Innovate and grow, these are the two main objectives that have been the keystone of the Westway Lab since its fledgling days. These objectives provided the necessary fuel which has since made this original and unique festival, conceived in Guimarães in 2014, a prominent event on an international level. This year’s festival will follow along the path of previous editions with more and more layers added on to make the event increasingly engaging by expanding into the city, which will also contribute with four new stages to welcome the talent hailing from both Portugal and abroad to a very open setting.
The Westway Lab will thus feature more days, more stages and more bands, and during this time the event is sure to extend its inestimable cultural and social value widely throughout the community, one which represents economic value for the region as well.
This year, one of the major novelties will be the pollination of music – the core art form of the festival – with cinema, with the arrival of the well-regarded South by Southwest Festival (SXSW), whose presence adds still more international exposure to the Westway Lab.
What excites us most is our inability to explain fully what it is about the Westway Lab, and its ever-renewing processes of generating new ideas, which makes the event a delicious mechanism able to shape future memories in such a highly inclusive way. And nothing better than to close the festival with an iconic thinker the likes of Brian Eno: So often in life, we are confronted with a range of possibilities. The best thing we can do is to choose one quickly and then make this option work for us. This takes us to interesting places, with surprising results.
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