The artistic residency show - cases are Westway LAB’s great inaugural event, because they reveal to the general public the result of a unique creation process developed during one week in Guimarães, in the Candoso Creation Centre. These encounters have only one rule - the musicians must produce content for a performance that lasts 30 minutes or more. Everything else results from free creative decisions taken by the artists involved. The presenta - tions take place on Wednesday and Thursday evenings at the CCVF’s Café Concerto, with free access and usually play to a packed audience. Another characteristic of the residency showcases is the community atmosphere formed by the close proximity between the musicians and the general public, as if they were all part of one big family. With concrete results that have inspired further editions, these showcases are always very surprising in terms of artistic experimentation.