Where Land, Water and People Meet
SHORES is a Creative Europe cooperation project involving musical creation
as a tool to raise awareness of the environmental problems affecting our shores
Latest News & Events
Journey’s End at the Trondheim Fjord
The SHORES project reached its final shore in Trondheim, Norway. Over a week in August 2026, hosted by the[…]
Mining ‘Cultunatural’ Sonics at the Wadden Sea
The second artistic residency of the SHORES project took the journey northwards, from the lagoon of Aveiro to the[…]
First SHORES Residency in Aveiro
The first artistic residency of the SHORES project took place in Aveiro in June 2026, bringing together composers, performers[…]
About Us
Shores are dynamic spaces where land and water converge, shaping human life, culture, and sustainability through interaction, resource use, and symbolic meaning
SHORES is a Creative Europe cooperation project involving musical creation and collaboration as a tool to raise awareness of the depletion, overuse and contamination that are negatively affecting lakes, rivers and oceans and their interaction with land and humans. SHORES is implemented by a consortium led by the University of Aveiro (Portugal), including as partners the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (Norway), the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (Netherlands), and Navalha Associação Cultural(Portugal) as associated partner. SHORES organizes workshops and artistic residencies that will engage both communities and artists, generating creative outputs and events, as well as online resources, that will disseminate the project’s contribution transnationally, raising awareness of the problems impacting European shores.
Aims
SHORES aims to engage musical practices to raise awareness of fracturingenvironmental issues and promote sustainable modes of living. SHORES willexplore, activate and amplify the artefacts, sounds and musics associatedwith in-between water and land spaces, as grounds to address goals ofsustainability and transnational creation and circulation, encompassing theperspectives of performers / composers / sound artists and of localcommunities. The project partners will combine their expertise in artisticresearch, capacity building and European networking as a connectingplatform for environmentally-focused creation and collaboration. SHORES’artistic and dissemination work packages will highlight the relevance ofartefact and sound fieldwork collection in shores locations, shared artisticpractices, and capacity building and learning by artists and communities forparticipative sound / music creation and performance.