Culture

Movie magic at Casa da Música with time travel film concerts

Casa da Música helps create movie magic with time travel concert-films. Today, the Argentinian composer, Martin Matalon presents a new soundtrack for the French film "The Golden Age" or "Age of Gold", with a live performance by Drumming percussion group, at Sala Suggia, starting at 7.30 pm.

First confirmations for Vivarium Festival in Porto

The Festival Vivarium is scheduled for 28 and 29 March at Maus Hábitos. Confirmed artists include Tim Hecker, who will perform his first solo concert, the thereminist Elizabeth Brown, whose chamber music has been named luminous, dreamlike and hallucinatory, and also Proc Fiskal, Edinburgh-based producer featuring his interpretation of grime.

A voyage into the creative universe of Pina Bausch

"Moving with Pina" is a ballad musical created by Cristiana Morganti as a tribute to Pina Bausch. It will be on stage at Teatro Campo Alegre on 22 and 23 March. In this "danced lecture," Cristiana Morganti explores her personal and artistic experiences as a soloist with the Pina Bausch Company.

Dorothée Munyaneza reports on sexual violence used as a Tool of War

For centuries, sexual violence in conflict was tacitly accepted as unavoidable, but Dorothée Munyaneza thinks differently. The artist will perform "Unwanted" at Rivoli, on 1 February, at Campo Alegre Theatre, starting at 9 pm.

What we are looking forward to in 2019 in Serralves

The opening of the Casa de Cinema Manoel de Oliveira, the long-awaited project within the Foundation, is the main highlight for the 2019 Serralves special programming.

Rivoli features the national premiere of "Anarquismos" by Pablo Fidalgo Lareo

"Anarquismos" [freely translated as "Anarchism"] by Galician writer, theatre maker and independent curator Pablo Fidalgo Lareo, debuts today at the Grand Auditorium of Rivoli. The performance is scheduled for 9 pm.

FITEI and DDD will be the quintessential of performing arts in Porto

This year marks the combining of two arts festivals in Porto, namely DDD- Days of the Dance Festival and FITEI - International Iberian Theatre Festival, from April to May.

Memorable activities to mark Rivoli's 87 anniversary

Rivoli Theatre celebrates its 87 anniversary year maxing up the weekend in Porto. There will be dance, theatre, music, literature and performances till 4 in the morning on 20 January and 100 people from the city to blow out Rivoli's birthday candles.

The Faculty of Fine Arts in Porto lends Da Vinci work of art to the Louvre Museum in Paris this fall

The Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto (FBAUP) will lend its Leonardo Da Vinci drawing to the Louvre Museum, in Paris, to the fall exhibition marking 500 years of Da Vinci's death.

Fantasporto Film Festival reveals the "Challenges of Modernity"

The 39th International Film Festival of Porto, aka Fantas, will be held from 22 February to 2 March, at Rivoli. This is its 39th edition of the city's festival and reveals the "Challenges of Modernity". The film festival features a pre-opening on 19th February with the showing of the restored version of the Indie film "Easy Rider", directed by Dennis Hopper and starred by Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper.