Programmes

Date 10 Dec 2025 to 4 feb 2026
Location À distância/On-line
Number of hours 50 credits

Price 140€ + 14€ (Enrolment)

Schedule wednesdays from 18h00 to 20h00

Type occasional

Program On-line classes

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Date 7 Jan to 11 Feb 2026
Location Ar.Co – Antigo Mercado de Xabregas, Lisboa

Price 190€ + 19€ (Enrolment) + 2,50€ (Insurance)

Schedule Wednesdays from 18h00 to 21h00

Type occasional

Program
On-campus classes.
Optical devices and pre-cinematographic contraptions will be considered in lab context and from an archaeological point of view. Participants will themselves produce image analog apparatuses and reflect on their nature and effects. Through artistic practice and experimentation, the workshop will promote the discussion of some of the moving image’s specificities, namely the question of the image’s status as an object in space.

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Date 12 Jan to 9 Fev 2026
Location À distância/On-line
Number of hours 50 credits

Price 110€ + 10€ (Enrol)

Schedule Mondays 18h to 20h

Type occasional

Program
On-line classes
With Dr. artist the senses got spiritualized and poetic painting went from mythology to philosophy. In the Netherlands, the pictor vulgaris could also be a tavern keeper and even the still lifes went from vanitas to delicious delicacies. French style, gallantry was delicate as a porcelain, got drunk in vapours and perfumed the atmosphere. Music wanted to be painting and painting had synesthesia – Symbolism combined everything, while Impressionism got rid of literature. In an instant, the moving image was already simulated well beyond tableaux vivants and panoramas. The only thing missing was for psychoanalysis to combine with surrealism and for the latter to enter cinema. Dissonance would take Kandisky’s painting-rhythm to the limit until the destruction of rules was the motto. Silence would eventually arrive, just as in happenings girls would be licking marmelade from a car’s hood. Through the interstices we were left with fun, irony and the pastiche in postmodern quotes - “let’s look at a trailer”.

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Price 130€ + 0,75€ (ins) - materials not included

Schedule Mondays 18h to 20h

Type occasional

Program
On-line classes
With Dr. artist the senses got spiritualized and poetic painting went from mythology to philosophy. In the Netherlands, the pictor vulgaris could also be a tavern keeper and even the still lifes went from vanitas to delicious delicacies. French style, gallantry was delicate as a porcelain, got drunk in vapours and perfumed the atmosphere. Music wanted to be painting and painting had synesthesia – Symbolism combined everything, while Impressionism got rid of literature. In an instant, the moving image was already simulated well beyond tableaux vivants and panoramas. The only thing missing was for psychoanalysis to combine with surrealism and for the latter to enter cinema. Dissonance would take Kandisky’s painting-rhythm to the limit until the destruction of rules was the motto. Silence would eventually arrive, just as in happenings girls would be licking marmelade from a car’s hood. Through the interstices we were left with fun, irony and the pastiche in postmodern quotes - “let’s look at a trailer”.

Date 23, 30 May and 6, 20 Junho 2026
Location Ar.Co – Antigo Mercado de Xabregas, Lisboa.

Price 130€ + 0,75€ (ins)

Schedule Saturdays form 10h to 13h

Type occasional

Program In this course we will develop cinematographic ideas through writing. Throughout the workshop we will explore the fundamentals of screenplay writing: narrative structure, building of characters, development of dialogue and dramatic turning points. Through individual and collective exercises each participant will work on the development of na idea, from its initial conception to a more advanced form of writing. Our main objective is to promote writing as a creative and flexible process, understanding the screenplay not only as a technical tool, but as a space open to experimentation and to the possibilities of contemporary cinema, including proposals of non-fiction and hybrid forms. No previous experience is required, only the will to write, share and explore stories.

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Date 19 Jan 23 Mar 2026
Location Ar.Co – Antigo Mercado de Xabregas, Lisboa

Price 290€ + 29€ (Enrolment) + 2,50€ (ins)

Schedule Monday from 10h to 13h

Type occasional

Program
On-campus classes.
Introduction to the direction of actors by exploring different types of relations between the actor and the camera.

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Date 18 Feb to 8 Apr 2025
Location Ar.Co – Antigo Mercado de Xabregas, Lisboa.

Price 200€ + 20€ (Insc) + 2,50€ (Seg)

Schedule Tuesdays from 20h00 to 22h00

Type occasional

Program Live Model is the situation par excellence of observation drawing, where the study of the human body (in motion, at rest, posing, etc.) and the experimentation with different techniques, scale and modes of composition promote an understanding of the mechanisms of attention and of the gaze that lie at the very core of the drawing gesture.

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Date 24 Feb to 19 May 2026
Location Ar.Co – Antigo Mercado de Xabregas, Lisboa

Price 430€ + 43€ (Insc) + 2,50€ (Seg)

Schedule Tuesday from 18h to 21h00

Type occasional

Program
On-campus classes
Digital Lab 1 approaches the techniques of shooting and editing of digital images in parallel with the study of analog photography, departing from the idea that these two technologies are similar and have common principles. Preparing the digital camera for shooting, use and optimization of the menus and presets. Managing and processing the different types of files for post-production in Photoshop.

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Date 24 Fev a 14 Abr 2026
Location Ar.Co – Antigo Mercado de Xabregas, Lisboa.

Price 180€ + 18€ (Insc) + 2,50€ (Seg)

Schedule Tuesdays from 15h to 17h30

Type occasional

Program
On-Campus classes.
History of satirical drawing from the 18th-Century onwards. Studio: the formats, the various materials and the support surfaces. Political cartoon up to the present day (national and international).

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Date 25 Fec to 15 Apr 2026
Location À distância/On-line
Number of hours 50 credits

Price 140€ + 14€ (Enrolment)

Schedule Wednesdays from 18h00 to 20h00

Type occasional

Program Aulas on-line

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Date 25 Feb to 13 May 2026
Location Ar.Co – Antigo Mercado de Xabregas, Lisboa.

Price 270€ + 27€ (Enrol) + 2,50€ (Ins)

Admission No requirements. By order of enrolment.

Schedule Wednesdays from 18h to 20h

Type occasional

Program
On-campus classes
The specificity of photography in the forms of artistic and documentary production. Analysis of themes and authors whose works mark different postures in contemporary photography.

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Date 25 Feb to 13 May 2026
Location Ar.Co – Antigo Mercado de Xabregas, Lisboa.

Price 270€ + 27€ (Enrolment) + 2,50€ (Insurance)

Admission No requirements. By order of enrolment. Máx. 35 pax.

Schedule Wednesdays from 18h to 20h

Type occasional

Program
On-campus classes
The specificity of photography in the forms of artistic and documentary production. Analysis of themes and authors whose works mark different postures in contemporary photography.

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Date 26 Fev a 7 Maio 2026
Location Ar.Co – Antigo Mercado de Xabregas, Lisboa
Number of hours 50 credits

Price 220€ + 22€ (Enrolment) + 2,50€ (Insurance)

Schedule Tuesdays from 18h to 20h

Type occasional

Program
On-campus classes.
Introduction to the work of contemporary illustrators and Comics authors, allowing for an approach to the historical and formal contents of both Illustration and Comics. The course is constituted by small specific formation units..

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Date 26 Fev a 7 Maio 2026
Location Ar.Co – Antigo Mercado de Xabregas, Lisboa
Number of hours 50 credits

Price 220€ + 22€ (Insc) + 2,50€ (Seg)

Schedule Tuesdays from 18h to 20h

Type occasional

Program
On-campus classes.
Introduction to the work of contemporary illustrators and Comics authors, allowing for an approach to the historical and formal contents of both Illustration and Comics. The course is constituted by small specific formation units..

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Date 26 Feb to 23 Apr 2026
Location Ar.Co – Antigo Mercado de Xabregas, Lisboa

Price 250€ + 25€ (Enrol) + 2,50€ (Ins)

Schedule Thursdays from 18h00 to 21h00

Type occasional

Program
On-campus classes.
This workshop is oriented towards the production of a small film, using archive images and sounds: public and institutional, personal and from the family circle, graphic, photographic or in movement. By appropriating these images and sounds, extracting them from their original contexts, we will re-edit and re-compose them into a new filmic object.

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Date 27 Feb to 15 May 2026
Location Ar.Co – Antigo Mercado de Xabregas, Lisboa.

Price 370€ + 37€ (Insc) + 2,50€ (Seg)

Schedule Fridays from 18h to 21h00

Type occasional

Program
On-campus classes.
Alternative Processes II deals with demanding techniques of photographic printing: Salted paper and Gum bichromate. These printing techniques have a strong expressive, technological and experimental component, essential for the study of the different ways of photography making.

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Date 28 Feb and 7, 14, 21 Mar 2026
Location Ar.Co – Antigo Mercado de Xabregas, Lisboa

Price 130€ + 0,75€ (ins)

Schedule saturdays from 10h to 13h

Type occasional

Program In this workshop we will be concerned with the essential montage tools in digital editing. Our focus will comprise both the technical aspects and the creative approach involved in the montage of a cinematographic scene. Throughout the corse we will develop a colective practical exercise exploring the multiple narrative possibilities emerging from the manipulation of sound and image. The objective is to understand the montage not only as a technique, but as an expressive tool able to transform the images’ meaning.

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Date 28 Feb to 7, 14, 21 Mar 2026
Location Ar.Co – Antigo Mercado de Xabregas, Lisboa.

Price 130€ + 0,75€ (ins) - materials not included

Schedule Saturdays from 10h to 13h

Type occasional

Program How can Comics throw light on our reality? Departing from works by Joe Sacco, Philip Squarzoni, Fabrice Neaud and publications like La Revue Déssinée this workshop will focus on the way Comics look at the literary genre of non-fiction. Participants will be invited to use the grammar of graphic narrative in order to draw a short piece of Comics based on a real world theme.

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Date 28 Feb and 7, 14, 21 Mar 2026
Location Ar.Co – Antigo Mercado de Xabregas, Lisboa.

Price 130€ + 0,75€ (Ins) - materials 15€

Schedule Saturdays from 10h to 13h

Type occasional

Program In this workshop we will approach the ceramics materials in various ways. We will experiment forms of building with clay using techniques such as coils and slab and learn to finish pieces with engobe and the techniques of sgraffito and polishing. Pieces will be fired using a conventional kiln.

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Date 4 Mar to 8 Apr 2026
Location Ar.Co – Antigo Mercado de Xabregas, Lisboa.

Price 190€ + 19€ (Insc) + 0,75€ (Seg)

Schedule Wednesdays form 18h to 21h

Type occasional

Program
On-campus classes
This workshop is dedicated to the study and practical reflection of the pre-historic and proto-historic times of photography. Historical and practical context of the "photographer's media". We will analyze practical examples of sensitizing and exposing latent images on paper without the fixing process.

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Date 6 Apr to 11 May 2026
Location Ar.Co – Antigo Mercado de Xabregas, Lisboa.
Number of hours 50 credits

Price 150€ + 15€ (Insc) +2,50€ (Ins)

Schedule 2ª feira das 17h30 às 20h

Type occasional

Program
On-campus classes.
“Letters that are not mailed cease to be missives for possible friends; they turn into archived things” (Peter Sloterdijk, 2000)*. The writings and testimonies of and about artists, in their most varied forms - diaries, letters, lessons and reflections - allow us to explore the theme of the creative process and its aesthetic and philosophical reflection, crossing in a non-linear way different generations, epochs and artistic movements (approaching the cases of romanticism, modernity, modernism, postmodernism and contemporary art). Instead of becoming “archived objects”, the writings become messages for their recipients and “possible friends”.
*Sloterdijk, Peter. "Rules for the Human Zoo: A response to the Letter on Humanism", Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 2009, volume 27, pp. 12 – 28.

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Date 11, 18 Apr and 9, 16 May 2026
Location Ar.Co – Antigo Mercado de Xabregas, Lisboa.

Price 130€ + 0,75€ (Ins) - materials 40€

Schedule Saturdays from 10h to 13h

Type occasional

Program
On-campus classes.
A practical introduction to the world of Super 8: filming, developing black and white reversal film, and projecting the results.
Over four days, students will have direct contact with the entire technical and creative process, gaining the autonomy to continue working with this format independently.

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Date 11, 18 Apr and 9, 16 May 2026
Location Ar.Co – Antigo Mercado de Xabregas, Lisboa.

Price 130€ + 0,75€ (ins) - materials not included

Schedule Saturdays form 10h to 13h

Type occasional

Program The focus of this workshop is to deconstruct and demystify the use of visual references. Far from being a crutch or a copy, references are a tool to diversify and feed our visual vocabulary. Taking photography as a starting point, the process invites a creative dialogue with the image — questioning it, dismantling its structure and emotion — so that, based on this analysis, and in an act of translation and expansion, a new image can be created.

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Date 20 Apr to 8 Jun 2026
Location Ar.Co – Antigo Mercado de Xabregas, Lisboa

Price 290€ + 29€ (Enrolment) + 2,50€ (Insurance)

Schedule Mondays from 18h00 to 21h00

Type occasional

Program
On-campus classes.
Reinventing editorial modes through various types of publications: books, field diaries, folding leaflets, postcards, etc. Students will take their work into the universe of editing and publishing, creating their own series and ways of sequencing. Exploring various materials and techniques through folding, collage and the cutting and mounting of paper, experimenting with different types of layout, construction and binding.

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Date 20 April to 8 June 2026
Location À distância/On-line
Number of hours 50 credits

Price 170€ + 17€ (insc)

Schedule Mondays from 18h00 to 20h00

Type occasional

Program On-line classes

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Date 20 April to 8 June 2026
Location À distância/On-line
Number of hours 50 credits

Price 170€ + 17€ (insc)

Schedule Mondays from 18h00 to 20h00

Type occasional

Program On-line classes

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Date 30 Apr to 28 May 2026
Location Ar.Co – Antigo Mercado de Xabregas, Lisboa.

Price 170€ + 17€ (Enrolment) + 0,75€ (Insurance)

Schedule Thursdays from 18h00 to 21h00

Type occasional

Program
On-campus classes.
Through practical exercises, we will explore specific attributes of the images related to the mechanisms/maters that make them appear. The starting point is always the still, photographic image, and the main method is the appropriation that is made (with special emphasis) in videographic and drawing media. We aim to make participants aware of the distances that the appropriation process introduces within the variety of images at stake and their typology.

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Date 11 May to 9 Jun 2026
Location Ar.Co – Antigo Mercado de Xabregas, Lisboa.

Price 110€ + 11€ (Enrolment) + 2,50€ (Insurance)

Schedule Mondays from 18h to 20h

Type occasional

Program
On-campus classes.
From the thorough discussion and manipulation of an image or sketch until the creation of a final artwork, the workshop aims to familiarize participants with the demands inherent in the collaborative work between the artist and his editor.
Participants will use multiple digital editing and compositional tools. Photoshop will help to obtain an image for a specific editorial purpose.

Notes external participants must bring portfolio.

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Date 14 May to 18 Jun 2026
Location Ar.Co – Antigo Mercado de Xabregas, Lisboa

Price 110€ + 11€ (Enrolment) + 0,75€ (Insurance)

Schedule Thursdays from 18h00 to 20h00

Type occasional

Program
On-campus classes.
How to build a simple portfolio for the Illustration job market. The digital formats. Managing social networks (Facebook, LinkedIn, etc.). Managing the photo sharing apps (Flickr, Instagram, etc.) and video sharing apps (YouTube, Vimeo, etc). Building a Blog (Blogger, WordPress, Tumblr, etc) and a microblog (Twitter, etc)

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Date 23, 30 May and 6, 20 Junho 2026
Location Ar.Co – Antigo Mercado de Xabregas, Lisboa.

Price 130€ + 0,75€ (Ins)

Schedule Saturdays form 10h to 13h

Type occasional

Program In this course we will develop cinematographic ideas through writing. Throughout the workshop we will explore the fundamentals of screenplay writing: narrative structure, building of characters, development of dialogue and dramatic turning points. Through individual and collective exercises each participant will work on the development of na idea, from its initial conception to a more advanced form of writing. Our main objective is to promote writing as a creative and flexible process, understanding the screenplay not only as a technical tool, but as a space open to experimentation and to the possibilities of contemporary cinema, including proposals of non-fiction and hybrid forms. No previous experience is required, only the will to write, share and explore stories.

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