Culture

The Porta Jazz Festival, one of the highlights of the city's jazz program, returns to Porto on 7 and 8 December for its seventh edition. The program includes 11 concerts at the Teatro Rivoli, involving about 60 musicians, 20 of which are foreign. This year there will also be a parallel program (+ Bonus!), With several workshops and concerts:

The auditorium of the Aldoar community centre held a cinema session November 20, featuring the work of three emblematic film directors of the silent film era: Buster Keaton, Charles Chaplin and Georges Méliès.

Cinema continues to play a paramount role in the cultural program "Cultura em Expansão" (Culture in Expansion). This Sunday, in the Aldoar auditorium, the session will include the works of three emblematic directors of silent films: Buster Keaton, Charles Chaplin and Georges Méliès.

The Rivoli Theatre features "Os Pescadores" by João Sousa Cardoso. "Technique is fantastic, but only if it is seen glancing at the primordial" says the director.

Since the first edition, in 2014, the annual program of the series of debates "One Object and Its Discourses per Week", Porto City Hall launches a challenge to the city, to reveal itself through weekly conversations around its heritage.

The Teatro Experimental do Porto presents, in absolute debut, on the 18th (at 9.30 p.m.) and the 19th (at 7 p.m.), at the Grande Auditorium Manoel de Oliveira at Teatro Rivoli, "What a rogue am I!".

João Sousa Cardoso presents in world premiere at the Teatro Rivoli from Thursday, 17 to Saturday 19, "Os Pescadores" (The Fishermen).

The film shot in Porto in early 2015 tells the story of Mati, played by French Lucie Lucas and Jake, the character played by American actor Anton Yelchin, who died after the shooting of the film.

On display in Serralves Library until February 12, 2017, the exhibition "Everything is About to Happen (Porto): Books and artist editions," devoted to the latest developments in the artist book area as support and context for contemporary art.

"Porto" will be released in the city of Porto, at Rivoli at 9 p.m., November 12th. Gabe Klinger's movie is a narrative drama set in the city of Porto, starring Anton Yelchin and Lucie Lucas.