The song by Angel Bat Dawid, Felicia Atkinson, Ana Lua Caiano, Joana Sá and Ex-Easter Island Head stand out in the gnration program in Braga for the last four months of the year.
© Lusa
15/07/2026
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Lusa
The music program begins on September 18th with the presentation of the new album by the tromboneist Kalia Vandever, “Mana”, followed by the dance of Fábio Krayze and the music of DJ Poco, gathered in the show “Batida”, a cross between references between Angola and Portugal.
In October, the cycle Radiography, which has given rise to young composers from Braga, opens with pianist Ana Teresa Pereira and new works inspired by Paula Rego's painting, and continues with Japanese composer Midori Hirano and her album "Otonoma".
Joana Sá, also in October, brings to Braga the project “Body : Territory — Variations on Disquieting”, which combines field recordings made in the Azores and Serra da Estrela, which include records of fires of 2025.
In the song, October ends with the Bracarenses Travo and his next album, “Wasteland”.
November opens with the former Easter Island Head, from Liverpool’s “vanguard”, and counts on Ana Lua Caiano, who begins in Braga the tour of his new album, “Slowly life is short”. The following are American clarinetist, pianist and DJ Angel Bat Dawid, South Korean Park Jiha and her album “All Living Things”, and French electro-acoustics Félicia Atkinson.
The concerts of the regular program end on December 12 with the meeting between MAQUINA. and Scúru Fitchádu, “two foundations of alternative Portuguese music”.
The Occupy cycle, dedicated to new creators of Braga, in the fields of electronic music and digital art, will take place in December, with concerts by BVHZ, I’A’V’, João MS and José Gonçalves Rios with Israel Machado. There will also be an audiovisual show by the ODE — Orchestra of Electronic Devices, guided by the composer Pedro Lima, the “Video Club”, by the artist Bruno Rodrigues Martins, a Listening Post with works by students of the Masters of Media Arts of the University of Minho and a conversation about the place of festivals in the ecosystem of a city.
In art, there are three exhibitions: “MANKURTS”, by Olga Kisseleva, and “Digital Dark Matter”, by Rosemary Lee, from October 9 to January 2, which follow the Summer Laboratories show, with works by Bruno Mesquita, Marisa Fernandes and Sandra Teixeira (September 04-19).
From the Summer Laboratories also comes the show “SIDE-LINES”, from the bassist Maria Amaro and visual artist Calgon, which premieres on September 4. In the next two days, there will be free concerts by the Coral Group of Auto-tune and the Bracarenses OCEPSIEA.
As for the Paradise cycle, dedicated to Afrodescendant and Lusophone expressions, it is held on September 11 and 12, under the motto “Passed and Future in Afrodescendence”.
This cycle includes the film “Si Destinu” (2015), by Vanessa Fernandes, the presentation of the “Antiracist Manual for Arts and Education”, by Dori Nigro, Melissa Rodrigues and Raquel Lima, a lunch with ‘chef’ Ana Teresa Correia, a conversation about art, participation and practices of contestation of coloniality, with António Zaqueu, Luege d’ Olim, Sarina Azevedo and Luiza Lins, a concert by Cesária Évora Orchestra (Theatro Circo), a dance workshop with Eddie Folige and a ‘set’ by DJ Chipula.
‘Online’, the cycle of conversations Divine Time features artists Wendi Yan (16 September), Miriam Hillawi Abraham (14 October) and Dian Joy (18 November), and a showcase of the Ensemble of Other Living Being is released.
At Game Cruzado, a program in partnership with Canal180 and Culturgest, there will be the work of director Inês Nunes for a play by Iranian composer Saba Alizadeh, and the music of the Spanish duo Tarta Relena for a film by French director Anouk Moyaux.
From October 22 to 24, Gnration will host concerts of the Semibreve festival.
Today, full programming is available on the gnration website, and tickets are put on sale.