Culture

The DDD Festival - Days of Dance, now in its last week, features Alain Platel, the paradigmatic choreographer who premieres "Nicht Schlafen" in Portugal, 8 and 9 May, at 9:30 pm.

The Clérigos Church and Tower in Porto, Portugal, is the winner of a EU Prize for Cultural Heritage/Europa Nostra Awards 2017 category Conservation.

Porto City Hall has announced the names of the 48 Grand Finalists of the Paulo Cunha e Silva Art Prize, chosen by a committee made up of the most relevant curators at international level.

The short film "Livre", directed by Pedro Nogueira and Tomás Cazaux, from Instituto Multimédia (Porto), was awarded Best Film and Best Drama in the independent filmmakers category in the Harrogate Festival, in England.

Through dance and singing, Dorothea Munyaneza recalls the memory of places she loved and people who are no more, due to tensions between the Hutu and Tutsi peoples, which have led to a civil war in Rwanda in 1994.

Municipal Theatre of Porto showcases this weekend, March 3 and 4, the shows by Dorothée Munyaneza, from Rwanda, and Mithkal Alzghair, from Syria, under Focus Displacements main theme.

Golden Bear for Best Short Film 2017 was awarded to "Small Town," by Portuguese Diogo Costa Amarante. The short tells the story of Frederico, a six-year-old boy, who finds out at school that people die when their hearts stop beating. This discovery prevents him for sleeping that night.

É inaugurada esta sexta-feira, 17 de fevereiro, pelas 17,30 horas, no Palacete Viscondes de Balsemão, uma instalação de vídeo arte do artista norte-americano Nikolas Skilbeck, intitulada "Dreaming of Porto". O projeto foi realizado no âmbito do programa de Residências Artísticas organizado pela Câmara do Porto e pela cidade de Tours, com apoio da associação Mode dÉmploi e da SKAD.

Casa da Música brings back cinema, from February 11 to 21, with the best movies of all time. It's Invicta.Música.films. week featuring Charlie Chaplin's classic "City Lights" (1931) and "Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror" (1922), directed by F. W. Murnau.

The Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art features the exhibition "A Time Coloured Space", by French artist Philippe Parreno. The exhibition opens today, February 3 and is curated by Suzanne Cotter, The Museum Director.