Caldas Late Night

Since 1997 the students of ESAD (art and design school), have started an alternative project to the regular students parties – Caldas Late Night – with lots of artistic activities, and experimental and free subjects, based on the quality of the students work and a deep critical sense implied.

Caldas Late Night is about sharing, it’s spread all over the city, and by the own students houses. And each one shows their own perspective about this event. The students can use all kind of artistic ways to show their work, like: acoustics, silent, instrumental, theatre, graphic, exhibition, performance, and others.

At the beginning it was just one night in May, but since 2004 its all week, but the big night it’s always on Friday. In this big night people start to check things out all over the city at 7pm, at 1 am they all gather in a square with some pubs, at 3am everyone is at school to start a big big party, with 3 different kind of music, lots of drinks and some food also. And at 7am the party is over and everyone goes to bakeries to eat something before sleep.

This was my last year as a student…at least, I hope so! I also did something in this event, as soon as possible I will put it here, so you can see it. But here it is some things that happened in those nights.

Someone’s flat with drawings in the wall and a mail box (correio) with a green light.

A coffee balcony all covered with flowers.

Some electronic spiders with their nets… a dangerous room :)

A strange strange guy cover himself all over with chocolate and there was fruit, cream and coco, so you could make your chocolate fondue… but that was too disgusting for me!

This is permanent, it’s painted in one of our streets and I love it, a friend took a picture, so now here it is. It says: with this, John became a better man… and this opened the doors to his happiness. (he says) Thank you, Lídia, without you I had poisoned myself with rage. (she answers) Oh, John! I always had faith in you, honey!

Three chicks dancing on the top of three high chairs.

People watching something not so interesting in a small place.

This is the statue of one of our queens, and next to it is a paper king and you could climb and put your face in the hole. It was called “king for one day”.

There were several bands playing in the street or in specific points in the city. There was also this opera concert inside a small chapel, the girls didn’t sing, but the guy was amazing

Some friends made silhouette of stripers, dogs, little child’s, bicycles… and they put them in traffic signs as you can see. They put the stripper in the best place… where the old men spend their days… they were crazy about it, and in the end of the night the stripper was gone.