© Janeth Tavares
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Project Grant - Arts Council England [2024]
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Beyond Boundaries 360 - Film Hub South West [2024]
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Residency programme - O Rumo do Fumo (Lisbon) [2024]
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TalentLAB - Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg [2024]
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Project Grant - Arts Council England [2023]
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The Island Cohort 2023 - imPOSSIBLE [2023]
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DYCP (Developing Your Creative Practice) grant - Arts Council England [2022-23]
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Projekt Elevate - Projekt Europa [2022]
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RTYDS New Directions South West [2022]
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Empower Collective - Projekt Europa [2022]
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BFI Creative Mentoring [2022]
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JMK Mentored Director [2021]
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Made in Bristol - Bristol Old Vic [2018-19]
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Farnham Maltings Graduate Award [2018]
Carlota Matos (she/her) is a Portuguese theatre and performance artist working internationally with a focus on social change. Her practice explores questions of identity, migration, and mental ill-health, in the form of documentary / experimental / participatory performances.
She frequently collaborates with charities, artists from different disciplines, communities and people who are not necessarily trained or experienced performers. She is dedicated to breaking down barriers in the access to theatre and culture, and increasing representation, especially for migrants and disabled people.
Carlota is currently organising the first edition of Refugee Week Portugal, an arts and culture festival celebrating refugee and migrant communities in Portugal.
She is the Facilitator for Firebird Theatre, a company of learning-disabled actors supported by Bristol Old Vic.
She has directed/facilitated for organisations such as Local Learning, Lightbox Theatre, Many Minds, Travelling Light, and Bristol Old Vic. Previous commissions include Projekt Europa and Counterpoints. She is part of Future Laboratory, a project of research residences throughout Europe to identify missing narratives on our stages.
In 2022, Carlota was awarded a DYCP grant from Arts Council England to scale up her work, explore creative access, and research ethics in participatory arts. She developed and currently leads a project with migrant women in Bristol, in partnership with refugee charity Borderlands, which includes workshops, cultural trips, facilitation training, and the creation of Taste—a performative encounter exploring identity, gender roles, and food rituals in different cultures.
Carlota is also developing a performance piece with her mother and MoYah, hip-hop and afrofusion artist, delving into the personal, political, and social impact of Portuguese colonialism in Mozambique.
Her project POUR UNE VIE MEILLEURE, about Portuguese migration during the Salazar dictatorship, was selected for TalentLAB 2024 (Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg).