News Porto.

"Liaisons" is the topic of this year's edition of the Fórum of the Future, that offers conferences by speakers from various artistic, human and scientific areas. The forum is an international festival of thought, from 1 to 6 November at Teatro Rivoli, but also in Serralves, Casa da Musica and São João National Theatre whose main objective is to bring together guests from multiple areas of thinking to discuss issues that matter to contemporary societies.

Porto welcomes the fall plenary session of the European Network of Directors General/Presidents of Environmental Agencies (EPA Network).

The 13th Porto Marathon, scheduled for November 6, is expected to set new participation records, both of Portuguese people who enjoy touring the Douro river area and an increasing number of foreigners who come to take part in the main race.

Serralves hosts this Thursday, the 27th, at 6.30 p.m., in its library, the conference "The importance of assembly: how to set up an exhibition from a collection," by Caroline Bourgeois, Curator of the prestigious Pinault collection.

The French Film Festival began with the screening of the film "21 Nuits avec Pattie", a Larrieu brothers's film at Rivoli Theatre.

The Porto Municipal Theatre is hosting this Saturday at 9.30 p.m., the show " The Ventriloquists convention", by the Franco-Austrian creator Gisèle Vienne, in the Grand Auditorium of Rivoli, to the closing of this year's Porto International Puppet Festival.

The Serralves Museum hosts Michael Krebber's exhibition "The Living Wedge" which for the first time brings to Portugal the work of one of the most important German artists of the past two decades and is also one of the most significant and influential contemporary painters.

To showcase urban art that is made in the city, the City Hall of Porto will once again offer free tours and workshops over four weekends.

Vogue Café will have an address in Porto in 2017, as the result of a partnership with Condé Nast International Restaurants.

"Looking for Lem" of the Teatro de Ferro, is presented this Friday and Saturday at the Teatro Campo Alegre, in the International Puppet Festival of Porto 2016 (FIMP 2016).