Culture

Boris Charmatz's "Manger" (to eat) is presented next Wednesday at 9:30 pm at the Monastery of São Bento da Vitória, following its debut at Tate Modern's Turbine Hall in London.

Monday, December 5, marks the 20th anniversary of the Historic Centre of Porto, the oldest area of the city and classified as World Heritage by UNESCO since 1996. The date will be celebrated with a broad cultural activities programme, organised by Porto City Hall, with the chiming in unison, at noon, of the bells of several churches and monuments, namely, Clérigos, Sé catedral do Porto and the churches of São Francisco, Misericórdia do Porto, São João Novo, São José das Taipas, São Nicolau an...

Salomé Lamas "XXI Eldorado" won the Porto / Post / Doc Film Festival Award. Salomé Lamas's new film for the Cultura em Expansão programme debuts December 17, at Rivoli.

The festival Porto / Post / Doc closed, December 3, at the Rivoli, with the screening of the film "Bowie, l'homme cent visages or le fantôme d'Hérouville" (2015), by Gaetan Chataigner and Christophe Conte.

The book of photos "Nosso Porto" (Our Porto) was presented yesterday by journalist Júlio Magalhães, at Alfandega do Porto. This is a co-author book by Rui Moreira, mayor of Porto, Mário Ferreira, manager of the Douro Azul, Armando Tavares and Manuel Varzim, both amateur photographers.

Seventh edition of the Porta-Jazz festival at the Rivoli on December 7 and 8. Tomorrow, November 30, at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto, the programme opens a week earlier with the Abe Rábade Trio.

The Municipal Theatre of Porto premieres the choreography "Ah/Ha", by the Belgian choreographer Lisbeth Gruwez. The laughing body is the core of this Voetvolk production where five bodies meet at a locale without a name. They slowly clash one another and coalesce in one of the most expressive manifestations of humankind: laughter. The result is an encounter that becomes a dangerous feast of shared ecstacy.

The Oupa! Cerco will represent Portugal at the Error festival in Bratislava, Slovakia, where members of the project from Porto will present the initiative and give a concert. Gisela Borges, project coordinator, explained that "the festival has been taking place for 10 years and it is a retrospective of social work using art as a tool."

"Eyes wide open! 100 years of Leica photography" is the next exhibition to be featured at the Municipal Gallery of Porto from November 30, 2016 to February 5, 2017.

The Pasteleira - Previdência / Torres quarter is the venue for the next "Cultura em Expansão" cultural programme, with a concert scheduled for November 26, Saturday, by Glockenwise, together with the Bonjóia Youth Orchestra. Glockenwise set out to revisit and reinvent Heat's songs from their third album of originals, with instrumental arrangements, in a concert integrated in the cycle "To each one its Music", that showcase renowed national musicians in a scenography created by artists from...