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A two-day medieval festival at São Jorge Castle in Lisbon, featuring workshops, guided tours, concerts, and activities for all ages, celebrating medieval history and culture.

A silk painting workshop with Paulo Valle, exploring the ancient technique and textile memory, combining color and composition experimentation.

the RESET takes over Penhasco Arte Cooperativa with a night built around the theme of Connection, merging DJ sets, live coding, workshops, food and conversation into one flowing experience. The bill features AEONA REX live-coding with Strudel, Leenو, Rayge.Uncovered and the The Auragrio, with phone-free areas to help you reconnect.

A guided tour of the Roman Theatre exploring the artistic installation 'O que Resta' and the role of fragments in the collection, revealing the work of archaeologists and artists.

At Quiosque, Arre Figura presents the immersive audiovisual performance “Liquid Gestures”, where sound and light waves guided by a theremin invite the audience to inhabit a single rhythm.

A night walk through São Jorge Castle in the company of Biota biologists, using an ultrasound detector to observe and identify the castle's bat species — from the lesser horseshoe bat to the European free-tailed bat — while learning about the extraordinary role bats play in ecosystems.

The Francisco Fino Gallery presents One Million Points of Light, the first Alfredo Jaar solo show in Portugal, bringing together three fundamental works that reflect on the politics of the image, historical memory and the spectator's ethical responsibility.

Baltazar Molina presents Between Worlds at Casa Palestina, an intimate concert exploring intersections between musical traditions, improvisation and sonic experimentation. The musician's work is strongly inspired by Middle Eastern music but crosses different techniques and languages.

The Capitólio rooftop hosts the second edition of Cinecapitólio, with curation by Rui Pedro Tendinha and an open-air cinema programme for the whole family, ranging from classics to contemporary works, as part of Festas de Lisboa.

(R)encontro no Azulejo proposes a sensitive dialogue between two generations of artists, Lourdes Castro and Ilda David, built around the relationship between light and shadow.

An anthological exhibition dedicated to Paulo Bruscky (b. 1949, Recife, Brazil), one of the pioneers of conceptual art in Brazil, offering a comprehensive reading of his career since the 1970s.

Rui Massena gives a free concert at Quinta da Alfarrobeira in Lisbon, bringing his neoclassical piano writing to a historic setting. The performance is part of the Parents' House project, built around family memory and the idea of home as an affective place.

Teresa Macedo Ferreira presents a viola recital at the Sala Experimental of Teatro Municipal Joaquim Benite, featuring works by Rebecca Clarke, Joaquín Turina, Dobrinka Tabakova and York Bowen.