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A new cultural format debuts at Rossio, combining a social gathering, an art exhibition and a stage for emerging artists: original large-scale video art projected onto a roughly 5 × 13 metre blind façade of the hotel next to Rossio Gardens, with curated electronic music. Free to watch from the square; the 10€ ticket (with a welcome drink) gives access to the garden, the full programme and the artists.

Bossarenova Trio, bringing together Brazilian singer Paula Morelenbaum and German musicians Joo Kraus and Ralf Schmid, performs their latest album Levitar live at the Capitólio on 15 October, in a repertoire where bossa nova dialogues with jazz and electronica.

A show that sabotages Cervantes' classic text through parody and autofiction, embraced as the only way of inhabiting the work's contradictions.

Concert by the band Simplesmente Roupa Nova.

On 15 October at B.Leza, Sensible Soccers present their new album 'Camminando Di Notte' live, where electronics and organic instruments coexist in a balance between pulse, melody and constantly progressing structures.

The Youth Talks Cascais: Self-care Yes! seminar takes place on October ️15, ️2026, featuring conversations and debates on mental health, nutrition, love and sexuality, plus a cooking workshop and a Heartfulness session to promote young people's well-being.

In October, Sintra City Council promotes intercultural storytelling sessions at the Municipal Libraries, as part of a cultural mediation project.

Alex Bakri's Habibi Hussein follows Hussein Darby, the last projectionist of Cinema Jenin in Palestine, who crosses the West Bank to repair a 50-year-old projector when a German NGO comes to restore the cinema. The film examines development aid in Palestine and pays tribute to a dying film culture.

A lecture on traditional Korean painting, covering the main pictorial genres and the philosophical thought underlying them, with Kyeong Hwa Choi.

As part of the Lado BB cycle, the Cinemateca screens Shalako, the western starring Brigitte Bardot and Sean Connery; tickets are 3,20€, with discounts for Cinemateca friends, young people, students and seniors.

A double bill: Laura Poitras and Rachel Lauren Mueller's They're Here follows Minneapolis residents fleeing and resisting the paramilitary occupation of their city, while Sofía Bordenave's Forest Up in the Mountain starts from the murder of young Mapuche Rafael Nahuel in Patagonia to present the forest as witness to violence and a space of indigenous resistance.

Exhibition addressing the revolution of the gaze on 19th-century French landscape, from outdoor painting to Impressionism.

A DJ set party happening on Thursday, October 15, from 5 PM to 11 PM.

Collectors is Collect's in-house party, turning the LX Factory shop into a meeting point for records, artists and audiences, with a line-up of Caroline Lethô, Enkō and Mafalda Mais. No theme, no boundaries — just good music played properly on the store's newly installed sound system.

Sabine Lidl's documentary follows writer Siri Hustvedt from Minnesota to New York, interweaving her writing with the great themes of life — language, identity, the body, feminism, love and farewell — and marked by her encounter with Paul Auster.

Joyce Muniz debuts a new live performance format in a special recording session by NeverStop and Sexto Station in Bairro Alto on October 15, with live visuals by PFA Studios (Berlin). Alongside her live set there will be music from Oito//Oito, Perolidade, Freiii, Vitorine and more; the address and door code are yet to be announced.

The Lado BB cycle brings Les Pétroleuses to the Cinemateca, the western comedy in which Brigitte Bardot and Claudia Cardinale battle over an oil well; tickets are 3,20€ with discounts for Cinemateca friends, young people, students and seniors.

Jah Khalib, the popular Kazakh singer-songwriter, brings his greatest hits, from 'Medina' to 'Leyla', live in a concert blending hip-hop, soul, R&B and Oriental motifs. A night of intense emotions and Oriental magic.

Alex Zhang Hungtai returns to Belaflor to present two albums released this year: “Dras”, built from saxophone recordings in a Montreal basilica, and the collaborative double album “Orion/Mother”. A concert spanning solo revelation and creative communion.

Edgar Pêra's Asphalt Guerrilha opens Doclisboa: a meta-cinematic tragicomedy following the disastrous story of an amateur guerrilla cell in the 1980s and the chaotic 1990s attempt to bring their story to the big screen.

Mateus Asato performs a special concert in Lisbon on October 15, 2026, as part of his world tour.

PMDS concert, entry 8€.

SUPERSTAR is a theatre production taking to the stage.

A screening of 'La Plage Noire', Bruno Dumont's film produced by Paulo Branco, as part of the cycle dedicated to the producer.

A DJ set night under the Workout banner, with Portuguese artist VIL on the line-up.

On October 15, RIKTUS invites BALAGAN for a special night at Ministerium Club in Lisbon, bringing two sides of the city's underground together on one dancefloor. Six artists — ANÍBAL, Djooke, GADDAM, Madson Carpenter, pavvvvvvlo and Saint Caboclo — for a new collaboration with no boundaries.