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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.

As part of Queer Lisboa at RSS, Passwar D premieres 'Omdre' in Lisbon, a deep listening live performance imagining a post-collapse world where sound no longer rises or falls but spreads in wide, sustained fields. RSVP by email for the location.

The 6th edition of Rádio Quântica's non-profit community festival, Ano Q, takes place over two days at Galeria Zé dos Bois in Lisbon, celebrating the most intriguing sound iterations of the Portuguese scene with emerging and marginalized artists alongside pioneering but underrepresented ones.

South African house trio Mi Casa plays LAV – Lisboa ao Vivo on 26 September 2026 as part of their European tour celebrating the band's 15th anniversary, with their signature fusion of soul, house, jazz and Afro-pop.

Fanna-Fi-Allah, one of the world's leading traditional Qawwali ensembles, brings the devotional music of the Sufi shrines to Lisbon in their 26th year of international touring, led by master vocalist Tahir Qawwal.

Azymuth, pioneers of “samba doido”, play Casa Capitão in Lisbon, celebrating more than fifty years of career and the album “Marca Passo”.

Mark William Lewis creates soundscapes that evoke the past and present of pop, indie, and ambient, yet sound new and relevant. His short, simple, direct songs create an open dialogue with the listener, blending soft jazz, DIY Steely Dan sophistication, and the lost romance of Lewis Baloue.

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.

Berimbau debuts a new samba and pagode roda at Giro’Giro in Jardim do Campo Grande, with free entry. The event brings Brazilian music from late afternoon to night, with a continuous program from 5 PM to 11 PM.

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.

Draconian perform at LAV - Lisboa Ao Vivo as part of the Under the Doom Festival 2026, with their atmospheric gothic doom metal and the return of Lisa Johansson.

(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.

The Rogério Pitomba Quartet performs at Voz do Operário in a night where modern jazz meets Brazilian rhythms and improvisation. Led by Brazilian drummer Rogério Pitomba, the group explores the dialogue between drums, piano, double bass and saxophone.

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.