
A festival that restores the soil: Ten Lives’ Genesis in Cidadelhe
Can a festival leave a landscape better than it found it? From April 30 to May 3 2026, 140 people gathered in the tiny Portuguese village of Cidadelhe. Not just to dance and listen, but above all to dig. Over a few mornings, they built 69 Smilands together: small landscape interventions that hold rainwater and…



