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Ongoing: 283 exhibitions, runs & attractions ↓

Morning 2 events
GYOTAKU - LITTLE FISH FROM THE GARDEN AND THE SEA | painting workshop

10:30 Museu do Oriente. Lisbon

25€ M/14 Workshops & talks

In this workshop, participants observe fish representations in the Museu do Oriente exhibitions and learn the Japanese printing technique Gyotaku, applying it to fish and plants. Led by Isabel Constantino Gonçalves and Marisa Noblejas, it requires no previous experience and is aimed at ages 14+.

Journey to America

11:00 Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian Avenidas Novas Lisbon

Live music

The Sunday Concerts cycle kicks off with a program featuring works by Copland, Bernstein, Arturo Márquez, and Gabriela Ortiz.

Afternoon 9 events
Ikebana

12:00 Albuquerque Foundation Sintra

45€ Other

Workshop on Ikebana, the Japanese art of flower arrangement, with access to exhibitions.

The Missing Half

16:00 Casa Capitão Beato Lisbon

9€ Todas as idades Live music

'The Missing Half' is a show-workshop about the search for what completes us, described as a declaration of love to things, from the simplest to the most complex, from a flower to a hug. It takes place at Casa Capitão as a standing-room-only performance.

Tonight We Shout - "Samotrácias"

16:00 Biblioteca de Marvila Lisbon

5€ Party

Tonight We Shout is a cycle of performed readings of theatrical texts, promoted by Companhia Cepa Torta, celebrating its 10th anniversary. This edition presents 'Samotrácias', a cry from three women longing to emigrate.

SAMBA DE OCASIÃO: 7th Edition

16:00 Village Underground Lisboa Alcântara Lisbon

DJ set

Samba de Ocasião returns for its 7th edition on a Sunday afternoon, with a DJ set from 4pm to 10pm.

Tribute Concert to Prof. José António Piñeiro Nagy OCCO

17:00 Auditório Senhora da Boa Nova Estoril Cascais

Free Live music

An OCCO tribute concert honouring Prof. José António Piñeiro Nagy, creator and director of the Estoril Lisbon Festival, with a programme spanning Portuguese and international composers and ending with Tchaikovsky’s Serenade for Strings.

PRAGA AT THE MUSEUM: performance tour

17:00 MAAT Belém Lisbon

15€ Exhibition

Teatro Praga challenges audiences to attend performance tours of the exhibition 'Turn around. Um olhar sobre a Coleção de Arte Fundação EDP', mediated by Cláudia Jardim and Diogo Bento in a celebratory, party-like spirit of creative freedom. Drawing on works by artists such as Adriana Proganó and Ana Jotta, rules can be turned upside down in a session of play and fun.

SUPERSTAR

17:00 Teatro Armando Cortez Tires Cascais

M/12 Theatre

The theatre show SUPERSTAR takes to the stage.

Evening 3 events
ISA BUZZI

18:00 Lisboa ao Vivo Campo Pequeno Lisbon

M/6 Live music

Isa Buzzi brings her 'Clube dos Corações Partidos' tour to Casa Capitão, with regular, VIP and Meet & Greet ticket options. Under-16s may only attend accompanied by a parent or legal guardian.

MARINA SENA | "NATURAL THINGS"

21:00 Coliseu dos Recreios Santa Maria Maior Lisbon

40€ 6+ Family friendly Live music

Marina Sena, one of the leading voices of contemporary Brazilian pop, presents her new project 'Natural Things' in a captivating live show.

Juliana Linhares

21:30 Casa Capitão Beato Lisbon

24€ 12+ Live music

Juliana Linhares presents her second album, 'Até Cansar o Cansaço', live in Lisbon, a record inspired by dialogues with neuroscientist Sidarta Ribeiro about collective exhaustion and the world of dreams. The concert takes place on the ground floor of Casa Capitão on 25 October.

Exhibitions, runs & attractions 283 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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