Galeria Municipal do Porto opens the exhibition "Depois do Estouro", curated by Tomás Abreu and results from the "Expo'98 no Porto" competition project. "Depois do Estouro" was selected by an independent jury of the Galeria Municipal do Porto’s artistic team, composed by Daniela Marinho, postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies at the University of Copenhagen, Miguel Ferrão, who directs with Eduardo Guerra the artistic project Musa paradisiaca, and Nuno Faria, artistic director of Museu da Cidade. This exposition arises from the effects that the socioeconomic and technological developments by the end of the last century had on contemporary culture and "proposes a reflection on paradoxes of their consequences, while challenging notions of time manipulation". It brings together a set of works, produced at the end of the last decade by 13 young artists who grew up in Portugal in the 1990s, which "focus on issues of humanity, physical space and time": Alice dos Reis, Francisco M. Gomes, Henrique Pavão, Hugo de Almeida Pinho, Igor Jesus, Jorge Jácome, Lucia Prancha, Mariana Rocha, Mariana Vilanova, Pedro Huet, Rodrigo Gomes, Sara Graça and Tomás Abreu.

Clube Ilusionista Fenianos hosts from January 31 to February 1, the Festival de Ilusionismo «S. João Bosco» 2020. The event that has been held for 61 years in this city is open to Porto, its visitors and the general public. January 31st, Opening and Magical Get-Together, at the Clube Fenianos’ Bar. February 1st, Clube’s Noble Hall – PRESTIDIGITATION GALA

The exhibition marks the 30 years of the Foundation and the 20th anniversary of Museu de Serralves, presenting the programme of the Performing Arts Service between 1999 and today. It was born and developed through compromises between seemingly irreconcilable objectives: on the one hand, the need to present concrete data (names, dates, images) that showed where, how and when certain artists performed, and mirrored the pioneering character of the importance given to the performing arts by Serralves; on the other hand, it translates what seems to immediately distinguish these arts: the implication of the spectator, the eminently collaborative spirit, the "here and now" as opposed to "this was". The compromises included by putting on display documentation and letting its visitors know who has performed in Serralves (and when, how and where), while presenting elements that evoked the “here and now.” The documentation was incorporated through a process of collaboration: once the programmers Cristina Grande and Pedro Rocha selected the images and words that best illustrated the last twenty years of their programming (between stage photography and graphic materials that announced and accompanied the activities), it was commissioned to a graphic designer, Luís Teixeira, to create a book that would never be published, whose pages would be exclusively presented on the walls of Biblioteca de Serralves, along with the recordings of shows and props to which these programmers considered to be of special importance. At the same time, it was decided to occupy a considerable area of the library’s mezzanine with an object that would immediately evoke the idea of theatre and could "trigger" the viewer: a small stage waiting to be occupied. The visitor can and should sit down to read (programming texts, key books to understand the performing arts today) and, most importantly, to hear testimonials and memories of spectacles written by people especially attentive to Serralves' performing arts programming - between artists, musicians, writers and current or former directors and programmers of theatres and music and performance festivals - and then read by two actors. These testimonies came to reconcile the irreconcilable: the memories of certain shows, or of concerts and performances - necessarily subjective, incomplete, fragmentary - constitute the necessary counterpoint to data, dates, chronologies, documentation. It is largely thanks to them that this exhibition is not just about "what it was"; it is also now, and it is also here.

Brecht said that margins are as "violent" as the violence of the "river that drags everything" because they confine it. Margin, directed by Victor Hugo Pontes, tell us of a similar violence, associated with young people at risk in the periphery of life, like the characters in Jorge Amado's Captains of the Sands (1937), a book that inspired him and was a “guide”, here deconstructed and reconstructed here by Joana Craveiro’s writing. The dialogue between Victor Hugo Pontes’ choreographic language and the book a second layer was laid, that of the life stories, collected in a previous research, of children living in institutions such as Casa Pia and Instituto Profissional do Terço, and also a third one, consisting of the memories and experiences of the performers themselves and the process of creating the show - all these layers interweave in the original text behind this performance. A cast of kids, aged from 14 to 20 years (plus a dancer and a professional actor) inhabit the stage-house-shelter, mattresses scattered across the floor, the (dreamed?) oasis of a palm tree, as a vital space for the preservation of oneself in a group, a family, even. Margem, a production midway between dance and documentary theatre, moved by an urgent and tribal soundtrack, is admittedly a "very political" work. Racism, sex, revolution and death also appear, but there is a vibrant energy running through Margem, and that energy persists and endures.

The Christmas edition of MARKETPLACE-Casual Style is coming to Jardim do Marquês in the Invicta city of Porto. As always, and being MARKETPLACE-Casual Style a famous market in the city, we will have the best exhibitors from northern Portugal who, as always, will present us the best in Used Articles and New Creators. Apparel & footwear, jewellery / costume jewellery, handicrafts, gourmet products, convent / Traditional confectionery, furniture, vintage items and much more! Be part of the MARKETPLACE-Casual Style world, a Cosmopolitan Market open to the dissemination of new concepts and creators.

The Planetário do Porto - Centro de Ciência Viva (planetarium) is providing virtual expeditions to the sea of the Azores, within the scope of the iSEA science communication project, led by Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto (FCUP). Open to people over 18, this virtual reality experience has free-of-charge access, by prior registration, and aims to enable the exploration of ecosystems during a "mission" of about one hour. The public’s access to the "journey" is the result of the iSEA project, and aims to create a set of contents and messages about deep-sea ecosystems for scientific communication and to develop a non-intrusive, valid and replicable method in places like science centres and museums. The exploratory study has an emphasis on the themes addressed by the AIR Centre – The Atlantic International Research Centre, in the Azores, in particular on the sustainability of deep-sea ecosystems.

After founding it in the past season, TNSJ wants to consolidate the steps taken to create a Drama Club, in order to make it a space where young people under 18 who feel attracted by this art will be welcomed, encouraged to stay and learn. Under the guidance of Nuno Cardoso, Nuno M Cardoso and Emílio Gomes, the improvisations to which young people will be challenged are the starting point for a work around Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream.

Vincent, a fifteen-year-old teenager, was lovingly raised by his mother, who always refused to reveal his father's name. Vincent then begins to search and discovers that his father is a Parisian, selfish and cynical publsiher, Oscar Pormenor. Vincent does not accept it. The painting that fills an entire wall in his room - a reproduction of Caravaggio's The Sacrifice of Isaac - inspires him do devise a plan of revenge, but it is in that moment that the encounter with Joseph will change both his life and that of his mother. Eugène Green's sixth feature film combines all the virtues of Green’s cinema - rigorous and "self-conscious" staging, classic erudition declined with "mystery", a hidden sense of humour that runs through and transfigures - in a story that begins in Paris, in the midst of "intellectuals" and "literary critics" (usual target of Green's harsh criticism), and ends by the coastline, in a bizarre (but as delicate as fun) evocation of the Nativity.

Spontaneous and popular fair where you can buy birds, food and cages. Even if you do not want to buy anything, you can enjoy the singing birds, their colour and the liveliness of the fair. When passing through the fair, one must take a look at the breath-taking view of the Douro River and its bridges.

A gathering place for various collectors, this fair has as purpose the sale and exchange of coins, postcards, stamps and other related collectibles. It takes place under the arcades of the buildings surrounding the square.

At several of the spaces of Museu da Cidade – Casa do Infante, Casa-Museu Guerra Junqueiro, Casa-Museu Marta Ortigão Sampaio, Museu Romântico and Museu do Vinho do Porto - children and families are invited to explore the museum freely , with a backpack available at the reception desk.

The Official Super Wings Show arrives in Portugal for the first time! The Portuguese Tour of the Official SUPER WINGS Show, “Missão em Equipa”, is a musical show where the little ones will be able to see their favourite characters from the famous series of Canal Panda! Come and meet Jett, Dizzy, Donnie, Jerome, Astra, Sky and Jimbo and come and participate in their adventures. Join this great party, a musical designed for the whole family, full of action and adventure, where music, fun and audience participation are the main ingredients. The audiences will live the experience of entering the world of the Super Wings with a visit to the World airport, Super Wings’ base of operations. Jett, Dizzy, Donnie, Astra and Jerome set up a big party and have many surprises prepared to receive the little ones, who will still be able to accompany Jett on one of his famous missions! Jimbo and Sky, the air traffic controllers, will also be there with a lot of dancing and music! Welcome to the Super Wings flight school!

The most important legacy of 20th-century Portuguese choral music belongs to Fernando Lopes-Graça, with an oeuvre in this field only comparable to that of the great polyphonists of the Renaissance. Two great categories divide this legacy: the original compositions and the harmonisation of regional songs, areas in which the composer left his extremely personal stamp, filled them with sounds that are immediately associated with his name. As a result of his field study in collecting traditional music, his compositions reflect an image of the roots of Portuguese music that is difficult to find in other composers. Focus of interest of maestro Paul Hillier from the first moment he took on the challenge of creating from scratch Coro Casa da Música, in 2009, Lopes Graça is the target of a monographic concert, entirely dedicated to his choral work, which will result in a record by Coro Casa da Música.

Cat in a Bag's music is completely improvised, with noise rock and experimental music as a backdrop. The band's first album was released by Clean Feed in July 2019, when it performed the opening concert of Jazz im Goethe Garten (curated by Rui Neves). The quartet consists of Bruno Figueira (alto saxophone), João Clemente (electric guitar, magnets), João Lucas (electric bass guitar) and Duarte Fonseca (drums).

South Korean pianist Seong-Jin Cho embarked on a world-class career after winning the 17th International Chopin Competition in Warsaw in 2015, at just 21. An exclusive Deutsche Grammophon artist, he performed a brilliant recital at the 2017 Piano Cycle at Casa da Música. The Six pieces op.118 by Brahms are a set truly remarkable for the diversity of environments they provide, highlighting the more lyrical side of the instrument. The polyphonic composition and the orchestral sounds distinguish César Franck's Prelude, Choral and Fugue, a masterpiece of the French repertoire. Before finishing the recital with a truly revolutionary composition that reveals all the genius of Franz Liszt, Sonata in B Minor, the pianist presents the most auspicious first piece by a composer, Sonata op.1 written in 1908 by Alban Berg. “Cho's mix of imagination, pacing, balance and control produced moments of spellbinding sonic art” The Arts Desk

U tells the epic journey of a very peculiar Ulysses, not the superhuman hero of Homer's Odyssey, but a huge white bear, a polar bear. Taking as starting-point Maria Alberta Menéres’ Ulisses, a children’s version of the Odyssey, stage director Joana Magalhães drew inspiration by the book’s opening line: “A tale never loses in the telling.” Thus, contrary to the univocal slant of the tale which glorifies the hero and his deeds, she decided to make it dialogue with a short story she had written, A Educação de Um Ditador (The Education of a Dictator). U is kidnapped by the inhabitants of a certain domestic-animal-ruled country, and he was educated according to democratic principles to become a dictator. Made a leader against his will, U escapes and sets off on a journey back to Ithaca, the land of savages, in search of his lost identity, but on arriving there he is once again welcomed as a messiah. U uses the wandering of its main character through a black and white world to question the concept of the hero and our lazy attachment to the notion of ​​a saviour who will forgive us and save us from disaster. The real catastrophe, Penelope’s catastrophe, the planet Earth, continues to unfold, always waiting for salvation. Basically, U’s makes us think about democracy, as a collective and participatory project.

"Urn" is a solo that reflects on the relationship between human beings and their social identity, on the overvaluation of consciousness and on the body as an objectified product. The inspiration came from the poem by Giulio Morello, Multa per inane videbis corpora, which mentions the De rerum natura, an invitation to become aware of the state of humankind: “Let us imagine an individual in motion / who at each step extracts from an urn / the instruction for the next step: / right left front back. // Let us imagine that millions of individuals / move in the same way, well: / what distinguishes us from gas bodies? / Perhaps the illusion of governing fate?” How is it that the culturally and socially informed individual is deconstructed, after entering the loop of his own blind convictions? Urna is an untapped opportunity, lost forever in a distant non-time. It is the loss of significant questions and the obsession for reassuring and ephemeral answers. Urna is what remains after curiosity, which becomes oppression, which gives way to the redundant cacophonic, which in turn gives way to the absurd, which gives way to emptiness, which gives way to new possibilities, which generate other curiosities. And so on forever. What is left is a loop; movements, words, symbols devoid of meaning, are repeated to the ridicule so that we can reflect on the urgency of reducing (or elevating?) the human being to the surrendered beast.

The cult movie "The Room", directed and performed by Tommy Wiseau and which is considered the "best worst movie ever made", will open the February edition of the "Passos no Escuro" cycle. With the theme "É mau? Ótimo!" (Is it bad? Good!), next month's programme starts like this with a film that has been regularly screened for 17 years and always with a legion of fans actively participating: the audience dresses like the characters, throws plastic spoons at the stage and follows a series of rituals already well practiced. The screening at cinema Passos Manuel will be no different and will include the participation of Greg Sestero, one of the lead actors, who is also the writer of the book that documents all the adventures of movie making and that gave rise to the film of the same name, "The Disaster Artist" by James Franco. Greg Sestero is the host who prepared the entire programme of festivities that accompany the film, on February 7th. Before the screening, there will be a mini documentary on "The Room", a performance where the actor reads parts of the book / script and answers questions from the audience and explains the "rules" for viewing the film.

A reflection, as a theatre play for families, about prejudices and ceramic toads. In Portugal, ceramic toads are displayed in commercial establishments to keep people away. If ceramic toads upset people of flesh and blood - gypsies - toads upset us all. On stage will be father and daughter. Founded in 2009, the theatre company Amarelo Silvestre carries out its activities from Canas de Senhorim, Municipality of Nelas. Contemporary theatre created in a semi-urban context, paying close attention to the world and what’s happening. Highlight to the dramaturgy spoken in Portuguese and for the choreographic body of the actor on stage. Word and body: two pillars of the artistic purpose of Amarelo Silvestre.

FC Porto vs SL Benfica

The duo is ready to hold their first concert at Coliseu Porto Ageas with the best of Brazilian country music (sertanejo). Maiara & Maraisa say that they are excited to come to Porto with their full concert. With more than 1:30 of duration, the duo presents the best songs of their career and promises other surprises from their acclaimed repertoire. In this show, Maiara & Maraisa share with the audiences the intimacy of their voices with the vibes of the audiences and the band creating the poetic tone that promises to move with the repertoire full of hits, like “Nem Tchum”, “Medo Bobo”, “Sorte que cê Beija Bem” and “Ai que Vontade”. Also, on the musical menu are performances of some of their classics, including "Se Olha no Espelho" and "Bagunça arrumada".

Whoever passes by from 10 am to 7 pm will find a wide range of items: handicrafts, clothing, antiques, organic products, books, toys, and more.  As it takes place outdoors, this market always depends upon favourable weather conditions. 

The Afro-Bahian rhythmic roots translated into the harmonization of jazz. This is the music suggestion of the multi-award-winning big band Letieres Leite & Orkestra Rumpilezz. His compositions are based on the keys and rhythmic drawings of the so-called Bahian Percussive Universe, with references to percussive associations such as Ilê Aiyê and Olodum, Sambas do Recôncavo and the sacred cult of Candomblé. It was the winner of the 28th Brazilian Music Award in the categories of best instrumental album, best instrumental group and best arranger. The award-winning album was A Saga da Travessia (2017, Sesc), a record with its interpretation of the black diaspora and highlights the tragedy of African peoples as a starting point for the creation of a new culture. The compositions are by Letieres Leite, who explains: “The album talks about the moment of the arrival of free African people who were enslaved and brought to Salvador, but not with a submissive and tragic vision, but with an empowered perspective”. “One of the most intense showcases of Bahian artistic inspiration” Caetano Veloso

The legendary RIDE perform in Portugal for the first time at a solo concert. They bring us their new album ‘This Is Not A Safe Place’. This band, born in England in 1988, is formed by Mark Gardener, Andy Bell, Laurence "Loz" Colbert and Steve Queralt, and one of the pioneers of the “shoegaze” scene, alongside other great projects like My Bloody Valentine, Slowdive, Catherine Wheel, Lush and Curve. After a long hiatus between 1996 and 2014, the band presents itself on this world tour with its original formation and promises to take us on a journey that will leave an immense white spot in the deep blue sky.

Tickets for the match between FC Porto and Académico de Viseu are already on sale, scheduled for February 12th (Wednesday), at 8:45 pm (Sport TV), at Estádio do Dragão, counting for the 2nd leg of the Portuguese Cup semi-finals.

Starting in the pulsating centre of the city and going to emblematic venues all over Invicta, Porto in Tempus is an expedition into the history of a city. Features the presentation by Pedro Rodrigues and the special participation of Bernardino Castro, Director of Centro Português de Fotografia, this will clearly be an event not to be missed!

"An Italian friend who became a band name, who became a record name. We released the album Linda Martini in 2018. Night after night we celebrated these songs, our friendship and the kindness from those who welcomed us in their city, in their club, theatre, festival. There were many dates and in all of them you reminded us that this is not about us, it is about what we are together - us and you - during those minutes. Now that we are recoding our next album, we want to close this cycle with you at Coliseu do Porto. See you there."

“I was born twice: I was first one thing, and then the other.” These are the opening words of MDLSX, a kaleidoscopic solo performance by Silvia Calderoni, staged by Enrico Casagrande and Daniela Nicolò, founders of the Italian company Motus. Intense and defying, it countians literary evocations from Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides, Orlando by Virginia Woolf, several texts by Pasolini, and seminal books on queer theory, such as Gender Trouble by Judith Butler, or Counter-sexual Manifesto by Paul B. Preciado. Using the power of her androgynous presence and a format reminiscent of a DJ/VJ set, Silvia Calderoni weaves these literary references with her biography, home videos and the pop music that influenced her, from The Smiths to Placebo, from Talking Heads to Vampire Weekend and The Dresden Dolls. Shattering the concepts of gender and narrative, MDLSX is a paean to the freedom of becoming and being an other, beyond any border or prejudice.

Blanck Mass, Benjamin John Power's solo project, half of Fuck Buttons, is back in Portugal and has a confirmed stop at Rivoli’s Understage on February 14th, for the presentation of “Animated Violence Mild’. Released in 2019 via Sacred Bones, “Animated Violence Mild’ is, in the words of the British musician and producer, his most concise, direct and honest work to date. Loaded with bold experimentation, rhythmic intensity, explosive melodies and daring ferocity, the album is an amalgam of extreme emotions, which oscillate between the expression of existential fear and the beauty close to transcendence. A grief record, which arises from the reflection concerning grief, not only personally but also in a more global sense, of all of us, as a species, it is an unbridled anti-consumerism treaty, a declared criticism to humanity's self-inflicted fall, betrayal of the best instincts of our nature and the future of our own world. And like the sadness it communicates there, the eight tracks that comprise it are not at all linear, surprising the listener at every moment, among stylistic combinations so distinct and well executed that effortlessly go well beyond all the influences that shamelessly we recognize in him, becoming a moment not so much of exasperation but of pure catharsis.

In a good movie session, before the arrival of sound films, the music was performed live. This experience is not only relived but also updated in the cine-concerts performed in the 8th edition of Invicta.Música.Filmes, with new music written for two recently restored silent films. J'Accuse, a pacifist film by French filmmaker Abel Gance, is accompanied by a soundtrack created by his compatriot Philippe Schoeller and will be premiered in Portugal, by Orquestra Sinfónica. A few days later, the Remix Ensemble and Digitópia present the result of the challenge that Casa da Música posed to the composer from Porto, Igor C. Silva, to create a score for a Portuguese silent film from 1927, the crime film O Táxi Nº 9297 by Reinaldo Ferreira, a journalist better known as Repórter X. The soundtracks of some of the best-known films in history are featured in the concert of Banda Sinfónica Portuguesa, including music by Nino Rota, Ennio Morricone and John Williams. The opening of the festival is a fascinating A Trip to the Moon through the lens of a pioneer of French cinema, Georges Méliès, a science fiction from 1902 also presented in a cine-concert with new music created here at Casa da Música by members of Digitópia.

Released in 1919, the film J'Accuse gave international fame to filmmaker Abel Gance, a reference figure in silent French cinema. The montage includes scenes shot on the battlefield, placing the love plot in the context of World War I. Considered a pacifist film, it was recently recovered and gave rise to Philippe Schoeller's original soundtrack, commissioned as part of the celebrations of the centenary of the war. This is the opportunity to see a masterpiece of European silent cinema while the orchestra performs the new soundtrack live, which perfectly highlights the disturbing images of the film. “Led by Christian Schumann's fervent direction, J’accuse is a perfect marriage between music and cinema” Le Monde

Devendra Banhart is back to Portugal in 2020. The American, who presented his new album in September, will perform on February 15th at Hard Club. In this show, the talented and charismatic American artist will premiere his work, Ma, whose debut single, “Kantori Ongaku”, can already be heard, and seen, on his official YouTube page. Bursting with autobiographical vignettes, Ma displays a change of sound compared to previous albums, revealing a more captivating story-telling and emotional intimacy. The album follows Ape in Pink Marble (2016) and presents itself as Banhart's 10th long-playing album. Over 13 tracks, sung in English, Spanish and Portuguese, Banhart favours organic sounds that, along with strings, woodwinds and keyboards, to accompany his voice and guitar.

Reflexo is the latest work of Cordis, the unusual duo of Paulo Figueiredo (piano) and Bruno Costa (Portuguese guitar). After a 12-year-career, this duo presents another album of original compositions, successor to Cordis (2008), Cordis2 (2011) and Terceiro (2015) - the latter recorded with Quarteto Arabesco. Formed in 2008, Cordis intersects piano and Portuguese guitar with passion and intensity, seeking a new aesthetic approach through a constant dialogue. The result is a surprising fusion of roots and modernity, tradition and innovation, translated into musical paintings capable of leading the audiences on new and exciting journeys.

The strangulation of an actress by her ex-lover, in a taxi, shocked Lisbon society in 1926. In the newspapers, a so-called Repórter X published the results of his own investigation, denouncing the perpetrator of the crime. The journalist was Reinaldo Ferreira, the same man who shortly afterwards directed O Táxi Nº 9297, a crime film that became a classic of Portuguese silent cinema, inspired precisely by that crime. Made at the Invicta Film studios, in Porto, and premiered at Cinema Batalha in 1927, the film now has an original soundtrack, written especially for the Remix Ensemble and for this occasion by the composer from Porto, Igor C. Silva.

Stage director Cristina Carvalhal visited us in 2018 with the stage adaptation of Elizabeth Costello, a novel by J.M.Coetzee. Two years later, we will meet her again with a play by Ödön von Horváth. We could start by talking about this playwright by quoting a lapidary phrase: “I have attempted to be as disrespectful as possible towards stupidity and lies.” If we add to this brutality an abruptness for human insufficiencies and a corrosive sense of humour, we begin to grasp the dominant tone of the work of Horváth, a citizen of the Austro-Hungarian empire who settled in Berlin in the 1920s, to then reinvent the German-speaking popular theatre. Written in 1935-36, the intrigue of Judgment Day could easily be confused with a run-of-the-mill bourgeois drama, led by an unexpected “love” triangle. But the play acquires, as it progresses, the density of a parable on guilt and innocence, to question individual responsibility within the daily life of a community. The use of video pieces is one of the building-blocks of the show. The video done by the filmmaker Pedro Filipe Marques, will be instrumental in achieving the phantasmal dimension of guilt or, to put it another way, in the “materialisation” of the unusual presence from the “beyond”…

The Pavilhão do Clube Desportivo do Viso, in Ramalde, will be the stage for the final phase of the EuroHockey Indoor Club Challenge I – 2020 women. The competition will take place from February 21st to 23rd and brings together eight teams representing their own countries. In addition to Portugal, which will be represented by the team of Grupo Desportivo do Viso, teams from Ireland, Sweden, Bulgaria, Scotland, Slovakia, Georgia and Wales will also compete for the European indoor title, a total of 150 athletes aged between 19 and 40 years old. The opening game of the EuroHockey Challenge is scheduled for 9:30am on February 21st, pitting teams from Scotland (Dundee Wanderers) and Slovakia (KPH Raca) face to face. The host team will play their first game at 1:15pm on Friday, in a match in which they will play against the Georgian team (Ukimerioni Kutaisi). The eight teams will be divided into two pools in the first phase of the competition. Portugal is included in Pool A, along with teams from Georgia, Ireland and Sweden. The afternoon of Sunday, February 23rd, is reserved for the finals of the competition, with the award ceremony scheduled for 4pm. This is the first time that the competition takes place in the city of Porto.

Since 2016 with Bridgetown, and after his album “Preto e Vermelho”, he has been releasing hit after hit, making him one of the most requested artists of the moment. After the success of the singles “Não Vales Nada”, “3AM” and featuring in “Rain”, Mishlawi and Richie Campbell and in “Nunca Pares” featuring Slow J and Papillon, Plutonio launched, featuring DJ Dadda, the giant “Cafeína”, which has already exceeded 16 million views and reached the double platinum award. These shows will serve as a presentation for his next album, which, in his own words, “will be available very soon”.

Marianne Hirsch defines in her book "The Generation of Postmemory" the concept of post-memory as the "relationship that the ‘generation after’ bears to the personal, collective and cultural trauma of those who came before – to experiences they ‘remember’ only by means of the stories, images and behaviours among which they grew up" (2012: 5). The performance "The children of colonialism" investigates the relationship between the generations that were born after 25 April 1974 and Portuguese colonialism and what memories were transmitted to them from that same past. This is a documentary theatre performance that works from an extensive and contrasting collection of testimonies, putting the interviewees themselves on stage to discuss their biographies and those of their parents, reflecting how the colonial past is reflected in Portugal and in today's Europe , as well as in movements that demand the decolonization of the history and thought of the ancient imperial countries.

During the winter, Parque de Serralves, although more contained, remains full of life! Its dynamics are expressed in colours, shapes, scents and textures, communicating directly with its visitors’ senses. Winter, par excellence, is the season of dormancy for some living beings, however, the camellias and magnolias, surprise us with their flowering, giving it a very special colour. This guided tour has the purpose of showing the Park and its peculiarities during the winter season.

Carnaval na Floresta Mais Do Que Tudo is only celebrated every four years, when the February calendar has 29 days and the year has 366 days. These and other acts are fun to get to know and are also part of a party that, say the older people, doesn’t exist nowhere else in the world! This month's story is yet another adventure full of mishaps and many games to discover under Rui Ramos' ingenious, performative and magical baton, which will reveal the enchanting world out of his, ours, 'Baú do Contador' (Storyteller’s Chest). In this fabulous universe, even adults have a blast!

On the world tour of their 11th studio album, the Tindersticks return to Portugal, where they have a loyal following. Formed in London in 1992, with ten studio albums and eight soundtracks written for the famous filmmaker Claire Denis, the Tindersticks continue to push boundaries and explore highly emotional sound environments and with innovative textures. Recently they were invited to perform in the inaugural programme of the new Philharmonie de Paris and Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, collaborating frequently with orchestras, guest musicians and vocalists. In 2014, they were invited to create orchestral soundscapes for the In Flanders Fields Museum in Ypres, Belgium.

Jimmy P reaches the 10-year career milestone. In a celebration with a “Hollywoodish” potential, the show can take on both suspense, drama and action through the different moments that the artist will provide to his fans. Knowing only the date and place of the show, "February 22nd - Coliseu Porto Ageas", the story will be sung only by those who are attending. Jimmy chooses the city that has always embraced him to blow out the candles for these first 10 years, with him. It could not be any other way.

This Carnival we will transform ourselves into powerful machines, capable of producing and releasing everything that fits our imagination: happy days, valuable objects, tools never seen before... As a family, we will start by making helmets, with special lenses, buttons, circuits with different colours, real remote controls to get our body-machine working! We are then ready to play and parade until Carnival’s day. This session is free-of-charge, but has a limited number of 30 places, which requires registration to the email eventos@mercadobomsucesso.pt.

In the afternoon of "Shrove Sunday", festive music and dance will liven up the eastern part of the city. As has been tradition in recent years, the group Batucada Radical will hold another Carnival parade, in the form of a music group, across the streets of the city of Porto. The event, which is now in its 11th edition, is scheduled for the afternoon of February 23rd, gathering at 3 pm, next to Centro Comercial Stop, in Rua do Heroísmo. The carnival parade will leave at 4 pm, heading to Avenida de Rodrigues de Freitas, to finish, around 6 pm, in Praça da Alegria. Participation is free and, masked or not, everyone is invited to sing, dance and above all to have fun, to the sound of Portuguese and Brazilian music. This year, the multifaceted artist Ilen Monteiro will be in charge of the sound-equipped van.

Already viewed as a safe bet in the music world, Federico Mecozzi presents his first solo work, Awakening, where he performs as a violinist, composer and arranger. With a classical training, Federico reflects on the first album the multiple influences of his career, evoking universes as distinct as pop, minimalist or Celtic music from Ireland and Scotland. Since 2009, he has been collaborating with the famous Italian pianist Ludovico Einaudi, both in his award-winning studio recordings and on world tours.

Coliseu Porto Ageas prepared a big Carnival party for the evening of February 24th. Reviving the tradition of the “Carnaval Só no Coliseu” events, which marked the 40s, 50s and 60s in the city of Porto, the Coliseu is reunited with its own history and gives it a touch of the 21st century’s contemporaneity. The doors open at 10 pm for an evening of live music featuring the The Royal Band orchestra, which will play the right hits to make everybody’s bodies move, on the Carnival’s eve. The party will be embellished by the presence of Drag Queens from all over the country: Elektra Ashford, Agatha Top, Claudia Fux, Wanda Morelly, and from Porto, Natasha Semmynova, who surprised everyone on the television show “The Voice”. The DJs Sininho & Mendes, from Club 447, will be in charge of the records, accompanied by female dancers. There will be a contest for the best masks. All bars will be open and there will also be a cocktail show. On Carnival’s eve, all roads lead to Coliseu!

Carnaval do Mercado’s parties are already a ritual and, as usual, every year we challenge our visitors to disguise themselves according to a theme. Naturally, 2020 is no exception. This year, our venue will become a Old West city. Cowboys, cowgirls, undertakers, dangerous villains wanted by the Sheriff, among other characters, arrive at the “West’s gem” Bom Sucesso to, after crossing cactus and bales of straw, get inside through the “saloons” iconic doors and socialise at the bar by toasting to Carnival. Watch out for the gunslinger duels on the corridors! The icing on the cake will be Country Joe's performance, starting at 10 pm, on our stage.

All of this is about the end of a relationship, the destruction of two bodies that love each other or that used to love or enjoyed the idea of loving each other, set in a party setting, on the birthday of one of the performers, which is also a theatre rehearsal. In a constant game of perversion and provocation - sometimes almost childish, a motionless body and body 2 (as if mirror figures of Hippolytus and Phaedra) allow themselves to be pieces of a game that is not entirely decipherable, in order to reach a settling of scores. This "fight" goes to a place of revenge, where one of the bodies will have to forget and (self)destroy completely, in order to achieve a certain purification and forgiveness. This purification is the state we are looking for: the search for an almost dependent and total love - this total surrender being an impossible condition speaking of us humans, and of individual machines, with their sole and own wills and desires. I intend, from this performance, to start a series of duets, in which I will work every year, in an atmosphere of intimacy, with an (female) performer, based on more or less specific guidelines, with the only condition of the team being only composed of me and that other person. Basically, the creation of a theatrical universe that works only for two.

"When the bass drops and the confetti blows up: MEUTE breaks the code". The Techno Marching Band combines hypnotic techno and expressive brass bands music, releasing electronic music from the DJ desk and evolves the image of marching bands. They started out as an experiment and evolved into a globally acclaimed phenomenon in a short period of time. Just drums and brass, no computers involved, that's all they need to revolutionize techno music and bring it back to its roots at the same time. The eleven musicians in their iconic red coats managed to spread their love for handmade electronic music all over the planet. Videos of their improvised street performances regularly get millions of views. After more than 300 concerts on four continents, the band invites you to discover a world of electronic indulgence in Porto.

Described as “a synthesis of emo sensitivity and hip-hop” by the music magazine NME, Ghostemane, known as Eric Whitney, based in Los Angeles, started making music with the collective Schemaposse and released the song “1000 Rounds” with Pouya, which has been viewed more than 17 million times on YouTube. “Mercury: Retrograde”, its most popular song, has accumulated over 54 million streams on Spotify and 166 million on YouTube. In recent years, Ghostemane has launched more than a dozen projects covering almost half a billion streams across all platforms, one of which is the latest EP of 2019, “Human Error” with producer ParvO. In the past two years, Ghostemane has seen his fan base grow in every concert and Portugal is part of that history.

Released a year ago, the album Estrangeira was just beginning its promotional tour when, due to a high-risk pregnancy, Cati Freitas was prevented from going on stage. During that time, the songs kept her company, as well as the desire to perform them on stage just as they were written, with only her voice and a piano, without any subterfuge or distractions. In an intimate concert, Cati Freitas demonstrates how she explores the Portuguese language, with a sound that gathers influences from MPB, pop music, the acoustic timelessness of jazz and the refined voices of Ella Fitzgerald, Amália Rodrigues and Elis Regina.

After the amazing success of the series “o resto da tua vida”, which has more than half a million views per episode, Carlos Coutinho Vilhena, comedian, and João André, actor, come together to take to the stage “O Resto da tua vida ao vivo”. The so cherished duo, who brought for the first time to YouTube a documentary where reality and fiction confuse the audiences and the media, challenges their followers to leave the comfort of a screen for a theatre hall. “O resto da tua vida, ao vivo”, is based on a dialogue between João André and Carlos Coutinho Vilhena in which the two discuss about Theatre and Stand-Up comedy, always giving the final verdict to the audiences. What do Theatre and Stand-Up comedy have in common and where do the two touch and merge deeply? What, in fact, is the difference between the two? This show aims to offer the audiences timeless texts that cover authors ranging from Shakespeare to Karl Valentin, giving them the version of an actor and a comedian. “O resto da tua vida, ao vivo” intends, above all, to elevate all the artistic and social layers that are the main focus of the series, to make them live and transmit them to a young audience that , precisely, represents the future.

The long-awaited return of the Norwegian quintet! If you think you know what to expect from Leprous, then you are very wrong! "Pitfalls", their 6th studio album, does not compare with anything they have done in the past. "This is honestly the album nobody expects from us," says proudly Einar Solberg, the band's vocalist and keyboardist, who started in 2001 and has taken steady steps in his evolution on each of the previous 5 albums. Solberg believes that "Pitfalls" represents Leprous' philosophy and artistry. The band always followed their own vision and ideas during the creation of the album, whatever the cost and wherever it took them. On February 28th, Hard Club in Porto will witness all the genius brought up on stage, in a memorable evening. Before Leprous, 2 bands will go on stage.

The return of acclaimed conductor Michael Sanderling to Casa da Música is always a highlight of the season. The programme starts with the cheerful Circus Polka, full of grotesque effects that refer to the circus universe - in fact, the piece was even written for a circus act with elephants. An essential piece in the repertoire of the great orchestras, The Firebird was the ballet that catapulted Stravinsky to fame. It tells the story of a prince's journey into the magical world of a demigod. In between, the versatile tubist Sérgio Carolino is the soloist in a piece by John Williams, the most awarded composer in Hollywood history.

Cláudia Raia and Jarbas Homem de Mello go on stage to bring us a musical comedy where they will each play more than five characters. The audience will follow this fun and surprising story and its frantic changes of characters. Everything takes place on a luxury cruise to Antarctica, where Luna de Palma, a famous actress (Cláudia Raia) and Roberto Rinaldi, a famous writer (Jarbas Homem de Mello), will, unexpectedly, meet after a difficult separation process. Both were looking for the tranquillity of a cruise to recover from the scandalous break up! They just couldn't imagine the amazing about-turn that fate was preparing for them! What happens when a great love becomes almost an obsession? In this case, you can bet, with lots of jealousies, lies, unusual situations and, most of all, on a very fun and full of plot twists. This is the recipe for the musical comedy Conserto para Dois, in a brilliant interpretation by Claúdia Raia and Jarbas Homem de Mello. Fasten your seat belts because, despite not being an airplane, there will be plenty of turbulence on this cruise! Welcome to the Sinfonia dos Mares!

With a career spanning over sixteen years, six studio albums (ten albums in total) and several hundred concerts in Portugal and abroad, DEAD COMBO will perform at Associação de Moradores da Pasteleira Torres Vermelhas as part of the tour that marks the end of their story. The concert thus assumes itself as a sort of celebration of a music journey that made them one of the most interesting and important bands in the new Portuguese music panorama. From the various national awards, to the international top charts and their arrival in Hollywood, the duo of Tó Trips and Pedro V. Gonçalves have long won over, with their eclectic and highly recognizable sound, the respect and affection of the critics in general and the audiences. In a concert that is a walk through the band’s history, Dead Combo say goodbye with a bang, ending as they started: both of them together.

Paul Simon played by Sam O’Hanlon. Art Garfunkel played by Charles Blyth. The songs by the mythical duo Simon & Garfunkel is one of the most celebrated in the world. When they performed the mythical Concert In Central Park in New York in 1981, Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel enraptured not only the half million people who applauded them that night, but an entire generation who sang timeless songs like "Mrs Robinson", "Cecília" and "The Boxer. The Simon & Garfunkel Story has been seen by more than 250,000 people, making it the most watched traveling musical in the world. Includes the exceptional voices of Sam O'Hanlon, in the role of Paul Simon and Charles Blyth, who embodies Art Garfunkel, a band of extremely high quality musicians and new high definition video projection technologies make this a unique experience, perfect for audiences of all ages who continue to want to applaud the great songs that unite generations.

We treat all the bands that visit us with the utmost respect, but we will have to pay much more to one that is called "Bossa Excelência Jazz". Even so, this group that has in Bossa Nova, Jazz and Blues their main influences, is known by its closest fans as Be Jazz. This means, deep down, that it is known by everyone that way, since it is impossible for someone not to become a close fan after attending a concert of the group. A female voice, a robust and sharp wind instruments, keyboards, guitar, double bass and drums, will make this show an unmissable moment.

X-TENSE (or Pablo) presents his new P DE PABLITO concert in Porto. "P de Pablito" is also the name of a themed EP released in 2019, together with PABLO S01. 2019 was a very productive year for the rapper from Pontinha with the release of the singles "Asi", "Bolero", "Hambre", "Yolanda" and "P de Pablito", which reached the Top 5 on YouTube; with his debut on the LG stage at MEO SUDOESTE and the countless concerts he gave throughout the country, making X-Tense, today, one of the great names of Portuguese hip-hop. In this concert X-TENSE will revisit "Rosa Dragão" (2018) and will show to the audience, in Porto, "PABLO", a musical series of Hip-Hop and a comedy which he is the author, that revolves around the theme of Narcotrafficking, "Narcos" style as an allegory to the music industry. The project features actors, comedians and rappers.