Perhaps ACTUM started as a response to the pandemic and as a way to support contemporary artistic creators born or living in Braga. However, today, in its third edition, ACTUM is the moment in which the municipality catalogues and promotes those who have chosen Braga as a place to live with and through Art. The quality of the proposals presented in the first two editions has greatly contributed to the increase of candidates and revealed the creative territory that this place of stone and History hides.

For the third edition, the municipality decided, opportunely, that the centenary of José Saramago's birth would be the motto. The Nobel Prize winner's work is endless and brings together a very wide range of references, times and spaces, characters, intervals and actions. The greatness of Saramago and the possibilities of thinking that he brings to us are reflected in these nearly two dozen artworks, in which the various disciplines intersect but also distinguish each other.