Every event in Lisboa that scored 70+.
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198 events · 28 in the Highlight tier (85+)
CLASSICAL
Gulbenkian Choir a cappella
Brahms composed this choral work in 1889 as response to receiving honorary citizenship from Hamburg. A cappella performance at Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian.
THEATRE
True West
At Teatro da Trindade INATEL, Austin writes a Hollywood screenplay until his older brother Lee arrives after three months in the desert, disrupting his plans.
DESIGN
Habitar Portugal
MAC/CCB exhibition presenting architecture as cultural, social and political practice. Habitar Portugal asserts architecture as space of rupture, memory and transformation.
CINEMA
The Hoe Belongs to Everyone - on 'Torre Bela'
Cinemateca Portuguesa programme exploring cooperative ownership and labour through Torre Bela. A cooperative member challenges a peasant: whose tool is this - yours, mine, or everyone's?
TECH
Universidade de Lisboa Book Fair
Event featuring Imprensa da Universidade de Lisboa and other university publishers. Offers special discounts, new title launches, and unique programming at Pavilhão de Portugal.
FESTIVALS
Um Domingo na Avenida
First edition of an outdoor gathering at Parque Eduardo VII transforming the space into a large musical picnic on Mother's Day.
JAZZ
Resident Concert - Hot Clube de Portugal
Europe's oldest active jazz club, opened 1948, now in a restored basement near Praça da Alegria. Daily programming with resident trios, Tuesday jam sessions, international tours, and upstairs jazz school.
THEATRE
Burn Burn Burn
Catarina Rôlo Salgueiro and Isabel Costa created this production inspired by Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451. Examines contemporary society's relationship with knowledge and freedom.
EXHIBITIONS
The Museum Invites... Thailand
At Museu do Oriente. Thailand celebrates year 2568 in the Buddhist calendar, with New Year in April. Exhibition explores calendrical, cultural, and spiritual traditions.
CLASSIC
The Fall of Dictatorships and the Emergence of New Cinemas
Cinemateca Portuguesa retrospective examining Greece, Spain and Portugal - three European nations united by 20th-century history split between dictatorship and democratic emergence.
TALKS
Guided Tours of the Constitutional Court
Guided tours at Tribunal Constitucional - Palácio Ratton deepen citizens' understanding of this sovereign body's functions and competencies. Educational pathway included.
CLASSICAL
Tannhäuser
Wagner's three-act opera composed between 1843 and 1845. Tells of the Wartburg song contest, blending courtly love themes with redemption. Performed at Centro Cultural de Belém.
DANCE
Pirarucu - Filho de peixe, peixe é
Mandí Kaibô weaves ancestral memories and communal knowledge into the living body through clay, drawing on experience within indigenous community and family lineage.
EXHIBITIONS
Être More Oggi
Exhibition by Luís Silveirinha at Braçoperna44 revealing artistic scope, aesthetic intention, and multilingual artistic practice across three distinct languages and systems.
CINEMA
Nimas After Hours
Cinema Nimas partners with MOTELX and FilmTwist for a late-night screening programme dedicated to fantastic and horror cinema.
TALKS
Before Independence Was a Struggle for Liberation
Celebrating 50 years of independence by exploring the Museu do Aljube archive to generate anticolonial, antiracist, and abolitionist thought and action.
CLASSICAL
The Chorus
Beatriz Pessoa creates original songs inspired by the Mission: Democracy book collection and its themes. Explores different musical styles and voices as democratic expression.
THEATRE
Veneno - History of a Marriage
Teatro Aberto presents a couple reuniting after ten years, confronting the loss and suffering that fractured their marriage and forced them apart.
EXHIBITIONS
Mieke Everaert and Jorge Pé-Curto
Sculptor Jorge Pé-Curto and ceramicist Mieke Everaert at Camões. Pé-Curto presents solid Portuguese marble pieces conveying sculptural dialogue and tactile exploration.
CLASSIC
Late Shimizu Cycle
Programmer Miguel Patrício and producer/distributor The Stone and The Plot present a retrospective of late-career works by Japanese director Masaki Shimizu at Cinema City Alvalade.
TALKS
Hospital da Bonecada
Hospital da Bonecada project created in 2001 based on the Teddy Bear initiative by the European Medical Students Association (EMSA). Centro Comercial Colombo.
MUSIC
O Gajo & Guests
O Gajo celebrates ten years of artistic career with a special concert at B.Leza. A celebration blending past, present and future through music and special guest performances.
THEATRE
Analphabet
At dusk on Gulpiyuri beach, a ghost named Analphabet emerges after a couple's heated argument, telling his story and singing songs to them.
EXHIBITIONS
As Três Tauromaquias: Arte e Tragédia
Exhibition uniting works by three major figures of Spanish art history - Goya, Dalí, and Picasso - at Instituto Cervantes.
CINEMA
Tribute to Rob Reiner
Cinema Nimas screens three films by director, producer and screenwriter Rob Reiner (1947-2025).
READING
Guided Tours of São Roque Church and Museum
Guided tours offer an in-depth reading of one of Lisbon's most extraordinary heritage ensembles. The Church is notable for its Mannerist architecture and rich interior.
JAZZ
Concert - Hot Clube de Portugal
Europe's oldest active jazz club, opened 1948, now in a restored basement near Praça da Alegria. Daily programming with resident trios, Tuesday jam sessions, international tours, and upstairs jazz school.
THEATRE
D. Juan
São Luiz examines myth as an entity crossing time to confront a world in permanent change. Identities shift, opening new dramatic possibilities in this contemporary staging.
EXHIBITIONS
Tribute to the Artistic Work of Magalhães Filho
Exhibition at SPGL honouring painter Calvet de Magalhães (1913-1974), pseudonym Magalhães Filho. Features award-winning works including A Fêmea, National Art Prize.
CINEMA
Film screenings at Turim
Cine-Teatro Turim, landmark of culture and collective memory in Benfica, presents regular film screenings. Organised by Iniciat..., the programme offers a selection of titles for diverse audiences.
TALKS
Guided Tours of Brotéria
Guided visits to Brotéria, a cultural project founded from a 1902 magazine. Explore the institution's historical archives, publications, and role in Portuguese intellectual life.
ELECTRONIC
Noite no Lux - Lux Frágil
Nightclub in a restored warehouse by the port, co-founded by Manuel Reis and John Malkovich. Three floors with international electronic programming, rooftop overlooking the Tagus. DJ sets, live music, and dinners until dawn.
BALLET
Swan Lake
CNB's 2013 version, choreographed by Fernando Duarte to Tchaikovski's score, departs from narrative structure to explore abstraction and contemporary dance language.
EXHIBITIONS
ARE 2026 - Artistic Research Exhibition
International exhibition at Beato Innovation District exploring artistic research under the theme Unstable Grounds: Artistic Research Lines of Flight.
CINEMA
A Casa - Part Two
The second part explores what happens when filmmakers turn the camera inward, not to the external world but into their own homes. At Cinemateca Portuguesa.
TALKS
The Kitchen is a Laboratory | No Waste
Pavilhão do Conhecimento - Ciência Viva demonstrates that science happens in the kitchen too. A sustainability-focused activity where participants explore ingredients and culinary chemistry.
JAZZ
Live Orchestra - B.Leza
Waterfront warehouse hosting African and Portuguese-language music: kizomba, semba, morna, funaná. Live orchestras Thursday and Friday, DJ sets and dance classes Saturday. Hub of Cape Verdean diaspora.
THEATRE
Rei Lear
Political prisoner Álvaro Cunhal translated Shakespeare's King Lear in Lisbon's penitentiary between 1953 and 1955, aided by his sister. Teatro do Bairro stages this translation, a clandestine act of resistance and artistic defiance.
EXHIBITIONS
Take 1
Inaugural exhibition at Pavilhão Julião Sarmento, Belém. Compact, intimate new museum with international programming and distinctive artistic vision.
CINEMA
Journey to the End of the World
The journey continues with three European stages. Includes G.W. Pabst's Street Without Sun, one of his masterworks. At Cinemateca Portuguesa.
TALKS
April at the Castle: Paths of Freedom
Castelo de São Jorge invites families to celebrate the Carnation Revolution on 25 April with a heritage adventure exploring Portugal's path to freedom through guided exploration of the castle.
POP / ROCK
Night at Musicbox - Musicbox
Club and concert hall at Cais do Sodré (Rua Nova do Carvalho, old Pink Street). Mixed programming: alternative rock, Portuguese hip-hop, electronics, themed parties. Intimate capacity with local and international line-ups.
COMEDY
Alvorada
Alvorada Comedy Club brings stand-up comedy to Lisboa, filling the city's nights with laughter across multiple venues.
EXHIBITIONS
Julien Spiewak
First Lisboa exhibition by French artist Julien Spiewak at Alliance Française. Explores decorative arts as fundamental expression and artistic practice.
CINEMA
Director's Cut
A curated selection of restored and newly digitised heritage films. At Cinemateca Portuguesa.
TALKS
In Service of the King
Palácio Nacional da Ajuda prepares for a grand banquet honouring English monarchs and their retinue. Experience the pomp and ceremony of historic royal hospitality through immersive palace exploration.
MUSIC
Candlelight Spring
Candlelight concerts return to Lisboa with a new spring edition featuring a floral setting and curated classical repertoire performed by candlelight.
THEATRE
Sweeney Todd - The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Benjamin Barker, unjustly imprisoned, returns to London as Sweeney Todd. A barber by trade, he seeks vengeance against the corrupt judge Turpin who destroyed his family, spiraling into dark retribution.
EXHIBITIONS
Constructio
At Movart. A shared space where different perspectives meet. Each work contributes to a vibrant, constantly evolving dialogue.
DOCUMENTARY
This is Not a Documentary - Mockumentary Retrospective
A retrospective of mockumentaries, films that blend the false and the parodied. At Cinemateca Portuguesa.
TALKS
Tasting Fado
Tasting Fado at Teatro Tivoli BBVA combines history, arts, and Portuguese gastronomy in a journey through one of Lisbon's finest buildings.
JAZZ
Jazz at Cinema São Jorge
Hot Clube de Portugal presents two nights celebrating the vitality and plurality of contemporary Portuguese jazz. A diverse four-concert cycle showcasing different styles and voices.
THEATRE
Eternidade Electro
Performance pulses between intimate memory and collective collapse. Celebrates summer romances that extend across all seasons, exploring nostalgia and shared emotional experience through movement and sound.
EXHIBITIONS
Maria Augusta Bordalo Pinheiro
Linhas Cruzadas recovers the work of Maria Augusta Bordalo Pinheiro (1841-1915), a central and long-underestimated figure in Portuguese art at MNAC Chiado.
FESTIVAL
IndieLisboa
International Film Festival screening cinema in full plurality: established directors, experimental work, documentary, fiction, and animation across independent productions and art film.
TALKS
Grain by Grain We Reach Flour
Museu de Lisboa - Fábrica de Moagem reveals the workings of the former Military Maintenance Grain Mill. Explore military heritage and a singular example of industrial patrimony in Beato.
OUTDOOR
Mind Design
Ufonic presents a three-day cycle at Sala Estúdio Valentim de Barros exploring music and performance across April 22-24, hosted in Jardins do Bombarda.
THEATRE
Unfinished Silences
Two individuals seek refuge in a confined space as Lisboa faces imminent earthquake threat. Far from urban chaos, the couple transforms their shelter into a stage of memory and emotion.
EXHIBITIONS
António Homem Cardoso
Starting from the question what he would wish to be if life had not pushed him toward art's elusive paths, Cardoso issued a singular challenge at Paços do Concelho.
SHORT FILMS
My Mother is the Greatest
Short films filled with adventure where characters discover courage and grow their wings. Tales of lost owls, caring dogs, and journeys that celebrate bravery and family bonds.
TALKS
Visit to Museu do Tesouro Real
Palácio Nacional da Ajuda - Museu do Tesouro Real houses a unique and historically significant collection spanning nine centuries of Portuguese royal heritage and cultural treasures.
MUSIC
Our Beloved Month of April
NOVA FCSH presents a cultural and academic programme throughout April, crossing art, critical thought and celebration under the theme of politics, celebration and resistance.
MUSICAL
Mães
Musical bringing together three mothers and an expectant woman. Hilarious and tender exploration of powerful female friendship, revealing bonds tested by motherhood and life's complexities.
CONTEMPORARY
Recent Acquisitions (Part I)
PACA's inaugural exhibition of its Modern and Contemporary art collection, built over thirty-five years and concentrating on Portuguese and international artists.
DOCUMENTARY
Power and Glory
Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian presents a documentary film cycle from September 2025 to June 2026, featuring 15 films exploring power, politics, and human experience through cinema.
TALKS
Women and Resistance: New Portuguese Letters and Other Struggles
Exhibition at Biblioteca do ISCTE explores women's resistance through Novas Cartas Portuguesas and other liberation struggles. A public display of feminist and political action in Portuguese history.
MUSIC
Naruto Shippuden Symphonic Experience
Following the success of Naruto Symphonic Experience, this film concert at Coliseu dos Recreios focuses on the epic Naruto Shippuden series with orchestral accompaniment.
MUSICAL
In the Heights
Lin-Manuel Miranda's musical about New York of Puerto Rican heritage, the breakthrough that preceded Hamilton as one of the major phenomena of American musical theatre.
EXHIBITIONS
Is This an Exhibition?
At Biblioteca Camões. Yes, these are books. But before they exist as objects with cover, text, and images, books begin much earlier, born from an idea that can arise from anywhere: a glance, a gesture.
CINEMA
On the move
Cinema cycle dedicated to migration, refugees, and human rights, presented following an April conference titled Diásporas, Mobilidades e Percursos.
ART
Walking in Bordalo's Lisbon
Guided talk exploring Rafael Bordalo Pinheiro's life and work in Lisbon. The 19th-century artist documented the city with keen observation and satirical wit through periodic illustrations and ceramic design.
MUSIC
B Fachada
Five years after Rapazes e Raposas, B Fachada returns to perform his tribute project to Zeca Afonso. A journey through the songs of José Afonso, honouring a Portuguese musical legacy.
THEATRE
É melhor ficar descalço 2
Shoes hold secrets of journeys travelled and forgotten stories. The stage transforms into a space where the weight of life and the lightness of dreams meet, traced through footsteps and memory.
CONTEMPORARY
Guillaume Vieira
Contemporary paintings and drawings by Guillaume Vieira at Procur.arte, Alvalade, exploring figure and abstraction.
CLASSIC
Paul Thomas Anderson Cycle
Cinema Nimas dedicates a cycle to filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson, six-time Oscar winner. The retrospective surveys key works from his distinctive career.
TALKS
Words of Revolution
Words that revolutionized words. Stories of Portuguese History and the people whose words liberated speech itself, flowering in April 1974. Presented at LU.CA Teatro Luís de Camões.
ELECTRONIC
Noite no Ministerium
Techno and house club in the former Finance Ministry rooms, Terreiro do Paço north wing. International DJs and Lisbon residencies perform within intact Pombaline architecture and bespoke sound system.
THEATRE
Pica Pica Picasso
Sensory spectacle for babies exploring Pablo Picasso's artistic phases. An atelier becomes a world of exploration and discovery, where disappearing drawings unfold into playful visual experiences.
DESIGN
Luísa Pereira da Fonseca
Visual and poetic reflection on the architecture of the Cosmos and fundamental forces governing existence. The artist explores the concept of Space-Time at Atmosfera M.
FESTIVAL
Imigratoria - Immigrant Film Festival
Festival dedicated to amplifying immigrant filmmakers and their narratives, providing visibility and platform for diverse voices and perspectives in cinema.
READING
Museum Out of the Closet: Another Lisbon - From Sodomites to Queers
Guided tours by André Murraças offer a queer reading of Portuguese museum collections. The program reframes Lisbon's social and cultural history through LGBTQ+ perspectives at Museu de Lisboa - Palácio Pimenta.
MUSIC
Djodje
Cape Verdean and lusophone music luminary Djodje returns to Coliseu dos Recreios after nine years with a concert celebrating his influential career and musical legacy.
THEATRE
Zum bee doo
Sensory theatre spectacle for babies exploring forest colours and sounds. Images of wetland and forest animals create a living world where trees grow and nature awakens the youngest imaginations.
EXHIBITIONS
52 Years of April
20 cartoons documenting events between April 1974 and February 1975, originally published in the newspaper República.
FESTIVAL
FIMFA Lx'26 at Cinemateca
Puppet and animated film festival brings a constellation of international artists to Lisbon (7-31 May), featuring theatrical performances, street acts, and workshops celebrating movement and form.
TALKS
On the Truth of the Lie
António Castro Caeiro curates a cycle of ten conversations exploring truth and deception. Hosted at Centro Cultural de Belém.
MUSIC
Pablo Alborán
Spanish musician Pablo Alborán performs at MEO Arena presenting his latest album KM0, bringing a retrospective concert reflecting his career and musical evolution.
MUSICAL
Hercules
Filipe La Féria's epic musical creation following the success of Beauty and the Beast. Inspired by the legendary 12 labours of the hero, exploring heroic mythology through song and spectacle.
CONTEMPORARY
Mingyu Wu: Celestial Questions
Exhibition by Mingyu Wu at Galeria da Boavista. Title sourced from Qu Yuan, ancient exiled poet, exploring philosophical inquiry through contemporary visual language.
CINEMA
Special Sessions À pala de Walsh
Special commented screenings at Cinema Fernando Lopes running across several months from February, curated under the thematic banner À pala de Walsh.
KIDS
Towards Lisbon
Family workshop blending real and imaginary journeys into Lisbon's history. Young visitors, armed with passport and notebook, explore Palácio Pimenta discovering the city's past through play.
JAZZ
Kizomba Night - B.Leza
Waterfront warehouse hosting African and Portuguese-language music: kizomba, semba, morna, funaná. Live orchestras Thursday and Friday, DJ sets and dance classes Saturday. Hub of Cape Verdean diaspora.
MUSICAL
Mamma Mia Baby!
Premiered last October, this sensory spectacle adapts the Mamma Mia film's musical universe for babies and young children, blending ABBA's timeless songs with interactive discovery.
EXHIBITIONS
João Fazenda
Contra-relógio gathers cartoons and illustrations created between late 2024 and 2025, reflecting the illustrator's experience in the editorial world at Casa da Imprensa.
FESTIVAL
Festival Mental
Mental health and combating stigma are the focus of this decade-old festival at Atmosfera M, bringing together cinema, arts, and information in a single programme.
TALKS
Os reis mostram o Palácio da Ajuda
Staged tour of Palácio Nacional da Ajuda where the royal family guides visitors through Portuguese history in an immersive experience.
MUSIC
Live Sessions by indiemusic.pt
Live sessions showcasing new releases from independent labels and their artists at Pensão Amor.
THEATRE
Scrooge: O Aniversário
If magic could change everything? Grumpy, solitary Scrooge is surprised by three special elves - Ratatá, Brownie and Pixel 3025 - on an urgent mission to awaken joy and wonder within him.
CONTEMPORARY
Jorge Possollo
Exhibition by Jorge Possollo at Óriq Colectivo Artístico exploring the need for collaboration, balance, and consensus in addressing contemporary challenges.
CINEMA
Cinema Cycle Polo Cultural Gaivotas
Celebrating the 10th anniversary of Polo Cultural Gaivotas, this cinema cycle features film suggestions from partners including Os Filhos de Lumière and the Polo team, with themes drawn from its programming history.
TALKS
Masterchef Romano
Workshop at Museu de Lisboa - Teatro Romano inspired by television cooking shows with an ancient Roman twist. Participants engage with Roman culinary traditions and garum.
CLASSICAL
Gulbenkian Orchestra soloists
Musicians from the Gulbenkian Orchestra, renowned for technical and artistic excellence, perform chamber music recitals throughout the season. Audience members may enjoy intimate interpretations of classical works.
KIDS
O maravilhoso mundo das fábulas
Since childhood we have heard fables. This spectacle recounts stories where animals speak, exploring the imaginative realm that shaped our sense of wonder and moral understanding.
EXHIBITIONS
ID
Exhibition at Pavilhão 31 featuring Gonçalo Pena, José Luís Neto, and Micaela Fikoff. Works explore portraiture and the face as a field of artistic and psychological forces.
TALKS
Visita aos Paços do Concelho
Guided tour of Paços do Concelho. The building embodies architectural and artistic value, reflecting Liberal, Regenerator, and Republican Portugal through important historical events.
CLASSICAL
The Four Seasons
Janine Jansen interprets Vivaldi's Four Seasons at Centro Cultural de Belém. Her approach to this popular work combines technical mastery with fresh musical insight, offering audiences a distinctive perspective on the Baroque masterpiece.
DANCE
Um Homem e o seu Criado
Two men born identical, two die the same. Between birth and death, two paths cross, intertwine, diverge, and converge. São Luiz Teatro Municipal presents a dance exploring parallel lives and human connection.
EXHIBITIONS
Cristina Robalo
Drawing-based exhibition by Cristina Robalo at Fundação Carmona e Costa. Tactile works exploring coherent and exploratory mark-making and spatial relationships.
ART
Secret Path
MAAT invites visitors to explore normally closed areas of the Tejo Power Station, revealing hidden spaces and industrial heritage behind one of Lisbon's landmark buildings.
JAZZ
Jam session - Hot Clube de Portugal
Europe's oldest active jazz club, opened in 1948 in a refurbished attic near Praça da Alegria. Regular programming features resident trios, Tuesday jam sessions, and international tours. Jazz school upstairs.
KIDS
Amar e mar…
Sensory performance for babies and children up to five years, inviting young audiences and caregivers to discover an ocean of wonder.
EXHIBITIONS
Teresa Cortez and Inês Melo
Art exhibition by Teresa Cortez and Inês Melo at Edifício Central do Município, Alvalade, featuring collaborative works.
ART
Portuguese Presence in Asia
Examination of initial strangeness and subsequent curiosity that shaped intercultural dialogue between East and West, reflected in art from both hemispheres along historical routes of exchange.
MUSIC
5.ª de Mahler
Gustav Mahler compôs a Sinfonia n.º 5 num período agitado da sua vida. No início de 1901 foi vítima de um sério problema de saúde, que lhe permitiria no entanto estudar a fundo a obr...
THEATRE
A verdadeira estória de o Pedro e o Lobo
Pedro seeks his family's attention in a world consumed by phones and screens, a contemporary retelling at Boutique da Cultura.
PHOTOGRAPHY
Carlos Oliveira Cruz
Photographs capturing wandering without motivation beyond the pleasure of finding images that satisfy imagination. Exhibition at A Pequena Galeria.
TALKS
Participatory Visits | Coletivo Tributo aos Ancestrais PT
Participatory visits to the Museu Nacional de Etnologia's African ethnographic reserves, led by Coletivo Tributo aos Ancestrais PT, running until June.
MUSIC
Carminho
Carminho performs at Coliseu dos Recreios to launch her seventh album. The concert features collaborators from across her career spanning three decades.
COMEDY
Insuficiente
Stand-up comedy exploring a lifelong sensation of never being enough. Imposter syndrome, bad luck, or a cosmic miscalculation? A performer's raw interrogation of sufficiency and belonging.
CONTEMPORARY
Dália Cordeiro
Art exhibition by Dália Cordeiro at 23a Galeria de Arte, Areeiro, featuring diverse artistic media and contemporary work.
TALKS
Bordalo Between Sound and Gesture
Guided visit through Museu Bordalo Pinheiro discovering the themes and emblematic works of Rafael Bordalo Pinheiro. Regular sessions offered.
MUSIC
José Manuel Neto
José Manuel Neto presents his new album Madrepérolas. The concert reunites musicians with whom he shares over thirty years of artistic collaboration.
CONTEMPORARY
Orage
O torso e os braços de Dalila Belaza rasgam a escuridão de uma noite transfigurada, enquanto a guitarra de Serge Teyssot-Gay ruge, exulta e escava o ar. A sua intensidade cortante transporta, impuls...
EXHIBITIONS
Pedro Casqueiro
Fundação Carmona e Costa presents Baralho (2017) by Pedro Casqueiro, continuing its intermittent cycle of works from the Collection begun in 2024.
MUSIC
Rival Consoles
Rival Consoles presents their album Landscape from Memory with an immersive concert combining sound and visuals at Lisboa ao Vivo in Marvila.
THEATRE
Dead Poets Society
At a boarding school in the United States, Tradition, Discipline, Honour, and Excellence form the pillars of rigid education. A charismatic teacher challenges these foundations, inspiring his students toward individual expression and freedom of thought.
PAINTING
Leonor Poeiras
At Numa. Leonor Poeiras' debut solo painting exhibition Cru, with José Luís Peixoto as guest. The work explores what remains in its original state.
ELECTRONIC
Trinix
French DJ duo Trinix, composed of Josh and Lois, perform at Lisboa ao Vivo. One of the most solid projects of their generation and leading names in electronic music.
THEATRE
Mauser - Em tempo de traição as paisagens são belas
Mónica Calle and Grupo de Teatro do Técnico stage Heiner Müller's words in a battle where the individual fades and obedience crushes desire. A confrontation between power and resistance.
EXHIBITIONS
Arte & Moda
Arte & Moda at Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian celebrates the foundation's 70th anniversary, exploring the breathing dialogue between art and fashion.
ELECTRONIC
Bateu Matou
O Nosso Baile edition at Casa Capitão featuring Caril de Mexilhão da Tia Flávia with a DJ set and live performance by Bateu Matou no Chão in Beato.
THEATRE
O Cicómero
Sixty-three years after slave imports ended, descendants of liberated slaves inhabit an old Alentejo property. Their story unfolds through memory, labour, and the weight of history.
PAINTING
Minimercado de Arroios
Saturday morning creative workshops for children at Mercado de Arroios, featuring drawing, painting, and construction activities designed to foster artistic expression and imagination.
MUSIC
5 Seconds of Summer
5 Seconds of Summer return to Portugal for a concert at MEO Arena. The band features Luke Hemmings, Michael Clifford, Calum Hood, and Ashton Irwin.
COMEDY
A mulher do meu marido
Gil and Afonso, a couple living quietly in Lisbon, face upheaval when Afonso's conservative father announces a visit. Misunderstandings and secrets unravel in this comedy of errors.
EXHIBITIONS
Create Drawings and Screen Prints
Families explore creativity together at Fab Lab Lisboa, developing ideas through drawing before transferring designs to screen-printed works. A hands-on introduction to artistic techniques.
JAZZ
Metropolitana Big Band
A formação de big band , ainda que tenha uma forte conotação com a música de tradição norte-americana, em particular o jazz , reúne características singulares que lhe têm per...
THEATRE
HerAqui
HerAqui is a journey told in twenty-three tales, offering discovery and freedom through performances by experienced and novice actors alike. A collective exploration of voice and presence.
PHOTOGRAPHY
Tadeu Vilani
Tentos de Luz builds a visual record attentive to detail, gaucho identity, and the light that defines that territory. Photography, books, and art commerce form the gallery's core.
MUSIC
Concertamos juntos
Em maio, Mariza, Capitão Fausto, Tiago Bettencourt, Samuel Úria & os 12 ao Todo, Carlão e Ana Lua Caiano reúnem-se no concerto solidário Concertamos Juntos , no Coliseu. O evento ?...
KIDS
This Is How the World Goes
An intimate wordless puppet and animated forms performance inviting reflection on planetary fragility and spaces of hope. Directed by Daniel Worm.
PHOTOGRAPHY
New Territories
Collective exhibition by final-year photography students from Escola Artística António Arroio at Biblioteca Camões. Territory emerges as a field for photographic reflection, capturing landscapes and spaces through contemporary visual practice.
MUSIC
Eros Ramazzotti
Eros Ramazzotti tem uma nova digressão mundial, Una Storia Importante , que traz a Lisboa em maio. O concerto acontece no MEO Arena e será uma oportu...
THEATRE
The Antipodes
A new team with proven talent faces uncertainty. They were well paid to invent something, but hesitation sets in. What will they create under pressure?
EXHIBITIONS
Cuid'Arte
Cuid'Arte at MAAT offers free art-based wellness experiences for people with dementia and their caregivers, held monthly on designated weekends.
MUSIC
Around Miles Davis and John Coltrane
A celebration of Miles Davis and John Coltrane's legacy as their birth centenaries occur in 2026. The programme honours universes that left profound marks on music history.
THEATRE
Dead as a Dodo
Two skeleton friends, a dodo, and a boy search for bones to replace their deteriorating remains before vanishing forever, but the Bone King has other plans.
PAINTING
Young Artists Painting Exhibition
Annual exhibition launched in 2023, rooted in the conviction that artistic creation is essential space for reflection, freedom, and future exploration by emerging painters.
ELECTRONIC
Lewis OfMan
Lewis OfMan released his debut album Sonic Poems in 2022, following three EPs. Electronic and poetic exploration of sound.
THEATRE
The Size of Things
A man stops inexplicably in the middle of an ocean. Through comparing his body to overwhelming scales, the work explores isolation and perspective in vast geography.
EXHIBITIONS
Juntas Hacemos +
International festival returns to Lisbon for its third edition, establishing itself as a major visibility platform for graffiti and urban art with feminist perspective.
MUSIC
Jacaréu
Jacaréu's debut album Eterno Espectador marks a new chapter, blending poetry and rap in a distinctive musical language.
THEATRE
Dressing Room
The artist enters wearing a dress costing a significant portion of the production budget. A meditation on luxury, eccentricity, and artistic choice.
EXHIBITIONS
Family Day
Three-day program at Museu de Lisboa - Palácio Pimenta with thirty public and private entities offering workshops, readings, and playful activities across the garden grounds.
JAZZ
Festival Django Portugal
Fábrica Braço de Prata hosts three concerts celebrating a decade of gypsy jazz promotion and related music styles.
KIDS
Cabaret Love - HEN
HEN is a unique puppet that defies categorization, with a face and body that are multiple: woman and man, feminine and masculine. A character full of exuberant life.
CLASSICAL
Aida
Giuseppe Verdi's emblematic opera returns to Portugal. Aida is celebrated for its dramatic force, sweeping melodies, and one of opera's most recognizable scores.
THEATRE
Milo the Magnificent
A young magician presents a series of magic tricks rooted in scientific experiments. When tricks go awry, unexpected chaos and wonder emerge from the performance.
FLAMENCO
Gipsy Kings by Diego Baliardo
Gipsy Kings by Diego Baliardo return to Portugal with the A Tu Vera tour, celebrating 35 years of international hits that became flamenco rumba anthems.
COMEDY
Cabe Mais Um?
Through humour and imagination, this performance reflects on coexistence, difference, and the capacity to welcome the other. Two cats share a home where everything fits perfectly.
MUSIC
Tatanka
Cantor, guitarrista e compositor, Tatanka (Pedro Taborda Barbosa) é uma das figuras mais singulares da música portuguesa contemporânea. Construiu uma identidade própria na interseção entre a <em...
KIDS
Makupuni
A creation by Portuguese-Brazilian collective Cegonha - Bando de Criação for young audiences, blending puppet theatre and animated forms with video elements.
POP / ROCK
Arde Bogotá
Spanish indie rock band featuring Antonio García on vocals and guitar, Pepe Esteban on bass, and Jota Mercader on drums. Known for energetic, hook-driven rock anthems.
COMEDY
Manual para Sobreviver a Dois
Love is beautiful. Until someone leaves the toilet seat up. Lía, Leo, Lena and Lino present a sharp comedy about the failed art of loving another without losing yourself.
MUSIC
Macacos do Chinês
After nearly 15 years, the band returns to record a new EP, Bolos Depois da Noite. Formed in 2007, they bring renewed energy to their distinctive sound.
THEATRE
A sensitive case
Over 500 mousetraps form a city filled with towers, streets, and buildings. A figure navigates each form and curve through precise footwork and play, exploring a singular space.
MUSIC
Até ao Fim do Mundo
Collaborative multidisciplinary project crossing geology, musical exploration of natural elements, literature, and video. A dialogue between disciplines exploring sound and landscape.
THEATRE
Thauma
A poetic game that blurs the boundaries between up and down, background and figure, large and small. A journey through a wonderstruck mind where perspective constantly shifts.
JAZZ
Joshua Idehen
Percussionist Joshua Idehen, who shook English jazz with Sons of Kemet's 2018 album Your Queen is a Reptile, performs at Casa Capitão.
THEATRE
Master of My Nose
A spectacular show using the nose as its motif, exploring self-esteem issues and nasal anatomy. A fantastical journey from emotional concerns to biological discovery.
MUSIC
Huelgas Ensemble
Paul Van Nevel conducts a program inspired by Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, mirroring Liszt's approach to Dante. Renaissance and early modern polyphony unite with visual and textual elements.
THEATRE
Hopeful Monsters
Evolution told through human hands. Simple organisms transform into giant creatures as hands move in unusual ways, creating surprising and unexpected transformations.
ELECTRONIC
Dardust
Pianist Dario Faini (Dardust) blends classical music with electronic production across five albums. His work redefines boundaries between traditional and contemporary sounds.
THEATRE
Hamlet Am I
Two actors offer their distinct versions of Shakespeare's Danish prince. One unfolds on a table where a wallet spills unexpected objects, each revealing new layers.
CLASSICAL
Por todos nós
Opera at Teatro Aberto celebrating 50 years of the theatre and 25 de Abril. Based on Os Memoráveis by Lídia Jorge, the work revisits Portuguese cultural memory.
THEATRE
Contraste
Improvisation performance about the errors that define us. Every lived moment and decision shapes us, but cannot be repeated. We are always right and wrong.
CLASSICAL
Camerata Atlântica
Camerata Atlântica brings baroque vitality and Latin American richness to Palácio Nacional da Ajuda. Bach's Brandenburg Concertos 3 and 5 showcase virtuosic interplay across periods and continents.
COMEDY
Em sede própria
Joana Marques reviews her final year on stage. Unable to judge her own case fairly, she presents irrefutable evidence of her flaws, faults, and absurdities with sharp self-deprecation.
MUSIC
Beethoven: Symphony No. 7
Beethoven's Seventh alternates popular dance forms with military archetypes, marked by expressive contrasts. A pivotal work in his symphonic catalogue.
THEATRE
A biologia da cooperação
Theatre investigation inspired by Judith Schalansky's O Pescoço da Girafa, exploring biology through bilingual theatrical research.
THEATRE
Hotel Paradoxo
The protagonist chooses to return to summer 2009 in Lisbon in this time-travel narrative. Conflicts in Gaza echo through his personal history and memories.
THEATRE
Loco
Inspired by Gogol's O Diário de um Louco, this absurd and surreal tale explores the blurred boundary between madness and reason through two actors.
THEATRE
À mesa
A family gathers on Christmas Eve at Boutique da Cultura. Memories, frustrations, and secrets unfold, revealing lost loves, family pressures, and the search for identity.
THEATRE
Fake
Three people regurgitate their individual algorithms in a weekly gathering at Teatro Ibérico, absorbed by the machinery of digital techno-capitalism.
THEATRE
Viva!
Teatro do Bairro stages an exploration of family secrets rooted in Spanish Civil War history. Daniel Olmos investigates his grandfather Pepe's killing of his grandmother María.
DANCE
Imóvel & Saltitante #2
Two contrasting characters discover unexpected common ground and learn to overcome their differences. A dance piece exploring movement, stillness, and shared discovery.
CIRCUS
Pequena CircOOnferência
Performance for young audiences at Museu de Lisboa - Teatro Romano. A historian aspiring to be a circus artist floats between historical rigour and dreamlike wonder.
THEATRE
Departure
Documentary theatre at São Luiz Teatro Municipal examines human interference in nature through the Fužir family's loss of home in natural disasters in Prevalje.
CIRCUS
Dark Circus
Anthology creation by Stereoptik at São Luiz Teatro Municipal. The company captivated audiences at FIMFA Lx25 with Antichambre, which premiered at Avignon Festival.
COMEDY
The Calm Down tour
Laura Ramoso é uma humorista conhecida pelos seus espetáculos de sketch ao vivo e pelas suas imitações virais nas redes sociais. Ela acumulou mais de 3,5 milhões de seguidores com personagens de...
COMEDY
Éclipse
Um circo de objetos singular, com humor e um toque de magia, pontuado pela luz e escuridão. Uma lâmpada suspensa, o fio de um interruptor, um copo de água, uma bola branca, uma vela e fósforos. Es...