Save the date: 7-8 November Symposium: Forest, Art and Community and a day at Eternal Forest in Faia Brava
On November 7 and 8, 2026, we invite you our yearly celebration of Eternal Forest in Portugal. The two days will be shared between a Symposium: Art, Forest and Community in collaboration with Faia Brava and Côa Park Foundation at the Côa Museum and a day on the land, celebrating the Seed of Eternal Forest in the natural reserve in Faia Brava.
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Portugal hosts the first Eternal Forest sanctuary as a living artwork: Art, ecology, and long-term thinking come together in Faia Brava this November.
This initiative is the result of a collaboration between the Eternal Forest project, founded by artist Evgenia Emets, and the Faia Brava Association. Together, they will create a living artwork intended to endure — a forest planted through a regenerative artistic design that integrates long-term environmental research, stewardship and promotes an increase in biodiversity.
This event marks the beginning of an ongoing intervention, with artist residencies at Faia Brava, educational activities, and progressive planting over the coming years — offering a living model of regeneration and reverence.
Under the motto “Being a good ancestor is the great work of our time,” Eternal Forest at Faia Brava goes beyond simple tree planting — it’s about redefining how we imagine and inhabit the future.
Protected Area Context 1,000 hectares of sustainably managed natural landscapes, with wild cliffs, native forests of cork oaks, holm oaks and Portuguese oaks, as well as olive groves and cereal fields cultivated using traditional agricultural practices
The reserve is home to colonies of cliff-dwelling birds such as the griffon vulture, Egyptian vulture, golden eagle, Bonelli’s eagle, and black stork
It hosts emblematic species such as the wildcat and otter, as well as herds of Garrano horses, roe deer, and wild boar that contribute to ecosystem maintenance and natural fire prevention
Symbolic and Cultural Power In the Côa Valley, where Paleolithic engravings and cave paintings reveal a human artistic relationship with nature dating back over 25,000 years, Eternal Forest translates regenerative art into cultural continuity — “from marks on schist to planting trees as acts of care” — a living dialogue between ancestral past and sustainable future.
Ma Earth Funding: From Seed to Eternal Forest Sanctuary in Faia Brava
Eternal Forest has been chosen from 800 projects worldwide to participate in Ma Earth’s collective funding round for community-led regeneration. We look forward to continuing our work in the beautiful Côa Valley in Portugal – together with our partners Faia Brava (ATN) | Reserva da Faia Brava Fractal | Regenerative Technologies & eccos.channel and people living locally.
We feel this work is so crucial right now – activating the sense of stewardship in the communities around the world, creating a movement of community-led forest sanctuaries.
What if cared by the communities, forests can stand forever – as they get older, creating ever more biodiversity, evolving the complexity of relationships, becoming the nature temples (the original ones!) and the spaces for continuity of our cultural memory?
Check out the results of our campaign https://maearth.com/eternal-forest/2026
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We’re looking for collaborators and ambassadors! If you have experience in structure, outreach, financing, strategy, or communications, or if you want to be part of shaping this movement, reach out via email [email protected] with some info about yourself and your vision of how you’d like to contribute — we are building a new kind of regenerative global organization.