Concert for Disgraça

Hey, this is Artin from Disgraca,
contacting you as we are organising a tour in central europe in support of Disgraca, raising funds, talking about squatting and gentrification in Lisbon, our process of securing the space and on top of that we bring some music with us! We would like to play a show in X on the Y. Would you have an availability at this time?

Our project:
Rosva (queer immigrant punk) is a music project that was started to support it's home, Disgraça, the biggest anarchist social centre in Portugal and the only one in Lisbon.
We are going on tour to spread the word and raise the funds needed to buy our space in the face of unrelenting gentrification. Our music is chaotic mix of punk and anything from emo to crust with some neurospice sprinkled on top.

About Disgraça:
Disgraca is an anarchist social center based on DIY ethics and horizontal, anti hierarchical practices, run by an ever changing group of volunteers that try to make the space a more inclusive and accessible place for all.

It is a place like no other in the portuguese state, spread through four different floors we have a gym, workshop, screenprinting room, rehearsal room. We also have concert room and common eating level where we organise benefits regularly to support local and international causes (check out our website disgraca.com to see the events weve been organising!). Here people can eat and enjoy the music regardless of money. It's also important to note that those who use these facilities are also the ones that tend to the space on the events, meetings and maintenance.

On the first floor we also have an anarchist bookshop, Tortuga, where we sell books as cheap as we can and where all the money is being put straight into getting more books, and top of this Disgraça works as home base for meetings and gatherings for various different collectives and groups active in the Lisbon scene.

With situation in Lisbon rapidly deteriorating and with cultural spaces being gentrified out of their neighborhoods , either by eviction or impossible rent prices, it became clear we needed to take our fate in our hand. So, we started a crowdfunding campaign to buy the building. With 275,000€ to get until the end of summer and only 37% of this goal reached until now, the situation is dire, but we are convinced we can make it happen through a combination of donations, this tour, other benefits and interest free loans.