Futurama Festival 2025

The Futurama Festival returns this November to celebrate the spirit of creation and artistic experimentation that has flourished throughout the year. It marks the culmination of months of residencies, encounters and dialogues between artists and communities, a space where art meets territory, thought and collective imagination.

The fourth edition of the festival begins in Beja (14–15 November), travels to Mina de São Domingos (22 November), and ends in Alvito (28–29 November). Over three weeks, Futurama transforms the Baixo Alentejo into a landscape of discovery, connection and shared experience, through a programme that embraces multiple artistic languages.

Futurama is a platform for training, empowerment and creation for new generations, showcasing the outcomes of this year’s artistic residencies developed by Fidel Évora, Francisco Trêpa, Tiago Alexandre, Sónia Baptista and David Infante, in collaboration with students from local secondary and vocational schools. These partnerships give rise to installations, performances and exhibitions that transform the public spaces of Beja, Mértola and Alvito into stages for contemporary experimentation and imagination.

At Espaço Futurama, the festival presents an exhibition by Maja Escher, inspired by the surrealist imagery of popular poetry and exploring the ancestral relationship between body, earth and word.

On the river beach of Tapada Grande, audiences are invited to lie back on the sand and immerse themselves in Adriana Proganó’s installation, a sensory experience that intertwines sculpture and sound, body and listening.

In each location, the Cante Alentejano tradition takes on new life through Cantexto, one of Futurama’s cornerstone projects. For this edition, six Portuguese-language writers (Cláudia Lucas Chéu, Lídia Jorge, Miguel Castro Caldas, Pedro Chagas Freitas, Kalaf Epalanga and Luísa Sobral) lend their words to the compositions of Ana Santos, Celina da Piedade and Paulo Ribeiro, creating new bridges between tradition and contemporaneity.

This year, Futurama celebrates the transformative power of art in the Baixo Alentejo, amplifying the voices, bodies and landscapes that make this region a living territory of creativity and future possibilities.

Admission is free, and the festival remains open to the local community and to the future.