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Sailors, ready to set off? Cascais is about to welcome a new event, the Art Explora Festival, taking place at Cascais Marina from 18 to 28 June. With free entry, the programme stretches across the marina, the town and a museum boat. After its first stop in Barcelona, where it drew tens of thousands of visitors, the travelling project continues its journey across the Mediterranean and now drops anchor along the Linha.
Developed in partnership with Culturgest, the festival brings together music, cinema, performance and visual arts, with workshops, talks and activities also designed for families. The aim is to explore themes such as hospitality, cultural mobility and Mediterranean identities, in a format that prioritises encounter and participation.
At the heart of the festival is the museum boat, a 47-metre-long sailing catamaran designed by architects Axel de Beaufort and Guillaume Verdier, with capacity for up to 2,000 visitors per day. On the upper deck, an immersive sound installation developed by IRCAM, part of the Centre Pompidou, recreates a Mediterranean soundscape using natural, urban and cultural recordings. Inside, a virtual reality experience created in partnership with Ubisoft transports visitors through cities such as Alexandria, Athens and Venice, revisiting key moments in their artistic and architectural history.
The onshore programme is curated by Filipa Oliveira and Raquel Ribeiro dos Santos, who establish the link between the local context and the festival’s international model. The goal is to create a space for collaboration, where artists, institutions and audiences intersect in a process that values collective work and dialogue.
The Art Explora Festival runs daily from 10.00 to 22.00, extending until midnight on Fridays and Saturdays. Entry is free, although some activities — including visits to the museum boat and certain workshops — require advance online booking. The full programme will be announced soon, but the dates are already worth noting.
Casa de São Bernardo (Cascais). 18–28 June. Free entry