On 16 June at 18:00 CEST | 17:00 WEST, Reading The Scene welcomes Edgar Secca, Chairman of the Board of Cooperative Árvore, for a one-hour online exchange with fellow cooperative practitioners and cultural professionals.
The session will offer an opportunity to share the project’s aims and ongoing questions, while exploring different approaches to cooperation, cultural management, and collaborative development across Europe.
As part of Reading The Scene’s commitment to fostering dialogue between solidarity and cooperative initiatives, the exchange will provide a space to learn from different organisational experiences, governance models, and approaches to collective cultural work. By connecting practitioners from different countries and contexts, the session aims to strengthen mutual learning, solidarity, and long-term cooperation within the wider ecosystem of artists, cultural workers, cooperatives and community-led organisations.
Edgar Secca has been a board member of Cooperative Árvore since 2013 and currently serves as Chairman of the Board, with responsibilities in financial management, cultural management, and artistic production. He is also involved with Strix, a company specialising in environmental and biodiversity services.
Founded in 1963 by a group of visual artists in Porto, Cooperative Árvore is one of Portugal’s longest-standing cultural cooperatives. Over more than six decades, it has developed a significant role in artistic production, education, exhibition-making, and cultural participation, becoming an important reference point for cooperative practice in the arts.
The conversation will be facilitated by Joana Macedo, a cooperative practitioner from Portugal and member of Shared Visions projects & O.U.R. Cooperative.
Date: 16 June 2026
Time: 18:00 CEST | 17:00 WEST
Format: Online
Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/99146739657?pwd=VpmPBV3IsZxpRqZYe1v7qxlEy3Iczq.1