WORKSHOPS

First Workshops

Designed for an audience aged between three months and six years, these workshops provide a seductive framework for children’s first close experiences with music. There are four proposals, each of which will be presented in a row for around seven weeks, giving way to another. The Primeiras Oficinas start in September and are part of a “workshow” concept (a hybrid between a workshop and a show), which encourages interaction between children and their companions.

Mozart’s Magic Flute

António Miguel Teixeira and Sofia Nereida trainers 

There are figures who insist on never leaving the Casa da Música. In this case, we’re talking about the famous Mozart siblings, Wolfgang and Maria Anna. During his wanderings around the building, Wolfgang kept repeating: “One day I’m going to write an opera with a queen”. Now it’s time to learn his music among lots of games. It’s a workshop full of marvellous characters and crazy scenarios, where there’s no shortage of fun to be had.

Casa da Música Station

Bruno Estima and Paulo Neto trainers

The train is about to leave the station. Its sound and cadence are the musical starter for this travelling workshop that takes us to many destinations. On an exciting music tour, we don’t give up on ecological and sustainable means of transport. All aboard!

DISOMNÁRIO

Joana Araújo and Tiago Oliveira trainers

What if we found a place where what we see isn’t always just what it seems and what we hear is much more than just sound? What if in this place we could mix everything together and create a dictionary of new sounds and images? With the help of songs, games and lots of play, DiSomNário will be born, where everything that seems right will be turned upside down! But don’t worry, we’ll respect the new “phonographic” agreement.

The Invention of Nature

Ana Bento and Bruno Pinto trainers

Inspired by the book A Invenção da Natureza by Alexander von Humboldt, the German naturalist and explorer who more than two hundred years ago defined the Earth as a great living organism, we embark on an odyssey that travels the planet from end to end and, between sound, visual and sensory landscapes, helps us to realise the importance of cultivating a deep respect for nature.

Workshops of the Day

It’s 90 minutes, like a football match, but here there are no opponents. Held on Saturdays, these workshops encourage participants to come together for a common purpose: to make music. From the age of six, everyone has a place in the proposals we present, aimed at working with different resources in the creative process, from the voice to the gamelan, from rhythm to movement. And it is from collective joy and enthusiasm that music is born, brought into the world by a new family made up of many people from many places.

Portuguese Popular Music

Francisco Beirão and Rui Rodrigues trainers

Prompted by the Year of Portugal at Casa da Música, this workshop sets off in search of our country’s traditional music. In an hour and a half journey, very well spent, we tell and sing popular musical roots from Minho to the Algarve.

Singing Christmas

António Miguel and Raquel Couto trainers

Christmas is one of the most singable times of the year. From traditional carols to pop classics and cantatas, there’s an inexhaustible repertoire of songs that feel good to hear and sing at this time of year. Join us and let’s sing Christmas together.

Showficina Lúdica

Lúdica Música! trainers

With the help of all the participants, Lúdica Música will build the centrepiece of the party: a mini-concert, anchored in the varied rhythms of Brazilian popular music and its traditional percussion instruments. To keep everyone moving!

Vocal Percussion Indonesia

Philippe Martins trainer

Many peoples have communal chants in which the voice is used like a percussion instrument. Kecak is one such chant. Originating on the island of Bali, it also has an associated choreography and is practised by everyone, regardless of age.

There’s Physics in Sound

Inês Lapa and Filipe Fernandes trainers

Stimulating creativity, critical thinking, musical creation and the exploration of sound objects from our daily lives are the aims of this workshop in which various sound-related experiments are carried out. In the context of a STEAM approach – Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics – which enables the learning of scientific content through music, and vice versa, awareness of the sound world that surrounds us is promoted.