Municipal Theatre
Rivoli turns 86 on 20 January and everyone is invited to the birthday party
Rivoli turns 86 this Saturday, on January 20th and everyone is invited to the birthday party. All the events are free and the tickets can be picked up on the same day, from 10 am onwards, up to the limit of two per person.
Poetic Cycle tertulia resumes on 18 January at Theatre Campo Alegre
The poetic cycle "Quintas de leitura" takes up again on 18 January, at Campo Alegre Auditorium, around 10 pm, featuring poet Rui Lage, The winner of the Literary Prize Inês de Castro Foundation.
Clara Andermatt debuts educational project for adolescents
Choreographer Clara Andermatt is the guest of the first edition of P.E.D.R.A. - Projeto Educativo em Dança de Repertório para Adolescentes [Contemporary Dance Repertoire Education Project for Adolescents], which premieres in January 2018.
End date of "Quintas de Leitura" 2017 event is on 21 December, at Campo Alegre auditorium, starting at 10 pm with Portuguese writer Afonso Cruz
The Portuguese writer Afonso Cruz is the invited guest of the last "Quintas de Leitura" event for the year 2017. The initiative takes place at auditorium Campo Alegre and starts at 10 pm.
Companhia Caótica features "Crevescer" at Campo Alegre, 16 December, at 3.30 pm
The theatre company "Companhia Caótica" features "Crevescer" at Café-Theatre at Campo Alegre, on 16 December, at 3.30 pm. This performance aims to contemplate the life path of a man, who is not too old but he is not as young anymore, and is dwelling on the continuous process of getting older and ageing. This activity mixes cinema, music and autobiography.
Eighth edition of Porta-Jazz Festival in Porto
The Porta-Jazz Festival takes over Porto each year and big-name bands from everywhere hit town for grandeur on stage, for an entire week. The eighth edition of Porta-Jazz Festival programming features original music projects with a focus on jazz musicians from Porto.
Porto/Post/Doc runs from 27 de November to 3 December at Rivoli and Passos Manuel
The 4th edition of Porto/Post/Doc runs from 27 November to 3 December at Rivoli Theatre and Passos Manuel Cinema. The festival offers the best in contemporary films, which translates in an eclectic mix of events, featuring 12 films that make up an international competition, ranging from documentary to drama works.
IAC Auditorium in Rivoli features "Romeo and Juliet", a theatre performance for the entire family
The Municipal Theatre of Porto under the context of its Parallel Programme, features the newest show of Praga Theatre "Romeo and Juliet - an excellent and sad dessert", 17 and 18 November at the IAC, in Rivoli.
Dancing Grandmothers premieres 3 November in Rivoli
Rivoli features the dance performance "Dancing Grandmothers" 3 November, at 9, 30 pm. This will be a world first, which combines the urban modern world and the rural setting in South Korea, a mix of flowers, stripes and dots, folklore and electronics, movements, video, young and old. These are the ingredients to transforming the stage in Rivoli in a giant dance floor.
Rivoli features "Vanish" and "A Tecedeira que lia Zola", 27 and 28 October
Rivoli features two alternate performances 27 and 28 October. The trilogy "Vanish" provides an insight of the bourgeoisie, its growing hatefulness, deceptive appearances, kept longings and religious assumptions. The second performance is "A Tecedeira que lia Zola" (The weaver who read Zola) by Gonçalo Amorim. This is the second part of the trilogy of troubled youth, inspired by revolutionary movements and providing them the opportunity to reflect and meditate.