Parva

Parva is an underground and independent musical journey in a series of regular happenings. It was born out of the necessity to step away from the established club scene of Porto and to start something new and out of the ordinary. Created by Pedro Centeno and with a lot of help from local musicians and artists who moved freely on and within the margins, Parva started as ground zero for musicians, artists and thinkers who felt the need to be part of something that is both inclusive and groundbreaking. The events usually take place illegally, in an underground basement/studio in the city center of Porto where everything is governed by individual initiative: no brands, no common-sense advertising. An unorthodox soundsystem, band equipment, program and stage set-up; video works and installations, street poster art and graffiti bombing, testing new relationships between sounds and artists, from punk to rave, and other bizarre crossovers in which low cultural practises like metal and moshing meet those of the avant-garde such as atonalism and transcendentalism. The name Parva has a latin source, meaning a small amount of money, insignificant or not relevant. The idea came out of an independent publication for arts from the beginning of the 20th century with the same name by Almada Negreiros who wrote the first futurist manifesto in Portugal.