Creativity Factory

Address:

Alameda do Cansado, 6000-075 Castelo Branco

Contact:

272 330 370;

fabricacriatividade@cm-castelobranco.pt

Management and Programming Responsibility:

Castelo Branco City Hall

Description:

This equipment can be considered as one of the spaces with the greatest diversity of cultural production at a national level, making an old textile manufacturing factory reborn as a Factory of Creativity.

The Factory of Creativity is more than a center where culture is created and flows, it is a bet of the Castelo Branco municipality on the region's economic dynamism and on the creation of infrastructures capable of housing entrepreneurial projects in the area of creative industries and, in this way, being an artist-friendly city while encouraging the creation of jobs.

The Creativity Factory is a facility where different agents, from the artistic and performing arts, theater, dance, music, cinema, video and television, design, graphic arts, photography, and architecture, cross paths and collaborate, sharing ideas, creativity, and resources in the same flexible and multidisciplinary physical space, and where a set of workshops, services, and offices with individualized areas are available, thus allowing them to be inserted in a suitable environment and with the necessary technical conditions, becoming a meeting point for professionals, creators, and the public.

It also intends to establish a complementarity character with other institutions, such as the School of Applied Arts of the Polytechnic Institute of Castelo Branco, the Center for Innovative Enterprises as well as other cultural and academic facilities both in the city and in the region, presenting itself, also, as a preponderant project for the fixation of qualified executives and a solution for those who, thus, seek an opportunity to develop their activities in the region and settle here. Main objectives:

1. a) Encourage the emergence of new projects in the areas of creative and innovative industries, so that they become generators of development in the cultural, artistic, economic and technological fields;
2. b) Talent capture;
3. c) Promotion of entrepreneurship and spirit of initiative with significant impact in the area of the municipality, but also in regional cohesion and competitiveness, awakening interest in culture and citizenship.

Specifications:

2. a) Total area of 2,500 square meters;
3. b) Auditorium with a capacity of 150 seats;
4. c) Workshops/workshops; (wood; metal; ceramics; plaster; plastic; silkscreen; engraving; textile; photography; video; digital art);
5. d) 2 coworking rooms;
6. e) 2 Black Boxes;
7. f) 7 offices;
8. g) 1 conference room;
9. h) 1 library;
10. i) 1 exhibition room;
11. j) 1 meeting room.