invites new writers to meet with different choral groups.

2024
At the Futurama 2024 Festival, between 27 September and 11 October, the commissions made to writers Rui Cardoso Martins, Alice Neto Sousa, Afonso Reis Cabral, Maria do Rosário Pedreira, Margarida Vale de Gato and Luísa Costa Gomes for the Alentejo singing groups Cantadores de Nossa Senhora das Neves, Rouxinóis do Alentejo, Os Arraianos, Papoilas do Enxoé, Grupo Coral Rama Verde and Moças da Aldeia will be premiered. With musical compositions by Celina da Piedade and Ana Santos.

2023
The Futurama 2023 Festival premiered the commissions made to writers Joana Bértholo, Richard Zimler, Regina Guimarães, Ondjaki, Isabela Figueiredo, Afonso Cruz and Marta Pais de Oliveira, who wrote poems for their respective Alentejo singing groups: Rosinhas do Loredo, Cantadores de Beringel, Ceifeiras de Pias, Grupo Coral e Etnográfico de Vila Nova de São Bento, Cardadores da Sete, Grupo Coral da Mina de S. Domingos and Grupo Coral da Vidigueira. Celina da Piedade, Ana Santos and Paulo Ribeiro were responsible for the composition.

2022
The Futurama 2022 Festival presented the first concert that mobilised writers and singing groups to dialogue with each other, with the writers devising new poems for their respective groups: Hélia Correia & Grupo Coral Guadiana, José Luís Peixoto & Grupo Coral de São João dos Caldeireiros, Patrícia Portela & Os Moços da Aldeia, Valério Romão & Cantadores do Desassossego, Matilde Campilho & Grupo Coral e Etnográfico da Casa do Povo de Serpa, Gonçalo M. Tavares & Grupo Coral da Academia de Serpa, Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida & As Ceifeiras de Entradas and Tiago Rodrigues & Os Ganhões de Castro Verde. The musical compositions were written by Armando Torrão and Paulo Ribeiro.