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19 April 2026 – 10:00 am · 7:00 pm

Open day to the Planet #8 Aterrar · Landing · Atterrir · Landung · Atterraggio · 着陆 · उतरना

New Bowing House – Centre for Planetary Relations · Odemira

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Let us climb up to New Bowing House to land in a day full of things to do. To put our hands into the materiality of things. To learn, have fun, think and make things together.

A group of artists awaits those who arrive, leading them into natural fabric dyeing, wood carving, Chinese calligraphy, painting with vegetables, weaving with wool, embroidery from Punjab and the ancestral sound of Tibetan singing bowls.

A day where activities unfold calmly and closely to the earth, throughout both morning and afternoon. Because landing is also a pause between flights, between dreams and acceleration. A safe place where one returns to the ground to breathe, rest and rise again.

It is a day for being together, for occupying time with the things that make sense in shared life, for celebrating and listening to vegetables make sound. The end of the day will be filled with music. Music that laughs in the vegetable gardens of a land that cannot be allowed to disappear. The earth / planet, of course.

The invitation remains to land here and hold the earth with one’s own hands.

New Bowing House - Centre for Planetary Relations is a space of shelter, creation and encounter, open to everyone. Created within the scope of the Novo Bowing project, it is based in Odemira, in the former Students' Centre. It hosts artistic activities that promote dialogue between cultures and the imagination of new ways of living together.

New Bowing House – Centre for Planetary Relations · Odemira
19 April 2026 (sun)
Tickets
* Free admission, however some activities like “Natural Fabric Dyeing”, “Sattva Yoga”, “Tibetan Singing Bowls”, “Embroidering as in Punjab”, “Weaving a woollen cushion”, “Eating with the eyes”, “The shadows of fruits”, “Writing and thinking in mandarim”, “Wood carving”, “Saútes, Ratatouilles and other vegetable recipes all lying on a chapati” require prior registration:
info@novobowing.pt
and/or +351 912 885 896

Detailed programme

10:00 am to 01:00 pm
Natural Fabric Dyeing
with Gul E Raana

Gul E Raana is a textile designer and researcher from Punjab, working in Barreiro at her Wenlin Studio. She brings her work preserving ancestral decorative techniques from Punjab / Pakistan.

Participants will identify dye-producing plants. Fabrics will be prepared and treated step by step. Colour contrasts will be explored, and rich shades developed through immersion using indigo dyeing techniques.

For natural dyeing enthusiasts, this is also a practical introduction to plant dyeing following traditional Ajrak textile recipes. These fabrics are known for their deep, saturated colours and geometric patterns. Their creation involves an intense and natural chemical process. Mordant minerals, vegetable tannins, catechu — a plant extract used as dye — and madder root all become part of the process.
Capacity
20 people
Free registration
info@novobowing.pt
and/or +351 912 885 896
10:00 am to 11:00 am
Sattva Yoga
with Raquel Louçã and Sérgio Ayni

Rooted in an ancient tradition originating in the Himalayas, this practice offers a wide range of techniques that support each person in building a healthier and more balanced life, honouring their true nature, regardless of age, body type or previous experience with yoga.

There will be breathing exercises and techniques that combine repetitive movement with conscious breathing or mantras. There will be softer, more meditative moments and others that are more dynamic and energising.

A practice that invites participants to slow down, listen to the body and create inner space through movement, breath and attention.
Capacity
15 people
Free registration
info@novobowing.pt
and/or +351 912 885 896
Recommendation
Participants are encouraged to bring a yoga mat or blanket, if possible, as well as comfortable clothing for the practice.
12:00 to 01:00 pm
Tibetan Singing Bowls
with Nídia Barata

Nídia Barata was born in Vila do Bispo. She is a woman passionate about a simple life lived in respect for nature. Guardian of a self-sufficient farm, she has developed a deep knowledge of nature and animals. A lover of tango and spirituality, she also has a background in sport, bodyboarding and horse riding. She advocates for a dignified life for all species on the planet.

She brings a sound journey with Tibetan singing bowls, gongs and other instruments, leading into a space of tranquillity and deep serenity, where sound carries participants into states of presence and self-knowledge.

Each journey is unique, offering the opportunity to explore what creates alignment, peace and harmony.

A transformative experience of sound, healing and inner listening.
Capacity
25 people
Free registration
info@novobowing.pt
and/or +351 912 885 896
03:15 pm to 05:15 pm
Embroidering as in Punjab
with Gul E Raana

Gul E Raana is a textile designer and researcher from Punjab, working in Barreiro at her Wenlin Studio. She brings her work preserving ancestral decorative techniques from Punjab / Pakistan.

This workshop is intended for anyone, with or without experience, interested in hand embroidery and in telling stories through textile materials, with the popular tradition of southern India as a backdrop.

Each participant will create a motif inspired by Phulkari, a traditional and popular embroidery style from Punjab. Using an embroidery hoop and cotton thread, the experience focuses on stitching different embroidery techniques onto naturally dyed fabric.

Gul also explores contemporary approaches in which, for example, stitch counting affects and transforms the density of patterns.

An afternoon to discover the history and cultural context of this textile art, where the type of fabric, the various stitches, the finishing techniques and the care given to the embroidery become important parts of this making with the intelligence of the hands.
Capacity
20 people
Free registration
info@novobowing.pt
and/or +351 912 885 896
03:15 pm to 03:45 pm · 04:00 pm to 04:30 pm · 04:45 pm to 05:15 pm
Weaving a woollen cushion
with Christine Buscher

Cristine Buscher is a German weaver who offers children an introduction to weaving with wool.

Cushions woven on small looms become comfortable places to sit or lie down, play, dream, watch a film or read.

Collective cushions are created so that they remain at New Bowing House and other children may continue to play and dream.
Capacity
8 people per session
Free registration
info@novobowing.pt
and/or +351 912 885 896
03:15 pm to 04:15 pm · 04:30 pm to 05:30 pm
Eating with the eyes
with Ricardo Falcão

Ricardo Falcão once again brings the universe of drawing and painting, but this time through vegetables, fruits and natural elements such as turmeric.

Turmeric paper will be one of the experiences. A sheet of writing paper or an envelope where a story can be placed.

When the leek becomes the brush, the beetroot the paint and the red pepper resting beside the aubergine becomes an object of observation, the vegetable garden transforms into a potential painting studio.

There will be a menu of stories to imagine, where characters made of food and vegetables come to life on turmeric paper. To paint, there will be food colouring paints.

A laboratory of colours, shapes and almost edible landscapes, opening the appetite through the eyes.
Capacity
15 people per session
Free registration
info@novobowing.pt
and/or +351 912 885 896
03:15 pm to 04:15 pm · 04:30 pm to 05:30 pm
The shadows of fruits
with Sandra Sanches

Sandra Sanches proposes, in this vegetable workshop, a new way of looking at vegetables and what they represent while being drawn.

Through still life drawing as a cultivation of “looking”, as an act of resistance and as a gesture that demands an intentional pause, a new world is discovered in the vegetables that are usually eaten but perhaps never truly observed.

Participants are invited to discover their own line without hesitation or fear. How can a group of vegetables become a field of experimentation to understand what kind of line inhabits each person?

There will be exercises to free the body and the line: drawing with the non-dominant hand, drawing without lifting the pencil from the paper to find the rhythm of the line, drawing the same vegetable with three different materials, drawing pages full of attempts, not in order to get it right, but to discover the variety of lines that can emerge.

Compositions, overlaps, light, perspective and different shadows will be explored.
Capacity
12 people per session
Free registration
info@novobowing.pt
and/or +351 912 885 896
03:15 pm to 03:45 pm · 04:00 pm to 04:30 pm · 04:45 pm to 05:15 pm
Writing and thinking in mandarim
with Daniel Wang

Daniel Wang is a young Chinese student living in São Teotónio. He brings his mother tongue through its characters and its written and spoken forms.

Participants will write in Mandarin, draw its characters and discover another way of thinking and looking at the world through the Chinese language.
Capacity
8 people per session
Free registration
info@novobowing.pt
and/or +351 912 885 896
03:15 pm to 04:30 pm · 04:30 pm to 05:45 pm
Wood carving
with Ricardo Marques

Ricardo Marques is a self-taught wood artist with a passion for sharing the art of wood carving.

Inside his nomadic carpentry workshop there is a laboratory where participants may learn woodwork for the first time or improve existing skills.

With calm and attention, each person or child may create their own wooden object: a bowl.
Capacity
10 people per session
Free registration
info@novobowing.pt
and/or +351 912 885 896
03:15 pm to 05:15 pm
Saútes, Ratatouilles and other vegetable recipes all lying on a chapati
with Rita Sousa, Raj Kumar and Reena Kumari

Rita Sousa, Raj Kumar and Reena Kumari propose an intercultural culinary workshop in which Portuguese vegetable sautés, similar to those in Conciorto, meet the traditional Indian bread chapati.

The result is a series of small dishes where Mediterranean flavours merge with those of the Indian subcontinent.

A workshop designed to prepare and serve food to everyone during the concert.
Capacity
6 people
Free registration
info@novobowing.pt
and/or +351 912 885 896
10:00 am to 07:00 pm
R R 25*
by Paula Lourenço

As clothing is our second skin, these clotheslines from Odemira, photographed by Paula Lourenço, reveal a careful way of looking at what inhabits us whenever we step outside.

They reveal a mixed human reality, full of secrets. A subtle body of work that sheds light on the great theme of the transformation of villages and towns around the world.

These clotheslines, as barometers of a sociology in movement and transformation, also focus on the simplest things in life: dressing, undressing, washing, drying.

Dressing, undressing, washing, drying. Dressing, undressing.

*25 Street Wardrobes
06:00 pm to 07:00 pm
Edible indie pop rock veggie music
Conciorto - Veggie a concert
with Bagini Carlone - IT

For these two musicians, the vegetable garden is a highly fertile sound studio.

Here words are like seeds, songs born from plants of all kinds: pop, rock and modern songs that reveal intimate stories of aubergines, courgettes and red peppers.

There are also small fables dedicated to David Byrne, Paul McCartney and Damon Albarn and their “green fingers”.

A humorous concert that uses Arduino electronic technology to transform vegetables into edible musical instruments, accompanied by flutes, saxophone and guitars.

/voice, flute, soprano saxophone, electronic vegetables and everything else Jean Luigi Carlone
/voice and guitar Bagio Bagini
Next editions of Open Days to the Planet:
24 May
21 June
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