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October 2026

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Ongoing: 281 exhibitions, runs & attractions ↓

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Morning 1 event
2nd Meeting of Archives of the Lisbon Metropolitan Area

09:00 Centro Cultural de Cascais Cascais e Estoril Cascais

Free M/18 Workshops & talks

BAD's Lisbon Metropolitan Area regional delegation and the Cascais Municipal Council hold the 2nd Meeting of Archives of the Lisbon Metropolitan Area, dedicated to sharing experiences across all types of archives and debating the policies and practices of contemporary archival science. Free upon registration.

Afternoon 1 event
Lino Brocka | Orapronobis

15:30 Cinemateca Portuguesa Santo António Lisbon

3,2€ Cinema

Cinemateca screens 'Orapronobis', one of Lino Brocka's most hard-hitting political films, following an activist who returns from exile and confronts a fanatical cult. Tickets cost 3,20€, with discounts for students, over-65s and other groups.

Evening 18 events
Lino Brocka | Tinimbang Ka Ngunit Kulang

19:00 Cinemateca Portuguesa Santo António Lisbon

3,2€ Cinema

Cinemateca screens 'Tinimbang Ka Ngunit Kulang', a landmark of Lino Brocka's new Philippine cinema, following a boy's friendship with an outcast woman in his small town. Tickets cost 3,20€, with discounts available.

Lino Brocka | Oca + Ano Ang Kulay Ng Mukha Ng Dyios?

19:30 Cinemateca Portuguesa Santo António Lisbon

3,2€ Cinema

Cinemateca presents a Lino Brocka double bill, pairing 'Oca' with 'Ano Ang Kulay Ng Mukha Ng Dyios?' ('What Is the Colour of the Face of God?'). Tickets cost 3,20€, with discounts for students, over-65s and other groups.

A MIND IN THE HEART | JOANA GAMA | SEXTA MAIOR

20:00 Centro Cultural de Belém Belém Lisbon

20€ Live music

Pianist Joana Gama returns to solo recording with Ivan Vukosavljevic's 'a mind in the heart', a cycle of eight piano pieces inspired by the Orthodox Christian ethos and a sermon by Meister Eckhart, performed in the Sexta Maior series.

Irish Trad Session

20:00 Casa do Fauno Sintra

Other

Lisbon Irish Session brings the tradition of Irish sessions to Casa do Fauno: an informal musical gathering with no stage, where fiddles, concertinas, bagpipes and other traditional instruments bring jigs, reels and polkas to life. Three hours travelling through the soundscapes of Ireland, also passing through Portuguese, Galician, Scottish and Swedish tunes.

ANGERFIST & USH| LISBON 2026

21:00 Lisboa ao Vivo Campo Pequeno Lisbon

18+ Live music

Hardcore pioneer ANGERFIST joins INVDRS in Lisbon on 23 October at LAV – Lisboa Ao Vivo, with more artists to be announced.

Ava Rocha

21:00 Casa Capitão Beato Lisbon

12.98€ 12+ Live music

Brazilian singer-songwriter Ava Rocha performs live at Sótão in a concert of her own music.

BLOCO DOS APAIXONADOS

21:00 República da Música Alvalade Lisbon

Live music

Sotam brings Bloco dos Apaixonados to Lisbon on 23 October at 21h at República da Música, after the show became a success in Brazil. Expect the hits fans sing on repeat plus more attractions to be announced soon.

Tonight We Shout - "Samotrácias"

21:00 Palácio Galveias Lisbon

5€ Party

Interpreted readings of theatrical texts, with 'Samotrácias', a cry from three women who want to emigrate, in a celebration of the theatrical text aloud.

Gli Allunati

21:00 Boutique da Cultura Lisbon

12€ Family friendly Live music

A concert by Gli Allunati, the original-music project of Italian pianist and composer Alessio Vellotti, blending composition and improvisation in a cinematic musical narrative.

SUPERSTAR

21:00 Teatro Armando Cortez Tires Cascais

M/12 Theatre

The theatre show SUPERSTAR brings to the stage a reflection on fame and stardom.

Touch the Grass!

21:30 Auditório Roma Lisbon

15€ Theatre

A comedy show written and performed by Joa Víctor, Pedro Durão and Ricardo Maria, in which their creativity is put to the test through several moments — with a few little tunes along the way.

Lino Brocka | Jaguar

21:45 Cinemateca Portuguesa Santo António Lisbon

3,2€ Cinema

Cinemateca screens 'Jaguar', Lino Brocka's drama about a young mechanic who becomes chauffeur to the son of a wealthy family and slides towards crime. Tickets cost 3,20€, with discounts available.

ELECTROBEAT

22:00 Village Underground Lisboa Alcântara Lisbon

Party

A night of electronic beats and dancing from 10 PM to 6 AM on Friday, October 23rd.

Heith & Tarawangsawelas ⟡ Jardín

22:00 Galeria Zé dos Bois Bairro Alto Lisbon

13€ Live music

Heith & Tarawangsawelas present Duori, a project born from remote collaboration that blends West Javanese sacred music with electronics, in a bill that also features Jardín.

Sotam - Bloco Dos Apaixonados Lisboa

23:30 República da Música Alvalade Lisbon

Live music

Sotam brings the hits everyone plays on repeat to República da Música in Lisbon on 23/10 at 21h as part of Bloco dos Apaixonados.

Kokeshi

23:59 5A Lisbon

18+ DJ set

Kokeshi takes the decks for a DJ set, billed as the night's only act.

Exhibitions, runs & attractions 281 events

Alex Zhang Hungtai ⟡ Belaflor

Live music 14€

Thursday 15 October · 21:00

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Galeria Zé dos Bois Bairro Alto · Lisbon

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.

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Return of this old companion of experiences in this city, from another Lisbon, where he lived, befriended and created during a relatively brief passage that left a mark on his path and which, in his nomadic trajectory ever since, has been a stopping point for occasional visits. This time, the appearance takes place at a very prolific moment for the Taiwanese-born musician, with two albums already released this year: Dras on Shelter Press and the double Orion/Mother on American Dreams. Distinct in their genesis and result, in their singularity they reveal two complementary facets of the identity and visions that Hungtai has been projecting under his own name after dropping the Dirty Beaches veil, among solo albums, collaborative records and soundtrack composition: the solitary revelation in Dras and the creative communion in Orion/Mother. Capturing the beatific reverberations of Saint Joseph Oratory in Montreal in 2019, Dras has in the cry of the saxophone the primordial source for compositions born from those recordings and worked with patience in the solitude of the 2020 pandemic period. Exploring the resonances and harmonics of the basilica's spatial immensity, Hungtai dialogues with those spectral apparitions amid seemingly dissonant melodies, dorian chords and subterranean passages that are like an inner mirror of that environment, and vice versa. Imagining a kind of band from various improvisations with musicians such as Kwami Winfield or Laura Cocks recorded over previous years, revisited during a particularly harsh winter in New York, Orion/Mother stretches across two records, in what is his most expansive volume to date. Inspired by Butch Morris's improvisation method, Hungtai lined up different recording sessions, populated by percussion, electronics, voices or winds, in pieces composed from different eras, over which he himself improvised clarinet lines, as devoted to ballad-like sorrow as to timbral exploration, in a whole that mysteriously sustains itself between a certain intangibility and an almost palpable, living sonic quality. Nature of this restless spirit. BS.

Show original (Portuguese)

Regresso deste velho comparsa de vivências nesta cidade, de uma outra Lisboa, onde viveu, amigou e criou durante uma passagem relativamente breve mas que deixou marca no seu percurso e que, na sua trajectória nomádica desde então, tem sido poiso para visitas espaçadas. Desta feita, a aparição dá-se numa altura bem prolífera para o músico de origem Taiwanesa, com dois álbuns lançados já este ano: Dras na Shelter Press e o duplo Orion/Mother na American Dreams. Distintos na sua génese e no resultado, revelam na sua singularidade duas facetas complementares para a identidade e visões que Hungtai tem vindo a projectar em nome próprio após deixar cair o véu Dirty Beaches, por entre álbuns a solo, discos colaborativos e a composição de bandas sonoras; a revelação solitária em Dras e o comunhão criativa em Orion/Mother . Captando as reverberações beatificas do Saint Joseph Oratory em Montreal em 2019, Dras tem no clamor do saxofone a fonte primordial para composições nascidas dessas gravações e trabalhadas com paciência na solidão do período pandémico de 2020. Explorando as ressonâncias e harmónicos da imensidão espacial da basílica, Hungtai vai dialogando com essas aparições espectrais por entre melodias aparentemente dissonantes, acordes doridos e passagens subterrâneas que são como um espelho interior dessa envolvência, e vice-versa. Imaginando uma espécie de banda a partir de diversas improvisações com músicos como Kwami Winfield ou Laura Cocks gravadas ao longo de anos anteriores, revisitadas durante um Inverno particularmente agreste em Nova Iorque, Orion/Mother espraia-se ao longo de dois discos, naquele que é o seu tomo expansivo até à data. Inspirado no método de improvisação de Butch Morris, Hungtai alinhou diferentes sessões de gravação, populadas por percussão, electrónica, vozes ou sopros, em peças compostas de diferentes eras, sobre as quais o próprio improvisou linhas de clarinete, tão afectas à dor baladeira como à exploração tímbrica, num todo que se sustenta misteriosamente entre uma certa intangibilidade e uma qualidade sonora quase palpável, viva. Natureza deste espírito inquieto. BS.

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