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Ongoing: 277 exhibitions, runs & attractions ↓

Afternoon 3 events
Maintaining the Gulbenkian Garden in Autumn

13:30 Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian Avenidas Novas Lisbon

Other

In this visit, we talk with the gardener responsible for the challenge of keeping the Gulbenkian Garden a paradise for everyone.

What I Want to Tell You: Written Portraits by André Pereira

14:30 Biblioteca Municipal de Cascais - Casa da Horta Cascais e Estoril Cascais

Free Other

On World Senior Citizens' Day, André Pereira sets up his typewriter at the library and writes — without exchanging a word with the person — portraits in poem form for anyone who wants to take home a unique keepsake.

Lino Brocka | Jaguar

15:30 Cinemateca Portuguesa Santo António Lisbon

3,2€ Cinema

A screening of 'Jaguar', a classic by Filipino director Lino Brocka, at the Cinemateca. Tickets are 3,20€, with discounts for Friends of Cinemateca, Youth Card holders, students and seniors.

Evening 8 events
Margaret Tait | Margaret Tait: From Beginning to End

19:00 Cinemateca Portuguesa Santo António Lisbon

3,2€ Cinema

A session in the Margaret Tait cycle, 'From Beginning to End', tracing the Scottish filmmaker's career. Tickets are 3,20€, with discounts for students, over-65s and retirees.

Techno Yoga with Kate Zubok

19:00 Teja House Lisbon

DJ set

Breathwork, yoga and conscious movement fused with dancing to Berlin minimal techno, guided by DJ, producer and yogi Kate Zubok every Wednesday at TEJÁ House on the Cais do Sodré riverside — no experience needed.

Carmen

20:00 Centro Cultural de Belém Belém Lisbon

45€ Live music

Georges Bizet's Carmen, based on Prosper Marimée's novella, tells the story of the gypsy woman who dies in the name of freedom and love. Revisited by countless directors, it remains one of the most striking contemporary myths.

Ricardo Reis Soares | Daniela Galhoz

21:30 Coliseu dos Recreios Santa Maria Maior Lisbon

12€ 6+ Family friendly Live music

A concert by Ricardo Reis Soares and Daniela Galhoz at Coliseu Club, featuring intimate songwriting and indie/alt sounds. The show is expected to last 1h40 and is recommended for ages 6 and over.

Mothership

23:59 Lisboa Rio Lisbon

10€ DJ set

Every Wednesday from midnight to 6am, the Visionaries and Freaky Fiction alliance invites you aboard the Mothership at Temple Club for galactic journeys with ritualistic aesthetics, with open bar (beer) until 1am and free entry on your birthday.

Exhibitions, runs & attractions 277 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.

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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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