3rd edition · Chão das Feiteiras, Madeira

Two days celebrating the nature of Madeira island: acoustic concerts, workshops, Echoo Talks, dance, wildlife watching, open-air cinema, activities for children, healthy food and plenty of fresh air!

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10 & 11 October

Programme

Two days at Chão das Feiteiras: acoustic concerts, Echoo Talks, workshops, open-air cinema, silent party, a sound journey at sunrise, kids area and food court.

Saturday 1010:00 to 22:00

Sunday 1107:30 to 18:00

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Excerpt from the ECHOO Nature Fest 2026 launch poster; the updated schedule is on the programme page. — Launch poster · the updated schedule is on the programme page

Saturday, 10 October — 10:00 to 22:00

Tree planting, grounds open, food court, market, Echoo Talks, art and nature workshop, creative workshop, organic music listening session, acoustic concert with Valter Lobo & Francisco Lopes, Silent Party, outdoor cinema, bat watching.

Sunday, 11 October — 07:30 to 18:00

Meditative Sound Journey with Ana Luísa, breakfast, food court, workshops (Robertins by VUMTEATRO, natural soap), Dom Roberto puppet show, Echoo Talks, market, live acoustic didgeridoo, plant-listening activity, acoustic concert with André Santos, Echoo Kids Area, Sound Crossing with Mahdi Hléwi.

Full, hour-by-hour schedule at schedule.html.

Limited places

Bookings open: activities and workshops

Some free, some paid — all with booking. The confirmation reaches you by e-mail, with a QR code to show at the activity entrance.

Wooden “echoo reforest” sign in the mountains

Tree planting — Echoo Reforest Sat 10 · 10:00 Free

Blue cyanotype print of leaves and branches against the sky

Printing with the Sun — Blueprint (cyanotype) Sat 10 · 15:00 €10.00

Tipi tent lit from inside at dusk, with the moon in the sky

Meditative Sound Journey at Sunrise Sun 11 · 07:30 €5.00 · €20.00 with breakfast

Burlap sail tied to a bamboo pole against a blue sky

“Robertins” workshop — children aged 9 and over Sun 11 · 10:00 €10.00

Workshop table seen from above, with baskets of plants, flowers and pigments

Recycled-Oil Soap workshop Sun 11 · 11:00 €10.00

Two people wearing headphones, listening to a plant wired with sensors, in a misty forest

Listening to Plants Sun 11 · 14:00 Free

See the activities and book

Art Zone · Open call 2026

Two installations in the middle of the forest.

We are looking for up to two artists or collectives to conceive and present installations and visual artworks in the festival's Art Zone, on 10 and 11 October at Chão das Feiteiras.

Applying is free and open to national and international visual artists, working alone or as a collective. The works are made to stand outdoors, preferably in sustainable or recycled materials. Each applicant submits one proposal, either unpublished or adapted to the festival's context.

Full regulation (PDF, Portuguese)

What it is

A festival that celebrates the island's nature — from the inside.

Echoo was born in 2024, as part of the Festival da Natureza. Echoo from echoing a message of wellbeing with nature; echoo from ecosystem, from ecological.

Since then it has been two days a year at Chão das Feiteiras, with a varied programme to be announced soon: concerts, relaxed conversations about nature and sustainability, presentations of projects in these fields and more; activities for all ages, a silent party, meditation at sunrise, species watching and much more. This is not a retreat. It is simply an event where you are at ease with Nature, in a playful and sociable way, with awareness of and respect for the environment.

Audience sitting on the grass in the sun, facing the stage among the trees of Chão das Feiteiras. — Festival audience · 2025 edition

Sustainability

Dry toilets and waste management

We want the festival to leave a mark on people, not on the place that hosts us. Our commitment is simple: to leave the grounds cleaner than we found them.

The dry-toilet area, enclosed with light cloth, in the meadow at Chão das Feiteiras, with the wooden sign at the entrance. — Dry toilets · 2025 edition

Wooden cabin of a dry toilet, with the door open. — Dry-toilet cabin · 2025 edition

dry toilets: 2 men's urinals, 2 women's urinals and 2 toilet cabins

wastewater: dry toilets produce none

100%

of the grounds swept and cleaned at the end of the festival

Dry toilets

On site there will be 2 men's urinals, 2 women's urinals and 2 dry-toilet cabins: an ecological solution that cuts water use significantly and avoids the wastewater that conventional toilets produce.

Waste collection and sorting

Throughout the festival there will be waste collection points and a team dedicated to collecting and sorting it, making sure the different materials go where they should and, whenever possible, are recycled or recovered.

At the end we do a careful sweep of the whole site. Because for us sustainability is not only about reducing impact — it is about caring for the place that welcomes us and trying to leave it better than we found it.

editions held, each drawing hundreds of participants

800

reusable cups handed out in 2025, to eliminate single-use plastic

Free

entry and ticket — most activities are free too, some are paid

Saxophone and percussion played outdoors, with mist rising behind the trees.

An open-air stage under a fabric sail, ringed by hay bales, on a clear blue day.

Where

Chão das Feiteiras

A high plateau in the heart of the island, ringed by heathland and levada paths. It is not in central Funchal — and that is exactly what makes the festival what it is.

Accessibility. The site is uneven natural terrain and is not accessible to people with reduced mobility. We are happy to help you plan a visit — write to us before you travel.

Shared transport. Buses run from Funchal (Praça CR7), €2.50 per trip, with advance booking — Book the bus. Coming by bus or shared ride is how we keep cars off the mountain.

Bring the essentials. You will be at altitude: pack a warm layer, walking shoes and water. Reusable cups are handed out on arrival.