Curators: Lúcia Marques and Paula Roush
Production: Centro Cultural Lagos, Lagos

The project Local Worlds brings together a range of international contemporary media art and performance works that explore the relationship between the local and the global, looking at how experiences of travel, diaspora and displacement can inform our perceptions of identity, culture and nation. The title refers both to the way the world is part of Lagos local imaginary and the way the local is a form of engagement of the artists with the world they live in.
 
Juxtaposing for the first time works whose sites of reflection include Portugal (specially the Algarve's region), other Europes and different Africas, amongst other continents with colonial histories, the project maps out the complex spatialities and subjectivities crossed by those in transit. Engaging with emotional landscapes and personal narratives of place, each work invites the viewer to approach the local — be it intimate, public, real or imaginary —  as a psycho geography of everyday objects and practices.
 
Staged as a discursive platform, the exhibition includes site-specific work, installation, and video screenings, occupying the multiple spaces of Centro Cultural de Lagos, including artistic interventions in the Forte Pau da Bandeira.
 
During June, July and August the multidisciplinary programme of events also involves performance, workshops, talks and cinema, in order to map the plurality of strategies that currently characterizes the dynamics of the local.
 
Local Worlds is an initiative designed for the Centro Cultural de Lagos, under the 2th edition of the ALLGARVE and proposes a platform of artistic production for reflection on cultural diversity that characterizes the heterogeneity of cities today.

ADEKUNLE DETOKUNBO-BELLO, ÂNGELA FERREIRA, ANTÓNIO CUNHA TELLES, ANTÓNIO OLE, BEATRICE CANTAZARO, CLÁUDIA CRISTÓVÃO, CLÁUDIA LOPES COSTA, EDUARDO MATOS, EDUARDO PADILHA, FAISAL ABDULLAH, FRANCISCO VIDAL, GUSTAVO SUMPTA, INÊS AMADO, INÊS GONÇALVES, JANE THORBURN, JORGE PEREIRA, JORGE PEREIRINHA PIRES, JOSÉ PINHEIRO, KILUANJE LIBERDADE, LAC, LUÍSA HOMEM, MANTHIA DIAWARA, MELANIE JACKSON, MÓNICA DE MIRANDA, ONDJAKI, PAUL GOODWIN, PEDRO SENA NUNES, PSYCHOLOGICAL ART CIRCUS, RED BULL MUSIC ACADEMY, RENÉE GREEN, RICARDO VALENTIM, SUSANA DE MEDEIROS, SUSANA GUARDADO, TIAGO CUTILEIRO, UNCLE C, VASCO PIMENTEL, VICTOR LOPES, YNAÎE DAWSON 

LOCAL WORLDS: TRANSVERSAL PROGRAMME 

June 2008 Installations, shows, performances

13 June 23h00, Concert/installation Allmnésia by Tiago Cutileiro and Jorge Pereira 
18 June 22h00, Performance O Melhor Mundo Possível (The Best Possible World) by Gustavo Sumpta
26 June 22h00, Performance The Trail by the Psychological Art Circus 
27 June 22h00, Talk with the Psychological Art Circus

July 2008 Workshops, seminars, conferences, discussions 

24 July 22h00, Conference Growth and Culture a project by Ricardo Valentim
25, 26 and 27 July 21h00 to 24h00, Workshop-seminar Shared Worlds, Collaborative and Participatory Art coordinated by Mónica de Miranda with the participation of Paula Roush, Paul Goodwin and Faisal Abdul’Allah
28, 29 and 30 July 13h00 - 24h00, Show by LAC artists 
29 July from 22h00, Sweet sour conversations moderated by Susana de Medeiros 
31 July 21h30, Talk+workshop Building Narratives with the News with Melanie Jackson. 

August 2008 Cinema and party

4 August 18h30, Vidas em Português, 2002 by Victor Lopes
With the presence of the director
 
4 August 22h00, Retratos: Portugal e os portugueses vistos pelos imigrantes, 2007 by Luísa Homem/  Lusofonia: A (R)evelação, 2006 by Red Bull Music Academy
With the presence of the directors
 
5 August 18h30, Inciclopédia DVD (Hip-hop) vol.1, 2005-07 by Uncle C
5 August 22h00, Brava Dança, 2006 by Jorge Pereirinha Pires and José Pinheiro
23 August from 22h00, Personal Dj, project by Susana Guardado (DJ SUGO) at LAC
25 August 18h30, Outros Bairros, 1999 by Kiluanje Liberdade, Vasco Pimentel and Inês Gonçalves/ Oxalá Cresçam Pitangas, 2005 by Kiluanje Liberdade e Ondjaki
25 August 22h00, Continuar a Viver ( Os Índios da Meia-Praia), 1975 by António Cunha Telles / Elogio ao ½, 2006 by Pedro Sena Nunes
26 August 18h30, Nollywood losing the plot, 2008 by Adekunle Detokunbo-Bello/ Nollywood just doing it, 2008 by Jane Thorburn
26 August 22h00, O Ritmo dos Ngola Ritmos, 1978 by Antonio Olé/ Maison Tropical, 2008 by Manthia Diawara

Useful information:

Guided tours:
In English or Portuguese: Wednesdays, Saturdays and Sundays 22h00
In Portuguese: Wednesdays, Saturdays and Sundays 23h00
 
Other guided tours: 
Paula Roush: June 14th 22h00
Lúcia Marques: July 23rd
Alexandre Barata: August 29th

Centro Cultural de Lagos
Rua Lançarote de Freitas, 7 - Lagos
Monday to Sunday, 13h00 - 24h00
Free enttrance
Information: +351 282 770 450

Forte Pau da Bandeira
Cais da Solaria, Lagos
Tuesday to Sunday 9h00 - 18h00
Entrance fee: 2€ / 1€ youngs between 12 and 18 years old, retired and guided groups / Free for children under 12.
Information:  + 351 282 761 410

LAC - Laboratório de Actividades Criativas
Largo do Convento Senhora da Glória (Antiga Cadeia de Lagos)
Information:  +351 282 084 959

More information:
www.localworlds.org