Every event in Lisboa that scored 70+.
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67 events · 25 in the Highlight tier (85+)
CLASSICAL
Jardim Aberto
Chamber music concert cycle at São Luiz Teatro Municipal. Collaboration between Teatro Nacional de São Carlos and Teatro São Luiz featuring intimate ensemble performances.
THEATRE
Dead Poets Society
At a US boarding school, a charismatic teacher challenges the rigid pillars of Tradition, Discipline, Honour, and Excellence, inspiring students toward individual expression and freedom of thought.
CONTEMPORARY
Turn Around
Ambitious reading of contemporary art in Portugal at MAAT. Curated by João Pinharanda, Margarida Chantre, and Sérgio Mah, the exhibition traces trajectories and intersections across recent practice.
DOCUMENTARY
Power and Glory
Documentary film cycle at Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, September 2025 to June 2026. Features 15 films exploring power and glory across cinema history.
TALKS
Tasting Fado
Teatro Tivoli BBVA experience exploring Portuguese history, arts and gastronomy. Tour of one of Lisbon's most beautiful buildings combined with fado culture and traditional flavours.
JAZZ
Jam session - Hot Clube de Portugal
Tuesday jam sessions at Europe's oldest active jazz club, founded in 1948 in a renovated attic near Praça da Alegria. Jazz school operates upstairs.
THEATRE
A Bronx Tale: One Man Show
Chazz Palminteri performs his 1988 autobiographical one-man play, a powerful account of a difficult Bronx childhood marked by intense episodes and formative encounters.
CONTEMPORARY
Diogo Pimentão
Retrospective at Gulbenkian - Centro de Arte Moderna examining drawing practice and redefinition. Works on paper and graphite, often combined with cement, plaster, and acrylic.
TALKS
Agulha Magnética Walks
Guided walks exploring cultural and natural heritage in Lisboa. Routes include automotive-era gardens and historic sites; schedules and themes vary weekly.
JAZZ
Concert - Hot Clube de Portugal
Europe's oldest active jazz club, opened in 1948 in a restored attic near Praça da Alegria. Daily programming with resident trios, international tours, and Tuesday jam sessions.
COMEDY
Travesty
Part artistic performance, part historical narrative, part manifesto at Teatro Tivoli BBVA. Travesty traces the secret queer history of a single location across time, beginning with a witch's burning.
EXHIBITIONS
Anna Maria Maiolino
Terra Poética, curated by João Pinharanda and Sérgio Mah at MAAT Gallery, traces an essential trajectory through the work of Anna Maria Maiolino, Italian-born artist from 1942 based in Brazil.
READING
Manel and Chico Discover the Roman Theatre
Staged reading of a children's book set at the Roman Theatre, Museu de Lisboa. The story unfolds around this 2000-year-old monument and its place in the city's layers.
JAZZ
Concert - Hot Clube de Portugal
Europe's oldest active jazz club, opened in 1948 in a restored attic near Praça da Alegria. International touring artists and resident trios perform nightly.
THEATRE
And Who Are You?
In a world dominated by technology, a group enters a detoxification clinic specializing in technology addiction. The piece explores identity and human connection amid digital dependence.
HISTORY
The Carpentry of Central Tejo 1936-2013
Documentary exhibition at MAAT about the Carpentry workshop of Central Tejo power station, a historic Lisbon shipyard that operated from 1936 to 2013.
ELECTRONIC
Night at Lux - Lux Frágil
Nightclub in restored port warehouse, co-owned by Manuel Reis and John Malkovich. Three floors with international electronic programming, rooftop overlooking Tejo. Dinners, DJ sets and live music until morning.
THEATRE
Editing Exercise
Joana Craveiro examines whether a film in progress can be a performance. Using images from Palestine, she stages an inquiry into documentary form, editing, and live response.
DESIGN
Bruno Zhu
Exhibition Belas Artes at Gulbenkian - Centro de Arte Moderna confronts power dynamics inherent to museum practice. Conceptual approach influenced by fashion design and institutional critique.
JAZZ
Live Orchestra - B.Leza
Waterfront warehouse venue for African music: kizomba, semba, morna, funaná. Live orchestras Thursday and Friday, DJ sets and dance classes Saturday. Reference club for Cape Verdean diaspora.
CONTEMPORARY
May I Help You? Posso Ajudar?
Permanent exhibition at MAC/CCB exploring arts and artists from the 1970s onward. The everyday question 'May I help you?' frames a dialogue with contemporary artistic practice.
POP / ROCK
Night at Musicbox
Concert hall and club at Cais do Sodré on rua Nova do Carvalho, the former Pink Street. Mixed programming of alternative rock, Portuguese hip-hop, electronic and themed parties.
EXHIBITIONS
AH!
Exhibition on the mezzanine of LU.CA, Teatro Luís de Camões, transforms small life pleasures into a visual experience designed for young audiences. Playful exploration of happiness.
ELECTRONIC
Fado and Folklore Night at Café Luso
Bairro Alto fado and folklore house since 1927, with dual stage for fado and folkloric groups. Extended show featuring at least six artists per night, accompanied by traditional Portuguese dinner.
EXHIBITIONS
Portugal by Todd Webb
First solo exhibition dedicated to Todd Webb, major American photographer of the late 20th century. Photographs of Portugal from the 1970s and 1980s, recently rediscovered.
ELECTRONIC
Fado Night - Parreirinha de Alfama
Fado house founded in 1952 by Argentina Santos, among the oldest and most revered in the city. Central stage with fadistas and guitars metres from diners. Dinner show every night.
CONTEMPORARY
Scheherazade, the Endless Collection of CAM
New exhibition of Gulbenkian Centro de Arte Moderna's collection, inspired by the legendary narrator of One Thousand and One Nights. Fourteen thematic nuclei echo celebrated artistic narratives.
ELECTRONIC
Fado Night - Mesa de Frades
Eighteenth-century chapel converted into an intimate fado house (40 seats), decorated with original azulejo. Fadistas perform among guests, no separate stage. Booking required.
EXHIBITIONS
Ah, Amalia: Living Experience
First immersive biographical experience dedicated to a national figure. Senses engage with Amalia Rodrigues' life, legacy, and cultural significance at 8 Marvila.
ELECTRONIC
Fado Night - Adega Machado
Centenarian Bairro Alto fado house (1937) with one of the city's most regular programmes. Resident fadistas with Portuguese and classical guitar. Dinner show or stand-alone fado night.
EXHIBITIONS
Alejandro Coutinho
Visual reflection on time, body and legacy in dance through the trajectory of the dancer across different phases of her artistic journey.
ELECTRONIC
Fado Night - Clube de Fado
Historic Alfama fado house opened by guitarist Mário Pacheco in 1995 in a Pombaline building near the Sé. Daily programming with resident and guest fadistas; dinner show nightly.
EXHIBITIONS
Lisbon Drawing Club
Lisbon Drawing Club unites drawing enthusiasts meeting regularly across cultural venues throughout the city. Sessions and workshops welcome practitioners of all levels.
MUSIC
Fado Vadio - Tasca do Chico
Small Bairro Alto tasca where amateur and professional fadistas share an improvised stage nightly. Informal fado, simple petisco menu, no reservation - first come, first served.
EXHIBITIONS
Ana Aragão
Auto da Barca do Efémero, developed for Portuguese-Japanese commemorations and presented in Tokyo, is now at Mosteiro dos Jerónimos. The work merges theatrical language with cultural dialogue.
ELECTRONIC
Night at Ministerium
Club in former Finance Ministry rooms on the north wing of Terreiro do Paço. International techno and house with resident DJs, framed by intact Pombaline architecture.
EXHIBITIONS
Estelle Valente
Exhibition at São Luiz Teatro Municipal marking a decade of the artist's work with the venue, documenting an intuitive beginning evolved into a continuous and profound relationship.
JAZZ
Kizomba night, B.Leza
Warehouse by the river transformed into an iconic venue dedicated to Portuguese-language African music: kizomba, semba, morna, funaná. Live orchestras Thursday and Friday, DJ sets and dance classes Saturday. Reference club for Cape Verdean diaspora.
EXHIBITIONS
Júlio Pomar
Selection of works from 1944 to 2004 at CAMB celebrates the centenary of Júlio Pomar's birth, spanning nearly all phases of the artist's practice.
EXHIBITIONS
Maria Helena Vieira da Silva
Exhibition revealing an essential dimension of Maria Helena Vieira da Silva's work, where drawing emerges as a space of experimentation and thought.
EXHIBITIONS
Fernando Calhau and Rui Chafes
Pavilhão Julião Sarmento presents 33 works from the Julião Sarmento Collection in dialogue between Fernando Calhau and Rui Chafes, two of the most represented artists in this archive.
SCULPTURE
Awakening
Installation at Tivoli Avenida Liberdade merging art, science, and memory. Evokes human connection to the plant world and reflects on its vulnerability.
EXHIBITIONS
Deconstructing Colonialism, Decolonizing the Imaginary
Museu Nacional de Etnologia examines Portuguese colonialism in Africa during the 19th and 20th centuries, deconstructing colonial myths and decolonising the imagination.
EXHIBITIONS
Musical Iconography in the Churches and Chapels of Funchal
Unpublished exhibition on music represented in Madeira's religious heritage. Instruments, musicians and musical scenes depicted in paintings and decorative elements from churches.
EXHIBITIONS
Vasco Araújo
Exhibition at Fundação Leal Rios explores storytelling as a mode of thinking reality, examining how stories shape individual and collective identities.
DESIGN
Para que servem as coisas?
Long-term exhibition at MUDE occupying floors 3 and 4, moving beyond iconic design objects to examine design's function and meaning. The show reopens questions about utility, purpose, and value.
EXHIBITIONS
Laughter is the Best Medicine
Museu da Farmácia presents a cartoon exhibition humorously reflecting on pharmacy's past with irony and critical wit. Cartoons published in leading journals trace the sector's social and professional evolution.
EXHIBITIONS
From Garden to Throne
Marking spring's arrival, this temporary exhibition reinterprets the Royal Treasure's botanical collections, revealing the relationship between nature and power in Ajuda's botanical heritage.
EXHIBITIONS
João Penalva: Personagens e Intérpretes
Culturgest presents Personagens e Intérpretes, curated by Bruno Marchand, exploring one of Penalva's most distinctive artistic directions from the mid-1990s onward.
EXHIBITIONS
Adriana Molder: Raios
Lightning illuminates night and announces storms in Adriana Molder's new series at Galeria 111. Large-scale drawings of irregular forms explore dazzling flashes without sound.
EXHIBITIONS
João Penalva: The Ormsson Collection
Reinstallation of A Coleção Ormsson at Pavilhão Branco marks part of a year-long celebration of João Penalva's work across galleries and institutions in 2026.
DESIGN
Crochet Workshop with Vanessa Barragão
Beginner crochet workshop at MUDE - Museu do Design led by Vanessa Barragão. 90 minutes for ages 16 and up.
EXHIBITIONS
Collective Head
Second edition at Escola das Artes. Ana Cardoso coordinates a space of collective encounter and experimental practice, running March to June.
EXHIBITIONS
Georges Dussaud
Arquivo Municipal de Lisboa - Fotográfico. De Lisboa para Ti reveals the humanist gaze of photographer Georges Dussaud (b. 1934) on Lisbon, presenting fifty vintage prints.
EXHIBITIONS
Rita Barros
Arquivo Municipal de Lisboa - Fotográfico. Working from heightened olfaction as concept, Rita Barros constructs a visual journey where the invisible gains form through photographic series.
PHOTOGRAPHY
Gérard Castello-Lopes: Centenary
Arquivo Municipal de Lisboa - Fotográfico marks the centenary of photographer Gérard Castello-Lopes, a major twentieth-century figure, through images spanning four decades.
EXHIBITIONS
Lourdes Castro and Ilda David
Galeria Ratton. (R)encontro no Azulejo proposes a dialogue between two generations of artists, tracing relationships between light and shadow across distinct artistic universes.
EXHIBITIONS
Art & Fashion
Exhibition at Gulbenkian celebrating the foundation's 70th anniversary, exploring the interplay between art and fashion.
CONTEMPORARY
Riso Dissonante
Casa da Achada - Centro Mário Dionísio presents prints by Alfonso Castelao (1886-1950) and Jean Bruller/Vercors (1902-1991) alongside humorous drawings by contemporary artists, with a lecture cycle.
PHOTOGRAPHY
Margarida Correia
Margarida Correia investigates personal and institutional archives of specific communities through photography. Exhibition at MAAT with richly illustrated catalogues documenting visual heritage.
EXHIBITIONS
José Pedro Croft
José Pedro Croft exhibition at MAC/CCB brings together etchings, drawings, reliefs and sculptures in dialogue across the exhibition space. Curated by Luiz Camillo Osório.
EXHIBITIONS
Linha do Tempo - 40 Years of Paving and Gardening Schools
Four decades of training, practice, and commitment in paving and gardening professions. Câmara Municipal de Lisboa documents the legacy at Quinta Conde dos Arcos, Olivais.
EXHIBITIONS
Ana Margarida Ferraz
SPGL exhibition focuses on tactile and visual experimentation. Material combinations and juxtaposition of two- and three-dimensional elements create ambiguous surfaces that challenge perception.
EXHIBITIONS
Mário Vela
Exhibition at Plantome explores poetic fusion between figuration and the plant world. Unexpected dialogues between mythological figures and vegetation create new visual narratives.
EXHIBITIONS
Multiple Eyes
MAC/CCB exhibition explores perception shaped by screens and algorithms through artworks blending sensory, symbolic, ancestral, and spiritual dimensions.
CONTEMPORARY
Rosa Barba
First major exhibition in Portugal by Rosa Barba presents a new site-specific and temporal narrative at Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian - Centro de Arte Moderna.
EXHIBITIONS
Cuid'Arte
Cuid'Arte at MAAT offers wellbeing experiences through art for people with dementia and carers. Free sessions held in the first...