SPRING FESTIVAL
Sat 02 May
|Vila Velha de Ródão
– – May 2nd and 3rd – – [Registration until April 29th. Max: 50 pax] The Spring Festival is a gathering marked by the collective making of bread, where art, conviviality, and shared gestures emerge from the desires of those who participate. In its second edition, the festival returns, deepening this exploration.
Time & Location
02 May 2026, 10:30 – 03 May 2026, 16:30
Vila Velha de Ródão, Herdade da Tapada da Tojeira, 6030-006 Vila Velha de Rodão, Portugal
Guests
About the event
Spring is the time of year when the earth awakens – when what lay dormant, kept beneath the soil during the cold months, bursts forth in the form of new life. To celebrate it is to recognize that transformation is not a one-off event but a continuous, silent, and inevitable process to which we belong. The Spring Festival is born from this recognition – and from the awareness that we too are part of this same cycle, as elements of a nature that constitutes us and that we must care for.
The making of bread marks the rhythm of these two days. Made from transformed grains, water, time, and hands, bread embodies the same logic of the season: it ferments slowly, demands patience and presence, and is only complete in its encounter with warmth. Like Spring, it cannot be forced – it is announced, it grows, it transforms. Between kneading,…