A month has passed since the start of
@wakinglife.pt 2025, and our hearts are still filled to the brim. We unveiled a completely new moonscreen, and we couldn’t be more proud of this collective manifestation. Our visionary design team, our skilled stage managers and technicians, our boundary-pushing artists and our ever-curious audience all contributed to this cinematic sanctuary - we felt the wow. Deeply.
Nestled among the sacred Portuguese cork oaks, this refuge of timber, stone and fabrics became so much more than we ever imagined—a place where souls found grounding beneath the stars, where strangers became connected through shared wonder, where the mystical mouras watched over our collective bewilderment.
The collaboration between
@cellacollective and
@publichouse135 birthed something truly magical: flowing fabrics that danced with daylight and embraced the night, a sculpted earthwork amphitheatre that curved with the ancient root systems, and that perfect circular skylight—our moon hole—framing infinite possibilities above. The striking light design was by Elina Ivanoví.
But what moves us most is remembering the artists who filled this space with their visions. From Léna Lewis-King’s polyphonic journey through Portugal to the explorations of home and displacement (by
@sarah.ssssssss &
@noisediva ) or friendship and identity (by
@saghiaa &
@parsanazeri ), from the live coding poetry of
@nbcode_to the intimate stargazing moments between screenings—each story, each performance, each shared breath under our canvas sky created ripples that continue to resonate.
To every creator who trusted us with their work, to everyone who found solace in our denim covered amphitheatre, to the designers who dreamed this space into being—the magic you helped create lives on in every connection made beneath our starlit dome.
See you when the moon calls us back. ✨
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pictures by
@niccola.be 
