Show catalogue marking 75 years of Coliseu Porto is launched on 31 January
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Miguel Nogueira
Show catalogue for the exhibition "O Coliseu e a Cidade: 75 anos de histórias" [Coliseu and the City: 75 years of Stories] will be launched on 31 January at the City Hall main lobby, by reputed musician Pedro Abrunhosa.
This event is open to the public and it is scheduled to start at 6.30 pm.
The authors of the texts contained in the catalogue will also attend the ceremony, including Mayor Rui Moreira, the President of Coliseu Porto Eduardo Paz Barroso, musician Miguel Guedes from the band Blind Zero, librarian Luís Cabral, designer Henrique Cayatte, poet and essayist Bernardo Pinto de Almeida and broadcaster Álvaro Costa.
Designed as a collection item, the catalogue is numbered and it is a limited print-run. The show catalogue includes historical images and more contemporary ones, some of which rare.
The exhibition "O Coliseu e a Cidade: 75 anos de histórias" [Coliseu and the City: 75 years of Stories] marks the closing of the celebrations of the 75 years of the Coliseu Porto, the greatest of the concert halls in the Invicta.