Casa da Música

Workshops: First Sounds, Sounds for Everyone, Special Weeks, Big Friday, Musician for a Day, Music for the Entire Family.

First Sounds

A clinic in the middle of the jungle, a movie studio that recreates the city of Porto portrait in Manoel de Oliveira’s film, Aniki-Bobó. Fingers playing with keys, children's stories that are transformed into songs. The music and its elements are the topic to explore, with games and staged situations in four workshops for early childhood.

Held in visually appealing environments filled with stories and tenderness, these workshops give us the freedom to move. Through experimentation and different methodologies, children up to 6 years old experiment the first foundations of musical achievement and everything happens at a proper pace: each session is designed according to the cognitive ability of the participant group, with different setups for the age groups of 0-23 months, 2-3 years old and 4-6 years old.
Sounds for All

Diversity is shaped in a series of workshops that enable immediate experiences of musical creation. Some of them are like theater plays, with characters that lead the sessions, others are like games. There is dance, body expression and the exploitation of conventional and unconventional instruments. They are based in traditional and classical repertoires or in technological improvisation. In short, they present many ways for actively discovering music. From October to May, Sounds for All is designed (and adapted) to specific groups, creating a generational arc that begins with children with 3 years of age, from preschool classes, and ends with the senior community.

We say that time is what you make of it. In these workshops we need an hour to create something effective, positive and stimulating. And then there is the desire to do something more.
Big Friday

First we create it, then we present it. Fridays are bigger when the workshop takes up the entire morning (10:00-12:30) and culminates in a small performance, served before lunch. Starting from a predefined program, open to improvisation and welcoming the ideas of the participants, this is an intense musical process – and very nice to hear in the end.

Singing, using the body as a percussion instrument or creating orchestras with every possible instrument is the content of these workshops that stimulate creativity and group cohesion, designed for primary and secondary school students (starting with 3rd year students) and vocational music schools.
Músico por um dia

Come and enjoy. From the age of 12, everyone can participate in workshops with accessible and creative processes that result from the simple desire to make music in a group. Buoyed by interaction and motivation, these workshops are scheduled for Saturdays - starting in the morning and ending in the evening with a public presentation of the work that was done. Whatever happens in between is the sole responsibility of the group: with the help of the various participants, whether or not they are formally trained in music, original songs are made to meet three challenges: the formation of a choir, the celebration of Carnival and the creation of instruments with recycled objects.
Music for all the Family

Bring your family or gather friends. Complicities are born in these workshops of musical creation. They are accessible to anyone, from children over 6 years old to seniors. On four Saturdays, over 90 minutes, the proximity and conviviality dictate the activities in which affections are mixed with the joy of singing, of finding the instruments in an orchestra or exploring the beat of the percussion. The only condition is you have to be in the mood to enjoy creative moments - and always in good company.