And to end the year, and also for the archive, here’s the GAU (Urban Art Gallery) 2011 edition, with the artists José Carvalho, eime, UAT (União Artística do Trancão), João Samina, Rotten Leftovers, Sphiza & Moa.

It’s Friday 11.11.11 and there’s surely no better collective that works with such mistic dates than U.A.T.. They’ll be at the Open Day, Lx Factory today, so here’s a teaser video from them.

The WOOL festival has finished it’s first event, with the ARM collective spending some days in Covilhã painting night and day. Locals would stop by everyday to enjoy the developing of the main piece. They have taken in to account the surrounding church when painting their main piece, and that is visible by the illusion of tiles (Portuguese azulejo) used to blend in with the church’s near façade. Along the side walls, there’s also visible some small annotations, lost like a treasure map with small words of sayings and ways to pronounce words in Covilhã. All in all, probably the best ARM collective work I’ve seen so far and the best way to kick off a festival. All pics have been taken by Pedro Seixo Rodrigues, one of the mentors of the project. Enjoy…

And so, to complete the Walk & Talk (Urban art festival from Açores) dedicated posts, here’s a round up of  the artists with sample artworks from each one. I’m sorry, but due to the insane amount of work in the last days, and since this post had to be a bit more detailed, it’s been postponed until now. Unfortunately, Stick2Target website was not involved in any way with the project, but Walk & Talk is without a doubt the best urban art festival to occur so far in Portugal this year. So jump back inside and enjoy.

Wallpeople is a global event occurring in several cities throughout the world, bringing photography and interaction between strangers on the same wall. Since urban art involves more than just graffiti, stencils or posters, this project is making use of the public space to create a unique wall for 1hour only, where everyone is invited to bring one photo surrounding the theme “happiness”. We’re supporting the idea that will take place this Saturday at 17h in Lisboa. You can find more info inside (Portuguese) and through the facebook event.

The “Push Click” collective was present at the Lx Factory Open Day, thanks to Espaço TRES21. As expected, the Open Day had lot’s of people coming in for several hours for multiple purposes, so we had to take the chance. Here’s a small part of the original PushClick show we had last month, still going until the end of this week. Also coming, some goodies from the show for sale.

Adega Mayor is preparing a show in Lisboa this Thursday night with many of the artists featured on the website, entitled “Wine talks & arts“. Inside, you can find a detailed info on the artists, the full programme for the week, flyer, teasers and facebook event. Everything you need to know, right here.

O que diz Lisboa? (Say What, Lisbon?) is a photography work by Laura Ramos, snapping pics from Lisbon street-art dated as far back as 2006 till the present time. This body of work will be shown this Saturday 14th from 5pm till 11pm at Espaço Nimas. There will also be  a breakdance jam by 12macacos.

This year’s edition of Wallmada 2011 came with a different format, with a mural being painted by the artists as opposed to last year exhibition. The artists performing where SKRAN.PLUS.AYER.HESP.FRAME01.BUGSTER. Some shots from that weekend inside. If you have some more, feel free to share some more to include in this post.

Artists Brad Downey and MOMO make part of the third installment of the CRONO project in Lisboa. MOMO painted the facade of a building, much like the previous artists of CRONO, but Brad Downey took a different approach, as it is usual by his installations nature. I have to admit I didn’t understand the pics at first, but after you get it… Brad buffed specific places and left the graffiti untouched or sometimes renewed, quite the opposite of what the city council would do.