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Manoel de Oliveira e o Cinema Português
13 Mar 2026 → 4 Oct 2026
Galeria Cor Própria
This event is the final part of a trilogy of exhibitions that explore the personal archive of a filmmaker in relation to contemporary Portuguese cinema, following a chronological sequence that began with a focus on the Estado Novo period.
CultureHistoryPhotography
Vexation of Spirit: The Duerckheim Collection × Serralves
15 May 2026 → 1 Nov 2026
Fundação Serralves
Art exhibition exploring religion, society & war through works by major contemporary artists
Culture
Partilhar, de Pia Camil
16 May 2026 → 16 Oct 2026
Galeria Municipal do Porto
Mexican artist Pia Camil's installation "Sharing" at Galeria Municipal do Porto features a large-scale textile project made from donated second-hand clothing, exploring themes of collaboration and collective consciousness, and will be on display until October.
Music
Espasmo Quadrado, de Pedro Henriques
22 May 2026 → 11 Oct 2026
CCBombarda
Pedro Henriques presents 20 years of his artistic work at Museu de Serralves, showcasing diverse mediums like sculpture and drawing.
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Serralves em Luz
9 Jul 2026 → 8 Nov 2026
Experience Trindade
Serralves em Luz returns in 2026 for its 4th edition, offering an immersive night tour of the Serralves Park.
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Para Voz, de Lydia Ourahmane
11 Jul 2026 → 11 Oct 2026
Associação de Moradores da Bouça
Lydia Ourahmane showcases a collaborative installation titled Per Voce at Galeria Municipal do Porto, featuring a score composed for visually impaired singers that responds to the venue's architecture and acoustics.
Culture
Viva o Porto, Viva Portugal, de Sérgio Remondes
17 Jul 2026 → 25 Oct 2026
Allmo
The Museu dos Clérigos opens the exhibition Viva o Porto, Viva Portugal by artist Sérgio Remondes.
Culture
Água, Mar, Pessoas
22 Jul 2026 → 31 Dec 2026
doBarro
The ICBAS/FFUP Library inaugurates the exhibition Water, Sea, People on July 22 at 11:30 am, showcasing images and interpretive content about the links between water, the sea, and people, with free admission through December 31.
Culture
Afinidades — Práticas Gráficas Contemporâneas
25 Jul 2026 → 11 Oct 2026
Allmo
The exhibition features 49 contemporary graphic works inspired by an English mug from the 18th century.
Culture
Brasil Moderno: Uma Nova Perspectiva
29 Jul 2026 → 1 Nov 2026
doBarro
The Brasil Moderno exhibition showcases influential 20th-century Brazilian artists, highlighting the impact of Modernism on Brazil's visual identity.
Culture
Aqui, Massarelos
31 Jul 2026 → 3 Oct 2026
Ordem dos Arquitectos Secção Regional Norte
The Electric Car Museum hosts the Here, Massarelos exhibition, sharing oral histories from residents and highlighting the evolving identity of Massarelos through voices from the neighborhood, its river, and its memory.
Culture
Porto Regresso ao Futuro
15 Aug 2026 → 31 Oct 2026
Museu Nacional Soares dos Reis
Porto Regresso ao Futuro revisits the 2001 European Capital of Culture through memory and archives, 25 years later.
Culture
Pintura em Portugal, da Idade Média Contemporânea: inventário, coleções públicas e privadas
1 Sep 2026 → 16 Dec 2026
doBarro
A course on painting in Portugal from the Middle Ages to contemporary times, led by Sónia Duarte.
Education
Saberes que Passam — Laboratório de Choro
5 Sep 2026 → 5 Dec 2026
Mercado do Bolhão
Choro Laboratory — Knowledge Passed On is a monthly workshop for learning, practicing, and sharing Brazilian choro through listening, experimentation, and collective music-making guided by Chico Bastos and Saulo Giovannini.
EducationHistory
A(r)riscar — Oficinas de Ilustração Científica
5 Sep 2026 → 31 Oct 2026
doBarro
Luísa Jorge leads new workshops in the A(r)riscar series, concentrating on scientific illustration in archaeology.
HistoryCulture
Matinés do Cineclube
6 Sep 2026 → 20 Dec 2026
Serralves
Batalha collaborates with Cineclube do Porto to revive historical matinés from the 1940s.
Culture
Solo Blues
9 Sep 2026 → 30 Dec 2026
Clube de Ténis do Porto
Solo Blues is a beginner-friendly dance class in Porto that teaches the foundations of Blues-inspired movement, emphasizing rhythm, improvisation, musicality, and personal expression rooted in African American culture.
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A Cidade e a Serra, de João Salcedas
11 Sep 2026 → 3 Oct 2026
doBarro
João Salcedas' watercolor collection, The City and the Mountains, explores the balance between urban and natural landscapes.
EntertainmentFamilyEducation
Sim, Vamos outra vez!
12 Sep 2026 → 12 Dec 2026
Jardins do Palácio de Cristal
A regular theatre workshop for children and teenagers in Porto, led by Marta Costa, where body, voice, play and imagination help participants create characters, stories, and scenes through games and exercises, with no prior experience required.
CultureNaturePhotography
Sobretudo, de Nuno Félix da Costa
12 Sep 2026 → 31 Oct 2026
doBarro
Nuno Félix da Costa's photography explores new meanings, moving beyond traditional documentary to create an enigmatic, poetic experience.
Culture
Desenhos de Patrícia Magalhães inspirados em RUR, livro de Karel Čapek
14 Sep 2026 → 19 Oct 2026
Galeria Cor Própria
Patrícia Magalhães, an artist trained in drawing and painting, created works inspired by Karel Čapek's RUR for the Embassy of the Republic.
CultureEducation
Visitas guiadas Biblioteca Poética Eugénio de Andrade
15 Sep 2026 → 13 Oct 2026
Fonoteca Municipal do Porto
Guided tours of the Eugénio de Andrade Poetry Library, Porto's first library dedicated to poetry, located in the poet's former residence.
Culture
Ateliê António Carneiro
16 Sep 2026 → 31 Oct 2026
doBarro
The Ateliê António Carneiro exhibition showcases a municipal collection of the artist's work, highlighting his evolution from Symbolism to early modernism.
CultureEntertainmentHistory
Raw Rhythms, Cecilia Bengolea
17 Sep 2026 → 22 Nov 2026
Serralves
Raw Rhythms marks Cecilia Bengolea’s first exhibition in Porto and Vila do Conde, exploring coastal Atlantic heritage through dances, maritime crafts, and generational knowledge, blending landscape, gesture, and ritual in a free-entry show.
Culture
Computer Picture Tratamento, de Miguel Tavares
17 Sep 2026 → 30 Oct 2026
Térmita
Miguel Tavares' solo exhibition features speculative ads for a digital healer's services.
HistoryCulture
O Rasto da Maresia
18 Sep 2026 → 16 Oct 2026
Fonoteca Municipal do Porto
Guided tours of the Eugénio de Andrade Poetry Library, dedicated to the poet's life and work.
CultureHistoryPhotography
Olhar sobre o Douro
19 Sep 2026 → 3 Oct 2026
doBarro
A collective exhibition that transfers artworks onto ceramic tiles to reveal the Douro’s timeless landscape of river, hills, and heritage through each artist’s perspective.
CulturePhotography
60%, de Nuno Pinheiro
19 Sep 2026 → 13 Dec 2026
doBarro
An autobiographical photography exhibition by Nuno Pinheiro that uses 60 images spanning decades to explore cancer survivorship, identity, growth, gender, memory, and social themes through diverse techniques and styles.
Culture
A Invenção de Horizontes, de Mafalda Mendonça
19 Sep 2026 → 7 Nov 2026
Clay Freckles
A Mafalda Mendonça exhibition, The Invention of Horizons, invites viewers into intimate, evolving emotional landscapes captured in vibrant paintings.
Culture
Morto, Matado, Morrido, de Diogo Potes
19 Sep 2026 → 10 Oct 2026
doBarro
Explores themes of death and survival, revealing how some things continue to live through us.
Culture
Off The Wall, de Kilos
19 Sep 2026 → 30 Oct 2026
Galeria Cor Própria
Kilos, a graffiti artist from Porto, transitioned from lettering to street art, bringing his sketches to city walls since 2015.
Culture
Phantom Limb, de Maria Palma, Tatyana Cristina e Nadya Ismail
19 Sep 2026 → 7 Nov 2026
Térmita
Phantom Limb is an exhibition by Maria Palma, Tatyana Cristina, and Nadya Ismail exploring image as a site of apparition, absence, and memory, using butterfly symbolism to examine femininity, pain, and care.
Culture
Árvore das Virtudes
19 Sep 2026 → 17 Oct 2026
doBarro
The Cooperativa Árvore presents the 6th edition of the Arvore das Virtudes Prize, an exhibition in Sala 1, 2, and 3 from September 19 to October 17 showcasing 23 emerging artists and their diverse...
Culture
ροτεανιάδα / Proteaníada: figuras que mudam, alguns retratos sem pernas
19 Sep 2026 → 21 Nov 2026
doBarro
An exhibition by José Miguel Gervásio at Galeria Pedro Oliveira exploring metamorphosis in painting and drawing, where landscapes, portraits, and fragments are juxtaposed to change meaning through proximity and montage.
Culture
Luga Poster Biennale 2024
24 Sep 2026 → 11 Dec 2026
Galeria Geraldes da Silva
The event inaugurates the LUGA Poster Biennale 2024 with a discussion on poster territories, contexts, and perspectives, moderated by Vítor Quelhas and Horácio Marques, followed by an itinerant poster exhibition.
Culture
Bestas, Cometas e Pessoas, de Yevheniia Hryhoryan & Ksenia Fokina
25 Sep 2026 → 25 Oct 2026
doBarro
An exhibition by two Ukrainian artists exploring how we give form to the unknown — through images, symbols, stories and systems that help us to understand what we cannot explain.
Culture
Digging up my way down, de Diana Geiroto
26 Sep 2026 → 30 Oct 2026
One Star Donuts
This is an artistically staged exploration of claustrophobic anxiety, fear, and impulses to escape, depicting internal conflict and distorted memories through plans that collapse.
CultureArchitectureFamily
GUREN: Origins, de Zehra Acun
26 Sep 2026 → 6 Oct 2026
Galeria CATAPULTA
Zehra Acun's first solo exhibition, GUREN: Origins, will be displayed at FAJDP in Porto for 10 days.
FoodEducation
Oficina Intensiva de Donuts
27 Sep 2026 → 13 Dec 2026
Biblioteca Municipal Almeida Garrett
A hands-on class teaching donut making, including yeast dough, fermentation, frying, and frosting, with a small class size.
ShoppingCulture
Mercado do Sol
1 Oct 2026 → 29 Oct 2026
Casa do Infante — Gabinete do Tempo
Mercado do Sol is an urban market selling handmade and semi-industrial items with traditional and contemporary features.
Family
Aulas de Skate
1 Oct 2026 → 31 Oct 2026
Piscinas Municipais do Porto — Constituição e Eng. Armando Pimentel
Free skate lessons for children over 6, with two instructors, held weekly on Mondays, Thursdays, Saturdays, and Sundays, limited to 20 spots per session and up to two classes per participant per week, with online registration starting Monday at midnight.
CultureWellness
Movimento Suave (ioga)
1 Oct 2026 → 29 Oct 2026
Espaço Cultural Jubilant
Movimento Suave is a gentle yoga practice led by Leonor that invites slow, mindful movement, breathing, and body awareness to cultivate mobility and well-being for all levels in Porto.
Music
Authentic Jazz
1 Oct 2026 → 29 Oct 2026
Clube de Ténis do Porto
Authentic Jazz classes in Porto, led by Edmilson Botelho, focus on beginner-friendly instruction in African American jazz roots and improvisation.
Culture
Great Artists on Campus
2 Oct 2026 → 11 Dec 2026
Serralves
Great Artists on Campus at Batalha features contemporary creators showcasing film works in collaboration with Universidade Lusófona.
ArchitectureCulturePhotography
Foco – Ecos da Vida Moderna, de Claudia Rocha
2 Oct 2026 → 29 Nov 2026
FISGA Warehouse
Claudia Rocha's photography blends interior and portrait styles, capturing modern life across Portugal and the UK.
CultureNightlifeShopping
Argilo — Feira de Cerâmica do Porto #2
2 Oct 2026 → 3 Oct 2026
Allmo
Argilo is a two-day ceramics fair in Porto featuring local artists, workshops, and a bar at The Alc.
CultureNightlife
TAMBOR, de Melissa Pérez Sousa
2 Oct 2026 → 3 Oct 2026
Teatro Sá da Bandeira
TAMBOR is a solo dance piece blending Venezuelan folk, street, and club styles to explore memory, migration, belonging, and personal myth through embodied rhythm and gesture.
EntertainmentCulture
CommedIA a La Carte
2 Oct 2026 → 25 Oct 2026
Serralves
A transdisciplinary approach to works from 1975.
CultureEntertainmentHistory
The Ruin is a Tail, de Sancha Meca Castro
2 Oct 2026 → 3 Oct 2026
Batalha Centro de Cinema
The event is a performance installation exploring how ancient memories and fossilized gestures inspire new movement and sculpture as participants awaken, react, and reinterpret vanished forms.
MusicEntertainment
Baile do Tuim
2 Oct 2026 → 3 Oct 2026
Espaço Porta-Jazz
Baile do Tuim brings its vibrant atmosphere of music and dance to Porto after nine successful editions in Lisbon.
CultureArchitectureEducation
Sword AI Summit
3 Oct 2026
Look Sharp Café
Sword emphasizes the importance of accessible information on fundamental issues.
Wellness
Days with Energy
3 Oct 2026 → 31 Oct 2026
Piscinas Municipais do Porto — Constituição e Eng. Armando Pimentel
Days with Energy offers free pilates, yoga, and tai chi classes every Saturday morning.
ShoppingCulture
Mercado Porto Belo
3 Oct 2026 → 31 Oct 2026
Casa do Infante — Gabinete do Tempo
Mercado Porto Belo is an urban market held on Saturdays, featuring vinyl records, illustrations, typewriters, clothing, jewelry, and sweets.
WellnessNature
Caminhada com Meditação
3 Oct 2026
Espaço Agra
A unique experience combining walking and meditation in nature, suitable for beginners.
Education
Grava, Congela, Arrisca
3 Oct 2026
Sismógrafo
This workshop explores material transformation, the visibility of time, and the objectification of vulnerability, inspired by the Movo-me em Tempo Elétrico exhibition.
EducationCulture
Interculturalidade por Caminhos Artísticos
3 Oct 2026 → 31 Oct 2026
Fonoteca Municipal do Porto
Training session led by Renata Flaiban Zanete focused on artistic interculturality.
CulturePhotographyEducation
Rapidinhas de Outubro
3 Oct 2026 → 31 Oct 2026
Galeria CATAPULTA
A studio workshop in Porto offers hands-on sessions with a 4-week turnaround for finished pieces and required photography.
MusicEntertainmentEducation
Velatura
3 Oct 2026 → 4 Oct 2026
PAZ — Performance Arts Zone
Festival Velatura is an international magic festival in Porto on October 3–4 that combines workshops, lectures, and performances to foster learning, community, and exchange among magicians and local audiences.
FamilyEducation
Cerâmica em Família
3 Oct 2026
Porto Planetarium
Matérica’s Family Pottery Workshop is a hands-on, family-friendly studio experience where parents and children shape or glaze pottery together, creating functional or decorative pieces to be fired and picked up as lasting memories.
EntertainmentCulture
Na Floresta, do Teatro de Marionetas do Porto
3 Oct 2026
Biblioteca Municipal Almeida Garrett
A puppet theater performance about a girl who wanders through a forest at night, ensuring she misses nothing.
Education
Saberes que Passam
3 Oct 2026
RCA - Radioclube Agramonte / Espaço Agra
Choro Laboratory is a monthly workshop by Clube do Choro – Porto, promoting collective practice and exploration of Brazilian music.
EducationHistory
Visita guiada
3 Oct 2026
Museu do Carro Eléctrico
Porto CROA offers guided tours on the first Saturday of each month from 11:00 AM to 4:30 PM.
Nature
Árvores Imaginadas
3 Oct 2026
i3S - Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde
This event encourages observing real trees to inspire the creation of imagined trees.
CultureEntertainmentArchitecture
Triggering Memory, de Pedro Melo Alves
3 Oct 2026
Allmo
A 60-minute percussion performance by Pedro Melo Alves, set within the Vexation of Spirit exhibition.
Music
Bufete de Aniversário
3 Oct 2026
Casa da Música
Celebrating five years of imperfections and many 'Beertudes'.
ShoppingPhotography
Abelha XXXI
3 Oct 2026
Jardins do Palácio de Cristal
A market showcasing drawing, painting, illustration, photography, and ceramics.
MusicCultureEntertainment
Ensaio aberto de NATIVUS:ENSEMBLE
3 Oct 2026
Officina da Confederação
A community project in Porto featuring professionals and young performers creating new global musical narratives, with open rehearsals.
EducationHistory
A(r)riscar, com Luísa Jorge
3 Oct 2026 → 31 Oct 2026
Galeria CATAPULTA
Luísa Jorge continues the A(r)riscar series with workshops focused on scientific illustration in archaeology.
CultureNature
Cultura do Corpo: Edição Porto, Para Voz e Partilhar
3 Oct 2026
Escola Utopia
On the first Saturday of each month, Galeria Municipal do Porto invites the public to learn about current exhibitions.
SportsEntertainment
IV Torneio de Xadrez Bullet Musas
3 Oct 2026
Douro Marina
The 4th edition of the Bullet Chess Tournament Musas and the first Hand and Brain Chess Tournament takes place on October 3.
CultureFamilyEducation
Oficina de cerâmica com ateliê Oca
3 Oct 2026
Allmo
Create and paint your own pottery piece in a 2-hour workshop, with final firing included.
Architecture
Pé-direito: Casa Embrulhada
3 Oct 2026
i3S - Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde
Pé-direito refers to the distance from the floor to the ceiling or the right foot.
WellnessEducation
Regresso a Ti — Agora Sou EU
3 Oct 2026
Biblioteca Municipal Almeida Garrett
An event focused on reflection and clarity about past choices and current desires.
CultureMusicEducation
São João – Uma Rua Viva
3 Oct 2026
Espaço Agra
The fourth edition of São João | Uma Rua Viva transforms Rua de São João into a pedestrian festival with food, music, and workshops.
Culture
Vizinhos, de Sara Felgueiras
3 Oct 2026 → 4 Nov 2026
doBarro
A narrative about nosy neighbors who watch the street, the city, and a curious passer-by, blurring who is really watching whom.
Culture
O Meu Vizinho Totoro, de Hayao Miyazaki
3 Oct 2026
Batalha Centro de Cinema
A gentle animated film about two sisters who move to the countryside, discover a magical forest populated by friendly spirits led by Totoro, and form a transformative bond that fills their daily lives with wonder.
CultureEntertainment
Between the Lines
3 Oct 2026
Museu do Carro Eléctrico
The first gathering of Between the Lines features an English-language book swap and social at SVET Space.
FamilyEducation
Once Upon A Time…
3 Oct 2026
FISGA Warehouse
Stories to listen to and hands to create. Young readers make the best listeners.
MusicCulture
Encontros no Romântico — Ciclo de Recitais #1
3 Oct 2026 → 24 Oct 2026
Casa da Música
Program for the first recital in the Encontros no Romântico series, featuring Silva Monteiro Music Course.
Education
galhos, de Eliana Manuel Pinho
3 Oct 2026 → 17 Oct 2026
doBarro
The event is an exhibition of sculptures and drawings by Eliana Manuel Pinho exploring gesture and materiality through wood carving and graphite, accompanied by workshops and a conversation, at ACASO from October 3 to 17, 2026.
Culture
My Center Is not in the Solar System
3 Oct 2026
CRL — Central Elétrica, CACE Cultural
The event showcases three performances at Teatro São João exploring alternative temporalities and resisting Eurocentric histories through the Poetics of Resistance, featuring works by Shahd Wadi, Noor Abed, Haig Aivazian, and Ali Cherri.
CultureNature
O Lugar do Pequeno, de Carla Sónia Lopes
3 Oct 2026 → 15 Oct 2026
doBarro
The event showcases a painterly exploration of nature and animals through abstract, atmospheric works in acrylics and oils, inviting slow, attentive perception of presence and scale, culminating in The Place of the Small.
Education
Porto Volleyball Cup
3 Oct 2026 → 4 Oct 2026
Bamu Zunta Mon
The Porto Volleyball Cup returns for its 4th edition on October 3, 4, and 5 at various local venues.
Culture
E os Olhos Voltaram-se para outro Lado, de Tiago Romão
3 Oct 2026 → 28 Nov 2026
Galeria CATAPULTA
Exposição com imagens que acumulam cenas prosaicas, memórias e vislumbres
CultureEducation
Impressões: Baixo-Relevo em Gesso
3 Oct 2026
doBarro
A hands-on workshop where participants press organic materials into clay and cast a ceramic plaster positive, with all materials provided and no prior experience needed.
CultureMusic
PRAYA, de Duda Affonso
3 Oct 2026
Alameda Shop & Spot
PRAYA is an evolving art exhibition by Duda Affonso that uses ready-made plastic works to critique and celebrate plasticity, creating a mega-fake universe that shifts with each edition.
Culture
Amadeus, de Miloš Forman
3 Oct 2026
Batalha Centro de Cinema
We begin a Miloš Forman retrospective with his most awarded film, Amadeus, a biographical epic about Mozart seen through rival Salieri’s jealous, admiring eyes.
Culture
Antes da Palavra, de Viriato Morais
3 Oct 2026
The Alchemist
Before the Word examines pre-verbal communication, focusing on bodily responses and attentional direction.
EntertainmentCulture
Beats & Poetry
3 Oct 2026
One Star Donuts
Open mic event featuring music, poetry, and stand-up performances.
CultureEntertainment
Conversa com Cerith Wyn Evans e Pedro Melo Alves
3 Oct 2026
Allmo
A discussion with Pedro Melo Alves and Cerith Wyn Evans during the Triggering Memory performance, focusing on light, sound, and text.
MusicCulture
Livro dos Cantares (Shijing)
3 Oct 2026
Madame Travessa
A concert of traditional Chinese music at the Grande Auditório, Edifício Abel Salazar, on October 3 at 18:30.
EntertainmentCulture
Qual é Meu Nome, Mamãe?
3 Oct 2026 → 4 Oct 2026
Balleteatro
Cegonha presents 'Qual é Meu Nome, Mamãe?' by Bando de Criação.
EntertainmentNightlifeMusic
IRA!
3 Oct 2026
Musa das Virtudes
Hard Club in Porto hosts Ira!’s first-ever Portugal show, a 45th-anniversary, high-energy Brazilian rock performance featuring classic hits and a visceral live experience for Portuguese audiences.
MusicCulture
ProVocal Ensemble
3 Oct 2026
Espaço Porta-Jazz
On October 3, ProVocal Ensemble opens the season with the Vox Humana choir from Norway. Admission is free.
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