Art washes the dust of everyday life from the soul
– Pablo Picasso
ART TOUCHES
At BOAS ARTES, we aim to promote, encourage and organize cultural events and activities in the Algarve and beyond.
The performing and visual arts are particularly important to us.
Such as: Music, concerts, workshops, theater performances, dance, and painting, sculpture, ceramics, photography, AI art, readings, poetry and prose.
We look forward to working with social and humanitarian institutions to offer their members the opportunity to benefit from the diverse offerings of BOAS ARTES.
We are also keen to build partnerships with various institutions and public bodies so that local people can fully benefit from and participate in our activities.
As a non-profit organization, we finance our projects through the support of our members, donations and grants.
OUR SUPPORTERS & SPONSORS
Private companies and public institutions are always welcome. We are happy to support you in the realization of your cultural projects.
Just get in touch with us
GALLERY
OUR FOUNDING MEMBERS
Barbara HARM
Barbara worked for many years in the international flower industry and property management. The combination of creativity, hard calculation and her motto:
- – If you work with your hands, you are a labourer.
- – If you work with your hands and your head, you are a craftsman
- – If you work with your hands, your head and your heart, you are an artist
are their key to success.
Reinhold FRIEDRICH
Reinhold was born in Weingarten/Baden and has been a guest trumpeter on all the world’s major stages since his success at the ARD/TV competition in 1986. He made his debut at the Berliner Festwochen in 1982, followed by his debut at the Vienna Musikverein in 1994. In 2003 Claudio Abbado appointed him permanent solo trumpeter of the Lucerne Festival Orchestra.
He is also artistic director of the Brass Ensemble of the Lucerne Festival Orchestra.
Roland HEINZ
Roland, the guitarist, composer and improviser, studied with John Abercrombie and Attila Zoller in New York and Vermont.
He taught guitar and improvisation at the Mozardeum and has toured extensively,
played numerous tours, concerts and festivals and released several CDs with greats such as:
Barre Phillips, Leszek Zadlo, Bill Elgart, Russ Lossing, Loren Stillman, Jeff Hirshfield, Adam
Holzman, Dave Taylor, Radu Malfatti and many more.
Diana Raquel OLIVEIRA FERREIRA
Diana is originally from Coimbra and has lived in the Algarve for almost a decade.
She is interested in history, culture and art.
She has teaching experience and wants to contribute to the promotion of cultural diversity.
Mathias KOERNER
Mathias comes from the Hamburg communication scene and artist management, and helps to bring creative people from different disciplines together to exchange ideas, inspire each other and create something new.
Ursula ESSER
Ulla worked at the University of Porto before joining the “Kunstverein für den Rhein- Sieg-Kreis” in Germany as a board member for many years, planning exhibitions and looking after the association’s financial affairs.
Silke MARCHFELD
‘Heart and mouth and deed and life BWV147’
Silke has won numerous international singing competitions (including Paris, Helsinki, Vienna and Budapest) and her busy opera and concert schedule has taken her to many international music centers in Europe (including the Salzburg Festival, Schleswig-Holstein Festival, Amsterdam Opera House, Zurich Opera House, Tonhalle Zurich, Liederhalle Stuttgart).
Intensive involvement with new music, many works were composed especially for her voice and premiered by her.
Collaborations with Pierre Boulez, Wolfgang Rihm, Brigitte Fassbänder, Placido Domingo and others.
Teaching at the Sydney Conservatorium, master classes in Weimar, Stuttgart, Basel and Berlin.
Humanitarian aid in Ethiopia, Silke is the mother of 4 adopted Ethiopian children.
Johannes SCHMIDT
Hannes has 50 years of experience with local thinking and bureaucracy and therefore the necessary ‘paciência’, which he makes available to our association with full commitment.
CONTACT + MEMBERSHIP
To keep the bureaucratic burden as lo as possible, write us an email with you name and what else you would like to tell us, then transfer the
annual fee of € 60,– (per calendar year)
to our account:
IBAN: PT50 0045 7100 4039 2390 5763 6
BIC: CCCPTPL
Credito Agricola
Please state :MB+(your name) as the intend purpose.
After receipt of payment we will send you further informations.
Thank you!
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