MUSICAL DRAWING | Workshop for children
25 Maio 2025 10h30
MUSICAL DRAWING | Workshop for children
Artists educators: Ana Salomé Paiva and João Mouro
Artists educators: Ana Salomé Paiva and João Mouro
Ages: 6 to 11 years old
Date: May 25, 2025
Time: 10:30 – 12:00
Location: Rua de São Bento 432, 1250-221 Lisbon
Price: Free access upon registration For more information and registration: info@zaratan.pt
Date: May 25, 2025
Time: 10:30 – 12:00
Location: Rua de São Bento 432, 1250-221 Lisbon
Price: Free access upon registration For more information and registration: info@zaratan.pt
Inspired by the sound installation As árvores também batem palmas (“The trees also clap hands"), we invite the youngest ones to a sound and artistic experience led by Ana Salomé Paiva in collaboration with João Mouro, the author of the installation.
The session will begin with a blind drawing exercise, which consists of drawing while listening to music, with eyes closed, exploring the connection between hearing and movement, allowing the music to guide the hand intuitively and spontaneously. The objective is to express the sensations, emotions, rhythms and textures of the music through lines, shapes and colors on paper, without the interference of sight.
In a second moment, participants will transform their drawings into pieces of a large collective collage. This visual "score", created together, will serve as inspiration for an improvised concert by João Mouro, reserved for the young participants and their families.
The session will begin with a blind drawing exercise, which consists of drawing while listening to music, with eyes closed, exploring the connection between hearing and movement, allowing the music to guide the hand intuitively and spontaneously. The objective is to express the sensations, emotions, rhythms and textures of the music through lines, shapes and colors on paper, without the interference of sight.
In a second moment, participants will transform their drawings into pieces of a large collective collage. This visual "score", created together, will serve as inspiration for an improvised concert by João Mouro, reserved for the young participants and their families.
Biographies:
ARTIST/TEACHER: ANA SALOMÉ PAIVA is a visual artist. She is a resident at the Goela Association. She is interested in poetry and drawing and their various manifestations and relationships with her body as a medium and as a political body. Her work over the past few years has focused on a poetic research on the woman's body, in the form of notebooks, fanzines, self-edited books and engravings. The artist's latest self-edited books are related to erotic poetry and motherhood.She has been exhibiting since 2008 in alternative and independent spaces. She is involved in artistic pedagogical projects in various locations in the city of Lisbon. She was a guest artist for the Descola project - Nomad School at Eb2/3 Alta do Lumiar with a visual arts activity "My Imaginary Neighborhood" in a classroom context. She taught Visual Arts in a classroom context at Eb1 St. Maria Maior and in Bairro Bensaúde, within the scope of the projects: “Bensaúde Goes to School”, “Bensaúde is Life”, “Neighborhoods That Count”, supported by the Bip-Zip Program, Priority Intervention Neighborhoods. She is the author of the plastic arts workshop project “Inconstant Drawings” where she develops projects for children, young people and seniors in various spaces: Goela Association, Penha de França and Marvila libraries, Sines Arts Center. She is a trainer of engraving sessions: alternative processes.
ARTIST/MUSICIAN: JOÃO MOURO (1985, Faro, Portugal) holds a degree in Painting from the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon (2009), the city where he lives and works. In 2008 he was a fellow of the Erasmus Program at the Accademia di Belli Arti di Brera, Milan, Italy. In 2013 he was one of the artists selected for the 10th edition of the EDP New Artists Award, participating in the collective exhibition presented at the Edp Foundation and Casa da Música in Porto. He has exhibited regularly since 2007, with the following solo exhibitions standing out: “A casa impossível”, Amac, Barreiro, Portugal 2018, “De férias para fazer o balanço”, Galeria do Banco, Lisbon, 2017, “Foi por casa do carpinteiro”, Show me Art and Design gallery, Barcelos, Portugal, 2015, “Ventanismo”, Galería Astarté, Madrid & Arte Santander, Galeria Astarté, Santander, Spain 2012; “Andar à tulha”, Galerie Patrick Lancz, Brussels, 2011 Belgium & Show Me, Braga, Portugal, 2010, “Janelas de alumínio”, Galeria Novo Século, Lisbon, Portugal, 2009. He has participated in the following collective exhibitions: “Mar – Deserto, Oxímoros para uma ausência”, Alfaia, Loulé, 2024; “Construccion del sonido”, Festival Villa Manuela, Museo Conde Duque Madrid 2016. Galerie Ulrike Hrobsky, Vienna, Austria, 2013; “Inside-out II, 5 colecciones”, Galeria Astarté, Madrid, Spain; “Arquitetura no Design”, Show me, Braga, Portugal; Scope Basel International Art Fair, Galeria Astarté, Basel, 2012; Experimenta Design - Show me design editors, various authors, Galeria 59, Lisbon, Portugal, 2011; Notable artistic residencies include: 2019, “Arte Pública no Bairro da Boa morte”, São Tomé and Príncipe. 2019; “Projecto BAL_OIÇA” (BAL_OIÇA Project), Centro Cultural do Mindelo, Cape Verde, 2018; “Objectos Experimentais”, Galeria Saguão, Viseu 2014.
Drawing on the poster: João Mouro, "As Árvores também batem palmas" (2025)
Support: República Portuguesa – Cultura / Direção-Geral das Artes