Passed · Sun, 19 Apr 2026
Let’s head up to Casa Novo Bowing to kick off a busy day. Getting our hands dirty. Learning, having fun, thinking, and creating together.
A group of artists awaits those who arrive to guide them through natural fabric dyeing, wood carving, Chinese calligraphy, vegetable painting, wool weaving, Punjabi embroidery, and the ancient sound of Tibetan singing bowls.
A day when activities unfold throughout the morning and afternoon in a calm and down-to-earth manner. Because grounding oneself is also a pause between flights, between dreams and accelerations. A safe place where one returns to the earth to breathe, rest, and rise again.
Being together, engaging with the things that give meaning to shared life, celebrating, and listening to the vegetables sing. The day will end with music. Music that laughs in the gardens of a land that must not be allowed to disappear. The earth / planet, of course.
Here is the invitation to land here and hold the earth in your own hands.
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Detailed Program
10:00 AM to 1:00 PM
NATURAL FABRIC DYEING
With Gul E Raana
Gul E Raana is a textile designer and researcherfrom Punjab working in Barreiro at her Wenlin Studio. She brings her work preserving ancestral decorative techniques from Punjab, Pakistan.
Dye plants are identified. Fabrics are prepared and treated step by step. Color contrasts are explored, and rich tones are developed through immersion using indigo dyeing techniques.
For enthusiasts of natural dyeing, this is a practical introduction to plant-based dyeing, following classic recipes from Ajrak textiles. These fabrics are known for their deep, saturated tones and geometric patterns. Their creation involves a natural and intense chemical process. Mineral mordants, vegetable tannins, catechu—a plant extract used as a dye—and madder, a dye plant, all play a role.
Capacity: 20 people
Free registration:
info@novobowing.pt
and/or 00351 912 885 896
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10:00 AM to 11:00 AM
SATTVA YOGA
With Raquel Louçã and Sérgio Ayni
Raquel Louçã and Sérgio Ayni invite you to a morning session to discover their Sattva Yoga practice. Based on an ancient tradition originating in the Himalayas, this practice offers a wide range of techniques that support each person in building a healthier and more balanced life, honoring their true nature, regardless of age, body type, or prior experience with yoga.
There will be breathing exercises and techniques that combine repetitive movements with mindful breathing or mantras. There will be gentler, meditative moments and others that are more dynamic and energetic.
A practice that invites you to slow down, listen to your body, and create inner space through movement, breath, and mindfulness.
Capacity: 15 people
Free registration:
info@novobowing.pt
and/or 00351 912 885 896
Recommendation: Participants are advised to bring a yoga mat or blanket, if they have one, as well as comfortable clothing for the practice.
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12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
TIBETAN SINGING BOWLS
With Nídia Barata
Nídia Barata was born in Vila do Bispo. She is a woman passionate about a simple life, in harmony with nature. As the caretaker of a self-sufficient farm, she has developed a deep understanding of nature and animals. A lover of tango and spirituality, she also has a background in sports, bodyboarding, and horseback riding. She advocates for a dignified life for all species on the planet.
She offers a sound journey with Tibetan singing bowls, gongs, and other instruments, leading to a space of tranquility and deep serenity, where sound guides one into states of presence and self-awareness.
Each journey is unique, offering the opportunity to explore what brings a sense of alignment, peace, and harmony.
A transformative sound experience of healing and inner listening.
Capacity: 25 people
Free registration:
info@novobowing.pt
and/or 00351 912 885 896
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3:15 PM to 5:45 PM
EMBROIDERY IN THE PUNJAB STYLE
With Gul E Raana
Gul E Raana is a textile designer and researcher from Punjab working in Barreiro at her Wenlin Studio. She brings her work on preserving ancestral decorative techniques from Punjab, Pakistan.
This workshop is open to anyone, with or without experience, interested in hand embroidery and storytelling through textiles, set against the backdrop of South Indian folk traditions.
Each participant will create a motif inspired by Phulkari, a popular and traditional embroidery style from Punjab. Using a hoop and cotton thread, the workshop focuses on embroidering various stitches onto naturally dyed fabric.
Gul also explores contemporary approaches in which, for example, the density of the stitches affects and transforms the density of the patterns.
An afternoon to learn about the history and cultural context of this textile art, in which the type of fabric, the various stitches, the finishing techniques, and the care taken with the embroidery created are important factors in this craft of skilled hands.
Capacity: 20 people
Free registration:
info@novobowing.pt
and/or 00351 912 885 896
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3:15 PM to 3:45 PM · 4:00 PM to 4:30 PM · 4:45 PM to 5:15 PM
WEAVING A WOOL CUSHION
With Christine Brueschel
Christine Brueschel is a German weaver who offers children an introduction to weaving with wool.
Cushions woven on small looms become comfortable places to sit or lie down, play, dream, watch a movie, or read.
Group cushions are created to be kept at Casa Novo Bowing so that other children can continue to play and dream.
Capacity: 8 children per session
Free registration:
info@novobowing.pt
and/or 00351 912 885 896
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3:15 PM to 4:15 PM · 4:30 PM to 5:30 PM
ALMOST EDIBLE LANDSCAPES
With Ricardo Falcão
Ricardo Falcão returns to the world of drawing and painting, but this time using vegetables, fruits, and natural elements such as turmeric.
Turmeric paper will be one of the experiments. A sheet of paper or an envelope containing a short story.
When the leek is the brush, the beetroot the paint, and the red pepper resting against the eggplant become objects of observation, the vegetable garden transforms into a potential painting studio.
There will be a menu of stories to imagine, where characters made of food and vegetables come to life on turmeric paper. For painting, there will be food coloring paints.
A laboratory of colors, shapes, and almost edible landscapes that whet the appetite of the eyes.
Capacity: 15 people per session
Free registration:
info@novobowing.pt
and/or 00351 912 885 896
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3:15 PM to 4:15 PM · 4:30 PM to 5:30 PM
THE SHADOWS OF FRUITS
With Sandra Sanches
In this workshop on vegetables and fruits, Sandra Sanches offers a new perspective on what they represent as they are drawn.
Through still-life drawing as a cultivation of the “gaze,” as an act of resistance, and as a gesture that demands an intentional pause, a new world is discovered in the vegetables we usually eat and that perhaps have never truly been observed.
The aim is to discover one’s own line without hesitation or fear. How can a collection of vegetables become a field of experimentation to understand what kind of line resides within each person?
There will be exercises in liberating the body and the line: drawing with the non-dominant hand, drawing without lifting the pencil from the paper to find the rhythm of the line, drawing the same vegetable with three different materials, drawing entire pages of attempts—not to get it right, but to discover the variety of lines that may emerge.
We will draw compositions, overlays, light, perspective, and various shadows.
Capacity: 12 people per session
Free registration:
info@novobowing.pt
and/or 00351 912 885 896
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3:15 PM to 3:45 PM · 4:00 PM to 4:30 PM · 4:45 PM to 5:15 PM
WRITING AND THINKING IN MANDARIN
With Daniel Wang
Daniel Wang is a young Chinese student living in São Teotónio. He brings his native language to life through its characters and its spoken and written forms.
Write in Mandarin, draw its characters, and discover another way of thinking and seeing the world through the Chinese language.
Capacity: 8 people per session
Free registration:
info@novobowing.pt
and/or 00351 912 885 896
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3:15 PM to 4:30 PM · 4:30 PM to 5:45 PM
WOOD CARVING
With Ricardo Marques
Ricardo Marques is a self-taught wood artist who enjoys sharing the art of wood carving.
In his nomadic woodshop, there is a workshop where you can learn for the first time, or perfect, the practice of woodworking.
With patience and care, each person or child will be able to create their own wooden piece: a bowl.
Capacity: 10 people per session
Free registration:
info@novobowing.pt
and/or 00351 912 885 896
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3:15 PM to 5:15 PM
CROMO GASTRONOMIA
With Donatello del Latte (Portugal Genuine)
Supported by Raj Kumar and Reena Kumari
Donatello del Latte, with the support of Raj Kumar and Reena Kumari, presents an intercultural and multicolored culinary workshop where different vegetable dishes entwine us through color and flavor. The stir-fries will also be on this menu, served with Indian chapatis.
The result is small dishes in which Mediterranean flavors blend with those of the Indian subcontinent.
Capacity: 6 people
Free registration:
info@novobowing.pt
and/or 00351 912 885 896
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10:00 AM to 7:00 PM
R R 25*
Paula Lourenço
Since clothing is our second skin, these clotheslines in Odemira, photographed by Paula Lourenço, offer a thoughtful way of looking at what accompanies us whenever we step outside.
They reveal a hybrid human reality, full of secrets. A subtle work that sheds some light on the broader theme of the transformation of towns and villages around the world.
The clotheslines, as barometers of a sociology in motion and transformation, also focus on life’s simplest acts: dressing, undressing, washing, drying.
Dressing, undressing, washing, drying. Dressing, undressing.
*25 Street Wardrobes
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6:00 PM to 7:00 PM
Edible indie pop rock veggie music
CONCERT – A VEGGIE CONCERT
Bagini Carlone - IT
For these two musicians, the vegetable garden is a very fertile sound studio.
Here, words are like seeds, songs that sprout from plants of all kinds: pop, rock, and modern songs that reveal intimate stories of eggplants, zucchini, and red peppers.
They also perform short fables dedicated to celebrities like David Byrne, Paul McCartney, or Damon Albarn and their “green fingers.”
A humorous concert that uses Arduino electronic technology to transform vegetables into edible musical instruments, accompanied by flutes, saxophone, and guitars.
vocals, flute, soprano saxophone, electronic vegetables, and everything else: Jean Luigi Carlone
vocals and guitar: Bagio Bagini
Casa Novo Bowing - Odemira, OdemiraFestival 
