The 9th edition of Access Culture Week will take place from 19 to 25 of June 2023. A week for us to reflect on what access is and create greater awareness in relation to the mission and objectives of Acesso Cultura. A week also to get to know better some projects that are carried out in different parts of the country and that make a difference.

The Activist Museum: going deeper

Debate
June 19 – online and in person, at Casa Fernando Pessoa, Lisbon
6pm WEST – 7pm CEST  | Free entry

We open Access Culture Week with one more debate in the series “The activist museum: going deeper”. We´ll be talking with Esme Ward, Director of the Manchester Museum, and Njabulo Chipangura, Curator of Living Cultures at the same museum. Anyone in Lisbon or close by can join us at Casa Fernando Pessoa. But you can also join us, as usual, online. Please click on the link above (title) and register for the online event.

10+1 | Access, participation and cultural democracy: visions and experiences

Publication launch and conversation
June 20, São Luiz Teatro Municipal, Lisbon
6:30 pm | Free entry

On the occasion of our 10th anniversary, we spoke with ten cultural organisations and colleagues with whom we have collaborated in different ways. In their work we find foof for thought on access, participation and cultural democracy in Portugal. In addition to these 10 interviews, there is one more, with Ben Evans (Head of Arts and Disability at the British Council), who brings to us an international context for this reflection – and, above all, for action.

For the launch of this bilingual digital publication (Portuguese and English), we invited David Cabecinha, Alkantara; Isabel Craveiro, O Teatrão; Miguel Atalaia, Bons Sons Festival; and Inês Thomas Almeida, musicologist. The conversation will be moderated by Mónica Guerreiro who, together with Hugo Sousa, was responsible for this publication.

The publication is available here, in Portuguese and in English.

Access Culture Awards 2023

Awards cerimony
June 21, Library of Marvila, Lisbon
6:30 pm | Free entry

Open doors

Between 19 and 25 June
Cultural organisations take us to the backstage: Who works there and what do they do?