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Morning 1 event
Plant Looms

10:30 Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian Avenidas Novas Lisbon

Family friendly Family

In this workshop in the Gulbenkian Garden, families will build looms using plant materials.

Afternoon 4 events
The Wizard of Oz | A Pop Musical

15:00 Casino Estoril Estoril Cascais

M/6 Family friendly Live music

The pop musical 'The Wizard of Oz' brings the magic of the classic story to the stage.

TORAJO | A JOURNEY TO THE WORLD OF FRUITS

15:00 Coliseu dos Recreios Santa Maria Maior Lisbon

30€ 6+ Family friendly Family

Torajo presents a brand-new family show: a journey to the magical planet Verade, where fruit come to life, full of music, adventure, humour and lots of interaction for kids and adults.

Claude Debussy: La mer

17:00 Centro Cultural Olga Cadaval Sintra

M/06 Live music

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.

RAVEL'S BOLERO | OML

17:00 Centro Cultural de Belém Belém Lisbon

20€ DJ set

The Lisbon Metropolitan Orchestra, conducted by Yue Bao, performs works by Ravel, Debussy and Luís de Freitas Branco, including the famous Bolero.

Evening 4 events
LISBON | HUGO SOUSA: JUST BETWEEN US

19:00 Aula Magna Cidade Universitária Lisbon

18€ Theatre

Hugo Sousa presents his stand-up show 'Aqui Entre Nós', with personal stories and humor about everyday life.

Super Ballet: Geordie Greep [Sold Out]

19:00 Lisboa ao Vivo Campo Pequeno Lisbon

23€ Live music

A sold-out Super Ballet show by Geordie Greep, the former Black Midi vocalist, presenting his solo path between art-rock, tropicalia and jazz.

Miss Drag Lisboa 2026

21:00 Capitólio Arroios Lisbon

25€ Theatre

Portugal's biggest drag competition returns to Capitólio for its ninth edition, with eight artists fighting for the crown in a show hosted by Miss Moço.

THE TWILIGHT SAD

21:00 Lisboa ao Vivo Campo Pequeno Lisbon

30€ Live music

Scottish post-punk band The Twilight Sad return to Portugal for two concerts in November, including at LAV Lisboa Ao Vivo on the 15th, with their cathartic and emotionally charged live show.

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Teatro Nacional de São Carlos Chiado · Lisbon

A chamber programme devoted to the lower strings — viola, cello and double bass — bringing together Bach's Ciaccona in Ichiro Nodaira's transcription, Albrechtsberger's Divertimento, the young Mendelssohn's Adagio from Symphony No. 8, and the Brandenburg Concerto No. 6, the only one of the six without violins.

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When the violins fall silent, the lower strings take the floor: this is the thread running through the programme, bringing together works from three centuries centred on the viola, the cello and the double bass. The Ciaccona from Partita No. 2, BWV 1004, written by Bach in 1720 for solo violin and presented here in Ichiro Nodaira's transcription, shifts the original from D minor to G minor, transferring to the viola a cycle of variations over an ostinato bass that ranks among the densest contrapuntal constructions of the Baroque period. Next comes the Divertimento in D major by Johann Georg Albrechtsberger, a counterpoint theorist of the late eighteenth century and later Beethoven's teacher, written for two violas and double bass — an unusual scoring that lifts the viola out of its subordinate role of harmonic filling and gives it melodic prominence. From the young Mendelssohn, the Adagio from Symphony No. 8, composed at the age of thirteen under the guidance of Carl Friedrich Zelter, who introduced him to the Baroque legacy: the piece, written for divided strings, dwells in the low register in a sombre texture that gradually becomes singable. Closing the programme is the Brandenburg Concerto No. 6, the only one of the six concertos without violins, in which the two concertante violas stand out as the protagonists, with the basso continuo providing the harmonic foundation. Four works, one single way of listening: those who usually accompany now take the reins of interpretation.

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Quando os violinos se silenciam, as cordas graves assumem a palavra: é este o fio que atravessa o programa, reunindo obras de três séculos em torno da viola, do violoncelo e do contrabaixo. A Ciaccona da Partita n.º 2 , BWV 1004, escrita por Bach em 1720 para violino solo e aqui apresentada na transcrição de Ichiro Nodaira, desloca o original de Ré menor para Sol menor, transferindo para a viola um ciclo de variações sobre baixo ostinato que figura entre as construções contrapontísticas mais densas do período barroco. Segue-se o Divertimento em ré maior de Johann Georg Albrechtsberger, teórico do contraponto no final do século XVIII, mais tarde professor de Beethoven, escrito para duas violas e contrabaixo, uma formação invulgar que retira a viola do papel subalterno de preenchimento harmónico e lhe confia o protagonismo melódico. Do jovem Mendelssohn, o Adagio da Sinfonia n.º 8 , composta aos treze anos sob a orientação de Carl Friedrich Zelter, que o iniciou no legado barroco: a página, escrita para cordas divididas, habita o registo grave num tecido sombrio que se vai tornando cantável. Fecha o programa o Concerto de Brandemburgo n.º 6 , único dos seis concertos sem violinos, em que as duas violas concertantes se. destacam como protagonistas, com o baixo contínuo a assegurar o fundamento harmónico. Quatro obras, uma mesma escuta: quem normalmente acompanha toma agora as rédeas da interpretação.

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