Flower Club
with Filipe Pereira
2026
The Flower Club, led by choreographer and floral designer Filipe Pereira, takes place over six sessions between February and June 2026. Born in Fátima and trained at the School of Dance, Filipe Pereira has developed a hybrid career between choreographic creation and floral design, being responsible for arrangements in several local churches and the founder of the Antese studio.
The Flower Club emerges precisely from this fertile territory between body, ritual, community and nature. Inspired by the natural cycles of flowers and their symbolism, Filipe designs each session in dialogue with key moments of the calendar, such as Easter, Ascension Day (Dia da Espiga), and 25 April (Freedom Day). In each session, he brings together his practice in dance with collective floral arrangement.
The Club proposes six sessions involving individual participants and local groups, all open to the general public. Each participant may choose to attend all sessions or only some of them, selecting in advance the dates on which they wish to take part.
PROGRAMME
21 February – 15:00 – Winter Arrangement
SINDICATO dos Curtumes, Alcanena
20 March – 15:00 – Spring Arrangement
Alcanena Library
with the Alcanena Library Group
3 April – 18:00 – Easter Arrangement
Parish of Serra de St. António
with the Serra de St. António Parish Group
22 April – 18:00 – Freedom Arrangement
SINDICATO dos Curtumes, Alcanena
14 May – 21:30 – Espiga Arrangement
Jaime Chavinha Music Conservatory (CAORG, Minde)
with Charales Chorus, Minde
9 June – 15:00 – FALA Arrangement
Alcanena Library
This session concludes with a collective floral arrangement integrated into FALA — Alcanena Literary Festival.
[Interview]
We spoke with Filipe Pereira for the February 2026 edition of the Jornal de Minde.
Can you tell us how dance and flowers are part of your work in their different forms, and how they coexist within your practice?
I am a floral designer and a choreographer. I started with flowers in a playful way, composing arrangements as an aesthetic extension of my imagination. Dance came during my teenage years and revealed itself as a pleasure. Today, both activities come together. Flowers teach me about time, and dance teaches me what to do with it.
What does a “Club” mean to you?
For me, a club is associated with the idea of a team. It is a group of people who look at the same thing and organise themselves around it. We can think of it as a fan club, where flowers are the idols.
What will the sessions of the Flower Club be like, and what will participants and groups be able to do?
We will look at botanical and plant-based elements and relate them to one another. In the same way, I hope that with participants we will deconstruct topics and compose conversations that allow our lives to flourish.
At the end of the cycle, participants will also create a floral arrangement at the Alcanena Library. How do you imagine that moment?
I imagine people carrying their home gardens in their arms, or bringing the forest into the building. Perhaps we will come to think of this unknown composition as a book with a good story.
What do you want to share with the people of Minde and Alcanena? What would you like to say to encourage them to take part?
In this Flower Club, I hope to encourage people to have the courage to look at things and truly see. To observe that the beauty of botany, as in life, lies in diversity and in the rich relationships that grow from it. We will make beautiful “arrangements” and discover that they are, in fact, easy to compose. Above all, it is an occasion for encounter.
Filipe Pereira is a choreographer, dancer and floral designer. As a choreographer, his notable works include Nova Criação and O que fica do que passa, in collaboration with Teresa Silva, and Hale — Study for an Artificial Organism, created with Aleksandra Osowicz, Inês Campos, Helena Martos and Matthieu Ehrlacher. As a dancer, he has worked with João dos Santos Martins, Sofia Dias & Vítor Roriz, Dinis Machado, Beatriz Cantinho and Martine Pisani, among others. As a floral designer, he develops his recent project Antese, through which he creates floral compositions for a range of contexts and purposes.