Static is a festival of live statues that happens in Santa Cruz, Portugal, every year during a week in August. Artists characterise themselves as a statue, with a theme, colours, make-up, and something else that only artists have, magic. There are more than 20 that show their talent in the streets of this little sea village every day. People vote on their favourite statues and on Staturday the best of the week compete for the first place. These artists spend hours without moving and they only slightly change position when someone offers a coin. During the week, Santa Cruz is quiet, even during the summer, and there is something special about walking in the streets at night, in the middle of the dead poets, listening the sea waves, watching the statues...
