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An informal conversation with the winner and jury of the Gulbenkian Prize for Humanity 2026, an opportunity to meet the laureate.

Kee_ko brings a fresh DJ set to COLLECT RADIO, blending electronic sounds for the session.

DJ set event Brighton Calling on Thursday, September 24, from 5pm to 11pm.

DJ KI presents “Contratempos” on a COLLECT RADIO broadcast.

A boat party experience on the waters of Lisbon.

Tropicana Records brings Megatronic to the decks for an electronic music session.

A dinner by chef David Jesus in which a garden reveals unexpected ingredients and the plant world is transformed into high gastronomy.

Queer dance party with a DJ set at Sáficas.

A DJ set with matvii and Fonzi (2) at Collectors.

A performance inspired by Nan Shepherd's The Living Mountain, based on the idea of the mountain as a place to enter rather than a summit to conquer. A teaser of the show.

A DJ set featuring Joel Baphs and friends.

The Gulbenkian Orchestra, conducted by Andrej Power, performs works by Mozart, Dvořák and Tchaikovsky in a string concert.

The Young Talents series continues at àCapela Live arts&bar in MACAM with a concert by Vange Trio, featuring young students or former students of the Hot Clube School.

Cellist Leila Bordreuil presents a concert crossing improvisation, noise, and contemporary composition, including pieces from her recent works 'not an elegy' and 'Geophonics'.

Daniel Duncan's new stand-up solo about digital life, algorithms and the virtual world, with acid humour and no filters. General admission €15.

Flora Hibberd presents her indie-folk songs, including debut album 'Swirl' and new record 'Mammoth', at Casa Capitão's Sótão on 24 September as part of Last Tour's Esquenta series.

Myles Sanko is a British soul and jazz singer, songwriter and producer, born in Accra in 1980. His music blends influences from Ghana, France and the UK, with acclaimed albums released since 'Born In Black & White'.

Noa, a 48-year-old trans Roma woman, tries to rebuild her life and regain custody of her children after a 10-year prison sentence, facing eviction and precarity with the help of solidarity, friendship, art, and humor.

Queer Lisboa presents L"Homme Blessé, with tickets at €3.20 and discounts for students, seniors, and other audiences.

London, a young adult with a disability who works in a fetish club, must choose between medical diagnoses that could define his identity and the stubborn independence he has fought to achieve.

Noite Fresca #77 brings DJ Privilégio for another night of partying.

From midnight, Casa Capitão turns into BAILE, with DJs Ballen, FSKØ, Philipi and Zauo and a selection of pole dancers.

A DJ-set night with Shogun and a lineup of artists including KICKREY, Madson Carpenter, Pharah, VLB, Cruzz, NOQIA and Thaïs LORME, marking Shogun's Portugal debut.

Os Músicos do Tejo perform Vivaldi's Four Seasons at the Aula Magna, with free entry, as part of the Música na Universidade de Lisboa programme.

A joint concert by CLAUTHEWITCH and BALEIA BALEIA BALEIA.

CommedIA a La Carte 2026 is a theatre show that serves up comedy à la carte.

Manga Limão perform a sunset live set at the Super Bock Super Rock Afternoons, mixing tropical sounds, disco and hip-hop and presenting the single 'Pau Santo', followed by a DJ set by Claudia Moonchild.

Pure Madness is a theatre show whose title promises sheer madness on stage.

Sonia Sieff presents a series dedicated to the male body, offering an intimate and contemporary look at nudity, in a dialogue between photography, fashion, and emotion.

Cinecapitólio Rooftop returns to the Capitólio terrace with a family-friendly program, mixing classics and contemporary works, curated by Rui Pedro Tendinha. Tickets at €14.

The 10th edition of Festival Política returns to Lisbon to mark the 50th anniversary of the Portuguese Constitution with film, music, theatre, performances, workshops and talks on democracy, human rights and civic participation across São Vicente.

The exhibition brings together for the first time in Portugal three fundamental works by the artist, proposing a reflection on the politics of the image, historical memory and the ethical responsibility of the viewer.

The exhibition (R)encontro no Azulejo brings together Lourdes Castro and Ilda David in a dialogue between light and shadow, memory and contemporaneity, with the azulejo as a shared territory.

The Bordalo Pinheiro Museum marks a major milestone in Portuguese visual culture with the exhibition 'Take That! 150 Years of Zés Povinhos', curated by Jorge Silva and João Alpuim Botelho and dedicated to the iconic figure created by Bordalo Pinheiro.

Molière satirizes the affectation of bourgeois girls Catarina and Madalena, who pose as refined ladies and are fooled by servants disguised as nobles. Companhia Teatro Livre presents this comedy directed by Beto Coville.

In the year it celebrates its 25th anniversary, the Museu da Marioneta presents the temporary exhibition Puppet Creators in Portugal in the 21st Century, bringing together the work of a group of creators.

The exhibition Feinting Life explores the suburbs of Lourenço Marques in the 1950s-70s, reflecting on culture, sport, and colonialism through photography, pop culture objects, and football.

The Feira da Luz in Carnide, Lisbon, featuring various artists and events.

The Museu de Lisboa marks the 90th anniversary of Grupo de Amigos de Lisboa with an exhibition dedicated to the role of one of the city's most influential civic associations.

For her first major exhibition in Portugal, Rosa Barba presents a new site-specific and temporal narrative, inspired by and expanding a series of conceptual themes.

The Peddy-paper Pela Calçada reveals several emblematic spots in Lisbon through a recreational exploration of Portuguese artistic pavement.

Mário Gomes's exhibition presents a visual reading of Portugal's avifauna, taking the Monsanto Forest Park as its main reference and symbol of the Lisbon City Council's environmental policy.

Event inspired by One Thousand and One Nights, inviting participants on an imaginary journey guided by a magic carpet.

From 1 to 31 July, the panel at Largo Marquês de Angeja, next to Avenida da Índia, successively displays works by seven artists, conceived specifically for the project.

ZDB’s Educational Service offers workshop visits to the exhibition Bruscky em Brusque by Paulo Bruscky, adapted for the 1st, 2nd and 3rd cycles of basic education, exploring contemporary art in a creative and participatory way. Participation is free, by e-mail booking.

The Museu da Farmácia presents a cartoon exhibition that revisits the past of the pharmaceutical sector with humour and irony, bringing together works by Eduardo Perestrello published in Revista Farmácia Portuguesa between 1986 and 2011.

Super Critters! Incredible by Nature invites audiences, young and old, to discover the real superpowers of the animal world, from eyes with thousands of lenses to bodies that change color.

Poster Mostra turns the streets of Marvila into an open-air gallery, bringing together new talents and visual proposals until 30 September, affirming itself as a project of cultural democratisation and an urban route where image and word meet.

Musa paradisiaca premieres EMPORIO, a 90-minute audiovisual piece that crosses September 11 with private grief through raw VHS footage.

ZDB dedicates an anthological exhibition to Paulo Bruscky, centred on the series 'Bruscky em Brusque' and his method of linking chance and logic in creation.

At Livraria Zé dos Bois, Francisco Corrêa presents an installation in which pigeons and arrows fix a suspended instant — the last memory of a life and the first gesture of a narrative yet to be assembled. The work is part of a broader project that will take complete form at Centro Cultural Raiano.

Músculo Mental brings together works by João Louro and Dagoberto Rodríguez, two established artists who use language, image and memory as material for reflection.

Laura Caetano's exhibition explores the experience of creating images about images, starting from a conversation in her studio.

The gallery presents two exhibitions: Escape from Freedom by Ana Velez and The Beautiful One Is the Beast by Pedro Leitão.

Radical Gestures is the first of two acts that Tatiana Macedo presents at Rialto6, reinforcing her manifesto against an accelerated world of captivating image production.

The exhibition Ver e Ler presents the self-published work of Paulo de Cantos (1892-1979), a multifaceted figure, pedagogue, and artist.

The exhibition Eu que já fui eu, by Maria José Oliveira, brings together works exploring time, memory and the connections between people, inviting reflection on continuity and transformation.

Margarida Correia investigates, especially through photography, personal and institutional archives of specific communities, presenting her work in exhibitions and catalogues.

At CAM, Diogo Pimentão presents sculptural drawing works resulting from a performative action carried out in the exhibition space by the artist himself, with French dancer and choreographer Emmanuel Eggermont. His practice focuses on redefining drawing, using paper, graphite and other materials.

Guided tours of the exhibition 'Higher', by Margarida Correia.

At a time of pressure on the planet's limits, the exhibition looks at raw earth not as a nostalgic return but as a natural, local and available resource, proposing that building with earth means understanding the territory.

In The Bestiary, Carla Cabanas presents an installation of sculptures inspired by the imaginary beings gathered by Jorge Luis Borges in The Book of Imaginary Beings.

Dedicated to private collections of Saint Anthony, this exhibition offers a look at the presence and multiplicity of the Saint's image through the choices made by collectors.

Cine Society returns to Lisbon for a new season of open-air cinema, screening recent Oscar winners such as Sinners.

The exhibition is dedicated to the world of technical wreck diving and the extraordinary legacy of the Portuguese team In-Silence Dive Team, featuring texts, photographs and videos.

A night of comedy and improvisation with ImproMix at Fábrica Braço de Prata on 24 September 2026.

Black Cat Cinema returns with open-air cinema in various locations around the city, from 13 May to 18 October, featuring contemporary, cult and classic films, music and a varied food offering.

An exhibition of posters documenting the breadth and diversity of the Gulbenkian Foundation's programming over its 70 years.

This exhibition brings together photographs taken during several trips through different geographies, showing children who were born and live in different contexts.

Sara Massa's exhibition And wait, and wait, and wait explores insular isolation, displacement, powerlessness and the absurd through imagery anchored in the Azorean pasture.

The premiere of the play 'Ensaio Sobre a Lucidez' at Companhia Do Chapitô on 24 September 2026.

Olhos Múltiplos brings together three artists from different generations who understand narrative as a collaborative and political practice, inviting the public to see otherness as a space for learning and co-creation of knowledge.

At the invitation of Chapitô, José Matos Alves presents a photography exhibition resulting from 13 years of life in Cape Verde, opening in April as a celebration of freedom.

In her first solo exhibition in Portugal, Frida Orupabo presents Cloud of Confusion, a powerful reflection on the circulation, archive and meaning of images in the digital age.

Carlos No presents an installation at Fundação Carmona e Costa that reflects on human fragility, exclusion, and the imbalances caused by social dynamics, political choices, and war, in a work that complicates matter and production process.

Interchange brings together five international artists to explore the osmotic relationship between life and technology, proposing a reflection on the affinities between computational processes and biological structures.

On the occasion of his piece RedSkyFalls, on display at the Portuguese Pavilion in Venice at the Biennale 2026, Alexandre Estrela presents Replicas, including one at Galeria Zé dos Bois in which fruit flies, as sentinels, respond in real time to seismic activity.

ZDB’s Educational Service offers workshop visits to the exhibition RedSkyFalls (Réplica), adapted for preschool and the 1st and 2nd cycles of basic education, with a creative and participatory approach to contemporary art. Participation is free, by e-mail booking.

At Galeria Zé dos Bois, Alexandre Estrela presents a Réplica of RedSkyFalls, in which fruit flies act as sentinels responding in real time to nearby and distant seismic activity.

An exhibition tracing the history of human communication through its relationship with the plant world, culminating in an immersive installation evoking a real and symbolic forest. Open Monday to Friday and on Saturdays, with free entry.

A playful workshop that invites participants to look at MAAT's collection in a creative way and turn the visit into an aMAATzing experience.

A MAAT programme reflecting on maturity and ageing, bringing together art, memory and life experiences.

The exhibition Linha do Tempo, presented by Câmara Municipal de Lisboa, celebrates 40 years of the stone pavers' and gardening schools, showing their contribution to professional training and to the enhancement of Portuguese pavement and the city's gardens.

A daily visit to São Jorge Castle, where stories of a distant past document the evolution of Lisbon up to the present day. The tour lasts 1 hour and is available in Portuguese and English.

MAC/CCB is the Centro Cultural de Belém's museum of contemporary art and architecture, with works by artists such as Picasso, Warhol, Paula Rego and Francis Bacon. The ticket includes access to all contemporary art and architecture exhibitions.

A session presenting a roadmap for mental health, sharing strategies and resources for well-being and psychological support.

A tour through various spaces of the old Central Tejo, a thermoelectric plant built in 1908 that supplied electricity to the entire Lisbon region, featuring original machinery.

The ground-floor exhibition at the Museu de Lisboa - Palácio Pimenta traces Lisbon's evolution from the Paleolithic to the reign of D. João V, with over 500 pieces, including the famous pre-1755 earthquake model of the city.

The Aljube Museum presents a long-term exhibition on the Portuguese dictatorship (1926-1974), resistance and the 25 April 1974 revolution, complemented by temporary exhibitions and regular activities. It also includes a documentation centre and an archaeological display.

Timeless Experiences offers immersive outdoor escape games in Lisbon, where participants solve mysteries based on real Portuguese history while exploring the city. There are two missions: one at Príncipe Real garden and another through the historic area.

Bringing together works by internationally renowned artists such as Cindy Sherman, ORLAN, Marina Abramović, Erwin Olaf, Jane and Louise Wilson, Hannah Starkey, Helena Almeida and Nikki S. Lee, the exhibition Personae explores questions of identity and representation.

Guided tours at B-MAD, Berardo Art Deco Museum, located in the former summer residence of the Marquis of Abrantes in Alcântara, showcasing the Berardo Collection's works illustrating Arts and Crafts, Art Nouveau, and Art Deco movements.

Located in the historic centre next to the Church of Santo António, this branch of the Museu de Lisboa presents the figure of Saint Anthony and his relationship with the city where he was born and lived until the age of 20.

The Bordalo Pinheiro Museum offers a self-guided visit to its permanent exhibition, featuring the work of Rafael Bordalo Pinheiro, including the famous Zé Povinho. The museum is open Tuesday to Sunday from 10am to 6pm, with a €5 ticket and various exemptions.

Visits to the Radha Krishna Temple, officially inaugurated on November 4, 1998.

The Manuel de Brito Art Centre presents an exhibition dedicated to Menez, one of the most unique Portuguese artists of the 20th century, spanning her work from early abstraction to the intimate figuration of her later years.

The Biblioteca da Casa do Alentejo hosts the VEJA film cycle, a retrospective dedicated to the work of director Sérgio Tréfaut, screening one film per month over several months.

Guided tours of the exhibition by Pedro Cabrita Reis, 'without sorrow of heart'.

Turn Around presents one of the broadest public readings of contemporary art in Portugal, bringing together around 100 works from the EDP Foundation Collection at MAAT Central. Curated by João Pinharanda, Margarida Chantre and Sérgio Mah, the exhibition remains on view until 2027, Wednesday to Monday.

Exhibition by Pedro Cabrita Reis, titled 'without sorrow of heart', exploring memory, absence, and the human condition.

Curated by Mathieu Copeland, this exhibition brings together sixteen dreams interpreted as songs, following the forms of mandalas.

Once Upon a Time in America reflects on the enduring influence of the American imaginary on contemporary art, based on the Julião Sarmento Collection, with works by artists such as Bruce Nauman, Ed Ruscha and Nan Goldin, and Rita McBride's sculpture Arena.

The Monument to the Discoveries is a monument in Lisbon celebrating the Portuguese Age of Discovery. It offers a panoramic view over Belém and the Tagus, and includes exhibitions and a viewpoint.

The Lisbon Museum - Roman Theatre is a site museum that reveals the remains of the Roman theatre of Olisipo. It includes exhibitions and an archaeological field.

An exhibition held as part of the Belém Art Circuit, showcasing contemporary art at MACAM.

Visit the Julião Sarmento Pavilion, part of the Belém Art Circuit (CABE), featuring the artist's work in Lisbon.

Casa Fernando Pessoa is a museum dedicated to the life and work of the poet. It offers exhibitions, a library, and guided tours.

A contemporary art event in Belém, part of the CABE circuit.

Art circuit in Belém, organized by the CCB, featuring various exhibitions and artistic interventions.

The Fado Museum, unique in the world and dedicated to fado and the Portuguese guitar, offers a unique experience with a wide-ranging program. The visit to the permanent exhibition is an immersion in the history of fado, with contact with instruments, scores and works of art.

Guided visit to the historic Castelo de São Jorge in Lisbon, offering panoramic views and rich history.