RadioAtiva

with Nuno Preto

School workshops — Agrupamento de Escolas de Alcanena, 7th grade, October–December 2026

Radio is an object that few people still have at home. But radio is an act of resistance. Proof of this is the way it still manages to unsettle us today. There is always room for fiction when it reaches us through our ears. We imagine the face of the person speaking. We speak, sing and shout at the same time as the music or the person speaking… on the radio. We can always shout whatever we want, debate and discuss.

A school radio was once a place for discovering new music. It was where announcements were made about the winning student list, parties or school trips. A place for creating your own programmes. But above all, it was a place for fiction. It was a different room from the classroom. And it was ours.

These workshops have an incredible goal: to resist! To resist through the creation of a School Radio.

Nuno Preto (Porto, 1981) is a theatre director, writer, actor and musician. He graduated in Acting from ESMAE. He was a founding member of Mau Artista and, between 2012 and 2017, was a resident member of Teatro da Palmilha Dentada.

As a performer, he has worked with various directors and artistic projects, with his career particularly marked by his involvement with the organisations he has been part of. Between 2017 and 2020, he collaborated with Teatro Oficina as a facilitator and actor in performances such as Teatro da Alma and Arte da Comédia, directed by João Pedro Vaz. He also directed Retábulos as part of the Gil Vicente Festivals, as well as mediation and training programmes with peripheral communities in Guimarães. He develops his artistic work and mediation programmes in different institutional contexts, including Teatro Nacional D. Maria II, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Teatro Nacional São João, Teatro Municipal do Porto, Museu do Porto and several municipalities.

In film and television, he has worked as an actor in projects including Mosquito, Nothingness Club, A Pedra Sonha Dar Flor, A Sibila, Causa Própria and Daqui houve Resistência, among others.

He also works in music composition and dramaturgy, in dance and theatre projects such as Em vez de um corpo, by Sara Martins, Dia a Dia, by Ana Jezabel, Anormais, by Paulo Calatre, and Bando, by Daniela Cruz, among others. He collaborated with Museu do Porto as an associate creator on the programmes ESCUTA and DERIVA, and in coordinating and creating content for Rádio Estação (2020–2022).

His work focuses on the artistic direction and coordination of participatory and community-based projects, including the Atos programmes at Teatro Nacional D. Maria II and Gulbenkian, Calma é Só Amanhã with Theatro Circo, Reflection, Resistance, an international programme with Braga 25, Nordeste e Erre with CRL, and Futuros Partilhados – Partis & art for change, among others.

Together with Daniela Cruz, he founded the collective Espaço Invisível, an artistic creation and cultural mediation organisation through which he develops multidisciplinary artistic projects and collaborative programmes.