AgitLab
AgitLAB is our residency program in Águeda, created through a partnership between the Municipality of Águeda and Improvise and Organize.
The Residence offers emerging artists several creative spaces and presentation opportunities to an audience, in exchange for the participation in events involving the local community, such as workshops and open studio.
Deadline for applications
Throughout the year
The residents must either
* make a creation of a new work
* make a exhibition / final presentation
* organize a workshop for the local population
* host an Open Studio
* leave a work in case of Visual Arts
* or we discuss how your work benefits the local structure
Conditions for the artist
* A room of residence and common workspace
* A space for final presentation
* dissemination of the project
* technical support (According to demand)
Situated in the center of Águeda, Parque Alta Vila is the largest green area of the city. This space is a leisure structure of English influence, in a typology that became very common in 19th century European urbanism.
Consisting of an area of more than 30,000 square meters, the park develops in an irregular shape, with winding paths and false ruins. In the center of the garden is the main house, a chalet in stone and wood apparatus where the original owners of the Park lived, to which the hunting lodge is attached.
The Alta Vila Park was built between 1848 and 1902, when its owner, Dr. Eduardo Caldeira, son of Visconde da Borralha, chose to transform the property he owned in the center of Águeda in an extensive garden, abundant with exotic trees and other vegetation. The structure is inscribed in the nineteenth-century romantic taste, which privileged living in the midst of nature without dispensing with the luxuries and pleasures that only city society could offer.
In 1910 the park changed owners, who made some changes in the living spaces. A few decades later, a fraction of the space was donated in testament to the Municipality of Águeda, which acquired the remaining part in 1985. After that date, the municipality reclassified the Park, making it the city’s public space of excellence.