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She is also the executive director of the municipal company Faz Culture, wich manages the Theatro Circo and gnration cultural spaces, as well as the implementation of the program for the Braga Creative City of Unesco. Joana was also the executive and programme coordinator of Braga’27 ECoC candidacy and Braga Cultura 2030 – Braga 2020-2030 Cultural Strategy initiative. Before that, she was a project manager at Opium, a company specialised in consultancy for the creative industries sector. She has a degree in Art and Heritage from the School of Arts of the Catholic University of Porto, where she also obtained a Master’s degree in Cultural Heritage Management.

Ana is the project manager of Braga 25. Before that, she was manager of Projeto Pláka, a platform that brings together projects that embody the municipal policy of supporting contemporary artistic practice in Porto, and artistic coordinator of ArtWorks, an organization that produces, develops and manufactures works of art and other projects, in which she developed the No Entulho artistic residency program. Ana has collaborated on different cultural programming and curatorial projects since 2014 and is the co-creator and co-artistic director of the BARLOS project. She has a degree in Art History from the University of Porto and a Master’s degree in Art Studies, in the field of Museological and Curatorial Studies, from the same institution.

He is head of communications of Faz Cultura – Empresa Municipal de Cultura de Braga, the municipal company for culture, also responsible for Theatro Circo, gnration and Braga Media Arts. He was part of the team from University of Minho responsible for the Report on the Economic and Social Impacts of Guimarães 2012 ECoC. He has a degree in Communication Sciences and a master’s degree in Journalism and Information from the University of Minho, and he is currently completing a master’s degree in Art and Culture Communication at the same university.