CRIVO — Women Composers Festival
Lisbon (2025)
Cultural Heritage
Conducted the creative direction and design for the “CRIVO — Women Composers Festival”, a festival that reclaims a continuous lineage of women composers from the Middle Ages to the present, presenting them not as historical exceptions but as foundational figures in music history. Its first edition took place in Lisbon from 18 Sept to 2 Oct 2025, with concerts, talks, cinema, and forums across landmark venues such as Carpintarias de São Lázaro, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Museu Nacional de História Natural e da Ciência, NOVA FCSH, and the Goethe‑Institut.
For the visual identity, rather than arguing for the legitimacy of these women as composers, the design itself reclaims authorship, working as an expressive gesture — one impossible to miss in the busy landscape of Lisbon. By focusing on the names of the composers, it emphasizes the presence and sound of their work in contrast to the word “Crivo”, which evokes the historical filter that excluded them. Drawing from musical composition, rhythm, and repetition, and from the logic of sound rather than its literal representation, the visual language creates space for nuance, authorship, and the presence of women — reinforcing what has always existed, rather than reframing it.
Direction: Luísa Correia da Silva | Production: CONTRÁRIA Cultural Association | Musical Curation: Inês Tomás Almeida
Creative Direction & Visual Identity: Mané Peixoto | Graphic design: Mané Peixoto, Benedita Pinto Gonçalves | © DianaTinoco.ph