Opening 25 years: an imagined generation, a shared future

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25 years: an imagined generation, a shared future

May 21st | 06:00 PM

Casa do Moinho

The opening of Imaginarius 2026 presents itself as a simple and essential gesture: being together. An open and shared moment, addressed to everyone who makes the festival happen and gives it meaning: team, artists, residents, local community, institutions, businesses, partners, visitors, and audiences. Not as spectators, but as an active presence. More than a formal act, this gathering affirms Imaginarius as a common space, lived and in permanent construction.

Over 25 years, the festival has been built through experiences, encounters, risks, failures, discoveries, and transformations. This memory does not appear here as a nostalgic celebration or a closed archive, but as living matter that continues to act in the present. A time to acknowledge the path travelled, to listen to what has changed, and to situate Imaginarius today, in its relationship with the territory, with public space, and with the people who inhabit it.

From this shared place, the horizon of what comes next opens up. Not as a distant promise or a closed discourse, but as a collective exercise in imagination, responsibility, and choice. A moment to affirm that Imaginarius continues to be made of questions, of encounters, and of the will to imagine together what we do not yet know how to name.