A STRANGER FROM OUR LAND
A community creation directed by Rui Catalão
November 2025 – May 2026
Vouzela and Castro Daire (Viseu Dão Lafões, Portugal)
A co-production by Irreal and Binaural Nodar, in collaboration with the Vocational School of Vouzela, the Municipality of Vouzela, the Mariana Seixas Vocational School (Castro Daire Campus) and the Municipality of Castro Daire, through its Municipal Library.
Sessions of the project “An stranger from our land” are underway with young people from São Tomé and Príncipe who are living in the Portuguese sub-region of Viseu Dão-Lafões, in the towns of Vouzela and Castro Daire, in close collaboration with the partner vocational schools and municipalities.
The aim of the project, directed by Rui Catalão, is to stimulate the relationship between the young people and the local community and to promote a series of activities, with theatre as the starting point, to facilitate their integration and coexistence beyond school life. Consisting of an annual program, the work is being developed in two groups operating in parallel but separately, in order to prepare gatherings that will take place twice during the course of the project.
A project supported by the Portuguese Republic – Culture, Youth, and Sports | Directorate-General for the Arts and part of the activities of the Tramontana Network, co-financed by the European Union’s Creative Europe program.
Photographs by Nely Ferreira (Binaural Nodar).
