ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE

EMERGING FROM COVID, HOSTING GROUP PROJECTS

The pandemic lockdown shut down all residencies in 2020. We resumed hosting artists tentatively, carefully, in 2021, despite the persistence of the covid virus. We began with a special session for residents of Bahia. After that, we figured it would be safer to host Group Projects with limited community involvement rather than our usual residencies of independent artists from around the world. We held an Open Call for Group Proposals and received over 80 group applications. We hosted three of them in 2020 and three more --- Pharmakoi, Na Seiva da Voz, and Waia’mu --- during the first residency session of 2022.

Itaparica, Bahia, has the good fortune to be the home of the Instituto Sacatar, where the artists spend eight weeks with no obligation to present a finished piece, a luxury that all us artists would love to have! For the city of Itaparica, this institution is of great importance.

Yulo Cezzar (Actor / director / writer / producer and resident of Itaparica)