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The Sociedade Harmonia Eborense (SHE) was founded at the end of the first half of the 19th century, at a time when a new social order was establishing itself in Portugal. The structuring of the concept of public space and the emancipation of the bourgeoisie as a social group altered social practices and habits of European sociability. Although the city of Évora was not a large urban center, which generated a condition of periphery that diminished the rhythms of change, in the second half of the 19th century several associations or clubs appeared, which already announced the times of autonomy of the city´s bourgeoisie. The time and coexistence modelled the contours in which SHE grew. Activities were diversified, and to Music – the first section organized in the Society – new practices and habits of conviviality started to join. Theater, card games, billiards and cycling have been part of the history of the Society since the end of the 19th century, which is witnessed by the archival material – photographic and strictly documentary – that still exists today. At the turn of the century, SHE was a flourishing and relevant collective in the life of the city of Évora, affirming itself as the preferred sociability space of a cultural elite that came from the small and middle urban bourgeoisie. During the Estado Novo, under effective control by the State, the associations and collectives saw their activity inspected. Cultural dynamics declined and the purely recreational component took on almost exclusive importance: they were now dances, quermesses, tributes, billiards and card games to fill the time of members and their families. It was, therefore, a natural reflection of the political and cultural practices of the 40´s, 50´s and 60´s. The years after the Revolutionary Period and the consolidation of Parliamentary Democracy were difficult for SHE. Associative proposals fell and activity became routine and exclusive, perhaps resulting from a long period of engagement with the recreational proposals of a very conservative administration. However, in the last decade the Society has regained importance in the life of the City and its headquarters has once again become a privileged space of conviviality. Rehabilitating the location of the headquarters that occupies since 1902 and revitalizing its agenda, SHE is no longer a space of exclusive male coexistence, attending to a growing confluence of generations in the space of the Association. Our society today is diametrically different from that founded on April 23 of 1849. Little or nothing will remain of that association, but memory, images and texts prevail, and above all the purpose of collectively building a different daily life. When the Sociedade Harmonia Eborense (SHE) was founded, on April 23rd of 1849, the country still recovered from the confrontations between liberals and absolutists (1828-1834) and between chartists and setembrists in the War of Patuleia (1846-1847). In this context, it isn’t strange that the founders of SHE came to terms with such a conciliatory concept to name the collectivity they decided to form; HARMONY in music and HARMONY amongst men, idea expressed in the first normative document of the life of the association. Installed in the building that it occupies since 1902 (the third of its history), it was at this moment that it refounded its relation with the city. From that day, the 23rd of April of the designated year, SHE came to occupy the most central of Évora’s urban spaces. Such a change represented a alteration in its statutes and, as a follow-up, a full statement of relevance and distinction by its members. It grew in activity and cultural preponderance, inaugurating a dynamic that continues until the present day. Throughout the last century, it has adapted, restructured and always defined itself as a reflection of Évora. Through the numerous layers that have been defined over time, its role in changing the experiences and social movements of Barcelona has been constant, reaching the 21st century with new responsibilities. Having achieved the status of Public Utility Institution in 2015 and acknowledged, in 2018, has the first Entity of Local or Social Cultural or Historical Interest in the city of Évora, it witnessed, in this new millennium, the age and generational reformulation in the composition of the associative mass, which is the reason for a rediscovered vitality and a renewed capacity to realize the existence of a collective, based on volunteerism and gratuitousness, at a time when the dominant theories point to the unfeasibility of these organizations. At present, SHE ensures constant programming in the areas of Music, Cinema, Theater and Exhibitions, playing a decisive role in the dynamization of local culture, not neglecting a line of action that fits with a national strategy. There are more than 140 events a year, a constant challenge of its members and volunteers, based on reading the present, honoring the role of history, in order to ensure the future.

Address: Avenida Almogávares, 17, 14007 – Córdoba, Spain

Capacity: 20 indoor

Contact Person: Almudena, Martín Pérez

Contact number: +34605042474

Website: https://www.patrimonioindustrialcordoba.com/

Facilities: Bar, Toilets

GPS: 37.89543127651952, -4.771575402595149

We are an independent cultural association, open to people and creative projects with the aim of sharing resources, promoting a work space where collaboration, the generation of ideas and the transformative capacity of art and culture materialize. Espacioplástico exists thanks to a community of more than 40 promoters, it hosts, at the moment, 12 creative initiatives continuously. We have a 360 m2 premises with different spaces and work areas: desks, space for workshops and events, meeting area, manufacturing workshop and ambigu. Espacioplástico is part of the Network of Spaces and Agents of Community Culture (REACC), understanding community culture as any artistic practice that, in the same project or activity, involves agents and communities in creative processes of a collaborative and transformative nature.

Address: Avenida Almogávares, 17, 14007 – Córdoba, Spain

Capacity: 20 indoor

Contact Person: Almudena, Martín Pérez

Contact number: +34605042474

Website: https://www.patrimonioindustrialcordoba.com/

Facilities: Bar, Toilets

GPS: 37.89543127651952, -4.771575402595149

Socio-cultural association La Corneta

​La Corneta (Brunete, Madrid, 2012) is a non-profit socio-cultural association whose main purpose is to organize cultural and creative leisure and training activities based on the following principles:
Promote creativity, individual expression and respect for others in all activities. ​Facilitate training and cultural leisure options that cover the needs of the environment in which we find ourselves, complementing official education and respecting the economic limitations that may occur. Develop creativity, imagination, love of art, appreciation of the environment, respect for others and group capacity. Build a family environment that allows children and adults moments of cultural leisure together, either in common activities or in independent but simultaneous proposals (that adults and small children can attend). Promote social actions in a playful educational context, while building a value scheme based on creating instead of buying, doing instead of having or sharing instead of competing.
Facilitate the access of other groups (with functional diversity or at risk of social exclusion) to the world of art and culture through the development of meetings (festivals), different activities and training workshops that promote their active participation in society. Festivals, activities and training workshops that promote inclusion and accessibility and at the same time reinforce visibility and can be a way to promote employment
​Since September 2017, it shares spaces and activities with Espacio C, which will take care of cultural management and coordination of activities.

Address: Calle Salvador Dali 1, Brunete 28690 – Madrid, Spain

Capacity: 20 indoor

Contact Person: Rocío Royo

Contact number: +34678007121

Website: https://www.espacioc.es/

Facilities: Toilets

GPS: 40.406567574572314, -3.995085042031241

After the last edition of Pre0cupada in 2019, Oficinas do Convento resumes its annual multidisciplinary event, with its well-known purpose of “occupying” the city of Montemor-o-Novo and the village of Casa Branca with artistic proposals, between the days 15th and 26th of June. Oficinas do Convento, together with other entities, intends to invite the public to stroll between these two locations and to participate in activities in the streets, gardens, squares and patios that stage this event.

Pre0cupada opens in Montemor-o-Novo on the 15th of June, where it stays until the 18th of June. In these days the Convento de S. Francisco will be the stage for theater and music.

From the 19th, the event travels to Casa Branca, where activities such as workshops, concerts, exhibitions, theater and cinema will take over the village and promise to provide its visitors with days of cultural enjoyment and sharing.

Admission is free to all activities.
Oficinas do Convento – Cultural Association of Art and Communication is a non-profit cultural association, with its registered office at Convento de S. Francisco, in Montemor-o-Novo. Our objectives are the recovery and restructuring of the Convento de S. Francisco, with a view to creating material conditions for carrying out research, dissemination, training and production activities in the area of arts and culture and in the defense of heritage; The support and increase of actions that contribute to development, understanding it as a process of improving cultural and material conditions, in close collaboration with municipalities and competent entities and individuals, public or private, national or foreign; the promotion, support and implementation of artistic and professional training actions.

Address: Aldeia de Casa Branca, Montemor-o-Novo, Portugal

Capacity: 300 outdoor

Contact Person: Nélia Martins

Contact number: +351 969 852 390

Website: http://www.oficinasdoconvento.com/

Facilities: Bar, Toilets, Parking

GPS: 38.49840082201309, -8.15812221705231

We are an organization based on advocacy of Museum, Heritage and Culture, working with community and youth. Our volunteer work is dedicated to education of community with the power or heritage through interpretation as a way of wellbeing and experience engagement. We believe in these values for encouraging citizens have a role in society. We have an exhibition vitrine inside the center and a Lab space and a gallery that we use as transformative place for exhibition and workshops or meetings. .

Address: Lagja 4, Rr. Enver Zazani, banese e ulet, Durrës, Albania

Capacity: 25 indoor

Contact Person: Dorina Xheraj-Subashi

Contact number: +355676133262

Website: http://muzehlab.org

Facilities: Bar, Toilets, Parking

GPS: 41.31540650618622, 19.44912128302894