description of the project: The first urban art festival in Lisbon took place in May of 2016. GAU, the CML department assigned to Urban Art issues invited 5 recognized cultural agents linked to Urban Art to share the curatorship of the festival: Vhils + Pauline Foessel, Lara Seixo Rodrigues (Mistaker Maker) , Pariz One, Pedro Soares Neves, Miguel Negretti and Ana Vilar Bravo.
The festival, open to the population, involved national and international creators of great prestige and brought together artistic intervention, debate, community and community work, cinema, concerts, street animation, theater, puppets, bike trial, paintball, street food , among others.
The Bairro Padre Cruz was the chosen space for gathering a series of urbanistic, architectural and logistic conditions, as well as a diversified social fabric and associative mass.
"For the 1st edition of a long-awaited Urban Art Festival in Lisbon, my group would have to reflect the national talent that has populated the cities of our country, the talent that has been internationalized in recent years. Add Fuel, Bordalo II, Mário Belém and The Empty Belly completely fulfill this requirement, along with a care for the diversity of author traits, techniques and extreme care with the social and community context in which one would work. The Spanish and renowned urban artist Borondo joins the group, with part of this whole, promoting the knowledge and internationalization of Portuguese artists.", Lara Seixo Rodrigues