On the day that marks its 23rd anniversary, on 25 June 2020, Centro Português de Fotografia (CPF) opens a new exhibition to the public, the first one after the lockdown. The exhibition named "Jogo de Espelhos: a cidade fragmentada e a fotografia fragmento através da C.N.F." comprises images from Coleção Nacional de Fotografia. "Since the beginning of the nineteen seventies, before the distance shortened and time became instantaneous by technological means, the urban world was already seen as fragmented, shattered and fictional, which refers this perception to a learning definitely restricted by photography." This exhibition is open until 13 September 2020. CPF is housed at the Former Prison and Court of Appeal of Porto.

National Geographic has explored the planet for over 130 years and is distinguished by challenging, protecting and inspiring humanity to go beyond. It all started in 1888 with an invitation, which brought together the 33 founders of the National Geographic Society in Washington D.C. Among them geologists and cartographers, bankers and lawyers, scientists and military leaders began to delineate the purpose of the organisation. Everyone believed that science coupled with a clearer perception of our world would have the power to change it, improving it. With neither staff nor headquarters, the National Geographic Society began charting new routes, discovering new cultures and going beyond. We celebrate Alexander Graham Bell, Amelia Earheart, Alexander Graham Bell, Robert A. Bartlett, Richard E. Byrd, Barry Bishop, Jane Goodall, Sylvia Earle, Dian Fossey, Jacques Cousteau, Robert E. Peary, and so other big names in the National Geographic’s history. To share the expeditions, discoveries and scope, the National Geographic magazine was created in 1888. Its first edition was sent to an exclusive list of 200 members. In 2015, the National Geographic Partners was founded and its platform reaches over 450 million people, 43 languages, in 172 countries every month. The will of our 33 founders was fulfilled. We reached the four corners of the earth and went further. 131 years later, we continue to point our lenses at the most inhospitable places and the harshest realities of our planet, we continue to pursue big questions and challenge thoughts once accepted, we continue to protect and inspire humanity to go beyond. But none of this would be possible without your contribution. Thanks to you we have already awarded over 14,000 research grants, supporting ambitious projects in the areas of science, exploration and conservation. When you read, watch, buy or travel with us, you are supporting the work of our scientists, explorers and educators around the world. Because of you, our cause exists. Thank you for helping us contribute to a more sustainable planet.

There are more than 5 million Lego bricks, spread over 2,000 square meters, totalling about 100 sets, in 12 themed areas. Includes recreations of iconic films such as the Titanic or the Star Wars saga. With the potential to attract people of all ages, it combines fun with knowledge, as one of the themed areas recreates the human body in LEGO, thus becoming a Biology lesson from a different perspective. For fans of the Star Wars saga, this exhibition is also a must-visit, featuring spaceships, characters, lightsabres, iconic scenes from the films, as there is a strong likelihood of being wowed by the detail put into each reconstruction. The Battle of Coruscant, Trench Run or TIE Fighter are some of the recreations on display in the Star Wars District. The trip is made not only to the futuristic world of this cult series, but also to the historical past, romanticized by the film Titanic. For the Lego construction of the most famous ship of the 20th century, about three meters high and 11 meters long, around 500 thousand bricks were used. There is also a zone dedicated to characters from superhero films to scale, like Captain America or Thor; a 1:1 scale Avenue of Sports Stars, where Robert Lewandowski is on the list; a zone of robotics and fantasy; an animation area, which include the famous blue creatures, The Smurfs, among other attractions, such as train track scale models, and recreations of high-speed train models (Pendolino, ICE and TGV).

We see the Douro through the eyes of pioneering photographers: the magnificence of the terraces descending in gentle waves to the river, the bridges and tunnels by Emílio Biel, the work of the vineyard and the grape harvest of his apprentice, Domingos Alvão, the mimosas or the almond trees in bloom of the Estado Novo tourism. When the colour arrived, the overlapping hues of solstices’ gold and the old reds. This was and is the mythical Douro, with rabelos boats sailed by sailors, descending in a queue to the pier, the barrels towards the warehouses of Gaia. This Douro remains on postcards and advertising pamphlets. Carlos Cardoso, year after year, rebuilt today's Douro, maintaining the reality of its permanencies and changes, in black and white, between the memory of the images and their meaning, which only the contrast of shadow and light can make it clearer. Almost immutable in the time of the Ages, the ancient rocks, the granite of the Iberian massif, the shale of its torrid crushing. The shale blades challenged men and forged the destiny of the vineyard, they are the matrix of the territory. The photographer shows us his power, on the paths, in the blockades, on the ground of almond trees and vineyards, but also the raw material for his direct use and, here and there, the failure of the rock in the face of vegetation or the sign of permanence depending on the divine. On this matrix basis, the men produced the terraces according to their needs, then the levels according to the machines. The civilization of communication appropriates the Douro from the railway and explodes with the road. The landscape is made with iron beams, concrete and reinforced concrete spirals, in an old and new figure. To clarify this, there are no baskets for transporting grapes and protecting glass: the road culture is also that of plastic and ephemeral. So, because it is a photographic look, a new collection of images turns abandonment, neglect and discouragement into beautiful images of remains, of impure signs of pure longing. A visible unity is defined between the gaps in the shale blades, in their illusory solidity and the constructions that speak of the technical levels of man's culture. Both crumble, cover themselves with weeds, tear under the vital impulse of the trees: both speak of a past and a changing present. The shale layers dismantle like the railway tracks, defining new layers of ground. The abandoned stations, created to assert their Portuguese nature, are invaded by a thicket and desolation. Sometimes the two worlds of the old recent and the new intersect, in the geometry of the equipment, but always, always the greatest geometry are the mountains that reduce the scar the road that tears them. This built, marked and suffered Douro is doomed to be a dazzle. The matrix undulating of the mountains is deepened with concentric lines and the very white verticals of the levels; the precipices, the starry shales of gleams, the royal road of the river became systematic appropriations of man. But a viewpoint high above, a repainted bench to rest, the quintas (estates) multiplying the quality of the wine are other responses to what Nature offers or denies: Nature is indifferent to man, indifferent to itself, as a concept. The tension between the critical spirit and the longing or the search for beauty are things of man. This is what these images are about.

From 6 December 2019 to 27 December 2020, the Natural History and Science Museum of the University of Porto (MHNC-UP) hosts, in its core pole (Historical Building of the Rectory of the University of Porto, near Cordoaria Garden), the exhibition Cultures and Geographies. Marking its centennial commemorations, the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto (FLUP) co-organizes with the MHNC-UP, and in collaboration with the Soares dos Reis National Museum, an exhibition that presents the collections that were part of the its museology and artistic holdings during the first phase of its existence (1919-1931). Originally used as teaching resources in three museum-rooms of the first FLUP, these collections, which, in 1941, moved to the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Porto, are now in the care of MHNC-UP. Through a set of 250 extraordinary pieces of archaeology and ethnography, visitors will be invited to travel over time and explore ways of life, experiences and rituals of human communities on each of the five continents.

The Mercado da Ribeira consists of 10 stores, and was created after the renovation of the old market. Food products in its traditional form, tourist products and restaurants. Location: Cais da Ribeira (near the north pillar of Luiz I Bridge).

A series of absolutely improbable, yet extraordinary renditions (featuring Ming Smith, Frida Orupabo and Missylanyus). Renowned director of photography and filmmaker, Arthur Jafa presents in this exhibition works that he has been making as a visual artist for the past two decades. In film, photography and sculpture, Jafa's oeuvre reveals the determinant role of race, gender and social class in mainstream popular culture and in the media in the United States and beyond. From Spike Lee and Stanley Kubrick to Beyoncé and Solange, Arthur Jafa has collaborated with many noteworthy filmmakers, artists and musicians. For this exhibition, Jafa invited photographer Ming Smith and visual artist Frida Orupabo, and incorporated materials from Missylanyus’ YouTube channel to create an audiovisual experience that is both a political reflection and a visionary perspective.

From August 21st until September 6th, the Paper Costume Parade will be on display at the São João Baptista Fort, Foz do Douro. In order to ensure safety and social distancing measures, entry to the venue will be limited to 15 people at a time.

Let's start over, carefully. We are in no hurry, we miss you. And we have a public thanks to make. Let's start over with those who love us and those who have done us good. “Caring when everything is good throws the sadness away”, we hear in Castro. In early July, we will return to the performances that the pandemic has suspended. Together again! Let's start over, with joy and safety. "Live joyfully, Castro, live safely, throw your fears away." Castro (1598) by the poet António Ferreira, marks the first incursion of Nuno Cardoso into a canon piece of Portuguese theatre, Portugal’s first classical tragedy. He intends to inhabit this literary fiction, which itself offers a particular version of the historical drama / legend / myth of star-crossed lovers Pedro and Inês, making us “see with other eyes”, revealing to it the intrinsic modernity and density, veiled by the language’s poetry and by utterance. An immense stage-house-country, a kind of giant model of the spaces of action, a primordial and claustrophobic family cell, confront us with the tangible intimacy of characters that are in thrall to themselves and their intransigence. In Castro, like in Danton’s Death, the question of utopia (of love, as well as of revolution) is crucial. It is his dark reverse that is exposed here: love / desire and power as vice and chaos, as a prerogative, impunity and arrogance, as blindness that “tarnishes the brilliant rays of the ancient glory”. And how this tarnishing impairs the decision and replicates itself, tainting the family’s fabric with blood and revenge, in a peculiar dislocation of Castro’s focal point from Inês, and from the reason of State as fiction and morals, to Pedro, in his mirror-like relationship with his father, King Afonso IV. "What star was that so dark?"

Risi Film and Alambique, with the support of Festa do Cinema Italiano and the Instituto Italiano di Cultura, join in the celebrations of the centenary of the birth of the filmmaker with the rerun of six iconic films by the director, restored and remastered. Five young people remain in a post-teenager limbo, dreaming of adventures and the day when they will leave behind the small coastal town where they drag their existence. Like someone who tries to find meaning in provincial life, they fill the void of days with flirtations and partying, at the expense of their indulgent families. One day, one of them decides to drop everything and takes the train to Rome... This third film in Federico Fellini's filmography is his first semi-autobiographical work. The filmmaker's first international success, the Oscar nomination for Best Original Screenplay.

Risi Film and Alambique, with the support of Festa do Cinema Italiano and the Instituto Italiano di Cultura, join in the celebrations of the centenary of the birth of the filmmaker with the rerun of six iconic films by the director, restored and remastered. Suspecting her husband's infidelity, Giulietta (Giulietta Masina, Fellini's wife) embarks on a surreal journey of self-discovery, filled with wild dreams and enchanting fantasies that involve Suzy, her sexually emancipated neighbour, and her glamorous 1960s lifestyle. Juliet of the Spirits is the feminine opposite of the masculine “I” of Fellini's 8 1/2.

Risi Film and Alambique, with the support of Festa do Cinema Italiano and the Instituto Italiano di Cultura, join in the celebrations of the centenary of the birth of the filmmaker with the rerun of six iconic films by the director, restored and remastered. Fellini's alter ego Marcello Mastroianni plays Guido Anselmi, a director experiencing a crisis of inspiration. During his stay at a spa, all his ghosts appear to him, as if in dreams, mixed with the real people who frequent the place or who come to visit him: family, actors, producers and even critics. One of Fellini's great classics, 8 1/2 turns a man's artistic crisis into a cinema epic.

The Circolando company celebrates its 20 years, a round and mature age. With 20.20, André Braga and Cláudia Figueiredo want to acknowledge the date and reflect on an itinerary, but in a way that casts clues unto the future. With a route made of cycles and ruptures, this moment is also intended as a new beginning. Drawing inspiration from the concept of archives - body developed by Adré Lepecki, 20.20 takes its starting.point from a set of documental materials - text, movements, research subjects - in order to, without a shred of nostalgia or revivalism, "find yet unexplored creative fields with new possibilities". What is at stake is the invention of new lives and forms for these new materials, working in the shadow areas of memory, closely related with the dream, in the past-present-future mix. From the whirling exercise of the past, one wants to get to "a floating cloud of affections", a misty landscape from which bodies, dispersed voices, pulsating materials that claim new existences emergence. In 20.20, the experience of artistic creation is celebrated and shared as a laboratory, ruled by a desire for challenge and innovation that remains as restless as ever.

The concept of Há Luz no Parque 2020, with light design by Paula Rainha and Joana Mendo, addresses lighting events of a celebratory, recreational and festive nature that lead to the (re)discovery of the light / nature relationship with Serralves Park as the background . In its 6th edition, Há Luz no Parque is an opportunity to discover the magic of Serralves Park from a dynamic night perspective. During the opening, the Textures & Lines concert by Drumming GP will take place - a percussion ensemble dedicated to contemporary music that has established itself as one of the most important collectives of the genre at an international level - together with the piano and electronic music duo made up by Joana Gama and Luís Fernandes, enhanced by Pedro Maia's visual textures. During the summer months, the Park opens at night, inviting visitors to experience different environmental and cultural challenges, such as pathways to different spaces, emphasized by a play of light which creates diverse scenarios, as well as guided tours to the Park that seek to show and highlight the convergence between the natural, artistic and architectural realm and, in symbiosis, enhance the existing remarkable natural heritage to discover the nocturnal life of the park.

Beings of the night - nocturnal amphibians, bats, and birds - are lesser-known animals, often associated with myths or beliefs. However, these beings have very peculiar ways of life and habits and play very important ecological roles in ecosystems. In this night out it will be possible to listen to the songs and discover the mysterious beings of the night that inhabit our cities. Featuring researchers of CIIMAR (Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental).

Citizens' well-being involves adopting healthier lifestyles, not forgetting cultural enrichment and leisure. Mercado da Terra comes about with a new concept of Urban Market, in an approach in which organic agricultural products are combined, with traditional jams, teas, smoked meat (fumeiro), Portuguese gastronomy and the most varied forms of handicrafts. In this new concept, health also appears, including alternative therapies and culture, with a special focus on stimulating reading and promoting and preserving local cultural activities. In the square of Capela da Nossa Senhora da Conceição next to Rua Padre Luís Cabral The programme presented may undergo some changes beyond the control of the organisation, namely due to weather conditions.

"A Varanda" brings three great actors to the stage: Ângela Pinto, António Machado and Maria Curado Ribeiro, in a very current topic: informal carers. In a genre much appreciated by the audiences, this comedy text will speak of life, of putting personal life on hold to care for a family member and its consequences and Love. In a society where informal caregivers exist in almost every family, the topic is addressed in a relaxed and cheerful way. The arrival of a third character proves that there are still happy endings.

Paulo Furtado, the lonesome cowboy of Portuguese rock, continues to want to discover himself through music. From album to album he embarks on new and challenging experiences. This is what happened with his last one, Misfit, the result of a road trip though the North American desert, in which The Legendary Tigerman was willing to lose himself, to disappear and to be find himself again, gt back up by a wall of sound that he had never heard before. The result conveys this musical reinvention, but is inevitably a rock'n'roll record.

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.

Campanhã é a Minha Casa is a collaborative project that aims to bring the parish of Campanhã to the big screen. Has it doesn't have a cinema or was never featured in any iconic film in the history of Portuguese Cinema, the project transforms three less conventional spaces into true living rooms, giant but welcoming, where there will be three special cinema sessions. Campanhã é a Minha Casa is a invitation to a collective construction, where everyone is invited to enter and also to participate. To this end, residents of the parish will also be challenged to share their collections of family / home videos and films, portraits of intimacy and real life, which will serve as the basis for making three short films, by the directors Cláudia Varejão, Edgar Pera and Sónia Amen, which will be screened at the beginning of each session. Places where the cinema sessions will take place: Monte do Forte; Bairro S. Vicente Paulo and Quartel da Bela Vista

The programme for the regional edition of Porto, developed through the company OFundamentO (FNDMT), sister company of ThePowerHouse, founded by Lisa Lang, contemplates six key moments, which will be released in the virtual space over the next few days. The themes included in the lineup of the first Ars Electronica Porto Garden by FNDMT will invite participants to discuss "How to find opportunities amid chaos", to reflect "The social impact and ethics in artificial intelligence" or even to identify which materials are most conducive to space travel, challenging roundtable participants to come up with flexible and innovative solutions. The last panel, “Porto: Welcome to the city of makers, your place for creative companies”, which will be streamed next Sunday, September 13th, from the event's website and social media, featuring the councillor for the Economy, Tourism and Trade of Porto City Hall, Ricardo Valente, the president of Porto Tech Hub, Luís Neves, the mentor of the project A Marquinista, Patrícia Soares da Costa, in addition to the makers Mário Silva, from Lehmann + Silva gallery, Irena Übler, expert in industrial design and sustainability, and Tauan Bernardo, from VivaLab. Lisa Lang who will be the moderator is considered by Forbes one of the 50 most influential women in European technology. Ars Electronica Porto Garden by FNDMT, which idea was fostered during the pandemic period by two more entrepreneurial women who are members of ThePowerHouse team, Lívia Pinent and Joana Lacerda, has the support of the Municipality of Porto.

Hilton Lacerda's TATUAGEM Recife, 1978. Clécio Wanderley (Irandhir Santos) is the leader of the provocative and daring theatrical troupe Chão de Estrelas. The main star of the team is Paulete (Rodrigo Garcia), with whom Clécio maintains a relationship. One day, Paulete receives a visit from his brother-in-law, youg Fininha (Jesuíta Barbosa), who is in the military. Enchanted by the universe created by Chão de Estrelas, the soldier is attracted to Clério. However, as his contact with the troupe intensifies, there is also a fear that someone in the army will discover his sexual orientation.

União das Freguesias de Aldoar, Foz do Doro e Nevogilde promotes a taste for art. The Foz'Arte cultural programme encourages the entire community to participate in a series of cultural events taking place at Forte de São João Baptista in Foz do Douro. Culture, art, history, and architecture are some of the fields that make up the dynamic programme of this event.

"Karma" is a religious term that means that "for every action, there is an equal an opposite reaction", that is, we get back what we give to others. Perhaps this is why "Karma" is the expression that Paulo Almeida hears most on social media when he makes a joke that someone doesn't like. That is, usually instead of "Karma" they use expressions like "you should die you son of a bit**", or "one day who will have a lump is your mother, you mother fuc***!" but you get the picture. After selling-out theatres from the north to the south of the country in 2019 with "Ódio de Estimação", it is now the turn of "Karma", his 4th stand-up comedy solo show, a show where for 1h30, between other treats, he will reveal all the good and bad things that have happened to him for being such a good person.

Da Chick is back on stage, to present her new album "conversations with the beat", released by Discotexas. it is the first work entirely composed and produced by Teresa Freitas de Sousa aka Da Chick, who in 2020 brings us new sounds, more relaxing but also bright and electric. In your universe there is Soul, Hip-Hop, Funk, Dub, always at a dancing rhythm and to feel good! Live, she will be accompanied by her musician friends, with a lot of groove in their hands - Sandro Félix on trumpet, Gabriel Salles Silva on bass and David Menezes on percussion. Da Chick invites us to join this open conversation with the beat and we just have to let ourselves go by the good vibes that will be in the air. Come and feel them.

The world tour of "Manga" reaches one of the most noble concert halls in the country after visiting cities such as London, Paris and Berlin, in an extensive itinerary that includes several festivals in portugal and Europe, including the prestigious North Sea Jazz Festival, in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. in 2018, Capitólio in Lisbon sold out for two nights, to perform this album that now celebrates on a special evening in porto. Please note: Tickets purchased for the show on April 28th (postponed) remain valid for the new date, and do not need to be axchanged.

And everything changed... hopefully not to stay the same. The tide of uncertainty did not prevent us from throwing the anchor that marks the second weekend of September every year: The Museum as Performance. With its 6th edition, the event reiterates its structural importance tn the programming of Serralves Museum. The rules of social distancing cannot prevent the presentation of projects that depend on our presence in a certain space, at a specific time. During the course of two days, Serralves questions the place of performance within the Museum. But we also question ourselves about our own place, calling on artist and works that offer a web of encounters and disciplinary intersections such as performance, dance, music, installation, drawing, sculpture and cinema. The artists participating in this new edition are Máiréad Delaney, José Alberto Gomes/João Dias, David Helbich, Vanda Madureira, Sara Manente with Christophe Albertijn, Ondine Cloez and Michiel Reynaert, Dori Nigro & Paulo Emílio, Ula Sickle, Gustavo Sumpta, André Uerba, Sara Vaz & Marco Balesteros.

Inspired by the triangular shape of the Mezzanine space of Galeria Municipal do Porto as a potencial metarphor for the Bermuda Triangle, Luís Lázaro Matos will transport us to a whirlwind of images kaleidoscopically suspended in space. Progressively interested in contemporary processes of constant monetisation and surveillance in cyber space, the artist has been concerned lately with intersections between the lightness of modern glass architecture and the transparency of social media. Is this triangular area at Galeria Municipal do Porto not only an axhibition space, but also a place of disappearance? Waves And Whirlpools is curated by Martha Kirszenbaum, curator of the France pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennale, 2019.

Co-funder of the record label XXIII and DJ, NOIA takes a trip on her sets from hard drums, African beats, passing through NY ballrooms to the funk dance. The music it represents fits her personality like a glove. She has already performed with Branko, TSVI, Full Crate, Jäel, among others, all over Europe. You can listen to her sets on Rinse France, Reprezent Radio (London) or Rádio Quântica. In addition, she has already performed on stages such as NOS Alive and Razzmatazz. On September 12th, NOIA is back to your favourite terrace, for that Saturday afternoon DJ set.

Best Youth have a new single, “Never Belong”, which marks the return of Catarina Salinas and Ed Rocha Gonçalves' band to the record editions, after Cherry Domino, the last album, and the concert / storytelling adventure that ran the country with Demo Tapes, meanwhile published in digital EP format. This song, the first to be known from the album that the group from Porto will release in early 2021, reveals a more sophisticated and upbeat sound that follows the synth-pop disco noir of the previous album.

Often dubbed monumental, profound, and even mystical, Bruckner's symphonic catalogue is one of the most celebrated in the history of Western music. Much less well known are his rare compositions for chamber music, of which the Quintet in F major stands out unquestionably. Guided by Helena Marinho´s comments, we will learn the details of this score that, despite being written for a chamber music formation, managed, to mirror the grandeur and depth of the composer's symphonic music. So much so that it gave rise to different transcriptions, including the version for string orchestra that will be presented in this concert

Sopa de Pedra is a female vocal collective dedicated to a capella singing of traditional roots, born in Porto at the hands of a group of young people with different origins. Attracted by the melodic and harmonic richness of Portuguese traditional music, as well as their ability to bring people together and translate a people's way of life, they enliven its freshness and update it, with artistic rigor, through new harmonisations and arrangements, facets and voices, in a reinvention of each performance. While not neglecting original songs and traditional music from other countries, they bring to Associação Movimento Terra Solta in Campanhã, a repertoire that can range from Miranda do Douro's songs from Trás-os-Montes to Azorean ballads, from the cantigas de adufeiras of Beira Baixa to the cante alentejano, with room for singer-songwriters like Zeca Afonso, José Mário Branco, João Loio or Amélia Muge.

A.N.T.Í.G.O.N.A. with text and staging by Gonçalo Amorim, is the trail of many and diverse texts written around Antigone (rewritings, essays, approximations) - especially those by George Steiner, Judith Butler, Slavoj Žižek and María Zambrano, but also those by Sara Uribe, Eduarda Dionísio, Júlio Dantas, Jean Anouilh or António Pedro. This polysemic nature, strengthened by the creative collaboration of a multidisciplinary team of artists, is at the basis of this performance by Teatro Experimental do Porto for a new take on the Sophocles' play. At a time when the issues of democracy, citizenship, justice and human rights are urgently reappearing on the agenda, a revival of this universal story is vital. with A.N.T.Í.G.O.N.A., we return to nodal dilemmas, between order an peace, tradition and brotherly love, authoritarianism and individuality. We return to Creon and Antigone, opposing (and equally intransigent) voices that challenge us. And if our empathy with Antigone is obvious, what a strange unanimity this is, when History shows that we have often chosen to side with Creon. The polysemy of A.N.T.Í.G.O.N.A. provides a broad questioning of these themes, "mustering courage and deepening the empathy".

A 10-hour performance, in wich we can watch Chekhov's four main plays: The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, Three Sisters and The Cherry Orchard. The play was meant to be performed at night and to end at daybreak - making dawn the main character. Dawn is the future. What will be! In all these plays we are confronted with a question that haunted Chekhov: what will humanity be like in the future? A question that in these times of uncertainty and fear seems to haunt each and every one of us. Through the dissatisfaction and powerlessness of the characters enable us to think about how absurd our life is and how to change it. This is a performance about change. And change is on what we want to work: the shift from old to new, the failure of old practices, the liberation from old truths. In his work, Chekhov described the life of certain strata of the petty bourgeoisie of his time, disoriented and depressed people, beset by the collapse of a decaying society, looking at the vices and ambiguities of intellectuals torn between the will to transform reality and their inability to act vis-à-vis that society. - Tónan Quito

Remember Púcaros 2 is a comedy show that combines music, stand-up comedy, and anecdotes on a journey through he past of that mythical space in the city of Porto where Stand Up and several renowned comedians were born. After the huge success of the first part, Rui Xará, Pedro Neves & Paulo Baldaia are back to the stage of Teatro Sá da Bandeira with yet another dose of what still remains a lot to be said about those long 7 years in Miragaia! A show for both nostalgic people and lovers of good comedy without taboos!

It is already this weekend that the beaches of Porto and Matosinhos will receive the best national surfers, in what is the 15th consecutive edition of the northern stage, one of the most historic in the Liga Meo Surf calendar. Scheduled for the next few days, 18, 19 and 20 September, Renault Porto Pro is the fourth and antepenultimate stage of this year's main surfing competition in Portugal, will decide the titles of national champions in the sport. As this is an exceptional year, marked by unprecedented conditions, Liga Meo Surf remains the only official competition in the world to award a surfing title. The first three stages of the competition took place, respectively, in Figueira da Foz, Ericeira and Sintra, and Porto is now responsible to kick-off this second and decisive phase of the sports season, which will conclude in Cascais. Afonso Antunes, on the men’s side, and Teresa Bonvalot, on the women’s side, lead the respective rankings at the Porto stage is usually a critical one, since the winner of Renault Porto Pro always ends up being a national champion. As usual in recent years, Praia Internacional do Porto will be the main stage of the competition, this year without an audience, with the beach in Leça da Palmeira as an alternative stage. Renault Porto Pro can be followed from home, live on Sport TV, as well as in the other official media: Meo’s Facebook, in position 810 of the channel grid of Meo, at ligameosurf.pt and on social media at @ansurfistas.

Anton Chekhov is going to swallow us up for almost ten hours. The long-length theatre returns to the city, a theatre of duration and resistance, but also of sharing and itinerancy. A Vida Vai Engolir-vos - a marathon-show that calls for the biggest plays of checkhov's repertoire - is divided into two parts that are alternately performed on the stages of Teatro Nacional São João and Teatro Rivoli. Tónan Quito is the perpetrator of this daring scenic adventure, taking us through, almost in a single breath, the plays The Seagull, Uncle Vanya Three Sisters and The Cherry Orchard, with which the Russian playwright who blazed new trails for western theatre, blurring the lines between serious and light-hearted, comedy and tragedy. In all of these plays, Chekhov confronts us with a question that has always haunted him: what will humanity be like in the future? A question that has gained a renewed urgency, now that we live in times of fear and uncertainty. "Change" is the key word of A Vida Vai Engolir-vos, stresses the director: "The shift from old to new, the failure of old practices, the liberation from old truths"...

Among Mozart's 27 concerto for piano and orchestra, Concerto nº 20, in D minor, is the best known with the greatest dramatic impact. It was written at the height of his career as a composer, in 1785, and he himself premiered it at the piano, achieving instant success. The originality of the piece made it a landmark of concertante writing, giving a new glow to the possible dialogues between the piano and the orchestra. Beethoven was strongly influenced by these ideas and took them even further. He also intended to give a role to the soloist that went beyond the confrontation with the orchestra, and his Concerto nº3 turns out to be especially revolutionary in terms of dramatic intensity and scale. The person invited to direct and perform these iconic pieces with Orquestra Sinfónica is David Fray, a prestigious French pianist who won over the audience from Porto last year, when he debuted in this hall.

Russian pianist Denis Kozhukhin won the Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels exactly a decade ago, when he was 23 years old and already a winner of the Leeds International Piano Competition. One of the most impressive pianists of his generation, he performs regularly at the main concert halls in the world, alongside prestigious conductors, and orchestras. His first album, recorded for Pentatone with the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, was immediately Gramophone Editor's Choice and Record of the Month in several publications. For his debut recital at Casa da Música, Denis Kozhukhin brings a programme focused on music for youth, including Schumann's Scenes from Childhood - a set of memories that an adult would have from his own childhood. The recital ends with Ravel and his interpretation of the atmosphere of 19th century's ballrooms, in an exquisite waltz which, in its version for solo piano is considered one of the most transcendent pieces in the repertoire.

eRikm and FM Einheit, two of the greatest figures in experimental music, meet for an innovative show in Cultura em Expansão. French improviser, composer and visual artist, eRikm focuses his work on exploring the record player as a musical instrument. With a unique and deeply physical approach, he achieved a virtuoso status with this instrument, contributing decisively to the development of a rich and varied experimental language. At his side will be FM Einheit, percussionist and inventor of instruments recognised for his work with the Einsturzende Neubauten group. Equipped with a drill, metal sheets, bricks and coiled springs, it appears as a complement that is both improbable and surprisingly appealing. A concert that promises to not leave anyone indifferent. Venue: Rua dos Burgães nº345 - ASSOCIAÇÃO DE MORADORES DA BOUÇA

It is an incredible combination of a banana and a papaya making it a new fruit. Very similar to what has already happened in other animals such as Zebroid (Zebra + Horse), Feral Hog (boar + hog) or Galeta (cat + butterfly). The ancient Greeks (those who wore flip flop sandals) said that banana-papaya have the magical property of knowing differently depending on the person who devours it. For centuries, people thought it to be a myth because it is nowhere to be seen outside the internet - but they will be able to attest that it is real because this exotic fruit will travel around the country, live and in colour.

The debut of conductor Nils Schweckendiek (Artistic Director of the Helsinki Chamber Choir) ahead of Coro Casa da Música takes place in an evening entirely dedicated to Ludwig van Beethoven, as part of the composer's 250th birthday celebrations. Written in record time, Choral Fantasy combines different musical forces: orchestra, voices and piano. In tonight's performance, the choir is joined by a string quartet and Anna Kuvaja, a Finnish pianist who won five stars from the BBC Music Magazine right after releasing her first solo album. Also noteworthy is the contemporary approach to the Scherzo of the Ninth Symphony, by Manuel Hidalgo. Being an exclusively instrumental piece in its original version, the choral transcription of the Spanish composer is a challenge for the singers and an incredible surprise for the listeners.

It is one of the highest moments of Luchino Visconti's work, a nostalgic, dramatic and opulent recreation of the tumultuous years of Italian Unification. The aristocracy were losing its power and the rebels, headed by Garibaldi, were fighting for a democratic Italy. Burt Lancaster plays the Prince of Salina in a fabulous way, an aging man who observes the decay of his culture and fortune in the face of the rise of a new generation, represented by his upstart nephew (Alain Delon) and his beautiful bride (Claudia Cardinale). Adapted from the novel of the same name by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, The Leopard addresses the topic of the end of an era and the birth of another, with agreement solutions and the complicity of power with the old ruling classes. Hence, the famous phrase "if you want everything to stay the same, things will have to change". The film will be screened in its complete and uncut version, in a magnificent restored digital copy. Martin Scorsese, responsible for the restored version, stated when he presented it at the Cannes festival: “I live with this movie every day of my life.”

The sonata for piano and violin has been cultivated by countless composers throughout history. But Beethoven was not just another one: he knew both instruments well and put them at the service of new expressive possibilities, in order to meet his artistic ideal. The basis could be both the elegance of sonatas aimed at amateurs and the fusion between virtuosity and lyricism of more demanding works. Pianist Pedro Costa is the winner of competitions such as Concurso de Interpretação do Estoril, the Louis Spohr Competition for Lied Accompaniment (Germany) and the New Tenuto Competition (Belgium). In this recital, he is joined by the Polish violinist Anna Paliwoda, section leader of the second violins of Orquestra Gulbenkian and recent winner of Concurso de Interpretação do Estoril.

September is a special month. This month, the Wednesdays of Cinema à Mesa, will once again be held in partnership with Porto Femme International Film Fest, with the PORTO FEMME SYNCHRONIZATION Sessions. This session intends to be a foretaste of the 3rd edition of the festival, which takes place from 6 to 10 October, presenting films that were in competition since the first edition and that return for the first time since they were screened, at Maus Hábitos hall. In each session, there will be a special guest.

Timbrel player and back vocal of the band Samba Sem Fronteiras and percussionist of HHY & The Macumbas, under the alias O Gringo Sou EU, Frankão takes on the double task of DJ and MC, triggering organic beats and rhymes, flow and performance and creating an environment where audience and artist become one.

On Friday, September 25th, Praia Internacional do Porto hosts an Adaptive Surfing meet that will bring together about 40 athletes from institutions in Porto. In this context, the therapeutic capacity of surf and the sea is promoted in the development of children and young people with special needs, and resilience and the ability to overcome difficulties through sports is encouraged. Check-in is scheduled for 10am, at Praia Internacional, next to the Wave Series events support structure, and until 3pm there will be surf initiations and a award ceremony at the end for all participants.

Porto Fashion Week's Night Out is back on September 25th, ready to liven up some of the main throughfares in the city centre area with discounts, special offers and lots of entertainment. The initiative adjusted to the pandemic and in all participating stores of clothing, accessories, hairdressing, decoration, bars and restaurants, the safety measures imposed by the current situation will be complied. The establishments will be open at extended hours, promising evening full of shopping with various discounts and some entertainment surprises. Porto Fashion Week's Night Out 2020 has 30 participating stores and restaurants. Let's go shopping after hours?

Monthly, Restaurante Casa da Música becomes a true Fado house, where fado is “served at the table” by top performers, honouring our finest tradition, but also the contemporaneity of Portuguese music par excellence.

The mala voadora company brings to us its An English Family event, after the premiere in our programming last year. Festive reunion and annual sharing of English authors and texts dear to the company, this sixth edition brings to Teatro Carlos Alberto and to the Monastery of São Bento da Vitória three shows traversed by the concept of an end, part of a larger programme taking place simultaneously at the mala voadora’s venue in Porto. In Festival, four office employees commit themselves to imagining life after death. Microbes, monitoring systems, switches or multiple versions of ourselves are part of their speculative exercises, in search of nuances of post-mortem happiness. Using as its starting point the book Sum by neuroscientist David Eagleman, Jorge Andrade directs this science fiction show, which brings to a close a trilogy developed by the company around the notion of happiness or paradise.

In a circus performance, two aerial acrobats continuously look for balance between two bodies, using a loose rope with two ends at a heigh of 7 meters. That rope, that unstable and unsteady string, changes the audience's perception concerning the bodies on stage. Our start point is that rope wich hangs the need for something else besides a simple connection. We depend upon this rope that leaves us hanging and secures us. That ties us up, but holds us. Every action triggers a cosequence in the state of the other, and it is that linkage that forces us to trust one another.

NU emerges from the clash between rock and the dense industrial universe. Their sound has a rough, mechanical pulse that, combined with literature and poetry, propels a performing and image-creating attitude. They were born in 2016, in Santo Tirso and, after two EP's, 2020 witnesses the release of their debut album, Diferentes Formas da Mesma Areira Morta, wich was recorded live. Guided by passages from writer Thomas Pynchon, the voice that echoes on the three tracks of the album conveys the loss of humanity, technological alienation, fear, loneliness, psychosis and the fierce and widespread competition that boost the atmosphere of decay that hangs over Western civilization. Or, in the words of Pynchon, "a world increasingly on a collision course with the inanimate". The soundscapes arise from the clash between this same world and the ordinary individual, an inner collapse of meaning and a silent invasion of emptiness.

Muita Tralha, Pouca Tralha, Catarina Requeijo's play, focuses on the arduous task of choosing and follows the couple Odete and Alfredo in their decision to go and see their niece Manela participate in a car race. Before traveling one needs to prepare one's luggage. And choosing is not easy, especially when traveling. After all, there is always something that we may need. Who has never wanted to take the whole house? This is where the problems begin. Take what? Little stuff? Too much stuff? Just the essentials? These difficult decisions can complicate the start of the journey. But is it just the start? This is what we will discover at the Auditorium of Grupo Musical de Miragaia and at Casa d'Artes do Bonfim.

"Joaquim Vieira's Porto is by no means the same Porto to what we all presume to know or recognise - it is a more lively and surprising Porto, the imagined and imaginary city of an artist who also invites us to use our imagination as we travel through his spaces, often stunning and unmistakable." - Arnaldo Saraiva

Over the past three decades, Mão Morta divided opinions. They created generational hymns, released 15 albums and became a cult reference in portuguese rock. No Fim Era o Frio, the band's most recent LP, was considered by the specialized press as "the best album of 2019. Its repertoire fills part of this concert, along with classics that all fans demand.

Every Saturday night, Maus Hábitos cultural centre in downtown Porto opens its doors to one of the most beautiful symbols of the Portuguese tradition: Fado. Here on the fourth floor of the classic Passos Manuel Garage - an emblem of the city, you can discover a new generation of singers and emerging musicians. Miguel Bandeirinha, one of the greatest new voices of traditional Fado is the host of these intimate dinners that delight all the senses. MENU Starter: Traditional smoked sausages and cheese. Main Course: Codfish with chickpeas, sautéed kale and crunchy cornbread or Maus Hábitos Roasted pulled pork Dessert: Dark Chocolate Brownie or Artisan Ice Cream Drinks: 2 soft drinks per person or a bottle of wine (Maçanita Branco Douro) / Sangria for each two persons

The Museum's 7th anniversary and the 127 years of FC Porto nourish the imagination and creativity in this workshop for children, but also prepared to involve adults. A a family, and starting at number 7, the idea is to build FC Porto pinatas and, with them, celebrate the double anniversary taht makes September the blue and white month! The event, educational and fun, has the reference mark of Serviço Educativo of FC Porto Museum.

On the 7th anniversary of the Museum and 127 years of FC Porto, Terra do Dragão celebrates with a workshop open to children, but where older people also have a place. Water is a natural and magical element in this activity and will give life to the stars that will appear in creations full of imagination. With the spirit of the Dragon and celebrating on a date as special as September 28th, the event is organised by the Serviço Educativo of FC Porto Museum.

In Turma de 95 (Class of 95), a trivial group school photo from 25 years ago plays dramaturgically as a powerful time machine. Appropriating Class of 76 by Alex Kelly, the founder of Third Angel, Raquel Castro revisits and questions her adolescence and that of her classmates by interweaving memories of the past and present-day reality. Using as starting point previous interviews and a documentary theatre convention, the stage director creates in Turma de 95 a personal portrait of a generation grappling with the expectation and pains of adolescence, in a Portugal that was undergoing an economic expansion and opening itself to Europe.