Westway LAB

Westway LAB Promoter

Concert Promoters

Short Info

HEADING INTO ITS 9th EDITION APRIL 6-9 2022!

Westway LAB Festival is a collaborative platform, a living and organic laboratory, of experimentation and stimulus to creativity whose goal is to bring together, in the same city, acclaimed and emerging, international and national, innovative and purists artists for two weeks. Two weeks of music creation, video, urban interventions and thought played out through the development of activities such as Artistic Residencies, Talks, Showcases, PRO Conferences and Concerts. Westway LAB Festival is the first and only PRO event in Portugal linked to the European Talent Exchange Program (ETEP), bringing together referenced names in the national and international panorama in an innovative format that aims to approach, around the artistic creation, professionals of the area and the public. In 2017, Westway LAB, along with 8 other European partners, has created a new network of cooperation to enhance the discovery of artists and the development of the music industry, INES - Innovation Network of European Showcases, currently expanded to twelve showcase festivals: Westway LAB Festival, Liverpool Sound City, Waves Vienna, c/o pop Festival, MENT Ljubljana, Monkey Week, LIVE AT HEART, Budapest Showcase Hub, Spring Break, Linecheck, Nouvelle Prague, Sonic Visions.

The festival is organized by A Oficina, entity responsible for the management and programming of various cultural facilities in Guimarães (Portugal) and AMAEI, the Portuguese Independent Music Trade Association.

HEADING INTO ITS 9th EDITION APRIL 6-9 2022!

Westway LAB Festival is a collaborative platform, a living and organic laboratory, of experimentation and stimulus to creativity whose goal is to bring together, in the same city, acclaimed and emerging, international and national, innovative and purists artists for two weeks. Two weeks of music creation, video, urban interventions and thought played out through the development of activities such as Artistic Residencies, Talks, Showcases, PRO Conferences and Concerts. Westway LAB Festival is the first and only PRO event in Portugal linked to the European Talent Exchange Program (ETEP), bringing...

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Past Gigs

  • 04 | 2022 CCVF - Centro Cultural Vila Flor (and other city venues) , Guimarães Westway LAB Festival 2022
  • 04 | 2020 CCVF - Centro Cultural Vila Flor (and other city venues) , Guimarães Westway LAB Festival
  • 04 | 2019 Various city venues , Guimarães Westway LAB Festival 2019
  • 04 | 2019 CCVF - Centro Cultural Vila Flor , Guimarães Westway LAB Festival 2019 - Artist Residencies
  • 04 | 2018 Various city venues , Guimarães Westway LAB Festival 2018 - City Showcases
  • 04 | 2018 Vila Flor Cultural Centre / Centro de Criação de Candoso , Guimarães Westway Lab Festival 2018 - Artistic Residencies
  • 04 | 2017 Vila Flor Cultural Centre , Guimarães Westway LAB Festival 2017
  • 03 | 2017 Vila Flor Cultural Centre / Centro de Criação de Candoso , Guimarães Westway LAB '17 - Artist Residencies
  • 04 | 2016 Vila Flor Cultural Centre , Guimarães Westway LAB Festival 2016 - Portugal's first international showcase festival
  • 04 | 2016 Centro de Criação de Candoso , Guimarães [Portugal-based artists only] WESTWAY LAB 2016 OPEN CALL FOR ARTIST RESIDENCIES / OPEN CALL PARA RESIDÊNCIAS ARTÍSTICAS WESTWAY LAB 2016

Media

  • Video WESTWAY LAB 2019 | Aftermovie

Founded

  • 2014