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September 2026

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Ongoing: 287 exhibitions, runs & attractions ↓

Morning 1 event
MU.SA invites you to discover the art of illustration

10:00 MU.SA - Museu das Artes de Sintra Sintra

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On 14 and 17 October, MU.SA — the Museum of Arts of Sintra — hosts the “Danuta Wojciechowska” illustration workshops, an invitation to discover the art of illustration.

Afternoon 1 event
Lado BB | The Truth

15:30 Cinemateca Portuguesa Santo António Lisbon

3,2€ Cinema

The Lado BB strand screens La Vérité, Hirokazu Kore-eda's drama in which Catherine Deneuve plays a film star whose fragile relationship with her daughter resurfaces; tickets are 3,20€ with discounts available.

Evening 8 events
Joshua Decter - The History of Art on Social Media

18:00 Pavilhão Julião Sarmento Lisbon

Free Exhibition

A series of three lectures by Joshua Decter, in partnership with AIR 351, proposing a revisionist history of contemporary art through its recontextualisation on social media. The event will be conducted in English.

Noémia Delgado | Máscaras

19:00 Cinemateca Portuguesa Santo António Lisbon

3,2€ Cinema

A screening of Noémia Delgado's film "Máscaras", with tickets at 3,20€ and discounts for Friends of the Cinemateca, students, over-65s and other groups.

Techno Yoga with Kate Zubok

19:00 Teja House Lisbon

DJ set

Kate Zubok — DJ, producer, free diver and yogi — leads Techno Yoga, a fusion of breathwork, conscious movement and dancing to Berlin minimal techno, every Wednesday at TEJÁ House on the Cais do Sodré riverside.

Lado BB | Et Dieu... Créa La Femme

19:30 Cinemateca Portuguesa Santo António Lisbon

3,2€ Cinema

The Lado BB programme at the Cinemateca screens Et Dieu... Créa La Femme, with general tickets at 3,20€ and discounts available.

TEMPERS

21:00 Casa Capitão Beato Lisbon

24€ 12+ Live music

Tempers, Jasmine Golestaneh's solo project, brings the songs from the new album 'Delusion' (2026) live to the Rés do Chão on 14 October. Synth-pop, techno, post-punk and shoegaze continue to define her sonic universe.

Lado BB | Viva Maria!

21:30 Cinemateca Portuguesa Santo António Lisbon

3,2€ Cinema

The Lado BB cycle dedicated to Brigitte Bardot screens Viva Maria!, Louis Malle's adventure comedy starring Bardot and Jeanne Moreau, at the Cinemateca; tickets are 3,20€ with discounts for Cinemateca friends, young people, students and seniors.

Nina Maia

22:00 Casa Capitão Beato Lisbon

11€ 12+ Live music

Nina Maia presents the songs from her acclaimed debut album 'INTEIRA' (2024) at the Sótão da Casa on 14 October, where MPB and bossa nova meet indie-pop. Tickets cost €10 + fees online and €13 at the door.

Mothership

23:59 Lisboa Rio Lisbon

10€ DJ set

Every Wednesday from midnight to 6am at Temple Club, the Visionaries x Freaky Fiction alliance boards the Mothership for galactic explorations, with an open beer bar until 01:00 and free entry on your birthday.

Exhibitions, runs & attractions 287 events

Claude Debussy: La mer

Live music 25€

Saturday 14 November · 18:30

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Teatro Camões Parque das Nações · Lisbon

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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