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“Ten Essays for the Future” is an exhibition resulting from the Uncover Grants, a program that supported ten young in the creation of video works. Through a training and mentoring plan, the works critically reflect on the power of the image, exploring issues of sustainability and human values.

This initiative was supported by Porticus and is part of the European project Down to eARTh, which mobilizes young people and local communities to co-create artistic interventions.

The works are by Bruno Mota, Diogo Marinho, Estefanía de Sousa, Gonçalo Silva, Jade Cambournac, Marta Oliveira Pinto, Rodrigo Pereira Esteves, Ruben Chantre, Simão Almeida and Tiago Pinheiro.

The night sky has always been a shared cultural space, a territory of myths, meaning, and power. Since the "Sputnik shock" of 1957, orbit has become a technological and political frontier. Today, mega constellations like Starlink are transforming this shared space into a privatized and commercial network.

Reclaiming the Night Sky responds to this shift by tracking Starlink satellites in real time, extracting public data and aligning it with known constellations to create a physical and hybrid star map, where historical and artificial stars coexist. An installation that invites participation and reflection on the sky as a common cultural good.

Singularities of Guimarães is an installation by sound artist Rolando Ferreira that originates from attentive listening to conversations within the Guimarães community, held between January and March as part of a series of talks of the same name. Curated by Natacha Carvalho and Pedro Silva, the community was challenged to share their perspective on the city in six distinct sessions, focusing on the themes of work, community, education, knowledge, identity, periphery, and the future.

Presented for the first time at Uncover, the installation transforms shared reflections into a a soundscape where Guimarães reveals itself in its singularities, memories, and collective projections.

We officially inaugure the second edition of the Uncover festival with an interview with Isabel Ferreira, Councillor for Culture of the Guimarães City Council.

Portuguese rapper and writer Capicua has established herself as one of the most lucid and poetic voices in contemporary Portuguese culture.

In this masterclass, the artist proposes a critical reflection on the current threats to democracy, what it means to be a woman today, and the transformative role of art.From the perspectives of feminism and critical thinking, Capicua invites us to to question dominant narratives and imagine new futures.

The writer and visual artist Betina Juglair proposes to the public a space for listening and reflection. Through narrative, whether through words or suggested images, she creates a performance, from scratch, for Uncover, in which the imagination of the viewer is manipulated, inviting each one to follow a journey that unfolds in the present moment, and exploring relationships between image, imagination and perception.

Ultimately, the imagined landscape where history resides is necessarily unique and dependent on each viewer's individual journey.

Forensic Architecture (FA) is a London-based interdisciplinary investigation agency that uses existing visual materials, such as amateur videos, satellite imagery, maps, or eyewitness accounts, to... to analyze situations of violence and human rights violations..

In this masterclass, participants are invited to learn about FA's working methods and to think of the image not only as a record, but as... evidence and instrument of political accountability.

Abdel Mandili is the director of "Our Grandparents Hunted Here," a documentary that follows defenders of the Brazilian Amazon who used cameras and drones to expose forest crimes and protect their lands.

In this interview, the founder of the People's Planet Project, an initiative led by Indigenous peoples that supports communities in the fight against deforestation, shares his vision on the power of technology as a tool for environmental resistance.

We are made of images that traverse the collective unconscious and shape what we cultivate and eat. The seed, the power of life, inspires this lunch-map that explores stories, flavors, and territories. At the table, we celebrate seven seeds from the Minho region – corn for bread, millet, rye, calondro, feijoca, flax, and acorn – each a universe of food creation and community. Together, they draw our food cartography.

Registration costs an additional 10 euros and can be done in person at the festival's accreditation desk. Limited spaces available.

Between the cracks in the rocks, on the rocky surfaces of ancient walls and structures, the symbiosis between fungi and microalgae always appears in areas with high humidity and shade. We enter a new image, but it wasn't created for us.

Based on speculative fiction, "Under the Auspice of Water" is a a performance-walk that explores the route along the Travessa do Rio de Couros, where people are invited to imagine a future vision of the city from the perspective of dust lichens.

Due to health reasons, the Italian philosopher Franco Berardi will not be able to attend the event in Guimarães on March 13th. A recorded masterclass will be shown at the same time. Exclusively by the author for Uncover., under the theme Senectus Mundi: the aging of the world.

“Senectus mundi”, a concept formulated by the Italian philosopher, designates the aging of the world: a time of exhaustion of the modern project, marked by repetition, fear, and the collapse of political imagination.In this session, Berardi reflects on the decline of the future horizon and its cultural and political implications.

Following the screening, we will connect online with the philosopher for a... question and answer session. Rui Torrinha, co-artistic director of A Oficina and artistic director of the Vila Flor Cultural Center, will be moderating the discussion with the public.

A space to briefly present a project and learn about others' projects. The goal is to promote a spirit of collaboration and the sharing of constructive feedback.

Between January and March, on the way to the second edition of Uncover, we organized a series of conversations with the Guimarães community, curated by Pedro Silva and Natacha Carvalho, based on the challenge "What image do you have of Guimarães?".

Throughout several sessions, we discussed themes such as work, community, education, knowledge, identity, and the periphery. In the last conversation, dedicated to the future, we imagined possible paths for the city with Maria Carlos Mesquita and Isabel Silva, two young people whose journeys and perspectives help us think about what Guimarães can become.

Performance by the experimental vocal collective Outra Voz, where, in real time, a sound and visual landscape is created in dialogue with listening, time, and attention. Through minimal gestures and a shared presence, the work proposes a sensitive space where sound, body, and community meet.

With choreography by Inês Sousa, performed by Rui Donas, and artistic direction by Carlos Correia.

Led by the German transdisciplinary collective Froh!, this participatory workshop invites us to reimagine the sky as a space where images, narratives, and power are contested.

When technocapitalist agents occupy Earth's orbit, they are not merely populating the sky with satellites, but imposing narratives of efficiency, control, ownership, and interpretability on a space that should belong to everyone. How can we, through our own interpretations of the sky, challenge dominant narratives?

During the session, each participant creates their own imagined constellation on a shared visual map that includes real-world spatial data.

We live in a time when images, social platforms, and artificial intelligence systems not only represent the world, but also make decisions about what is visible, relevant, and desirable. Learning to identify signs and trends is not a passing fad: it's a tool for cultural and political literacy.Those who don't know how to read signs live within narratives created by others: algorithms, platforms, populist discourses, or global markets.

This workshop proposes something simple and useful: Train your eye to recognize emerging patterns and understand the reason for their popularity even before they become mainstream.

Alaa Aliabdallah is a Palestinian filmmaker whose work intersects documentary and identity, resilience and everyday life.

Starting with the documentary "Palestine Comedy Club," which follows the work of five Palestinian comedians, we look at the... comedy as an ethical storytelling tool, capable of amplifying voices, provoking reflection, and affirming common humanity through laughter.

The interview will take place online, via Zoom.

The table has historically been a place for gathering. In this community lunch, we combine good food with good conversation, with a meal prepared by chef Polyanna Marinho.

Registration costs an additional 10 euros and can be done in person at the festival's accreditation desk. Limited spaces available.

Using video as a medium to reflect on the object, the word, the drawing, the stain, the voice, the body, and the landscape, the performance is configured as a game between the master who suggests actions and the follower who acts in response, in a journey between the House of Memory and the Garagem Avenida Gallery.

The performance will result in an installation to be seen on March 15th at the Garagem Avenida Gallery. Photo credit: José Caldeira

In recent years, has the crime rate in Portugal increased or decreased? What percentage of the population living in the country is immigrant? And what is the average waiting time in the National Health Service?

The author of "The Perils of Perception," the book that investigated 40 countries., revealing the differences between the reality of the facts and personal beliefs, presents in Uncover the first study done in Portugal about reality and perception, which he conducted in collaboration with Gerador.

A space to briefly present a project and learn about others' projects. The goal is to promote a spirit of collaboration and the sharing of constructive feedback.

The constant consumption of digital content is shaping how we think, feel, and react to the world. How can we safeguard our attention, critical thinking, and imaginative capacity in the age of notifications, feeds, and endless scrolling?

We closed the second edition of the Uncover festival in the only way possible: with dancing, good energy, and a DJ set by Zorotraste. Until midnight, entry is free for Uncover ticket holders. After that time, it will cost 1 euro.

One of the This installation is the result of the Direct Writing Workshop, a participatory performance held at Uncover., on March 14, 2026, on a route between the Casa da Memória Social Canteen and the Galeria Garagem Avenida, in Guimarães.

Using video as a means to think about the object, the word, the drawing, the stain, the voice, the body, and the landscape, The performance is structured as a game between two people.The master and the follower. The master, with his creative machine, suggests actions, while the follower acts in response.