The Lisbon Museum Garden – Palácio Pimenta, in Campo Grande, is the new venue for the multidisciplinary Eminente Festival. It will be in a Takeover version, as it was last year, when it was held in Terreiro do Paço over two days, with always free admission. It was announced this Tuesday afternoon.

Musically, there are names like Dealema and Sam The Kid, who, as he has done at other festivals, comes under his own direction Chelas é o Sítio, and will also perform in a DJ format (not a concert) alongside DJ Big, as well as the British rap group OMA, who regularly accompanies the American Isaiah Rashad. There is also space for the British Sikh Punjabi DJ Young Singh and performances DJ Marvox With Deejay Rifox and Deejay Veiga, Puçanga, Hetta, Cíntia, Tristany, Suzana Francês, EVAWAVE, Afrokillerz, Silly, George Silver, Shaka Lion, Violeta Azevedo or Isabel Costa and Polido.

This festival, which began with Vhils in Oeiras in 2016 and then moved to Panorânico de Monsanto and Marvila, is not limited to music, of course. There are several sections. “Participation”, one of them, begins with an invitation to four entities, in this case the French company MAOTIK and Sara Sadek, the Australian Lauren Moffat and the Portuguese group Unidigrazz, to create digital works based on what the public, as well as researchers and journalists, propose.

It all started with “the concept of participation, which we started working on last year,” says PÚBLICO Margarita Mata, part of the festival’s programming and organizing team. “It also had a lot to do with the work we do with the neighborhoods,” he says, speaking of the Bairros program, which is in its fourth edition and includes artists who interact with the community in areas of the city such as Vale de Chilas, Vale de Alcântara, Alta de Lisboa or Bairro do Rego. They Workshops Which takes place before the festival and includes several disciplines, from visual arts to music, including gastronomy and dance. In the same place, there will be musical performances led by Maze, member of Dealema, and DJ Marfox, as well as dance performances by the seniors of PER 11, in the parish of Santa Clara, with the support of choreographer and dancer Inés Oliveira. This work with the community has been documented and is still being documented on video and part of this preparation will be shown throughout the festival in the festival venue. There will also be a presentation of the results Workshops Visual arts curated by artists João Fortuna, Kiam, Sever and Atelier JQTS and culinary sessions with A Cozinha Verde, a vegan food project designed by Filipa Range.

“We started with three long-term projects,” continues Margarida Mata, calling “participation,” “neighborhoods” and “residences.” The latter is a program in which, as the curator says, “artists from different regions come together to create a work that is only presented at Iminente,” and which, “from the beginning,” they were not aware of until its presentation. There are also two conversations in partnership with the digital newspaper A message from Lisbonassociated with these projects.

“For example, a musician like Batida or Shulaji can end up making a piece of visual art, which is what happened in Shulaji’s case,” he adds. This year, the program features three groups: one with Batida, dancer, choreographer and fashion designer Carlotta Lagidu, Palestinian researcher, curator, translator and activist Shahd Wadi, and Palestinian researcher, curator, translator and activist Shahd Wadi. designer Nour Karen Gida; and another with Leila Fadista, from Fado Bisha, and the dancer and choreographer Benny and the artistic group Vês Três, composed of Anna Malta (NUMPÁRA), Madalena Becqueto and Maria de Brito Matias, Which will provide “facilities-Offers“; and rapper Producer Xullaji, dancer and choreographer Gaia de Medeiros and visual artist MaisMenos, who present an “immersive interactive installation.”

As for the new space, they wanted, as Margarida Mata says, “a space that could be institutional, that could be more welcoming, but eye-catching and in the middle.” [da cidade]”, continuing the idea that “the suburbs” can also “reach the city center.”