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Camerata Sete Colinas presents a solidarity concert at the Marvila Library in memory of cellist Kenneth Frazer, supporting the Bombeiros Voluntários de Samora Correia, with Anthony Flint and Elizabeth Allen as soloists in Mendelssohn's double concerto and the premiere of Gabriel Williams's Evocations.

Festival Cantábile brings a chamber music programme dedicated to Gustav Holst and Franz Schubert to the Igreja do Convento dos Cardaes, in a 14th edition that pairs international performers with Lisbon's historic heritage. Entry is free, with a donation recommended at the end of the concert.

The 10th Cascais Philharmonic Bands Festival brings together the municipality's seven bands for an afternoon at the Fernando Lopes-Graça Auditorium in Parque Palmela, celebrating the role of wind bands in training musicians and in local community life. Entry is free.

A family workshop at Casa Sommer in Cascais, part of the 'Soldados da Paz' firefighters exhibition: guided by Pinóquio Fun & Culture, families with children aged 4 to 12 build their own fully customisable 3D cardboard emergency vehicle.

A hands-on community planting session to create a sensory garden at UNL - Nova SBE School of Business & Economics on 3 October 2026.

Presentation of the children's book "O Nemo e a Soraia", a story of magic, friendship and courage, for children aged 5 and up and their families.

Monthly free drawing meetup with Urban Sketchers Portugal, on the first Saturday of each month, for anyone who likes to draw.

A hands-on music workshop by Bruno Estima and WETUMTUM, where participants explore group music-making through playful challenges and instruments, culminating in a short public presentation.

Norquestra is an interactive concert in which audiences and musicians explore the mystery of musical creation, with the audience invited to intervene in the music being played. The show emerges from a creation-research process developed with musicians and neuroscientists.

Thiago Bernardes leads a tour of the Albuquerque Foundation's architecture, revealing how the project connects the built heritage, the contemporary spaces and the gardens. Suitable for ages 10 and up; the ticket includes access to the exhibitions.

A hands-on workshop in the Big Bang festival where participants combine singing and the traditional Portuguese adupe frame drum, mattering how small rhythmic impulses can become a collective flood of sound.

An interactive sound installation by composer Jaime Reis and violinist Beatriz Costa, inviting audiences to explore and create soundscapes from the skeleton of a reconstructed piano.

A live Raku firing ceremony led by ceramicist Yishai Simon, in which glazed pieces are transformed by heat, smoke and cooling. Held in English and Portuguese with free entry.

A family film screening in the Family Saturdays series, inspired by the tale 'The Ugly Duckling'.

The Coro Infantil da Voz do Operário children's choir joins the Retimbrar collective in a Big Bang Festival concert that proposes song as a ritual, celebrating Portuguese roots music, orality and community in a reflection on the passage of time.

The Cascais Philharmonic Bands Festival brings together the seven philharmonic bands of the municipality, celebrating intergenerational talent and the work of local associations. The 10th edition is co-organized by the Cascais City Council and the Sociedade Recreativa e Musical de Carcavelos, with free entry.

A screening of 'Spécial Bardot' in the Lado BB cinema series. General admission is 3,20€, with discounts for Friends of the Cinemateca, Youth Card holders, the unemployed, students, over-65s and more.

At the 27th French Cinema Festival, Nathan Ambrosioni's drama follows Jeanne, who must take in her nephew and niece after her sister Suzanne vanishes without a trace, a delicate and surprisingly mature film about absence and the families that reinvent themselves.

South Korean pianist Young-Choon Park presents a recital with works by Mozart, Chopin, and Beethoven.

Gypsy returns to TEJÁ House with a special three-act dinner built around the new autumn menu served sharing-style. The night culminates in 'The Siren Song', an intimate musical experience from Mads Paige filled with storytelling about life, love, loss and philosophy.

A Cinemateca session dedicated to filmmaker Noémia Delgado, featuring films adapted from Portuguese literary classics by Eça de Queiroz, Camilo Castelo Branco and Almeida Garrett. Tickets cost 3,20€, with discounts available.

Premiered at the Berlinale and made over ten years, Jérémy Comte's debut feature screens at the 27th French Cinema Festival, following two teenagers in search of a father figure between the vibrant nights of Accra and the frozen silences of Quebec.

At the 27th French Cinema Festival, Jean-Pierre Jeunet returns to the big screen with this adaptation of Valérie Perrin's acclaimed novel, in which Violette, a cemetery keeper in Burgundy, sees her routine upended when a police officer investigates her husband's mysterious disappearance.