The 11th edition of Access Culture Week will take place from 16 to 22 June 2025. A week to reflect on what access, inclusion, and equity mean. A week to reaffirm the vision of Access Culture, which moves us forward:

A curious and inclusive society, in which anyone can dream, have opportunities to participate, and be the best they can.

Access Culture Awards
Award ceremony
National Coach Museum, Lisbon
June 16, 6:30 p.m.

Come celebrate with us the work carried out by various entities and individuals in Portugal, in order to eliminate barriers – physical, social, intellectual – to cultural participation. We will also talk about the urgency of clear language with: Ana Braga (Casa Fernando Pessoa), Joana Lobo Antunes (science communicator), Maria Ana Freitas (Teatro do Bairro Alto) and Sara Cura (founder of the podcats Let’s Rock and of the company Comunicar Arqueologia). The conversation will be moderated by Hugo Sousa.

How the media shape cultural values
June 17, 2:30pm-6pm
Alcântara Library – José Dias Coelho, Lisbon

Values ​​are inherited or taught within the family, but they are also influenced by the experience of life in society. In this sense, the media is one of the main sources and tools for reproducing and disseminating values ​​in the dominant culture. How does the media shape what society considers important? Together with the Association for Media Literacy and Journalism, we invite you to reflect on this issue and to explore it further through two workshops.

Heritage Beyond Monuments: Community-Oriented Approaches to Sustainable Preservation
June 18, 6pm-8pm WET (Lisbon)
Online, on Zoom, in English
Free participation, with prior registration

In his PhD, Angelos Kottas investigated the protection of monuments and the social impacts of residential complexes in the UNESCO World Heritage Network, with case studies of monument cities in the Mediterranean. In collaboration with ICOM Portugal, we invited Angelos Kottas to speak about the integration of community narratives and lived experiences to strengthen sustainable heritage strategies. The lecture will be in English.

Growing by growing up: Children’s cultural rights
June 22, 4pm-6pm
Santa Clara Convent, Portalegre

This year, Access Culture Week also takes us to Portalegre! UMCOLETIVO is organizing a one-day meeting to think about territories for the creation and enjoyment of the performing arts in childhood. Together with our colleagues, we propose a debate on cultural rights and childhood.

Open Doors
Between 16 and 22 June

Cultural organizations open the doors to their backstage areas. Who works there? And what do they do? Does your organization want to participate? See who has already joined and what it takes to join.

There’s more…

A meeting of the Network of Theaters with Accessible Programming and BPI | La Caixa Foundation – the first in-person meeting since its creation, at the end of 2021. It will be on June 17.

The following day, June 18, we will meet with entities interested and committed to promoting access to cinema.