Purpose: To celebrate Lisbon as an intercultural city, promoting intercultural and interreligious dialogue
Stimulus/Rationale: A nomadic festival of intercultural festival which reintegrates neighbourhoods with the wider city. Todos (Everyone) is a festival which makes simultaneous impacts in a variety of policy arenas. It is an annual festival of world music and culture which combines international professionals with local performers. It is an event located in a particular neighbourhood of the city for three years before it moves on to another. This may be a quarter in which the city council wishes to focus its efforts, for example through the combination of urban renewal, employment and business development and migrant integration.
Process: The festival is promoted in partnership between the Culutral Producers Academy and Lisbon Muncipality and was first launched in the Largo do Intendente/Mouraria district in 2009, in 2016 moved to its third territory, in the area of São Bento and Poço dos Negros. The organisers intend to discover new intercultural foci in the city of Lisbon, challenging the idea of ghettos and bringing people from diverse cultural backgrounds and age groups closer to each other. The programme of the Festival highlights the interculturality present in Lisbon, promoting intercultural and interreligious dialogue.
2016´s edition took place between 12th and 15th of September and included street performances, an itinerant photo exhibition, theatre, gastronomy, music, drawing, dance, visits, walks, and meetings, among many initiatives that foster another look on the city and its relation with other cultures.
The neighbourhood is rich in diversity. From the African bars and restaurants, where can have “cachupa” and Cape Verdean music, to the Brazilian hairdressers and restaurants, shops from Pakistani and Nepalese merchants, to the Passos Manuel High School, one of the partners in this initiative, where children from 33 different nationalities can be found.
In 2023 the festival was held in Santa Clara, in August, a peripheral neighbourhood with several municipal housing areas, and a very rich Diversity.
Each edition hosts several activities such as workshops, talks, conferences, concerts, exhibitions, theatre, puppets and other performances, dances, tours, lunches and culinary experiences and street art led by a variety of artists. A newsletter is also sent to all enrolled users to keep posted about other initiatives around the year, articles and news.
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