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Concert by Carminho, featuring songs about love and resistance.

Marking the centenary of Miles Davis's birth, Laurent Filipe presents a narrated concert at the Auditório Carlos Avilez, joined by Mário Delgado, Alexandre Frazão, Massimo Cavalli and Pedro Lopes. The Portuguese trumpeter revisits decisive moments of Davis's career and shows how he crossed and helped transform successive phases of modern jazz.

Máximo brings PANGEA to B.Leza, a trio project where jazz, voice and electronica meet in a musical reflection on the climate crisis, with Joppe van Noten on drums and Jan Honnef on bass. Live, the album's five tracks are expanded through improvisation, adding solo piano, spoken word, synthesizers and pre-recorded material.

A theatre show bearing the evocative title “Pure Madness”.

On Thursday mornings, the Nova SBE community gets together to tend the school's community garden.

FabLab Sintra has open registrations for an introductory Adobe Illustrator workshop on 1 and 2 October, from 10h00 to 16h30, aimed at beginner participants.

A guided tour of the Fundação Oriente museum, part of Foundations and Donors Day, with free entry and limited to 25 participants. The visit highlights the role of donations in building the foundation's collections.

Marking the International Day of Older Persons and World Music Day, the Library hosts a workshop showing how music can be everywhere, using the body, voice and everyday objects to create rhythm. Free participation, subject to registration, for people aged 55 and over.

On October 1, from 17h00 to 19h30, the workshop 'The Shape of Sound' invites participants aged 14+ to explore the connection between music, art and nature, giving visual form to sound through painting.

A guided tour through the Gulbenkian Garden exploring the surprising dialogue between botany, classical literature (Ovid) and the philosophy of nature (Goethe) on metamorphoses.

Four-day workshop led by Rui Sousa, from 1 to 4 October, with specific times for each day.

A theatrical adaptation of Sophocles' 'Ajax', one of his earliest tragedies, exploring the limits of power and serving as a response to totalitarian threats. The performance, premiering at TMJB, crosses the text with testimonies, narratives, and artistic interventions to create a sharp, human theater that looks us in the eye.

A screening of Garbo Talks at the Cinemateca as part of the What I Want to See series, with tickets at 3,20€ and discounts for students, seniors and other groups.

Concert with tickets between €6 and €15, with discounts for over 65s, São Luiz cardholders, unemployed people, people with disabilities and performing arts professionals.

On World Music Day, 1 October, the Museu Condes de Castro Guimarães hosts From Court to Salon, a violin and piano concert with Alexander Stewart and João Paulo Santos, a musical journey on the theme of love from the European courts to the concert salons of the early 20th century.

Agora Dez takes the stage at the Aula Magna in Lisbon for a charity concert on 1 October 2026.

Opening session of the 27th French Cinema Festival with the film 'De Gaulle: Resistance' by Antonin Baudry, depicting the days when Charles de Gaulle leaves for London and begins the fight for a free France.

Concert by Lera Lynn, an independent artist blending alt-Americana, indie rock and cinematic noir, known for her work on True Detective and her recent album 'Comic Book Cowboy'. No seating, arrive early.

American rock band Mercury Rev performs live in Lisbon.

A theatre play about a superstar.

An evening of theatre featuring a brief introduction and stand-up tests. General admission costs €12.

A screening of L'Enfant at the Cinemateca as part of the series dedicated to producer Paulo Branco, with tickets at 3,20€ and discounts for students, seniors and other groups.

Concert by Joshua Idehen, British-Nigerian poet and musician known for his work with Sons of Kemet, presenting his spiritual project built with producer Saturday, Monday. Doors open at 9:30 PM, concert at 10 PM.