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Ongoing: 273 exhibitions, runs & attractions ↓

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DARYE | KOREAN TEA CEREMONY FOR AUTUMN

14:30 Museu do Oriente. Lisbon

40€ M/16 Other

Korean tea ceremony workshop where participants explore autumn traditions, taste different teas and treats, and learn about Korean culture.

Lado BB | Les Pétroleuses

15:30 Cinemateca Portuguesa Santo António Lisbon

3,2€ Cinema

A Lado BB film screening of 'Les Pétroleuses', with general admission at €3.20 and discounts for Friends of the Cinemateca, Youth Card holders, the unemployed, students, film students, juniors (up to 16) and over-65s.

Young Mothers | 27th French Film Festival

17:00 Cinema São Jorge Arroios Lisbon

6€ Cinema

The Dardenne brothers portray Jessica, Perla, Julie, Ariane and Naïma, mothers barely over 18 who, in a shelter, try to find their place in the world and offer their children a better future — an intimate portrait of youth and motherhood awarded Best Screenplay at Cannes.

Evening 8 events
Noémia Delgado | The Bread Thief + The Little Princess of Roses

19:00 Cinemateca Portuguesa Santo António Lisbon

3,2€ Cinema

A session of the Cinemateca retrospective dedicated to Noémia Delgado, screening 'The Bread Thief' (O Ladrão do Pão) and 'The Little Princess of Roses' (A Princesinha das Rosas). Tickets cost 3,20€, with discounts available.

CONGO BOY | 27th French Film Festival

19:30 Cinema São Jorge Arroios Lisbon

6€ Cinema

The first major co-production between the Central African Republic and the DR Congo, Rafiki Fariala's vibrant musical drama, premiered in Un Certain Regard at Cannes, follows Robert, a 17-year-old in Bangui who, amid war and his parents' imprisonment, finds in music a way to resist.

Lado BB | Le Repos Du Guerrier

19:30 Cinemateca Portuguesa Santo António Lisbon

3,2€ Cinema

A Cinemateca screening of 'Le Repos du Guerrier' as part of the 'Lado BB' series, with tickets at 3,20€ and discounts for Friends of the Cinemateca, youth card holders, the unemployed, students, over-65s and retirees.

TEJAM Sessions

21:00 Teja House Lisbon

Free DJ set

A curated jam on the house sound system, Tuesday nights through to midnight — bring an instrument or just come to listen, free at the door.

maya ongaku ⟡ Summit

21:00 Galeria Zé dos Bois Bairro Alto Lisbon

14€ Live music

Concert/event with the band Maya Ongaku, blending psychedelic folk, electronics and YMO influences, presenting their unique sonic universe.

Full Phil | 27th French Film Festival

21:30 Cinema São Jorge Arroios Lisbon

6€ Cinema

Quentin Dupieux's absurdist black comedy 'Full Phil', presented at Cannes, stars Woody Harrelson as a millionaire American industrialist whose trip to Paris with his daughter (Kristen Stewart) becomes increasingly surreal. Screened at the 27th French Film Festival, tickets 6€.

Paulo Branco | Le Mariage à Trois

21:30 Cinemateca Portuguesa Santo António Lisbon

3,2€ Cinema

The Paulo Branco retrospective at the Cinemateca brings 'Le Mariage à Trois' to the big screen. Tickets are €3.20, with reduced rates for students, seniors and other groups.

La Frappe | 27th French Film Festival

21:45 Cinema São Jorge Arroios Lisbon

6€ Cinema

Julien Gaspar-Oliveri's raw family drama 'La Frappe', premiered at Cannes Critics' Week, builds suspense through silence around buried family trauma, with Diego Murgia and Bastien Bouillon. Part of the 27th French Film Festival, tickets 6€.

Exhibitions, runs & attractions 273 events

Claude Debussy: La mer

Live music 25€

Saturday 14 November · 18:30

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Teatro Camões Parque das Nações · Lisbon
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The Portuguese Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Joseph Swensen, performs key works of French modernism alongside a Portuguese voice, featuring Debussy's La mer, Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune, and Ravel's Pavane, in a concert mapping the creative effervescence of early modernism.

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What if, in a single program, one could map the creative effervescence of early modernism, its boundary-breaking, its interartistic dialogues, and its relentless search for a new musical language? The Portuguese Symphony Orchestra, under the baton of Joseph Swensen, presents key works of French modernism centered around a Portuguese voice shaped by the same currents. Opening the concert, Debussy's Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune (1894), a landmark in music history born from Mallarmé's symbolist poetry. By dissolving the boundaries between rhythms, harmony and orchestral color, this work introduced a new conception of musical time, in which atmosphere supersedes argument and the sinuous theme of the flute drifts adrift, like consciousness itself. Luís de Freitas Branco's Violin Concerto (1916), here performed by Carlos Damas (soloist of the work's Parisian premiere), constitutes a singular achievement in Portuguese music. Based on modal exploration and cyclical forms closer to César Franck than to Impressionism, it reveals a composer navigating between the heritage of the past and an unmistakably personal harmonic voice, decades ahead of its wider recognition. Ravel's Pavane pour une infante défunte (1899), a meditation on a Renaissance court dance, brings stillness and luminous orchestral restraint to the program. Closing the evening, Debussy's ambitious La mer (1905): three symphonic sketches in which the sea becomes an inexhaustible source of color, movement and emotional depth; a work in infinite renewal, like the tides it evokes. Four works, three composers, but a shared conviction: that music, when free from convention, becomes something close to nature itself.

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E se, num único programa, se pudesse mapear a efervescência criativa do modernismo inicial, o seu galgar de limites, os seus diálogos interartísticos e a sua busca incansável por uma nova linguagem musical? A Orquestra Sinfónica Portuguesa, sob a batuta de Joseph Swensen, apresenta obras-chave do modernismo francês em torno de uma voz portuguesa moldada pelas mesmas correntes. A abrir o concerto, o Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune (1894) de Debussy, um marco da história da música gerado a partir da poesia simbolista de Mallarmé. Ao dissolver as fronteiras entre ritmos, harmonia e cor orquestral, esta obra introduziu uma nova conceção de tempo musical, na qual a atmosfera suplanta o argumento e o tema sinuoso da flauta flutua à deriva, como a própria consciência. O Concerto para violino e orquestra (1916) de Luís de Freitas Branco, aqui interpretado por Carlos Damas (solista da estreia parisiense da obra), constitui um feito singular na música portuguesa. Baseando-se na exploração modal e de formas cíclicas mais próximas de César Franck do que do Impressionismo, revela um compositor a navegar entre a herança do passado e uma voz harmónica inequivocamente pessoal, décadas à frente do seu reconhecimento mais amplo. A Pavane pour une infante défunte (1899) de Ravel, uma meditação sobre uma dança de corte renascentista, traz quietude e luminosa contenção orquestral ao programa. A fechar o serão, o ambicioso La mer (1905) de Debussy: três esquissos sinfónicos nos quais o mar se converte em fonte inesgotável de cor, movimento e profundidade emocional; uma obra em infinita renovação, como as marés que evoca. Quatro obras, três compositores, mas uma convicção partilhada: a de que a música, quando livre de convenções, se torna algo próximo da própria natureza.

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