Culture

Theatre Campo Alegre features a cinema cycle devoted to the work by Luís Buñuel. Starting on 11 July and running till the end of this month, Medeia Filmes and Leopardo Filmes organise the most relevant recap of the outstanding filmography by the Spanish filmmaker who worked in France, Mexico and Spain. Buñuel directed 32 films, 25 of which will be screened at Campo Alegre, in Porto till the end of July.

"Don Quixote" will take to the stage at Rivoli, on 11 and 12 July at 9pm and it repeats on 13 July at 7pm. This classic by Cervantes is one of the great legacies of the choreographer Marius Petipa, which debuted in Russia in 1869.

The Municipal Theatre Campo Alegre hosts a Concerts4Good - Music on a Mission initiative, on 11, 12 and 13 July, at 9.30pm and at 6pm. Concerts4Good - Music on a Mission! This is the name of a project, borne out of a craving to spread social solidarity all over the world through music. The project was created in 2012, by Spanish pianists Carles Lama and Sofia Cabruja.

Porto welcomes a hundred young musicians in the context of the 21 edition of Santa Cecilia International Competition, from 14 to 21 July. This year's edition starts on 14 July and concludes with a final, open to the public, on 21 July, at Sala Suggia at Casa da Música.

Trengo - Porto Circus Festival is in town, as great things - some strange, though - start to happen in Porto, namely at D. João I Square. Crowds gathered to feel the sort of magical atmosphere that surrounds a venue every time magic and arts meet.

Summer School on Art & Cinema presents an open programme to the community in Porto. Cinema and contemporary art go hand-in-hand this week in Porto in the framework of the 2nd edition of the Summer School on Art & Cinema, an initiative by the School of Arts of the Portuguese Catholic University that brings together students, artists, and directors till Saturday.

The participation in the fair is open to publishers, booksellers, distributors, used bookstores, national and international entities. The application period to the 2019 edition of the "Feira do Livro" [Book Fair] of Porto finishes today, 3 July.

The biggest-ever edition of PortoCartoon showcases about one thousand drawings by cartoonists from around the world at the National Press Museum, in Porto, till the end of the year. The cartoon winner was the work themed "Money Language", created by the Belgian cartoonist Luc Descheemarker.

The exhibit "Bauhaus. 100 Anos, 100 Objetos" [Bauhaus. 100 Years, 100 Objects, free translation] will celebrate 100 years of the legendary Arts School's events and icons at House-Museum Guerra Junqueiro, in Porto, next October.

This Saturday, 29 June, it's the comeback of Inaugurações Simultâneas [Simultaneous Openings] at Miguel Bombarda District. Starting at 4pm, music is the motto for art openings until 8pm.