SELF-UNCENSORED #4 [ON VOICE] 19 JULY 2026 | SALA ESTÚDIO VALENTIM DE BARROS

Gaya de Medeiros, Josefa Pereira, Lígia Soares, Maikon K, Rubén Sabbadini]

19 July 2026 (Sunday), 5pm–8pm
Venue: Sala Estúdio Valentim de Barros, Jardins do Bombarda, Lisbon
Performance and Lecture-Performances

Language: Portuguese and Spanish
Free entry
No booking required, subject to venue capacity

Age rating: 16+
(air-conditioned venue)

Accessibility*

In this edition, Self-Uncensored brings together a series of performances and lecture-performances that approach the voice as a space of tension between intimate experience, social structure and the possibility of affirmation. Between the internal world and external mechanisms of regulation, the works question who is allowed to speak, who is listened to, and how different systems of power produce silencing, self-censorship and legitimacy of speech.

From distinct perspectives, the artists address issues related to productivity, privilege, class, gender, transgression and authority, invoking the voice as political, affective and performative material, but also as a space for negotiation, listening, proximity and relation.

In this edition, Self-Uncensored brings together works by Gaya de Medeiros, Josefa Pereira, Lígia Soares, Maikon K and Rubén Sabbadini.

Self-Uncensored is a project that questions contemporary forms of censorship within “democratic” contexts, focusing on the mechanisms that lead to self-censorship and internalised censorship.
Conceived as an expanded festival, it unfolds over time through short-duration events presented across different spaces and contexts.

Production: ORG.I.A (SELF-MISTAKE)
Artistic Direction, Curatorship and Production: Tânia M. Guerreiro
Artists: Gaya de Medeiros, Josefa Pereira, Lígia Soares, Maikon K, Rubén Sabbadini
Executive Production: Daniela Leitão
Production Assistant: Catarina Sousa
Technical Direction and Lighting: Cristovão Cunha
Sound: Olga Matviychuk
Photography: Ema Ramos
Supported by: Thyro Wines
Partners: Largo Residências and Polo Cultural | Gaivotas Boavista
Institutional Support: Lisbon City Council – Culture; Portuguese Republic – Culture, Youth and Sport / Directorate-General for the Arts

*Accessibility: The main entrance at Rua Gomes Freire 161 is equipped with a stair-climbing system (portable stair lift) for manual wheelchairs. Access for electric wheelchairs is available via the alternative entrance on Rua Dr. Almeida Amaral, upon prior request by calling 926235355.

Performative Transgressions - Maikon K Workshop
20–24 July 2026, 7:30pm–11:30pm, Polo Cultural Gaivotas | Boavista, Lisbon

Info: https://self-mistake.pt/en/projects/workshop-maikon-k-performative-transgressions/