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IMPROVISE AND ORGANIZE is an international art association for experiences design.

11/10/2026

🚴 FRTHR.CO ÆOLUS — 2026
We are proud to be hosting the production of FRTHR.CO Æolus, an extreme endurance cycling adventure starting on 27 December 2026 in Sagres, Algarve, Portugal.
🌍 700 km. 10,000 metres of climbing. One epic loop.
Crossing the Algarve, Baixo Alentejo and western Andalusia before turning east to return to Sagres, this demanding route takes riders through some of the most rugged and beautiful landscapes of the southern Iberian Peninsula.
⛰️ The challenge:
• Approximately 700 km of riding
• Around 10,000 metres of elevation gain
• 60–70% unpaved and off-road terrain
• Boggy tracks, flowing gravel roads, coastal routes and steep climbs
A journey of endurance, exploration and connection with the land.
We look forward to bringing this extraordinary adventure to life from Sagres.
📍 Sagres, Portugal
📅 Starting 27 December 2026
Sagres Algarve Portugal

06/10/2026

MOVING TERRITORIES
Europe — Central Asia · 2027–2028

What happens to an artistic practice when it leaves its familiar territory?

Moving Territories is a two-stage international artistic exchange connecting Kyrgyzstan and Portugal.

In 2027, a small group of approximately 8 international artists researchers and curators will travel through Kyrgyzstan, with a focus on the landscapes and communities around Song-Kul and Issyk-Kul.

Two weeks of movement, observation, encounter and artistic research.

There is no prescribed medium.
No common theme.
No predetermined artwork.

Instead, participants are invited to enter an unfamiliar landscape, encounter different forms of knowledge and allow the experience to influence their own artistic practice.

In 2028, the group will reunite in Portugal to continue developing the ideas, research and works that emerge from the Kyrgyzstan experience.

The project will be developed and curated by Paulina Almeida, artist, curator and researche and Shaarbek Amankul, contemporary artist from Kyrgyzstan.

The final exhibition will be a second territory — a space where experiences from Central Asia can be transformed, questioned and reinterpreted through a new geographical and cultural context.

2027 · KYRGYZSTAN
Movement · Field Research · Encounter · Exchange

2028 · PORTUGAL
Artistic Development · Curatorial Process · Exhibition

Two territories. Two stages. One evolving artistic process.

Open to artists and curators based in Europe interested in international mobility, artistic research and exchange.

More information by mail and participation details coming soon.

02/10/2026

Proud to annouce we just be granted a support for our action youth program in collaboration with our guests feom PALESTINE! The fragments theater Represented by Rawand Arqawi cant wait to host this wonderfull human and talented art agent!

01/10/2026

Poetic reflection on past weeks memory lane at Odiaxere comunities from 3 to 83. What a journey! with the support from Lagos Municipality! Thanks to all 125 participants that made it possible.

28/09/2026

WATER IN TIME
On 25 September, Odiáxere became a living landscape of water, memory and community.
Through performance, sound, light and the participation of local communities, Águas no Tempo brought together stories of water and the territory, connecting generations and making visible memories that might otherwise disappear.
The artistic process continues through the exhibition at Junta de Freguesia de Odiáxere, bringing together works created with children, older people, local communities and invited artists.
Odiáxere
Exhibition: 1–30 October 2026
Paulina Almeida, Francisca Rocha Gonçalves, Flutua Orquestra de Flautas, Ron van Roosmalen, Marta Luís, Monika, Manuel Alão, Jeniffer Rodrigues, Técnica Múltipla Escolha Produção Improvise and Organize
With the participation of the Odiáxere community and support from Câmara Municipal de Lagos.

23/09/2026

Jelsa Art Biennial in Águeda
Casa de Alta Vila
23 October – 1 November | 4–6 pm
For almost a decade, Improvise and Organize Cultural Association and the Jelsa Art Biennial (JAB) with the support of Agueda Municipality have shared a commitment to bringing contemporary art into dialogue with local communities, places and territories, creating meaningful connections between artists and audiences.
The collaboration began in 2018, following an invitation to artist Paulina Almeida to take part in a residency in Hvar, Croatia. This encounter marked the beginning of a long-term artistic exchange and contributed to the development of the Jelsa Art Biennial.
Since then, the JAB has welcomed 11 artists from the AgitLab network, who have developed and adapted works specifically in response to the local context. Through interventions in public space, community projects, exhibitions, performances and musical collaborations, this ongoing exchange has brought artists, communities and territories closer together.
The Jelsa Art Biennial (JAB) is a contemporary art festival held on the island of Hvar, Croatia, bringing international artists into dialogue with the local community, landscape and cultural context. Through exhibitions, residencies, public-space interventions and educational programmes, the JAB explores how contemporary art can activate places and create new connections between people, culture and the environment.

22/09/2026

Amazing team at Odiaxere, Lagos! Kika RG Manuel Alão Ron van Roosmalen Múltipla Escolha Jeniffer Rodrigues Monika Here we go!!

18/09/2026

ÁGUAS DO TEMPO
Exhibition of Research and Community Creation
1–31 October 2026 · Junta de Freguesia de Odiáxere
The exhibition Águas do Tempo opens on 1 October at the Junta de Freguesia de Odiáxere, presenting the outcome of an artistic research and community creation process developed in Odiáxere.
With the participation of Escola Básica de Odiáxere, Espaço Dunas, Centro Infantil de Odiáxere, Lar Joaquim Eugénio Calado, and the local community, the project takes water as a connecting element between territory, memory, identity and transformation.
Through workshops, conversations and artistic practices, different generations explore the stories and traces of water within the territory — rivers, springs, agriculture, gestures and memories that move across time.
The exhibition brings together works created in collaboration with the community alongside artistic research developed in Odiáxere, creating a collective archive where different ways of observing, remembering and imagining the territory come together.
What does water remember?
And what do we remember through water?
Águas do Tempo proposes a space for encounter between art and community, where the memory of water becomes material for creation and reflection on the present and the possible futures of Odiáxere.
Artists / collaborators:
Paulina Almeida · Alijia Biala · Cecilia Borettaz · Marta Luís · Escola Básica de Odiáxere · Espaço Dunas · Centro Infantil de Odiáxere · Lar Joaquim Eugénio Calado
Curator: Paulina Almeida
Venue: Junta de Freguesia de Odiáxere
Opening: 1 October 2026
Closing: 30 October 2026

09/09/2026

PORTUGAL × ROMANIA — ARTIST RESIDENCY
We are very happy to announce Maria as our selected artist for the residency at COLAB, Bucharest, as part of the artistic and cultural cooperation between Portugal and Romania.
During her residency, Maria will develop and share her ongoing research and creation “Uma”, a performance that brings together three women — three voices, three artistic lives — into one body.
Under the sign of Marie Bracquemond, Camille Claudel and F***y Hensel, Maria encounters a body that invokes and is invoked — a body traversed by an emotional history connecting these artists with countless women creators whose artistic lives were constrained, silenced or forgotten because they were women.
Can we still weave empathic connections with these spirits? Can we still be moved by their stories, allowing them to resist in the collective memory of Time?
SHARING OF PROCESS / WORK-IN-PROGRESS
📅 10 October | 19:00 📍 COLAB, Bucharest
An opportunity to encounter the work in process, share questions and experience the development of Uma during the residency. ABOUT MARIA DIOGO
Maria is a dancer, creator and performer, currently working as an independent artist based in Lisbon. Trained at the Academia de Dança Contemporânea de Setúbal, with an internship at KUNST!HUMANIORA in Belgium, and graduated in Law from FDUNL, she brings together artistic practice, critical inquiry and a multidisciplinary perspective.
She has worked with CeDeCe — Contemporary Dance Company, Vortice Dance Company and North Dance Company, performing across Europe and the United States, and has collaborated with choreographers including Thaddeus Davis, Jonathan Hollander, Iolanda Rodrigues, Daniel Cardoso, Fernando Duarte, Patrícia Henriques and Jochen Heckmann.
In 2025, she presented her first solo work, “LIBERTAÇÃO–LIBERATION”, at the Young Choreographers’ Showcase. During her 2026 residency at c.e.m – centro em movimento, she developed improvised studies for re)main and if i may ask. She is currently researching and creating “Uma”.
We look forward to seeing where this encounter between Portugal and Romania will take the work.

31/08/2026

ÁGUAS DO TEMPO | WATERS OF TIME
A performance, exhibition and collective artistic research on water, memory and territory in Odiáxere.
Water never remains still. It moves, disappears, returns, and carries with it the traces of time, communities and landscapes.
Águas do Tempo brings together artistic research, scientific data, local memory and community creation to explore how water has shaped the territory of Odiáxere — its landscapes, agricultural practices, histories and ways of living.
Throughout several weeks, stories, photographs, archives, maps and memories were collected through encounters with local communities. Workshops with students from Escola Básica de Odiáxere and participants from Espaço Dunas transformed these memories into drawings, sculptures, objects and collective narratives.
The exhibition presents the result of this process, creating an affective cartography of Odiáxere where natural and human heritage meet.
The research also gives rise to an audiovisual performance by Paulina Almeida and Francisca Rocha Gonçalves, with FLUTUA — Orquestra de Flautas- by the maestro Jorge Salgado Correia.
Historical data tracing the evolution of water levels across centuries becomes sound, light and movement. Laser projections draw an ephemeral map of water fluctuations, while sound transforms these variations into frequencies and resonances, creating an acoustic landscape where the past becomes present.
Together, the exhibition and performance invite us to experience the territory not as something fixed, but as a living organism in constant transformation.
At a time when climate change is profoundly reshaping our relationship with water, Águas do Tempo asks how art can make visible what is often difficult to see: the slow movements of the land, the memory carried by water, and the stories embedded in a changing landscape.
EXHIBITION
1 October, 18:00 — Opening
Junta de Freguesia de Odiáxere
On view until 31 October
Authors: Students of Escola Básica de Odiáxere, participants of Espaço Dunas and Alijia Biala
Curated by Paulina Almeida
PERFORMANCE
Audiovisual performance by Paulina Almeida & Francisca Rocha Gonçalves
with FLUTUA — Orquestra de Flautas

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