Society
Porto Design Biennale is the result of cultural and economic municipal investment
Porto Design Biennale will be brought to life in 2019 as the result of recent and robust municipal investment in culture by the cities of Porto and Matosinhos. Nevertheless, Mayor of Porto and President of the Porto Design Biennale, Rui Moreira, hopes that the budget will be supported by the Government, by Brussels and by private parties. The goal is to promote national designers and the economy.
Tour to the British Cemetery in Porto
Saturday July 1st, the XII Cultural programming of Porto Cemeteries, an initiative by Porto City Hall, scheduled a guided tour to the British Cemetery in Porto. The tour starts at 3.30 pm.
Subway service all night long on Friday and Saturday
MOVE PORTO nonstop guarantees night service to Downtown Porto every Friday and Saturday until 1 October. If there is no subway service available there are buses.
Open House Porto showcases outstanding architecture and promotes debate on the cities of the future
Victoria Thornton, Open House international mentor attended the public presentation of the 3rd edition of this event aimed at showcasing outstanding architecture for all to experience, completely for free.
Porto City Race returns in September and registrations are now available
The sixth edition of Porto City Race, an international orienteering walking rally, is set to happen September 22, 23 and 24. Registrations are now open.
"All that Jazz" in Parque de Serralves in the first three Sundays of July
The 26th Edition of Jazz at the Park will start July 2, continue July 9 and conclude July 16. This annual event takes place at Parque de Serralves and will feature three concerts, world premieres that will run from 6 pm to 7 pm.
Twenty-four hour PianoPorto Marathon this weekend
At noon, Saturday, July 1st, the second PianoPorto Marathon 2017 begins, jointly organised by Porto Music Conservatory and Porto City Hall. As Porto Music Conservatory reaches its 100th anniversary, 100 musicians will tickle the ivories 24 hours straight to celebrate the occasion.
Porto hosts national startups competition with the support of Venture Cup, June 30
The national competition will take place at Casa da Música, between 12.30 am and 6.30 pm. The ten startups on competition represent universities from all cross the country, and among them there will be 3 universities from Porto: iSociety, from Faculty of Engineering of University of Porto, Faculty of Engineering from University of Porto; Framie, from University of Porto; and Oko, from ISEP - Porto Engineering Polytechnic School.
Mala Voadora features Showbusiness with students from Business School
The theatre company Mala Voadora, features experimental project "Showbusiness" starring 21 students from the Sales Techniques course from Escola de Comércio (Business School in English), Tuesday, 27 June and Wednesday, 28 June.
Porto maintains the presidency of Cité des Métiers International network
Porto has been unanimously voted to preside the Cité des Métiers International network for a period of three years at the Association's General Meeting Board.