In the year in which Portugal celebrates 50 years of democracy, the Imaginarius festival, which chooses the streets as a privileged stage for multiple transformations, like the makers of the April revolution, could not “appropriate” any other theme for its 2024 edition than that of Freedom.

Freedom individual and collective, artistic and creative, cultural and religious, of thought and expression, of movement and circulation, of identity and gender.

Freedom so often threatened, questioned, scrutinized, gagged or simply annihilated in various geographies.

Freedom that urgently needs to be preserved, strengthened, rescued or conquered.

Freedom which follows the Dream (theme of the 2023 edition) and precedes Progress (theme of the 2025 edition).