http://hdl.handle.net/10174/633 2026-04-05T19:36:15Z http://hdl.handle.net/10174/41610 Title: Community Intergenerational Perforamance for Challenging Age Prejudices Authors: Bezelga, Isabel; Moya Pellitero, Ana María Editors: Rotondi, Armando Abstract: The region of Alentejo, in Portugal, is considered a European rural region, with more than 23% of its population over 65 years old (Eurostat 2020 – Aging Europe 2020). The majority of them are in danger of isolation, which has an impact on the older population’s mental health. Therefore, engaging in a creative process of community intergenerational performance strengthens solidarity, especially between young people and seniors, avoiding loneliness. The Centre of Art History and Artistic Research (U Évora), located in Alentejo province, will engage with a community intergenerational performative-based research involving active social participation, active ageing and well-being, intergenerational learning and experience sharing with senior residents of Evora municipality. This research will involve the participation of 40 senior residents and University students from visual arts and performance studies. We will run a 6-month artistic research process with the community, during which participants will have talks, presentations, team building and creative sessions/workshops. We will work with memories, embodied experiences, embodied knowledge, and image-building about the urban-rural landscape. Sharing and participatory creative dialogue will involve creative processes aiming at two interactive performances in public spaces in the city of Évora. With this presentation we will discuss the ongoing results of this intergenerational community performative research, which belongs to a broader international project, “Age Against the Machine”, European Network of CERV Cities project, funded by the European CERV programme, with a network of six partners: (Red Cross of Serbia (Serbia), Trupa Drž ne daj (Serbia), Teatr Brama (Poland), Nordisk Teaterlaboratorium Odin Teatret (Denmark), University of Évora (Portugal) and Comppagnia Il Melrancio (Italy). Five Festivals are planned to exchange experiences, process implementation, and different and diverse approaches for reflecting on intergenerational performance. Through intergenerational community collaboration in a performative way, the project aims to challenge existing European policies concerning older populations, promoting equality and human rights as fundamental EU values. 2024-09-30T23:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10174/41608 Title: Bonds in Motion: Performing arts intergenerational family at Raval, Barcelona Authors: Moya Pellitero, Ana Editors: Gorgel Pinto, António; Reaes Pinto, Paula; Vicente, Sérgio Abstract: “Vincles en Moviment” [Bonds in Motion] is an artistic community-based research project that originated as a community-based residency in performing arts at Drassanes Civic Centre (CCD) (Raval) in October 2022. With the funding support of the Catalonia Culture Department, OSIC (CLT019/22/000216), we could gather a research interdisciplinary team of five members, experts in heritage and artistic community practices, attention to diversity through scenic arts, choreography and psychology, dance, landscape and experimental geographies, acting, dramaturgy and theatre, and audio-visuals studies. Fourteen participants, aged between 16 to 84 years old, who lived or studied in the Raval neighbourhood (Barcelona), joined the residency. Half of them were migrants from Ecuador, Peru, Colombia or Ukraine and national citizens born in other Spanish autonomous communities. During three months, we experimented with interdisciplinary artistic processes, thus contemplating visual and plastic arts, movement, dance, theatre, performance and "site-specific" indoor and outdoor interventions. All the working sessions were recorded, and on January 2023, a video documentary (40’) was released in a public premiere at CCD, with a round table public discussion. We have witnessed the long-lasting impact of this artistic project on the community at Raval neighbourhood, with the transformation of the group of participants into the “Vincles” Family, active, self-organising activities after the project was finished. In January 2024, the group challenged two research team members to co-produce a community intergenerational theatre play with them. For five months, we all co-created “Temps al Temps” [Time to Time] intergenerational spectacle that premiered in May 2024. 2025-12-19T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10174/41601 Title: It’s Time to Act: Empowering ageing, sisterhood identity, and legacy transmission through intergenerational community performance methods Authors: Moya Pellitero, Ana; Bezelga, Isabel; Salazar, Daniela Editors: Gorgel Pinto, António; Reaes Pinto, Paula; Vicente, Sérgio Abstract: “Old woman? Who said that? We are still here!” is an intergenerational spectacle that premiered in October 2024 in Évora (Alentejo, Portugal), and counts with the participation of sixteen women on stage from 22 to 80 years old. Behind the scenes, there is a multidisciplinary team made up of 15 members, all teachers, researchers and students at the University of Évora. CHAIA is coordinator of this artistic participative based- research, embedded in the project Age Against the Machine: European Solidarity Network for Older Citizens Rights (2024-26), co-financed by the European Union under the programme CERV (Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values). We engaged with an intergenerational group of thirty participants into a dialogue valuing individual singularities and collective identifications through sensitive listening, using participative theatre methodologies, and participative artistic actions which helped us to build a collaborative dramaturgy. There has been a political, ethical, social, and cultural dimension in our work, reflected in a performance that reveals poetically and transversally themes such as ageing, feminist care ethics, gender rights, embodied and performing heritage, the re-signification and connection with the land and Alentejo landscape and the deep relationship with the cycles of nature. This testimonial work of embodied knowledge of past and present memories holds the pride of a process of legacy transmission. The group was empowered through togetherness, team solidarity, inclusion, and active participation, as well as through a process of fearless curiosity, intimacy and sisterhood, with a sustainable long-term effect on their lives and their close communities. 2025-12-19T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10174/41368 Title: A escultura de Jorge Vieira do Prisioneiro Político Desconhecido ao Homem-Sol: percursos de uma liberdade de imaginar Authors: Rodrigues, Paulo Simões Abstract: Demonstra como a presença do touro na obra de Jorge Vieira inscreve-se na liberdade de imaginar, patente na constante procura das diferentes expressões e variações que a figuração de Jorge Vieira foi assumindo, ora mais surrealistas, ora mais abstratas, frequentemente antropomórficas e com pormenores humorísticos, em permanente diálogo tanto com o modernismo de Pablo Picasso como com as tradições ancestrais de Portugal e do Mediterrâneo. 2023-01-01T00:00:00Z