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= Locked Room Sessions = Locked Room Sessions is a grassroots Intermedia Art Network. Since 2017 are a narrow fanatical highly specialized unit in Intermedia Art Networking and changing the paradigm of the world in general.

Sessions I,II & III : 2017
As a way of organizing and collectively learning different art mediums and approaches. Concerts and jams, collective art exhibitions, a comic book premiere, performances and debates opened up to members of the public inviting them to the discussion and envolving the ones interested in the artistic process itself. Some of results are published on social networks and Locked Room Sessions website. Of course none of this goes without struggle. Being open to a wide range of people, we fully support and are engaged in the struggle for a more solitary world and transnational collaboration, breaking cultural barriers and self publishing of the art itself as a means to take control over the physical mediums and online media.

Open Week: 2018
Connected 15 different spaces in the city, from iconic bookstore Centésima Página to coffee shops such as Mavy and night clubs such as Juno. For 5 days more than 30 local and international artists presented themselves in Braga.

There were music concerts from jazz to experimental electronics, going through punk and folk, performances, poetry readings, paintings, photo exhibitions, collage, experimental cinema, international and local premieres of short films, pop-up exhibitions as well as video art installations across the city. All the events were in small informal places, motivating discussion, networking and debate.

The week officially opened in the Livraria Centésima Página with a performance of Fernando 'Lobo' w/ guitar by Emanuel Fernandes, followed by acoustic concert of the guitarist with Niña, the Romanian artist, philosopher and co-founder of Locked Room Sessions. The stage was decorated with Lobo da Arte paintings. Second day, Anaísa Silva, an artist from Porto that is starting a young but promissing career and DuArte, a project of the Braga natives Renato and Constança Duarte at Skills Skateshop. third day, late night concerts by Felipe Breier, a Brazilian musician based in Portugal and Txiribit members of the Apart Project. At night in the space TOCA there was a projection of national and international short films with a total of 13 shorts, having been projected in before countries like Brazil, China & Romania. There was also place for debate around the works mediated by Miguel d'Almeida, a intermedia artist from Braga and co-founder of Locked Room Sessions.

Almost at the end of the week there were still two concerts at the Rosa Chok Vintage, a new project from Valdemar Gomes, a homemade artist, singer of acoustic music from the soul dubbed Novamente Vago.& Jhonatas Gonçalo a Brazilian musician starting his solo career, brings his own compositions that discuss being, love and other everyday issues.

The final day Ocenpsiea, Amour Tristesse, Cabra Çega, José Valente, Anaísa Silva and other played together with video art intallation from the experimental film sessions, a performance of fado and poetry and paintings and murals by other artists.

There were also pop up exhibitions across the city centre by Eva Barbosa, Hanelle Torro, Ferdinand Trambouze, Sandrine Malta, Alle Dicu, Miguel Meira and others.