Casa da Horta

Casa da Horta is a non-profit cultural and environmental association, located in Porto. ​We emerged out of need to create alternative cultural programs and lifestyles in the city of Porto, contributing to the development of critical thinking and at the same time putting into practice alternatives to unethical consumerism. During the 13 years of existence, we have been doing our best to contribute to broadening the perspective on human and animal rights; promoting ethical consumerism, collectivism, solidarity actions; bringing awareness to different ecological and social issues; supporting local and international artists, craftsmen and small producers and projects; and promoting cultural exchange, re/upcycling and money-free exchange. All this is based on a non-hierarchical and horizontal structure. We have collaborated and supported other projects and organizations who share the same principles. From national environmental groups and NGOs working for ecological and animal rights causes, to locally-based activist groups, who question and fight city touristification; from associations and social center who work with and for the local community, to collaboration with an urban garden association. We want to be a space for exchanging and sharing ideas, experiences, knowledge and activities, open for everybody. We would like to engage intellectual self-defence and creative resistance, easining the access to critical thinking, hard-to-find information and literature for everybody.